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'European Exploration, Conquest, and Trade
Fifth graders examine the motives, progress and results of the European exploration and conquest of Asia, Africa and the West Indies from the 15th to the 17th centuries. They use maps to trace spice routes and research the role of spices...
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Fantasy Buildings in Two-point Perspective
Fifth graders learn the basics of drawing forms in two-point perspective. They can then transform their drawings into a fantasy building.
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Art, Art, Everywhere
Learners create a PowerPoint presentation documenting the art of a chosen artist. After a brief presentation by the instructor, students use the internet to research and document the works and life of their chosen artist. They...
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Imhotep
Sixth graders compose an original story about Imhotep and his step-pyramid. They also must include what Egyptian architecture and society was like before the pyramid, how the pyramid was constructed and predictions of what life will be...
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Digital Portfolio
Students work together using The Tool Factory Workshop to create memories for the entire school year. They (sixth graders) help the kindergarten with field day, grade level parties, local field trips, learning computer applications, and...
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Bernardo de G??lvez: Supporter of the American Revolution
Eighth graders explore the assistance to the American Revolution provided by Spain. Through class discussion and research, they gather information about Bernardo de Galvez and his role during the Revolutionary War. Students synthesize...
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Search, Discover, Discuss
Sixth graders use the internet to answer questions about Gutenberg's invention. As a class, they discuss their findings about society and technology in the late Middle Ages. They discover the influence of a certain group of people in...
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Orfeo: Sinfonie e Ritornelli
Students identify the dramatic expression made by performance and how it relates to the content of the story L'Orfeo. They determine the form of orchestra and each instrumental group within the orchestra for this piece.
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Shakespeare's the Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance
Newberry Library learning module uses primary source material of Shakespeare in a lesson on how Renaissance writers and artists portrayed European exploration of America. Students read excerpts from works of Renaissance literature to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: The Harlem Renaissance
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on The Harlem Renaissance, the period between the end of WW I through mid 1930s when African Americans were recognized for their literature, music, and art. It discusses their themes and lists...
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Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance: Countee Cullen
This lesson focuses on Countee Cullen, a Harlem Renaissance poet who based his works on Romantic poets and downplayed racism. It features links to three of his poems: "From the Dark Tower," "The Loss of Love," and "Saturday's Child." It...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance: Claude Mc Kay
This lesson focuses on the Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay and two of his poems: "If We Must Die" and "The Tropics of New York." It offers a short bio and links to the two poems, and then explains the style and meanings of the poems.
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Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer
This lesson focuses on the Harlem Renaissance poet Jean Toomer and his poem "Reapers." It features a short bio, a link to his poem, and lists of leveled questions to help analyze poetry: Surface level, Deeper level, Application level,...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 2: Langston Hughes and the Blues
Explore relationship between music and poetry in this African-American history lesson on Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance, and other artists such as Bessie Smith, John Hammond, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Background
This lesson provides background for an English Renaissance unit; it compares the English Renaissance with the Italian Renaissance. It features Queen Elizabeth I's influence and provides a poem written by the queen, "When I Was Fair and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: English Pertrarchan Sonnets
This lesson focuses on English Pertrarchan sonnets which were translated into English by Sir Thomas Wyatt who then created his own poetry in the Pertrarchan form. It features Wyatt's poems "They Flee from Me" (in text and audio) and...
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Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Christopher Marlowe
This lesson focuses on Christoper Marlowe and his works including his famous sonnet "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love." This poem and "A Nymph's Reply" are provided in both text from audio forms. Links to Marlowe's biography and a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on the sonnet including the definition, the history, the types of, and meters. It features the three types of sonnets: Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet, English/Shakespearean Sonnet, and Spenserian Sonnet. It describes the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Edmund Spenser: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on Edmund Spenser and his sonnets. It features two of his sonnets: Sonnet 30 and Sonnet 75, known as the Fire and Ice poems and a worksheet for them. It also offers links to Spenser's biography, Amoretti and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Shakespeare: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's sonnets; it features three sonnets: Sonnet 29, 116, and 130 and provides links to a modern paraphrase/analysis of each. It also offers an audio of Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130. Students are to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: John Donne
This lesson focuses on John Donne and his sonnets. It features three of his sonnets: Holy Sonnet VII: "At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners," Holy Sonnet X: "Death, Be Not Proud," and "The Bait," which is a reply to Christopher...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Carpe Diem Poetry
This lesson focuses on the Carpe Diem ("Seize the day") poets Andrew Marvell and Robert Herrick. It features links to biographies of each of these poets, the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and the poem "To the Virgins, to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:american Literature: The Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes
This lesson focuses on Langston Hughes and two of him poems: "Theme for English B" and "I, Too." It provides links to the two poems including an audio version of "I, Too" and a handout worksheet for "Theme for English B." It asks student...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Comp: The Harlem Renaissance: Commas
This lesson focuses on comma usage including rules and examples. It features links to rules, an exercise, and a quiz for comma usage, and a self-assessment quiz.