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Kites: Patang - The Indian Fighter Kite
Young scholars investigate the history of fighter kites and build their own. In this aeronautics lesson, students discover how other countries utilize fighter kites and where they originated. Young scholars create their own fighter...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian In Your Classroom: The Music in Poetry
Take poetry off the page and put it into terms of movement, physical space and, finally, music with this series of three lessons from the Smithsonian Institution. This resource introduces students to two poetic forms that originated as...
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Metaphor and Simile
Students differentiate between Metaphor and Simile using a song. For this English assignment, students investigate the reasoning and effectiveness of simile and metaphor. The teacher defines the two terms before the start of the assignment.
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Understanding Poetry
Students search the Internet to find a poem to research, analyze and present their interpretation of the poem to the class. They develop their interpretation in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.