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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Writing About Art: Comparing Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will compare and contrast an academic and an Impressionist portrait through a writing exercise and discussion. Each student will then write a formal commission letter to one of the artists, requesting a portrait. Adaptations for...
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Wolff: Old School

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to Tobias Wolff's Old School, with historical information, author biographies, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, writing exercises, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with...
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Jeffers: Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, including historical information, biographies, discussion questions, and lesson plans. Each one of ten lesson plans has discussion activities, writing exercises, vocabulary, and homework...
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Writing World: Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A great resource outlining four major ways to make settings appear more real and genuine in fiction. Deals with themes such as motion, experience, mood, and the senses. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing Prepositions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This preposition practice activity provides a paragraph from a Hemingway short story. Students click on all of the prepositions used in prepositional phrases in the story. These words will appear in a box below. When finished they can...
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EL Education

El Education: Our Book of Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students choose a tool from a photograph and then become an expert on that tool. Through field visits to a hardware store, interviews with community members, and descriptive writing exercises, students learn the use of each tool....

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