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The Graveyard Book: Student Questioning For Learning Strategy
Questioning a text is a very effective way for kids to develop their reading comprehension skills. Designed to engage all class members, a reading activity prompts pairs to develop and share their own questions about the ending of Neil...
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A Graveyard Scavenger Hunt
Students engage in the lesson that covers local community history by taking a field trip to a local graveyard. They do various activities prepared by the teacher that includes finding local important people who once lived in the community.
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The Ghost In The Graveyard
Students practice chasing and fleeing skills by playing the game Ghost in the Graveyard.
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Savoring Halloween with Graveyard Pizza
Students find a recipe on the Internet. They read a recipe and prepare a shopping list. They purchase ingredients from a shopping list at a local grocery store. They follow directions and make Graveyard Pizza. They complete a worksheet...
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Create a Word Graveyard to Teach Synonyms
Young scholars explore descriptive writing by creating headstones. In this memorial lesson, students utilize an 11" x 17" piece of paper to create a cemetery headstone memorializing a word rather than a person. Young scholars decorate...
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Elders' Ways
Eighth graders collect and compare folk beliefs and sayings about health and healing as well as folk remedies. Then they investigate local graveyards, analyze their findings, and compare graveyards in Louisiana. Students also engage in...
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Cemeteries Are Historical, Not Solely Grave
Students reflect on the value of graveyards as places of great historical importance and information. They create an epitaph for and a brief biography of a deceased historical figure whom they admire.
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Graveyard Investigation
Fifth graders visit a cemetery and copy the headstones of soldiers killed during the Civil War. They role-play as soldiers aand write letters about their war experiences.
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Peek-a-Boo Tic-Tac-Toe for Halloween
In this Halloween worksheet, 1st graders cut out X's and O's to play tic-tac-toe on a spooky Halloween backdrop. A ghost in a graveyard and a haunted house are at the top of the page.
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Find the Oldest
Students track down their town's oldest standing man-made landmark. By learning more about the oldest structure in their area (whether it's a church, store, graveyard, bridge, etc.), they discover interesting details about their town's...
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The Mystery of Eleanor Rigby Revealed
Ninth graders examine who Eleanor Rigby is in the song by the beatles. In this Beatles music lesson, 9th graders read an article. Students complete a set of guided questions.
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Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
It's time for pupils to read, examine, and contemplate literature to explore the difference between vivid and generic verbs. Pupils distinguish between the two types of verbs as they read the ghost scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet. They...
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Unwind: Discussion Strategy, Chalk Talk
Readers of Neal Shusterman's young adult science fiction novel, Unwind, engage in a silent discussion, posting their responses to a series of statements about characters in the story.
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Gift of the Magi
While reading O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," your class will define and identify situational irony and allusion. Use a study guide (not included, but easy to produce) to record and discuss examples of allusion as you read. Map the...
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Evolution and Gene Frequencies: A Game of Survival and Reproductife Success
Students research the population of Bengal tigers and their existence as either dominant or recessive. They explore the presence of fur on these tigers and its lethal combinations. Determinating the effect of random mating in a...
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Forward, Into the Past!
Students, during a (virtual) visit to a burial ground, think about the past by viewing tombstones as primary sources. They explain how the attitudes of Deerfield residents toward death and burial evolved from 1780-1880.
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A Second Visit to Deerfield
Students take a virtual tour of the Deerfield Meeting House, circa 1700's, and other turn of the century homes and locations and compare them to modern homes and locations of today.
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Peace
Ninth graders explore through research changes in Japan following A-bomb, discuss how people of all ages can model tolerance and peaceful coexistence, examine Constitution of Japan, and identify its three basic tenants.
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Reading and Activity Suggestions for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Middle schoolers learn about characterization techniques in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In this Adventures of Tom Sawyerlesson, students write a description of one character through the eyes of another character and identify...
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Nightmare on Joe's Street
Students conduct research and create an eponym dictionary. They use their imaginations to create their own monster. They have a Monster Mash day to show off their creations.
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Halloween Rhymes and Songs
Students learn, memorize, and replay a rhyme. In this Halloween-themed lesson plan, students discover Halloween rhymes and songs while they pretend to be the characters that chase ghosts away.
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Interview A Famous Greek
Students become acquainted with historical people of Greece through research and role playing. They develop interview and research strategies which get to an historical person's achievements and personality.
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Inequalities in the Workforce
Fourth graders examine careers that differ in the amount of wages paid to women and men. They interview their parents and discover they are contributing to society. They discover their role within the community as well.
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