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Fitness Advertisements

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Exercise is good for your heart, your bones, your lungs, and your mood! Middle schoolers read more about the effects of regular exercise before creating their own posters that advertise the benefits of physical fitness.
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Journey and Change: The Migrant and Immigrant Experience

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students look carefully at two photographs by Dorothea Lange that relate to the universal theme of a journey. They identify parallels between Lange's photographs and two poems. They write about the theme of journey as it relates to their...
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Careers on Stage And Air

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create and perform a scene for play using a common fairy tale for the story line. They view and discuss a video on careers in stage and radio to identify the roles and responsibilities for each of their group members.
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Women's Right To Vote

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the history of women's right to vote and identify two of the leaders of the suffrage movement, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. After completing readings and discussions, they write an article for the newspaper about...
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Philanthropy in A Christmas Carol

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore philanthropy in literature. In this cross curriculum literacy and character development instructional activity, students read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and note charitable acts described in the story. Students...
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Reading and Activity Suggestions for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners learn about characterization techniques in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  In this Adventures of Tom Sawyerlesson, students write a description of one character through the eyes of another character and identify scenes that give...
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Dating - What is Love?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore their feeling on love. They write down their feelings and talk about love and infatuation and what the differences are. Students study the Ladder of Love and write a love poem of their own. They identify the various...
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Can and Could

For Students 4th - 6th
For this can and could worksheet, students determine can usage in a sentence and identify the correct auxiliary modal verbs. In this multiple choice and short answer worksheet, students write twenty-four answers.
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Ought to and Had better

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ought to and had better worksheet, students identify usage in sentences. In this short answer and multiple choice worksheet, students write fourteen answers.
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Shall and Should

For Students 4th - 6th
In this shall and should activity, learners identify usage in sentences. In this short answer and multiple choice activity, students write fourteen answers.
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Hearing Handicap

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the effects of hearing loss. In this lesson on physical disabilities, students survey five older adults on hearing impairments. Students pool their data and compare their results with the results from other studies about...
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Ben Franklin's Inventions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners discover the life of Benjamin Franklin by studying his inventions.  In this biography instructional activity, students identify the inventions of Benjamin Franklin and their impact on society today.  Learners create a commercial...
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Literary Data Collection Chart

For Students 7th - 12th
Here’s a matrix that could be used with any literary work. For each assigned passage, readers are asked to record information about characters, setting, vocabulary, literary devices, symbols, tone, mood, etc. In addition, they are asked...
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War and Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A band of brothers or the Devil's agents? Nobel warriors freeing the oppressed or mercenaries working for the military/industrial complex? Groups examine poems from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II to determine the poets'...
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Immigration and Photography: The Case of Lewis Hine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are introduced to the characteristics of documentary photography. Individually, they cut out a paper frame and view their classroom through the "lens" and at different angles. After veiwing photographs, they practice...
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A World Without Color And A World With Color

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create black and white pictures followed by a re-creation of the same picture using color with an emphasis on contrast, depth, and mood.
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Poetry: Serve Warmly and More Often

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the mood and theme associated with the language of poetry. They discuss personal interpretation in small groups, and as a class and * experiment with language and rhythm.
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A Song By Any Other Name Would Be a Poem

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students examine the poetic elements of a piece of music. They discuss favorite songs, select a song, and write a persuasive essay identifying the poetic qualities of the song lyrics.
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Short Stories Through Multimedia Presentations

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders summarize and paraphrase a short story read in class. They identify the six story elements of character, setting, plot, conflict, solution, and tone/mood. Students create a PowePoint presentation that illustrates the...
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: EXAMINE EXPRESSIONS THROUGH PORTRAITURE

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use a work or art as a springboard to a personal narrative or descriptive writing, create a collage to identify tone through art, and use inference to discern what might have caused an individual to feel the emotion that is...
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Music and the Media

For Students 4th - 6th
In this music media worksheet, learners read the statements about television and theme music and then identify the four themes from popular t.v. programs.
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Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen...
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How to Move the Crowd: The Persuasive, Powerful Rhetoric of Mark Antony -Folger Shakespeare Library

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore a close reading of the speeches of Brutus and Mark Anthony in 3.2. They identify the effects of the rhetorical appeals used. Students explore the variety of ways in which Anthony might have delivered the speech....
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Author's Purpose and Point of View Post Test

For Students 7th - 9th
In this author's purpose and point of view worksheet, learners determine the definition of the terms and identify the author's purpose and point of view in given passages.

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