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Nouns Used as Indirect Objects
In this nouns as indirect objects worksheet, students underline verbs that show action, circle direct objects, and check the indirect objects in sentences. Students complete 10 problems.
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Birds Quiz 6
For this birds worksheet, students answer short answer questions about birds in books, paintings, golf, and more. Students complete 10 short answer questions.
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Ray Charles and Country Music
Ray Charles used the pain and adversity from his life to influence an entire genre of American music. Learn about the musician's daily life, struggles and success, and powerful musical style with a thorough resource.
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Born in the U.S.A: Music as Political Protest
Though often used in shows of patriotism, Bruce Springsteen's 1985 song "Born in the U.S.A." is critical of America's role in the Vietnam war and its treatment of American veterans. High schoolers analyze the song's lyrics in an activity...
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Jazz: An Expression of Cooperation - Lesson 3
Students describe ways in which the principles of students or citizens working together are interrelated with those of musicians working together. They demonstrate their knowledge of the concept of "swing" in various jazz styles.
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Strings that Sing
Students listen to Isaac Stern lead a musician through steps to self-evaluating a performance. They compare their instrumental performance with a live vocal performance.
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THE FLOW OF MUSIC AND POETRY
Students describe their feelings through writing, art or music.
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Creating an Original Opera
This may be a lot to ask of a high schooler, but then again, who knows? Pupils work in groups to explore, write, and then perform an original opera. They view versions of The Magic Flute and La Traviata, then compose a plot, characters,...
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Careers/Jobs: Picture/Word Worksheet #6
In this tracing words worksheet, students study the pictures of jobs and then trace the matching words: truck driver, manager, photograph, client, factory worker, and musician.
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Tradition through storytelling and music
Students discover how storytelling can shape a person's tradition.Students examine different methods of storytelling such as music, biographies, and African folktales. They then demonstrate their knowledge of storytelling by writing...
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Writing a Music Review
Young scholars compose a written music review of one of today's popular bluegrass musicians after they read online essays and journals about the modern bluegrass music scene look over and discuss recent music reviews
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Reading and Responding: Lesson 6
Teacher reads aloud to the students the material that is printed in boldface type inside the boxes. Information in regular type inside the boxes and all
information outside the boxes should not be read to students. Possible
student...
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Defining success: A debate about success encourages critical thinking skills
Students develop critical thinking skills while exploring new ideas about success, discuss people they consider to be successful, and identify how they measure or define their own personal success.
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I Am A Musician- Musician as Listener
Students listen for sounds as they complete another activity. Hearing a triangle, they raise their hand once they hear it. They discover that to be part of an ensemble they must listen to themselves and others around them. They discuss...
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Improvise a Short Story through Jazz
Students evaluate jazz music and a jazz music performance. They collaborate and create an improvised group short story. They improvise a musical piece on found objects.
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Auxiliary Verb Worksheet 6
In this grammar learning exercise, students underline the complete verb phrase in twenty-five sentences. Students share their answers with their classmates.
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Presentations
In this sentence completion instructional activity, students choose the correct words to complete a presentation, sentences, a profile, and more. Students complete 4 sentences total.
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John H. Ritter Novels
Students read the books writing by John H. Ritter and complete discussion questions about them. In this reading lesson plan, students answer discussion questions for 4 different books.
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Present Perfect Verb Tense
In this present perfect verb tense worksheet, 8th graders change the verb in each of ten sentences from regular verbs to present perfect tense verbs.
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Reduction of Adverb Clauses of Time
For this grammar worksheet, students learn about reducing adverb clauses to adverbial phrases. They then rewrite 4 sentences using what they just learned.
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Appositive Exercise
In this appositive worksheet, students are given ten sentences containing appositives that they must correct using the appropriate punctuation.
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Ray Charles
Learners read the book Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis. For this biography lesson plan, students read about the life of Ray Charles. Learners answer pre-reading questions about senses, strengths, and weaknesses they have. The lesson...
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Nouns Used as Direct Objects
In this nouns worksheet, students underline verbs that show action and circle the direct object that gets that action. Students complete this for 10 sentences.
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Wolfgang Mozart
In this famous people learning exercise, students read a selection about the life of Wolfgang Mozart, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.