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Poets.org

Love as a Two-way Street

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Create an abundance of understanding, as your high school learners learn to analyze multiple love poems. Part one of this resource has learners define what love is, examine art that reflects the love between Robert and Elizabeth...
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Curated OER

"Shooting An Elephant": George Orwell's Essay on His Life in Burma

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High school readers examine George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" for examples of symbolism, metaphor, connotation, and irony. They analyze how these literary tools convey the writer's main point and contribute to the persuasive...
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Curated OER

Indispensable Listening Skills

For Teachers 8th - 12th
It's true: listening skills have to be taught and developed. Read this story about a tiger to your high school class. Then, without giving them a copy of the story, divide them into teams and have them attempt to answer a series of...
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Curated OER

African Art: Ntan Drum

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students study African history, anthropology and culture using the lens of the art object, Ntan Drum. Lesson and instruction is differentiated for elementary, middle and high school students.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English Session Two (2010)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English worksheet, students read passages from a memoir and a poem and answer comprehension questions.  Students then write a unified essay based on both passages.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English Session Two (2008)

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, young scholars read a poem and an excerpt from an autobiography and answer comprehension questions.  Students then write a unified essay  based on both passages.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Comprehensive Examination English Session One

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, learners listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension.  Students then complete an essay response.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Comprehensive Examination English Session One

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, learners listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension.  Students then complete an essay response.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Comprehensive Examination in English Session Two (2007)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, young scholars listen to two passages and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension.  Students then complete an essay response based on both passages.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English Session One (2006)

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension.  Students then complete an essay response.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Comprehensive Examination in English Session Two (2005)

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Int this Regents High School English Comprehensive Examination pupils read passages from a short story and a poem and write an essay based on both passages.
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination English Session One (2005)

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension.  Students then complete an essay response.
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Bright Hub Education

Find Future Employment Ideas by Writing a Career Essay

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Use the constructive ideas in this resource to assist in developing your own career writing project for your junior high or young high school scholars. The resource provides step-by-step plans for the educator and learners, as well as...
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Curated OER

How Safe is Your School Bus?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners research various aspects of school bus safety such as what makes a bus safe and unsafe. Using provided Internet sites and others students examine what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has to say and also what...
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Curated OER

A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading Pat Hutchins’ Rosie’s Walk, have your young cartographers create a map of Rosie’s walk. Then lead them on a walk around the school. When you return class members sequence the walk by making a list of how the class got from...
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How safe is your school bus?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research various aspects of school bus safety about what makes a bus safe or unsafe. They check the Internet (with sites below and others) and see what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has to say.
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Curated OER

Middle School Level Vocabulary Matching Words 2

For Students 8th - 10th
Help your high schoolers prepare for upcoming state testing by developing their vocabulary skills. There are 15 matching questions provided, and example words include ordeal, orb, and tactile. 
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Curated OER

A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Bully, bullied, or bystander? Paul Langan's The Bully is the anchor text in a unit that examines bullying and violence. After a close reading of the text, readers imagine themselves as the characters and consider how they would react in...
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Curated OER

Lesson: Looking Closer: The Artwork of Martha Rosler

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Have a class discussion to better understand the art of Martha Rosler. Young art critics consider Martha's art as it is used to express issues of political unrest and social awareness. They look at each of the five images and use the...
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Curated OER

Lesson: Unmonumental: Fragmentation, Fragility, and Consumer Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Looking at art is the first step to analyzing it. And, if you can analyze art, you can analyze anything. Kids examine several pop art pieces that represent consumerism in modern culture. They discuss multiple facets of each piece and...
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Curated OER

Lesson: Elizabeth Peyton: Pictures of Royalty: The Imagined

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Elizabeth Peyton is an artist who creates images of people (often famous) that she doesn't personally know. These images become part of her imagined community. Learners analyze her work, her community of imagined friends, and then create...
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Curated OER

Lesson: Looking Closer: The Artwork of Shinique Smith

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A critical discussion regarding the nature of Shinique Smith's second-hand clothing art is the foundation for the lesson. Critical thinkers fully analyze the meaning behind her work, taking close consideration of where the clothing came...
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New Class Museum

Lesson: French Revolution and Visual Language of Power

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Take a look at the French Revolution and neo-classic art, then compare it to current social issues and contemporary art. Kids analyze several pieces painted by Jacques-Louis David in regard to style and subject then compare them to...
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Curated OER

Lesson: Ginger Brooks Takahashi: Powerstich: A Forum for Community-Building

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This is a great way to build community in your school, experience process-based art, and explore the critical-thinking process. While quilting as a class collectively (just like a quilting bee) pupils listen to poetry and prose of a...

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