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Curated OER

Pictorial Portfolio

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a pictorial portfolio of important assignments, projects and activities through their high school years. They use a camera and decide what makes a good photograph. Students organize their photographs into a portfolio...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Job Interview

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders write a multi paragraphed, expository composition that explanins how one would conduct themself before, during, and after a job interview. In order to be prepared for the interview, 8th graders complete a thesis, have an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lewis and Clark Encounters with Native Americans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research what the exchange was between the various Native American groups and Lewis and Clark. They are able to write reflections after truly considering the issue with the help of research.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the characteristics of a persuasive letter. They label each characteristic and they create a persuasive letter using the correct business letter format. Students recommend a school rule or change of a rule and justify...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush: Native American Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils read," The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush" by Tomie dePaola and discuss the way legends are passed down orally. They then create their own legend and illustrate it on a simulated "Buffalo Skin" made from brown paper.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Henry David Thoreau

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the life and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Students watch a slide show on Henry David Thoreau. They visit a quiet, tranquil location and observe nature. After reading and discussing Thoreau's works, students create...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Remarkable Trees of Virginia

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students draw a picture of their favorite tree from memory, and then add detail as they learn more about leaf characteristics of Virginia trees. They will use their writing skills to nominate one or more of their favorite trees to the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tasmanian Time Travel

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders perform research using the Internet about the Tasmanian Devil. The project can be presented in a variety of ways. The use of computer software is important for students to know, specifically Hyperstudio.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geography: I Spy Environments

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine nature paintings from a Utah museum for their physical characteristics. In small groups, they observe museum postcards and discuss the season, precipitation, temperature, and geometric shapes pictured. Focusing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Find Your Style

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read a story and demonstrate their fluency and comprehension by retelling it to a partner. In this reading lesson plan, students follow a note taking sheet provided.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Frost's famous poem, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" as an example of narrative poetry, students explore the artistry and significance of the narrative poem. In addition, this lesson plan provides suggestions for writing...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Narrative Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eight-part learning module with links to texts, videos, websites, an image with examples and analysis of narrative poetry.
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eBook
Other

The Lancaster Grid for Learning: Narrative Poem: The Highwayman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete text of the narrative poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.
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Activity
TES Global

Tes: Three Poems (Narrative and Free Verse) Fossil, Stone Age and Iron Age

For Students K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] These narrative and free verse poems describe fossils, the Stone Age, and Iron Age. Entertaining graphic features accompany the poems.
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Website
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Golden Treasury of Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in Eng Lang

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Electronic text of Thomas Palgrave's book, "The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language". There are several ways to find the poem that you want to study: by author, by title, by first line, and by...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A reader's theater script for Shel Silverstein's narrative poem, The Giving Tree, is provided on these pages. Thirteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Lesson Plan
TES Global

Tes: Forms of Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These Several lessons provide students with an understanding with different types of writing forms: calligram, cinquain, diamante, haiku, and narrative.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: One Day a Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem tells a story from the poet's imagined news story.
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Handout
Other

Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
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eBook
University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of "The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, originally published in 1859.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Neoclassism: Epic, Mock Epic and Satire

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Unfortunately, "literary" writing was not as simple and direct as political writing. When trying to write poetry, most educated authors stumbled into the pitfall of elegant neoclassicism. The epic, in particular, exercised a fatal...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Lamia by John Keats

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the two-part narrative poem Lamia by John Keats about consuming love.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the cycle of twelve narrative poems Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the long narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; it includes seven parts,

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