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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Dueling Telegrams: 1963 Verbal Power Play Between Wallace and JFK

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Information, inferences, and innuendos. Text and subtext. Class members examine telegrams exchanged between President John F. Kennedy and Alabama Governor George Wallace, studying both what is stated and what is implied by the diction...
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Novelinks

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: Vocabulary List

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A staggering amount of work went into compiling this vocabulary resource for Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. The overview provides a rationale for the strategy and information about tier 1, 2, and 3 words. The 19-page...
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Curated OER

What Do You Call Older People?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm a list of words they use to refer to the elderly. As a class, they discuss the importance of word connotations and explain those used to refer to the older population. They complete a handout and share their thoughts...
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Curated OER

Persuasion and Use of Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss connotative language, hyperbole, allusion, and rhetorical question. In small groups, they read one section of the "Speech to the Virginia Convention" and analyze these devices. Groups present their results to the class.
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Curated OER

Poetry Analysis Device: TPCASTT

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze the key elements of poetry using a mnemonic device.  The device: TPCASTT (title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shifts, title and theme).
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Curated OER

Bloody Business

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research word frequencies in Macbeth and create a frozen picture inspired by a word.  In this Macbeth lesson, students view Blood Will Have Blood and discuss the dual meaning of the word "blood."  Students identify five major...
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Curated OER

IPM Basics

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize that the term "pest" has a social connotation. They distinguish between good pest management practices and poor pest management practice and demonstrate knowledge of the IPM pyramid.
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Curated OER

Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine the title of a book and make assumptions of what words might appear inside. Then the students split the words into categories according to their connotation and compose their own stories based on the title of the book.
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Curated OER

Stylistic Devices

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars review connotation and denotation and stylistic devices in poetry. They read the lyrics to a song as it is being played and then discuss the meaning of the song. As a class, students read poems, share their thoughts, and...
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Curated OER

1704 Attack on Deerfield

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Class groups examine conflicting primary and secondary sources describing the 1704 attack on the fort at Deerfield by French and Native Americans and analyze the implications of discrepancies.
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Scholastic

Choose Your Words Wisely (Grades 9-12)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Words, words, words. The function of words in persuasive writing is the focus of a group activity that asks members to analyze how words advertisers use are designed to influence targeted audiences.
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Macmillan Education

Communication

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Especially tricky for language is understanding the line between inappropriate, confrontational, (in)effective, (un)reasonable and diplomatic English. The activities in the resource permit class members to practice communicating using...
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Activity
Curated OER

Lesson 1- Set Design

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Line, shape, color, texture, space. The first in a three-part series of lessons intended for advanced theatre arts classes introduces the elements of set design. Class members examine maquettes and analyze how designers have put together...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Winter Adjectives: Shades of Meaning

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Is wet damper than soggy? Young grammarians consider shades of meaning by ranking a set of winter adjectives from the weakest to the strongest. 
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EngageNY

Forming a Research-Based Claim: Cascading Consequences Charts

For Teachers 7th Standards
Life is all about choices and consequences. Using a Cascading Consequences chart, scholars create a visual map of the effects of a particular choice or action related to water management. With their researcher's notebooks and copies of...
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Curated OER

Other Voices - Latino and Chicano Literature and Identity in America

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders analyze "Dedication" and "Child of the Americas" using a double-journal format. They compare responses and infer meaning from the connotations of select images in the poems write a paragraph describing the importance of...
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Curated OER

It's All in a Name

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the connotations associated with names while determining what put-downs and put-ups are. They work as a group to find out what each person's name means to them. While studying put-ups and put-down they describe the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Positive And Negative Words 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students investigate if words have positive or negative connotations. Students analyze a list of 20 words and mark them with a P or N according to whether they are positive or negative.
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Curated OER

Pre-Columbian Native Peoples and Technology

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore Pre-Columbian native cultures. In this Exploration Era activity, students define the words "primitive," "civilized," and "technology." Students consider the connotations of the words and then investigate misconceptions...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Present Simple Negative

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this negative sentences worksheet, learners complete the sentences in the present simple text with negative connotations. Students complete 48 sentences total.
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Curated OER

Incorporate an Aspect of Environmentalism into an Essay Writing Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students listen to a brief explanation of the meaning of denotation and connotation and engage in discussion of the word conservation incorporating both denotations and connotations of the word. They outline the consequences of our...
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Curated OER

Stylistic Aspects of Composition

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore verbs. They list and demonstrate verbs. Students discuss words that connote different meanings. They write paragraphs based on their word selection. Students share their paragraphs with the class.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Worksheet 6: Vocabulary Review: Opposites

For Students 5th - 6th
In this words and meanings worksheet, students match 10 words in one column with their meanings in another column. Most words have a somewhat negative connotation: depressed, widow, quit, complain, lonely.
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Curated OER

Picture Match

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. For this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.

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