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College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Elizabeth George Speare

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Web English Teacher has put together a terrific resource featuring links to Elizabeth George Speare's life and work. These links provide lesson plans, teaching ideas and more.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: "The Minister's Black Veil'

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Minister's Black Veil." Roll the cursor over underlined words in the text to see definitions within the context of the story. Discussion questions are available at the end of the text.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Elie Wiesel Lesson Plans: Night

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this site to access numerous materials to support the study of Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel, Night. Resources range from study guides to background information on the Holocaust.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jean Craighead George Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site features several links to information and lesson plans on the life and work of Jean Craighead George.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Ernest Hemingway Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the life and work of Ernest Hemingway through this informative site. This site provides links to lesson plans, activities and more for some of his works.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Tim O'brien Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For teaching the work of Tim O'Brien, this site features lesson plans, overviews, notes, and other resources to help students reading The Things They Carried, Ambush, Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and so on.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Thornton Wilder Lesson Plans: Our Town

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover more about the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder when you visit this educational resource. This site features links to lesson plans for this incredible American drama.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Thinking Like an Expert: Teacher Modeling and Thinking Aloud

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource explores instructional practices for using think-aloud in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes. Think-Aloud examples are provided in both science and math. Download and print a resource...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: J. K. Rowling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teacher guide for J. K. Rowling and her Harry Potter books includes links to a biographical information, lesson plans, and activities.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Theodore Taylor

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do you know about the life and work of Theodore Taylor? Use this online resource to discover information about this famous author.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: As You Like It

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It, this site is linked to lesson plans and teaching materials, articles, introductory and background resources and the like.
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The English Teacher

The English Teacher: Description in Dracula

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extracts from Bram Stoker's Dracula reveak his powers of description that help to establish a sense of "versimilitude" or of being "true to life." It is important to establish verisimilitude in the beginning pages of a novel as this...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Robert Kimmel Smith

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site features information on the life and work of Robert Kimmel Smith.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: High School English Literary Terms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on a variety of key literary terms used in high school English including their definitions. These terms include flashback, genre, irony, parody, satire, setting, subplot, tone, and symbol.
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Cengage Learning

Houghton College Mifflin Division: Teaching Hemingway

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Even though this excellent site helps teachers present Hemingway, it also helps students learn how to read his works.
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Awesome Authors Lesson Plans

For Teachers 5th Standards
Not only will you find a description of a good unit, but you will find all of the handouts you will need including directions, letter home explaining the unit, websites to be used, and worksheets.
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Other

Esl Reader English Reading Help for Esl Students

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides great reading help for ESL students. You can use this helper to speed up reading time and improve your reading skills by providing definitions at a click for any passage you provide. Just copy and paste your text...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Connecticut: A Case Study in Anti Imperialism

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson plan for 7th and 8th grade. Gives notes on imperialism, mercantilism and how Great Britain used the colonies as a source for raw materials.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: As You Like It

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover this comprehensive guide to teaching the interpretation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It."
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Inst: Architecture of New England and Southern Colonies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is part of a curriculum unit containing in-depth and detailed information comparing the architecture of colonial New England and the colonial South. It discusses how the archictecture relects the lives and the society of the...
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Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

For Students 9th - 10th
A site from the UK. Includes very detailed characterizations from the novel, as well as thematic analysis on topics such as marriage and societal standards.
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Other

Shutterfly: Ell Resources: Videos: 2 5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An annotated list of Youtube educational videos designed as teacher resources for a variety of English language learner topics. Science, social studies, language arts, and math are the featured subjects.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Target 2% Lessons to Support Comprehension for Grades K Through 5

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Follow links to comprehension lessons for Grades K-2 in both English and Spanish that focus on plot and story elements. Additional links are available in English and Spanish for Grades 3-5 Comprehension lessons on various genres and...