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Expressions of Anti-Racism through Painting: The Puerto Rican Community from West Side Story to Connecticut

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a graffiti wall using their own name or personal symbol. They examine their own understanding of the film as a source of inspiration and listen to the music from the soundtrack as an effective motivation. They make...
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Feel the Music

For Teachers K
Students identify and demonstrate a positive learning attitude. They also demonstrate responsible emotional and cognitive behaviors and identify how to communicate clearly in oral, artistic, written, and nonverbal form. Finally, students...
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"West Side Story"

For Students 5th - 6th
In this music history worksheet, students discover the musical "West Side Story" by first reading a summary of the plot. Students answer 5 questions about the story line. Students then read and analyze the lyrics to "America" and discuss...
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Impromptu Speeches

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students formulate an impromptu speech about a given topic. In this public speaking instructional activity, students choose a topic from a deck of pre-written index cards and quickly present an impromptu speech. Students use a rubric to...
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"On the Sidewalk Bleeding" by Evan Hunter

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students read Evan Hunter's "On the Sidewalk Bleeding" and complete reading and vocabulary skill activities. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students review the vocabulary for the text and read the story. Students discuss the...
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A Year in the Work of the Bard

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the life and times of Shakespeare. In this William Shakespeare lesson, students research the noted Web sites to discover details about Shakespeare's life and the times he lived in. Students also virtually visit the Globe...
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Teen Spirit

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the attributes of teamwork. In this current events lesson, students compare and contrast gangs with teams. Students conduct their own school gang audit and discuss the implications of violence.
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English Exercises Passive Voice

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English activity, students respond to 22 fill in the blank questions that require them to rewrite sentences in passive voice. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Fahrenheit 451 Quiz

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Fahrenheit 451 worksheet, students determine the answers to 25 questions pertaining to plot, characters, and details from the novel by Ray Bradbury.
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Abstract Nouns

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
In two similar worksheets contained in this resource, learners circle the abstract noun contained in 13 or 14 sentences. Unfortunately, an example given is "courageous," which is an adjective. This is a resource for home schooling, but...
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My Conflict Shield

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss conflict. Working in pairs, they create lists of skills they have used in conflicts, skills they have seen used successfully but not used themselves, and skills they wish to develop. From their lists they identify...
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From Start to Finish: Shakespeare's Plays

For Students 9th - 12th
This online interactive quiz is too low-quality to assign to your class; however, you may want to adapt the idea of recognizing starts and finishes of works for your own lesson or quiz. An example from the worksheet is: "When shall we...
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Performing Modernized Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners select a piece of text from a play and prepare it for performance to the class based on their modern setting.
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Pyramus and Thisbe, Page to Stage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and interpret a script. Then they use higher order thinking skills to transfer information to long term memory. They use the information and interpretations in order to have a model to create dramatic scripts.
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Shakespeare's Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore monologues of Shakespeare and the structure of the Globe Theatre. They participate in a Shakespeare phrase guessing game, examine a diagram of the Globe Theatre, and read and discuss monologues from Shakespeare.
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Mimics Survive -- Camouflaged Reptiles

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners examine mimicry as a survival strategy in repiles. They examine examples of the Mexican milksnake and the coralsnake in attempt to distinguish the differences in them. They discuss other species that use mimicry.
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Taking a Stand

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities.
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English Literature Authors and Their Works

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils participate in completing a worksheet where they have to match the authors to the short story or book that they wrote. They have studied English Literature Authors, so this is an assessment piece type of lesson.
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Understanding Genres

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars identify genres of literature. For this literature instructional activity, students read definitions of the various genres. Young scholars choose books and list clues in the texts that help them identify the appropriate...
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Pilot-Speak

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this communication worksheet, learners read about how pilots use the phonetic alphabet to communicate clearly. Students match each letter of the alphabet with a code word.
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I Have a Friend Who?

For Students 10th - 12th
In this word puzzle worksheet, students find the pattern in two word lists (likes/dislikes).
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Transportation and Communication

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students take an in depth look at communication. In this communication lesson, students discuss the effectiveness of codes, languages, and transportation in communication. Students participate in a problem solving activity that requires...
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Tes: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Workbook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 30-page study guide for the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare including "The Prologue" and excerpts from the text with questions, research on the context of the play, figurative...
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Tes: Year 8 Romeo and Juliet Scheme of Work Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson plan for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet including information about Shakespeare and the era he lived in, a study of the "Prologue," character analyses, the text, and...

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