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Lesson Plan: Letting Go

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Why would an artist destroy his own work? Kids examine the Malagan practice of creating and then destroying art. They talk about the cultural and spiritual significance of this practice, as well as how it relates to consumerism in...
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So Much to See, So Little Time

For Teachers K - 5th
How do humans and animals impact the environment? What is land division? Youngsters tape off a 12x12 inch square in an outdoor natural space. They sketch everything they see, then compare their drawings as a class. They will then be...
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Comic Book Characters

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore gender stereotypes by analyzing how male and female characters are depicted in comic books. Using the provided Comic Book Analysis sheet, students record the attributes of male and female comic book characters. Then the whole...
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Warm Up with Winter Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Try these cool writing lesson ideas that promote creativity and increase vocabulary.
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Play with Powerful Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use stations to teach skills relevant to the Common Core and tap into individual creativity.
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Review with Creative Writing

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Connect a wide range of literature concepts where writers demonstrate mastery through creative writing.
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Book Illustrations and Their Illustrators as Artists-K-3

For Teachers K - 3rd
Help learners construct relationships between written narratives and book illustrations, and between the narratives in formal visual art and the subject of the visual art. Look at Caldecott winning books and focus on the pictures drawn....
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Storytelling: Performance and Art Learning Center

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the process of telling stories without words.  In this literature lesson, 10th graders watch a music video performance made by Alaska Native students, and then examine art objects that may be used to tell a...
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Showing Off on Summer Vacation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write a descriptive narrative about summer vacation. The use of this topic helps the instructional activity to have a high engagement level. Technology is infused in the instructional activity with the use of computers to...
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Links to the Past

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners use documents from California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900 , in American Memory to create a script depicting the motivations, expectations, fears, and realizations of immigrants who settled California between...
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Prairie Poetry

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders take note of the ways in which word choice, rhythm, language and narrative voice, as well as point of view in a poem can be used to evoke a time and place. They use their insights to create a poem of their own.
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Elmer by David McKee

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars explore individual differences. In this literacy and self-esteem lesson, students listen to the story Elmo by David McKee, then describe what characteristics make Elmo special. Young scholars complete a T chart showing how...
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Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Who is a champion to your class? Elementary and middle schoolers think of a role-model from their lives. Then, in their journals, they write evidence of that person's perseverance. They identify the character trait of perseverance with...
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Storytelling Traditions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate an evaluation of how the culture of a time period influences storytelling narratives by comparing Adeline's story to the plot summary of Cinderella and Anne Sexton's poem Cinderella. They write a poem which reworks a...
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No Place Like Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze photographs of high plains sod homes and read accompanying narratives. They then choose one photograph and, using the copy and paste features and simple drawing tools available in Microsoft Word, students identify...
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Founders of the Children's Rain Forest (Open Court)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read a narrative nonfiction piece describing the formation of the Students's Rain Forest organization from the SRA/McGraw-Hill Open Court Reading Anthology entitled, Cooperation and Competition. Founders of the Students's...
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The Story of Me

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are given the preset graphic organizer using "Kidspiration". They create a graphic organizer about them and then use the graphic organizer to write their personal narrative.
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Exploring Contrasting Story Elements Through Tapestry and Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young thinkers view two narrative art tapestries and study the images included that tell a story about the Roman Emperor Constantine. As they examine the details of the tapestries, pupils use a Venn Diagram to record the similarities and...
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Reel Remembrances

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers interview adults, ages 71-75. They ask them questions concerning events of 60 years ago and create a media presentation based upon background information and interview responses.
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Listening and Speaking

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders practice the elements of narration. In this narration lesson, 9th graders complete learning profile activities to address kinesthetic learners, artistic learners, musical learners, and interpersonal learners. Students work...
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Writing Catchy Introductions

For Students 6th - 7th
In this introductory paragraph learning exercise, students learn techniques for writing an attention-catching introductory paragraph. Students then read several introductory paragraphs and determine which strategies were used.
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The Journey of the Magi

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create storyboards. In this pre-Christmas special lesson, students produce a storyboard for a TV version of the poem, "The Journey of the Magi". Options to complete with or without technology are included.
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Norman Borlaug, Hunger Fighter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study Norman Borlaug. In this reading and math lesson, students research Norman Borlaug's work and write a narrative interview with Borlaug. Students complete a variety of activities using wheat stalks.
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Deduction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the linguistic devices used by writers to create meaning. In this writing lesson, students discover why writers write in different ways showing examples of different types of text. After reading each type students...

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