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Voice and James Joyce
After reading a text written by James Joyce, middle and high schoolers find examples of passive voice. They share their findings with the class. Use this lesson to emphasize the effect of passive voice in writing.
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Create a Research Book
Students use the internet to research the production of manuscripts and books. Using this information, they create a research book full of tips to research effectively. They share their new book with the class after organizing the material.
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ap Word Family
In this literacy worksheet, 1st graders fill in the first letter to create different words. The letters attach to the front of the cap to create a flip book.
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Generational Music Communities
Students focus on age-related generations to assess how traditional music is transmitted from one generation to another and how music functions for people within a generation. They compare/contrast and explore music in their own...
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Heroes Or Role Models?
Students recognize that "heroes" and "role models" are not synonymous terms. By analyzing heroes of other cultures and periods, they determine that many heroic figures, mythic or historical, rather than providing a model of a societal...
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Journalist Japes
Students explore the career of a journalist. For this careers lesson, the teacher introduces the work of a journalist, then students use a worksheet as a springboard for a journalism activity as they write a news article about a specific...
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What Do Halloween Costumes Say?
Students analyze Halloween costumes they find in magazines to categorize their findings. In this holiday lesson, students discuss their findings about the costumes based on four different elements.
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HIV/AIDS And Contemporary Population Dynamics
Students describe the spread and occurence of HIV/AIDS at multiple scales. They explain global and regional variations in the occurence of HIV/AIDS and explain the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States.
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Publishing a Magazine
Students work collaboratively to create, edit, and publish their own student magazine. The lesson suggests the use of iPhoto, a word processor, iPages, and digital cameras for the creative process.
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The Family: Louisiana Family Folklore
Students explore and identify family treasures and research the history to each one. They also organize a variety of artifacts into various categories and research traditional Louisiana artifacts online. Each student draws inferences...
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Calling Jobland
Students explore communication in the work environment. In this communication and careers lesson, the class discusses ways in which coworkers communication, then work in pairs to role play a conversation coworkers in a certain field may...
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Who's Up for the Olympic Challenge?:Integrating the 5 Themes of Geography with Olympic Bids
Young scholars explore geographical themes. In this problem solving geography lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation about the Vancouver/Whistler Olympic bid. Young scholars analyze Vancouver as an Olympic site looking at...
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Lesson on the Declaration of Independence
What does it mean to say that a right is unalienable? How did the founding fathers convey this revolutionary concept in the Declaration of Independence? Engage in a close reading and analysis of the Declaration of Independence, and...
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Theocracy, Then and Now
Learners search the Web for resources to use in preparing the project, make and defend judgments as to the authority and appropriateness of resources they include or exclude from their projects, and write clearly in the expository mode.
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The Great Migration: An Oral History
Students research the factors which contributed to the great migration and write a well organized research paper using multiple sources. They incorporate quotations into their paper, both direct and paraphrased, in accordance with MLA...
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Shakespeare and the Web
Twelfth graders gain a better understanding of Shakespeare through lecture and the Internet.
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Latent Learning
Students discuss childhood psychology by viewing a YouTube video. In this human behavior lesson, students identify latent learners and discuss reasons why some people fail to conform to society while others are quick to please everyone...
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The Thinking Approach to Reading
Students discover to how to tell what a passage is saying and different types of reading. They relate the situations to real life situations.
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Approaching Walden
Eleventh graders examine their natural surroundings as a way to begin thinking about an abstract idea. They analyze and compare or contrast the rhetorical stategies of two essayists. Students interpret and evaluate images culled from...
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Rhetorical Terms
Students explore online audio examples taken from public speeches, movies, songs, lectures, oral interpretations of literature and other media events to find uses for specific rhetorical terms. This lesson includes a video of...
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Build a Word
Students explore new words through letters or letter groups. In this lesson about words, students use index cards to build new words. Each index card contains one letter or letter group. Students utilize different strategies like...
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Paws in JobLand
In these personal information worksheets, students read through the options about the characteristics of the student. Students select the best option and then complete the sentences about their personal preferences.
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Mythology - What Is It?
Students explore Greek mythology. In this mythology lesson plan, students discuss and define mythology. Students view pictures and associate them with the correct Greek myth. Students answer trivia questions about their knowledge for...
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A Lesson on Benjamin Franklin’s “Project for Moral Perfection”
Benjamin Franklin identified 13 virtues that he felt would strengthen his character if he could focus on each one. A thorough lesson explores high schoolers' personal values in the context of their lives, and compels them to strive for...