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Technology: Sequencing with Powerpoint
Students use Powerpoint templates to practice sequencing terms. They match words such as before and after with appropriate slides. Students explain why each picture is matched with the word and print their activities for mine books.
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Where We Live
Pupils practice the click and drag technique on the computer as they match pictures of activities in the home, school, and community to the correct boxes. Then they will write about the activities.
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Number The Stars
Students read a book about prejudices that occur in our daily lives. They describe characters in the book. Students discuss real life events of World War II and the Holocaust. Students simulate hiding Jews from the German soldiers. ...
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Women on the Wall: A Vietnam Memorial
Students investigate the role of women during the Vietnam War. They conduct Internet research, and create a Chronicle of Women in Vietnam project that could take the form of a journal, PowerPoint presentation, or scrapbook that includes...
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Old Style in High Style
Pupils explore how fashion has mirrored the attitudes and lifestyles of people in different cultures throughout history and create fashion magazines reflecting their findings.
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ESOL Personal Information
Students view different vocabulary cards with personal information words. They match pairs of cards with personal information vocabulary. They complete an information form and read their information to the class.
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The Education of Freedmen...and Women and Children
Pupils examine political debate surrounding Freedmen's Bureau, use primary sources to explore trials and successes of effort to educate newly-freed slaves of all ages, research reasons for creation of Freedmen's Bureau, discuss President...
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"Rolling Out the Red Carpet," and Other Idioms
Students study the idiom as a form of speech. They practice using idioms by developing a Jeopardy game using a provided template.
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Disturbing the Peace?
Learners consider the impact of the 2007 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Annapolis on George W. Bush¿¿¿s presidential legacy. They study the 2000 Camp David and the 2007 Annapolis peace talks by reading and discussing the...
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Sojourner Truth, African American Woman of the 19th Century
Students examine Sojourner Truth's philanthropist acts during her life. They discover that everyone has the right to be heard by their government. They compare and contrast the woman's movement and the anti-slavery movement.
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Cool Word Vocabulary
Students practice using new vocabulary by putting a picture with the new word. They also write the definitions of the new words. They use the pictures to create a clue in which others can practice the new words.
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Timelines
Students discover the look and purpose of timelines. After the teacher reads them a story, they discuss the events that occurred during King Tutankhamen's life. They create a timeline of his life making sure to put them in the correct...
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Fall Similes and Metaphors
Learners interpret what a similies and metaphors are. They give examples of similies and metaphors. Pupils write different similies and metaphors using fall or autumn descriptive words. Students base their comparisons on facts, once they...
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Telephone Communication
Students role-play telephone conversations. They view a video of a telephone conversation and discuss the vocabulary used during the conversation. They practice conversations and substitute responses.
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Adult ESOL: Obtaining Employment
Young scholars consider setting goals as a part of a job search. They discuss values and skills to help establish employment goals and what working conditions are important to them. They discuss the goals they have and sentences using...
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Adult ESOL: Obtaining Employment
Students study how to complete a job application. They identify personal information, employment history, education, and references. They work in pairs to complete an activity sheet and participate in a speaking exercise to ask and...
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Schedule Changing Prepositions
High schoolers discuss the appropriate and inappropriate reasons for requesting a schedule change at work. They create scripts for requesting a change that uses appropriate prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students practice...
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ESOL Competencies
Students examine the want ads to determine their organization. They discuss a list of vocabulary generally associated with employment. They write a job announcement for a company of their own. They discuss resources other than the...
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Adult ESOL: Family and Parenting
Students analyze problems children can encounter in school. They list solutions to the problems and create a hypothetical situation to practice grammar. They brainstorm school scenarios and role play how to solve the issues in small...
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ESOL Filling out a Form
Students review new vocabulary for filling out a personal form orally and then practice writing. They observe an example modeled by the teacher then complete worksheets independently.
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Vegas and the Mob
High schoolers identify with and interpret the role of organized crime in the development of one of America's most vibrant cities. Then they look into the city's establishment and development, follow the role of organized crime in its...
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Heritage: Seeking Land or Gold
Students write a persuasive letter home defending their decision either to settle in Utah and farm the land, or to go on to California to seek gold. They analyze a problem, make a decision, and write a letter defending their choice.
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WW II Magazine
Eleventh graders search the database for pictures of WW II, photographs, posters, etc. They use the documents to support writing two magazine articles. The magazine articles be a minimum of 500 and maximum 1000 words.
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"No Irish Need Apply..."
Young scholars describe conditions that led to massive immigration from Ireland in the 1840s, and compare response of native-born Americans to Irish immigration with responses to Mexican immigration today.