In this language skills worksheet, students test their skills on answering forty three questions that deal with the eight parts of speech, punctuation, spelling, etc.

Students, using a New York Times article as a springboard for discussion, investigate and debate the complex issues of First Amendments Rights and censorship for Hate Groups using Websites for propaganda.

Students locate historical references in songs. They create music/lyrics to illustrate an historical topic.

In this foreign language worksheet, learners fill in the blanks for ten sentences. Each sentence present a quote that a person might hear. They write an interpretation of the intent of the speaker.

In this foreign language worksheet, learners read a quoted sentence. They fill in the blank on an interpretive sentence to describe the meaning of the quote.

In this foreign language worksheet, students read ten questions or statements. They fill in the blank to complete the response statement.

Students examine the constitutionality of various forms of expression; they then take part in a mock trial on the issue of cross burning. Divide the class into three groups; Supreme Court Justices, and two groups that don't agree on this...

Not really a worksheet, but rather, a website that has 10 sentences void of all capital letters. Copy these onto a handout or project them on the wall for your class to use as practice. Answers follow, along with an explanation as to why...

In this future time reading comprehension worksheet, students read an excerpt from "I Have a Dream" and then respond to 3 multiple choice questions.

Here's a worksheet designed to help learners develop their skill reading primary source documents. The questions, based on an excerpt from Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address, encourages close reading and analysis.

Malice aforethought? Can the New York Times be held libel for false claims appearing in its ads? The Supreme Court case New York Times v Sullivan changed the interpretation of the First Amendment. Class members examine these changes and...

In this count and noncount nouns activity students are given a cloze passage and asked to choose between two verb forms in order to match the count or noncount noun subject.

This handout provides suggestion8s for exploring the elections process including making a party platform poster, writing a speech in the style of a famous politician, having a debate, planning a convention, and more! While some of the...

In this grammar instructional activity, learners explore idioms and their uses. Students complete four matching and eight multiple choice questions involving the meanings of idioms.

Follow the monkey and learn your prepositions! This is such a great way to illustrate new vocabulary. Learners review the French words sous, sur, à coté de, devant, derrière, entre, au-dessus de, and au-dessous de. There's a short...

Your class is designing an online dating service, and they have to complete their members' profiles! Group your kids in pairs, and distribute this resource to get them speaking! As one partner describes a member, the other has to...

A reading of Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention," Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" launch a discussion about the price one is willing to pay to...

Use this vocabulary development resource as flash cards or with an iPad. Autistic or special needs pupils can review birthday related vocabulary words. Each word is a verb and each associated image shows that verb as it is occurring at a...

Combine a lesson on the elderly with grammar instruction. Before viewing a series of provided video clips, class members brainstorm a list of words related to senior citizens and organize these words into categories that correspond with...

"And Brutus is an honourable man." Or is he? Readers of Shakespeare’s tragic Julius Caesar are asked to identify the rhetorical devices Mark Antony uses in his funeral oration and to explain how these devices influence the...

"Friend, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..." Those words begin one of the most persuasive speeches in literature. Explore the elements of persuasion in a series of lessons related to William Shakespeare's Julius...

Young scholars discover the importance of matching verbs to their subjects through a discussion of a whimsical video on verb agreement and a read aloud of the book, "To Root, To Toot To Parachute". They practice verb agreement in...

Finding the main idea in a text can be rather difficult! Work with your class and develop this skill. This resource contains an excerpt from Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, and the reader must identify the main idea of Juliet's...

Has equality always existed as an unalienable right in the United States? Use this worksheet to chronicle the history and progression of equality in major documents and speeches throughout American history. The graphic organizer asks...