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Screening the Silver Screen

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students write New York Times Movie Guide Reviews using descriptive and persuasive language.
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Follow the Drinking Gourd: Creative Writing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners conduct Internet research to identify the conflicts and positions of slaves, slaveholders, and members of the Underground Railroad network in the time preceding the Civil War. Students write an essay about their findings written...
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Letter Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write to themselves or to known audiences, share news, explore new ideas, and record notes. They identify that holidays are days that people set aside to recognize a person or event that has made a great impression....
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Creative Writing Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students practice recognizing the elements needed to produce a piece of creative writing and become aware of those elements in their own original pieces of writings. In groups, they creatively write a new story utilizing all the major...
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What About Us? Women in the Civil War

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners research the role of women in the Civil War. In this Civil War unit, students research the role women played during the war. This unit includes eight different activities including vocabulary, writing prompts and a literature...
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It's Your Birthday! Expository Writing Unit 2

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create an expository essay. In this writing lesson Students are assigned a country and must conduct research surrounding a historic event that occurred in that country at the time of their birth.
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Storyboard for Persuasive Text

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate their knowledge of the main elements of a story by creating a storyboard.  For this persuasive writing lesson students create storyboards that are intended to persuade a director to make a movie out of the short...
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Ugly? Says Who?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore biology by writing animal poetry in class. In this animal characteristics lesson, students research the Internet for facts about an "ugly" animal such as a bug or small critter. Students complete worksheets about animal...
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World-Water Hero

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils explore why clean water is essential. In this environmental lesson plan, students identify the "powers" we need to improve the quality of water. Pupils share their descriptions of world-water superheroes.
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Conflict

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners outline the action in their narrative writing assignments by brainstorming about conflict. In this conflict analysis lesson, students define conflict and discuss the different types of conflict. Learners brainstorm about a...
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Soundtrack to War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discuss the important role of music in lives of soldiers stationed in Iraq. They identify and demonstrate skills in creating compositions with limited resources, similar in concept to the soldiers viewed in the documentary.

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