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Curated OER

Readers Theater

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars perform a reader's theater based on the Civil War. In this dramatic arts history lesson, students review the purpose of reader's theater and are given a script to read. The script can be based on an important Civil War...
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A-Scripting We Will Go

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write script for a puppet show. In this writing lesson plan, students write a puppet show script using facts from a previous lesson plan. They listen to DyAnne DiSalvo Ryan's, City Green before discussing the characters and...
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Oral History

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore cultural diversity, the difficulties of immigration, and lost cultures. They study historical events such as the Holocaust.
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Oral History

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create oral histories. In this oral history lesson, students prepare for and conduct interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, or rescuers. Students study the provided procedure for the interview and present their...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Why Little Things Are Big

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Often our decisions are impacted by a fear of how others see us. That's the big idea in a two-day lesson that asks how false assumptions, how our fear of how others may see us, impact how we act. After watching a video about such a...
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Eloquent Experts

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice reading with fluency and expression in this lesson. Students work with a partner with a set of sentence strips. They take turns pulling sentence strips out of the envelope and reading them aloud to each other using...
Organizer
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Book 1--Grade 7 (2006)

For Students 8th - 10th
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read several passages and two poems and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then write an essay response to one of the passages. 
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Stone Fox Plot Frame

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recall the major plot points of a chapter book. After reading the chapter book "Stone Fox," they students describe the plot framework through use of a worksheet. Students are then divided into group to act out selected...
Activity
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Reader's Theater Script: Three Billy Goats Gruff

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this reading worksheet, students perform a reader's theater script based on Three Billy Goats Gruff. Students read the 4 character script like a play.
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Creating an Anthology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Student compile a poetry anthology. In this literature instructional activity, pupils examine notable poetry anthologies. Students then select a theme to build their anthologies of 10 poems pertaining to their chosen theme.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 4: Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 4: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narration, Voice, and the Compson Family's New System. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab....
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: The Tell Tale Heart

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth graders explore the role of the narrator and point of view in a text. Students will understand how the narrative voice of a text can blur the line between fact and fiction and how a story truth is often different from but relates...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Narrator Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides an overview of the importance of a narrator in a text and some brief exercises for analysis. Helps students learn more about the role of the narrator in literature, his/her voice, and influence on other characters and events.
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "See if I Care"

For Students 7th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "I Don't Like Ron Gonzales" and "See If I Care" each have a narrator with a very distinct voice. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Faulkner's as I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
William Faulkner's self-proclaimed masterpiece, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, is a fascinating exploration of the many voices found in a Southern family and community. Students will explore the use of multiple voices in...