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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/conrast: 5 Voice Storyboard: Perspect [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this PDF lesson young scholars study a topic on which people tend to have differing opinions; they create five dialogue bubbles that would represent five different viewpoints: one in complete support of the topic, one completely...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Intro to Julius Caesar Using Universal Theme Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this 4-session lesson, students explore the theme of betrayal from different perspectives in their own lives and in modern scenarios through discussions and activities where they create and talk about comic strip scenarios. They...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tic Tac Toe Spelling [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
For this PDF spelling activity, choose three activities "in a row" to complete for your weekly spelling assignments. These activities include creating a comic strip using at least seven of your spelling words, write your spelling words...
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Primary
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Books and Writing: Joseph Heller

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Australian Broadcasting Company provides the transcript of an interview with author Joseph Heller, who wrote Catch 22. He answers questions about his books Catch 22 and Now and Then and about his view on life. Excerpts...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Students Write a Newspaper

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this project-based language development lesson, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The lesson format follows the Sheltered...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: 8 Ways the Original 'Star Trek' Made History

For Students 9th - 10th
When "Star Trek" premiered on NBC in the fall of 1966, it promised "To boldly go where no man has gone before." More than half a century later, it has done just that. The original "Star Trek," which lasted for only three seasons, birthed...
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Lesson Plan
National Geographic

National Geographic: American Genius: Perseverance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the importance of failure to the process of innovation by investigating several items that were invented by accident. They share one "failure to success" story by creating a 3-panel comic strip poster, and then write...
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EL Education

El Education: Earth, Wind and Fire

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Third grade students at World of Inquiry, School #58 created this set of cards as part of an expedition on natural disasters. To create their card, each student researched and wrote a descriptive summary on a specific natural event; each...
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EL Education

El Education: It's All Greek to Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This book was created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine as part of a learning expedition on ancient civilizations, focusing on ancient Greece.The book includes collage-like portraits and background information on famous figures...
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EL Education

El Education: Malaria

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research world health and global diseases and create a comic and activity book to raise awareness of global health issues, malaria in particular. In addition, students started a fund raising campaign to raise money for mosquito...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students how to recognize and avoid stereotyping in media. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
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Professional Doc
SEN Teacher

Sen Teacher: Handwriting 3

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Customize and print out handwriting worksheets. Set the fonts, type of writing (print, cursive, comic sans, calligraphic, dotted font) and the text size, then type directly on the page the letters and words you want your students...