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Total English

For Students 4th - 6th
For this using prefer worksheet, students rewrite sentences using prefer, ask personal preference questions and write responses using prefer. Students write sixteen short answers.
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Teaching About Genocide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students can find that genocide is a prevalent theme in world history.
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Text Structures in Science Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize that science writing is organized in identifiable patterns called text structures. Understanding and using these different text structures help refine students' abilities to read and write in science.
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Journalism in War Time: What Does the Public Need to Know?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view the film "War Feels Like War" about journalist's experiences in the Iraqi War and discuss the role of journalism in war. They evaluate different media sources for war reporting and determine the questions they want to see...
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A Poetic Finale

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners write a poetic response to the Holocaust as a culminating activity to a unit on the Holocaust. They listen to and discuss a rap song about the Holocaust, complete various handouts, and write a poem for future generations.
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The Armenian Genocide: The American Ambassador in Constantinople

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze America's reaction to the Armenian Genocide. They write a journal response, read and discuss text, compare/contrast reactions around the world to the Armenian Genocide and the genocide in Rwanda, and write an essay.
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Lon Chaney: Three Faces of Lon Chaney

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch the Lon Chaney episode of American Masters, read chapters from three original books on which Chaney's films were based, and use a reading strategy called Reader's Theater to adapt each chapter into a script. After...
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Salvaged Pages: Writing as a Response to Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the topic of the Holocaust. Before reading and discussing Elie Wiesel's "Night", they complete an activity giving them a different perspective on the event. They read diaries and journal entries of children and write a...
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Jacob Lawrence's Freedom Trail

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students read excerpts of autobiographies from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. After listening to excerpts of an oral reading of Frederick Douglass' book, they discuss the ways African Americans were treated on plantations. ...
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Bridging the Centuries: Teaching the Nineteenth Century English Novel Today

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students compare and contrast the elements used in the 19th century British novel and those novels in American society today. In groups, they brainstorm what it might have been like to be a teenager growing up in England during the 19th...
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World War II: A Compartive Study through Literature

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine World War II through the use of literature. As a class, they brainstorm a list of words they relate to the war itself. In groups, they read various novels and view photographs showing the experiences of the Jews,...
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World War II: Concentration Camps and Refugees

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the experiences of the people in the concentration camps at liberation during World War II. Students read an article on the Liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp and D-Day and report to the class.
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Peter Rabbit Meets Charles Darwin

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners start to think of evolution in terms of populations. The class follows a cartoon scenario of a rabbit population in which there is selection and change of gene frequency. They receive copies of the scenario or the whole thing...
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Exploring the Circular Motion of a Tennis Ball

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of circular motion. In groups, they participate in experiments to discover the law of inertia. They describe how forces act on objects during a circular motion. To end the lesson, they use these...
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Introduction to the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the events surrounding the Holocaust in World War II. After viewing a clip from "The War", they work together in groups to research the various responses from governments on the tradegy. To end the lesson, they write a...
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The Holocaust: Concentration Camps

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders, after reading a variety of passages and watching a video on "Children Remember the Holocaust," explore the concept of brutality of deportation and analyze conditions in concentration and death camps. They review maps and...
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Vocabulary Unit 1-4

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Vocabulary worksheet, students complete four parts on four pages by matching vocabulary terms in a variety of activities.
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Movie Genres

For Students 7th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students match twelve movie genres with their appropriate definitions and examples from two answer banks and then translate the titles into Chinese. Students answer six questions regarding personal movie...
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Present Simple Routine Vocabulary

For Students 1st
In this daily routine worksheet, 1st graders practice combining words from three different columns of words to create and write ten sentences describing their daily routines.
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Oompah Loompa Genetics

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this genetics learning exercise, students use descriptive information about the different types of Oompa Loompas to show genotype and phenotype plus dominant and recessive traits. This learning exercise has 12 problems to solve.
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Yikes! An Interjection!

For Students 5th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about using interjections in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer 9 questions. The answers are on the last page.
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Facing History and Ourselves

American Responses to the Armenian Genocide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine World War I war crimes. In this world history instructional activity, young scholars use primary and secondary sources to research and understand the action taken by the United States during the Armenian Genocide....
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Facing History and Ourselves

Analyzing Historical Evidence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine World War I war crimes. In this world history instructional activity, students use primary and secondary sources to research and understand the systematic nature of the Armenian Genocide. High schoolers reflect on...
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From Courage to Freedom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze Frederick Douglass' narrative about Christianity and slavery. In this Frederick Douglass lesson, young scholars read his slave narrative and analyze its word choice, imagery, irony, and rhetorical appeals. Learners...

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