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British Council

Letters Home

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When you're writing historical fiction, the past really can become the present — especially if you're writing in the present continuous tense! Cover World War I, verb tenses, censorship, and letter writing with one informative lesson and...
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Curated OER

Resume and Cover Letter

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze and create their own resume and cover letter. For this job skills lesson, students analyze the components of a cover letter and resume and complete related activities. Students then draft their own cover letter and resume.
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Curated OER

Polar Explorers-Sir Ernest Shackleton

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss Sir Ernest Shackleton and his participation in the Discovery expedition in 1901 to the South Pole. Students write a persuasive letter of application to an ad Shackleton placed in a London newspaper looking for recruits...
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Curated OER

The Cherokee: Trail Where They Cried

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read the Trail of Tears about the Cherokee Nation removal and write a letter pretending they are the grandparent of a Cherokee child. In this Trail of Tears lesson plan, students understand the changing of boundaries.
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Make Your Own Stationary

For Students 6th - 12th
Revive the art of letter writing with a project that enables class members to craft their own, personalized stationary. Young scholars add their name, address, and country to three different templates that features images of mythic...
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Lesson Plan
Civil War Trust

The Common Civil War Soldier

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Imagine you are a soldier in the Civil War. What are you wearing? What do you need to carry with you? Examine the life of a person during the Civil War, from drummer boys to powder monkeys to musket-toting soldiers. Elementary learners...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Family Letter

For Students 6th - 9th
Middle schoolers, working with their parents, calculate and complete five word problems associated with multiplying and dividing decimals. Students research the current Federal minimum wage at the library or on the Internet.
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Scholastic

Voyage on the Mayflower for Grades 6–8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Imagine living in the hold of a sailing ship for 63 days, enduring rough seas and autumn storms. As part of a study of the voyage of the Mayflower, class members examine an online resource that details life about the ship, watch a slide...
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Curated OER

Preparation of a Letter of Application

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the creation of a letter of application for a job. They practice creating them for a variety of different occupations. The formal assessment is based upon the creation of a letter.
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Writing
Curated OER

Application for the Post of Physician To the King

For Students 6th - 8th
For this medicine history worksheet, students write a letter of application to Emperor Charles V of Austria as if they are Vesalius to convince the emperor that they are the right person for the job. Students should include the details...
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Curated OER

Applications of Cargoes from Three Continents to the Latin Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students discuss the importance of communication and writing in their daily lives. In groups, they use the internet to research the development of letters, alphabets and writing materials. They trace the spread of the Latin language...
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Curated OER

Hoaxes, Scams, Chain Letters and Urban Legends

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the evacuation of New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. Using the internet, they research stories they may have heard and verify a story's authenticity. Students discuss rumors and urban legends. Given a worksheet,...
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Curated OER

Position Wanted

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners share their opinions about local job opportunities for people their age. After reading an article about hiring trends, they discuss Google's answer to filling jobs. Class members research and report on an employer that offers...
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Curated OER

Alphabetize For A Reason

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners organize information by using the alphabet. Students organize materials alphabetically. Learners alphabetize with the first, second and third letters of a set of words. Students discover applications for alphabetical order.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Analyzing a Writer's Stance

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Should college admissions decisions be based on whether whose family members attended? Secondary students read and respond to a New York Times article on the issue of 'legacy preferences' in college admissions. Following class...
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Curated OER

Lifestyles of Civil War

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, after viewing a website on Civil War Time, explore and analyze the lifestyles of Civil War times as well as those of the soldiers through the writing of a composition of a narrative letter and story through the eyes of a...
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Westward Expansion: Image and Reality

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
As your young historians study Westward Expansion, practice in-depth primary source analysis with the documents and guidelines presented in this resource. They will examine a lithograph and excerpts from two letters written by a Nebraska...
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Museum of Tolerance

The Pursuit of Democracy and Diversity: The Trial of Pro-Social Injustice in Historical Documents and Accounts

For Teachers 8th Standards
Class members investigate The Indian Removal Act of 1830, U.S. Theft of Mexican Territory Timeline, and President Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Horace Greeley, 1862, and then conduct a mock trial of each of these documents to determine...
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

The Homestead Act

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
To understand how the Homestead Act of 1862 changed the US and the lives of the people during that time, class members examine primary source materials including letters, broadsides, and images. They then assume the voice of a...
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C-SPAN

Electoral College Pros/Cons and Alternatives

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
If every vote counts, why do we need the electoral college? Middle and high schoolers study the Constitutional precedent of the electoral college, as well as its place in historical and modern elections, with an engaging social studies...
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American Battlefield Trust

Preserving Battlefields

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Save that site! Budding historians go on a rescue mission to save important Civil War battle sites using a project-based lesson. After carefully researching the importance of critical engagements and evaluating current threats, learners...
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Curated OER

Self Advocacy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students determine the procedures for facilitate a self-advocacy meeting. They enter information about the meetings in a database which they include in a letter summarizes the meeting.
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Curated OER

What's Integrity?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a letter by Steve Williams to determine why self-discipline and integrity are important attributes for peace corps volunteers. They apply these concepts to their own lives.
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Curated OER

What's Integrity?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the trait of integrity. In this character education lesson, students read letters by Steve Williams pertaining to jobs that help others. Students discuss the jobs WilIiams shares as well as integrity in their lives.

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