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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Box and Whisker Plots Grades 11 12

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept teaches students how to use the five-number summary to make a box-and-whisker plot.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Drawing a Box Plot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn how to represent the Five-Number Summary graphically using a box plot.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the book Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes/analysis, study questions/quiz, and essay topics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Tech: Five Moe's Amuses With Laughs, Crowd Interaction

For Students 9th - 10th
This site reviews the 1993 production of "Five Guys Named Moe" at Boston's Wilbur Theater. It gives a good summary of the musical, as well as a critique of that production.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Five Stars for Emily Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Five Stars for Emily, a novel written by Kathleen Cook Waldron, looks at a young girl's experience of leaving modern comforts behind and going to live in a log cabin without electricity. This teacher's guide includes a book summary,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to Slaughterhouse Five [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This four page .pdf offers post-reading suggestions, chapter summaries, background information and a brief bio, among other features.
Website
Other

C Dickens Books: Slaughterhouse 5

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary and commentary of "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Discusses several of the characters and their presence in other of Vonnegut's novels.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Learning Math: Min, Max and the Five Number Summary

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Explore how to interpret a large set of data by dividing it up into smaller portions in order to answer statistical questions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Get on the Stick

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use a CBR 2 to measure the reaction time of catching a stick. They also learn how to interpret a box plot, and make a five number summary of a single variable data set.
Website
Other

Government of Jamaica

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive five page summary of the government of Jamaica.
Article
Other

Shakespeare Net: Much Ado About Nothing: Break Down

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a breakdown of the play Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare. It provides plot summaries of each of the five acts.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Latin Amer. In Search of Himself

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Summaries and commentaries on five of Garcia Marquez? short stories, ?Death Constant Beyond Love,? ?Tuesday Siesta,? ?One of These Days,? ?Balthazar?s Marvelous Afternoon,? and ?Big Mama?s Funeral? to form this unit. Discusses how these...
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Other

Shakespeare's Words: Julius Caesar: Character Circles

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of five Venn diagram circles showing the relationships between characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and their roles in the play.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Summary Statistics: Summarizing Univariate Distributions

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students about other measures of center such as the mid-range, trimmed means and weighted mean. It also introduces the concept of percentiles,...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Box and Whisker Plots Grade 8

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make Box-and-Whisker Plots to represent data.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Types of Data Representation: Graphic Displays of Data

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Here you will explore displays of data using bar charts, histograms, pie charts and boxplots, and learn about the differences and similarities between them and how...
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Other

Nearpod: Displaying Data: Box Plots

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this lesson, students will learn how to create and intrepret box plots using the 5-number summary.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Whittle, Whittle It Down: Summarizing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This multi-day jigsaw activity engages students in summary writing. Students will work in small groups after direct instruction and write short summary paragraphs. Students will refer to the 'Five Rules For Writing a Summary' chart for...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Get the Gist: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A five-part standards-based lesson in which students learn to write a 20 word summary of an informational text by focusing on answering the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how. This strategy can be applied to any content area,...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Sources: Bringing Sources Into the Conversation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on identifying the five components of the "source sandwich:" transition and introduction; a signal phrase; quotation, paraphrase, or summary; citation, and explanation of material's relevance. A...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Summarization Strategy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.
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Other

Heart of Darkness

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the inspiration for the movie "Apocalypse Now." It has been edited only to the extent that the web publisher has separated each chapter into five sections to fit his "Chapter a Day,"...