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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Summertime Inspired Memoirs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By listening and then responding to multiple versions of the song "Summertime," students will understand how songs can convey various moods. Writing about a personal summertime memory, students will try to mimic a mood from one of the...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Differentiated Narrative Lesson: Two Safe Frame Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This instructional activity is based on two narrative picture books that can be compared and contrasted: When I was Five by Arthur Howard and Jamie Lee Curtis' When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of her Youth. Students will need...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Memoirs About Telling Lies That Hurt

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Book reviews about Walter Dean Myers' Bad Boy and Madonna's Mr. Peabody's Apples are given on this site. The author suggests that using these books to help illustrate the concept that it better to tell the truth than to suffer the...