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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Comparing information found in images, charts, and graphs with that found in written text can be a challenge for even senior high scholars. Provide learners with an opportunity to practice this skill with an exercise that asks them to...
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Choosing Words Carefully

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Use literacy tools to select precise vocabulary. High schoolers respond to discussion questions that require them to consider the denotation and connotation of words. They then read non-fiction passages and identify words in the passages...
Writing
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The Learning Network: More Like Disney

For Students 7th - 12th
A great source of high-interest reading for the language arts classroom! Meant to be used with an article also available on the New York Times website, this worksheet provides 10 comprehension questions about the reading as well as one...
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Getting the Word Out

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Discuss and generate blogs in this technology lesson. Middle and high schoolers explore examples of blogs and create their own blogs. Use this lesson throughout the year to reinforce concepts from your language arts class (or any class)....
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The Teacher Directs: The Experience of Movement in Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Experience movement in literature. High schoolers are introduced to new vocabulary related to drama and theatre. In groups, they use a piece of literature and develop their own skit to act out in front of the class. As a class, they...
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Famous Death Lines

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers examine Shakespeare's language. They select and explore death scenes from plays that they're familiar with and practice delivering famous death lines to one another. They should attempt to recreate the emotions that they...
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Brochure Writing

For Teachers 8th - 12th
What do you use a brochure for? Middle schoolers or underperforming high schoolers identify the attributes of informative brochures. Either bring in a few brochures you've collected or use the sample brochures attached here. While...
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Heroic Vocabulary: Using Decoding Strategies and Thesaurus

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Develop the decoding skills of your middle and high schoolers. Scholars participate in a classroom activity that requires them to decode a word with a prefix and suffix. They apply the skill of breaking the word into parts of meaning as...
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Identify Text Features in Nonfiction

For Teachers 8th - 12th
What does a non-fiction text look like? Examine the text features of non-fiction. Middle and high schoolers read non-fiction passages provided by their instructor and analyze the texts for word choice, details, and organization.
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Responses to Literature

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers hone their writing skills by reading Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the poem Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out. They fill out a graphic organizer (included here), and use the organizer to write an...
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Show, Don't Tell: Details to Make Writing Come Alive

For Teachers 6th - 9th
After each of three viewings of a 45-second video, aspiring writers employ vivid adjectives and precise, strong verbs to "show, don't tell." First they compose a single sentence, then three, and finally a five-sentence paragraph. Repeat...
Worksheet
Florida State College

Parts of Speech

For Students 3rd - 6th
Although designed for a college-level writing lab, this worksheet provides excellent practice for all learners in identifying and using the parts of speech.
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Post-Secondary Checklist

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders answer the question what is next for them and identify how life is going to be different after high school. As a class, they share their life experiences in elementary and middle school and then predict how it might be...
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If Love Should Count You Worthy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sing "If Love Should Count You Worthy" by James Mulholland for SATB choir, horn, and piano and a version of "The Drinkin' Gourd" in this High School choir lesson plan. State and National standards for Music are emphasized.
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Melodia Sight-Singing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice sight-singing skills in this Choral lesson for the High School mixed-choir. Emphasis is placed on State and National Standards in the Arts and the song "Dirait-on", a piece by Morten Lauridson, based on the French...
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Baga Drum

For Teachers K - 12th
Students draw and design a musical instrument that incorporates a human figure or animal. In this musical lesson plan, students will discover the differences between African drums. This lesson plan is designed for elementary, middle,...
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Classroom Singing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sing a song performing rhythms accurately with a steady beat, pitches accurately with excellent intonation, and a clear, focused tone in this music lesson for the high school Choir class. The lesson includes grading rubric.
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Creating Sacred and Ritual Masks Within the High School Pottery Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research sacred masks and what they were used for. They are to create their own sacred mask and present them to the class.
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the Impact of the U.s. Supreme Court on High School Journalism.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study of the First Amendment, Tinker, Hazelwood and the Colorado Student Free Expression Law. They discuss the ramifications on the student press and recite their memorized First Amendment rights. They discover what can...
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Chuukese Dinner (high School)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read journal entries about having dinner with a Chuukese family. Using this information, they identify which foods sound appealing and compare and contrast Micronesian and American foods, fruits and vegetables. In...
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Junior High School Lesson Plan: Conditionals

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate conditional verbs. In this conditional verbs practice lesson plan, students explore the use of conditional verbs as they review the verbs and practice their grammatical skills by completing a worksheet.
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Junior High School Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students play a board game in order to review the details from a travel essay. In this board game lesson, students listen the a story about a trip, ask questions regarding it, and review the story by playing the board game on the...
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Incredible Art

Skateboard Deck Graphics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young artists don't need to be skateboarders to enjoy this assignment. Class members use the provided worksheet to craft 10 sketches that convey action or motion using no more than seven lines. They then select their three best ideas and...
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The Psychology Teacher's Resource Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The activities in a comprehensive teacher's resource guide provides budding psychologists with opportunities to design experiments to study behavior, apply their knowledge of research variables, critique online behavior surveys, and much...

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