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Young Learner's Writing Workshop 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars become familiar with writing an essay in English. They are given an overview of basic essay writing styles. Students develop skills that are used when analyzing texts as the basis of their essays.
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I Know What You Did this Summer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the characteristics of a quality relationship and determine how such a relationship is maintained. After reading a scenario of a relationship, students take one character at a time and place themselves in the character's...
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Britishness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils view and analyze the film "Island People" and discuss the portrayal of 1940s working Britain. They watch and analyze the film, then in small groups write and present a pitch and script for a short film that explores the concept...
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Reflections and Revisions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students reflect upon and express affective and cognitive learning experience as a result of a direct service experience. In this service learning lesson, students examine and analyze symbolism portrayed in literature and its...
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Reading, Writing, Reciting Exciting Poetry!

For Teachers 6th
Students complete a poetry analysis unit. In this poetry analysis lesson, students study poetry by reading, reciting, and analyzing poems and their poets. Students study poetic devices, write their own poems, and complete hands-on...
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Unearthing the Secrets of the Garden

For Teachers 5th
Students analyze the literary class, The Secret Garden. In this literature unit lesson, students complete a unit of activities to help them with their reading comprehension of the book The Secret Garden. Students complete webs,...
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Art and Influence of Theatre

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students examine an 18th century drawing and produce a skit based on the drawing. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the story depicted in a drawing and create a skit inspired the scene. Students research the 18th century...
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Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Benjy's Sense of Time and Narrative Voice

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students analyze narrative voice in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. In this novel analysis lesson, students analyze Faulkner's writing style and the narrative voice of Benjy. Students create a reading journal for the lesson...
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The American Dream Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze how poetry can reveal themes of 'The American Dream.' In this poetry themes lesson plan, students discuss the elements of poetry and define imagery. Students read 'Lost Sister' by Cathy Song and complete a related...
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William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students analyze William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. In this literature analysis lesson plan, students compare a modern novel and play. Students analyze Faulkner's interior monologues. Students write a paper about the ways As I Lay Dying...
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze descriptive writing. In this writing lesson, 2nd graders read a story with a villain, describe the villain in words, and create a Wanted Poster describing him on paper.
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Comic Strip Two

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL comic strip worksheet, students analyze a cartoon strip that has blank dialogue bubbles. Students create a conversation by filling in the bubbles.
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Romeo and Juliet Mix-It-Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify themes in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet by analyzing the film or text. In this tolerance lesson plan, students create their own Elizabethan era terms related to interacting with different social groups. In...
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Life's Lessons: Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 8th
Students analyze Jack London's use of anthropomorphism to identify the importance of adaptability in life. In this literature lesson, students use the novel The Call of the Wild to identify key elements in survival. Students complete...
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Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover what debt, saving, and credit are.  In this personal finance instructional activity, the teacher reads Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars, and the students discuss what the main character does in the book in relation...
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When Fair is Foul: Paradox and Equivocation in Macbeth

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils read Macbeth for examples of paradox and equivocation in the text. In this literature-response lesson plan, students work in groups to analyze Shakespeare's writing for use of paradox using handouts to guide their search. Student...
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To Be or Not to Be: A Marriage of Civil War Descendants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine primary documents related to the burning of Chambersburg during the Civil Way. In this Civil War era history lesson, students study numerous primary documents relating to the burning of the town of Chambersburg. Learners...
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Big Block of Chocolate

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Pupils read the book Big Block of Chocolate and complete language arts activities associated with it. In this language arts lesson plan, learners read the book as a read aloud or shared reading, and can compete writing, reading,...
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Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze fables and trickster tales from various cultural traditions. In this fable analysis lesson, students identify the elements of fables and trickster stories. Students read Aesop's fables and Ananse spider stories. Students...
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Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and Motives of Evil

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Learners complete play and vocabulary analysis for William Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this Macbeth analysis lesson, students use an online research engine to locate passages that highlight Macbeth's response to fear and his descent into...
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town: The Reader as Writer

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students read a play and create their own play using Thornton Wilder's Our Townas a resource. In this play activity, students analyze how theatrical elements contribute to a play's meanings and effects. Students recognize differences...
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One Thing Leads to Another

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students analyze the storytelling methods in wordless books.  In this visual storytelling lesson plan, students write a story that correspond to a specific wordless picture book.  Students create their own wordless picture book after...
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Write Your Own Folk or Fairy Tale

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils analyze folk and fairy tales. In this language arts lesson plan, students discuss the elements of a tale determining what the differences are between folk and fairy tales. Pupils then write their own tales using the graphic...
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Allegorical Meaning in Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque of the Red Death

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders recognize the allegorical meaning in The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe. In this poetry lesson, 10th graders analyze a poem for allegorical meaning.

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