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Vocabulary Strategy: Call of the Wild
Here is a strategy for groups to contribute to whole class vocabulary development. Teams (based on seating rows) work together to look up dictionary definitions of words from upcoming sections of the book (though previous sections seem...
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Animal Sounds and Passive Voice
Originally designed by an American language teacher teaching in a public Japanese junior high, this lesson plan could easily be used for any beginning or intermediate level ESL class. With this plan, your class will review two useful,...
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The Puritans
Puritans, their origins, their beliefs, and values are the subject of a presentation that could be used to introduce viewers to early American history or literature. The PowerPoint could also serve as a model for group projects and would...
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Jabberwocky - A Creative Writing Lesson Plan
Make some sense out of Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense poem "Jabberwocky." After reading through the poem, introduce the word portmanteau and send small groups off to alter the original poem.
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National Identity and Literature from Okinawa
A lesson plan originally designed around the short story "Mr. Saito of Heaven Building" by Yamanokuchi Baku, this resource provides historical background, discussion questions, and brief writing assignments that help your class explore...
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General Lesson Plan for Documentary Lens
Use this general lesson guide to inform your instruction surrounding a documentary. The lesson is made up of five activities. The activities are intentionally general because they are designed to adapted for specific films. While the...
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All Summer in a Day Vocab
While working with Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," take some time to consider vocabulary. This exercise lists eight sentences from the story in which Bradbury uses words in interesting or different ways. Pupils read the sentence...
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Mosetsana
Students read and discuss a poem about the issues of gender, education, and family written by a Peace Corps Volunteer serving in South Africa. In this poetry lesson, students read the poem 'Moetsana' and discuss the issues South...
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Shoe Shine
Young artists use Paintstik colors on paper, canvas, metal, fabric or another surface to create a work of art to be presented in a gallery. Students research the origins of the "Snakebasket" they are creating. These art lessons produce...
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Punctuation and Periods
Children review and study the importance of remembering to put a period at the end of each sentence. They write two original sentences that end with a period, and share them with the class. A good, confidence-building activity!
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Quiz: Exponential Functions
With this quiz, high schoolers solve 10 different problems that include various exponential functions. First, they determine where the graph of a point intersects at what origin. Then, they determine the domain and range. In addition,...
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Absolute Value
In this absolute value worksheet, students solve 20 different problems related to absolute value of equations. They define absolute value as the distance to the origin on a real number line. Students then get rid of the brackets by...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "J" and challenge students with their originality.
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Food and Countries Match
Beijing duck? Italian pizza? Japanese sushi? Language learners match food words with their country of origin. An answer key is included with the colorfully illustrated worksheet.
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Learning About Triangles
Upper graders label four triangles and fill in the labels correctly. They draw three original triangles and answer the questions about them.
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Possessive Pronouns
This learning exercise reviews types of pronouns, provides a list of possessive pronouns, as well as prompts for writing original sentences using 14 different possessive pronouns. Plus, participants put possessive pronouns in their...
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The Past Tense -- Simple Past
A quick review of the past tense begins this learning exercise. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to...
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Classroom
This worksheet provides 12 images of classroom-related items and space for writing original sentences about the items.
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Incorporating Flashbacks in Narrative Text - The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
After watching a video segment of an interview with one of the survivors of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, young writers create an original narrative that utilizes flashback to tell the L.D. Cox's story. Writers determine who or...
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Photography Merit Badge Workbook
Engage your class in photography with this series of activities! Beginning photographers research and explain elements of photography, camera equipment, and careers in photography. After the research portion, learners complete one of two...
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Not So Much a Lesson, More a Song and Dance
Inspired by Britain's National Poetry Day, this resource will help your class analyze poetry. You will find a variety of poetry analysis methods to work through with your class. Finish by having each person compose an original poem.
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Resume Writing Workshop
The ability to write a concise and effective resume is an essential skill for those seeking employment. Prepare your pupils for the working world with a resume-writing assignment. Start off by showing them this presentation, which...
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Making Two-Dimensional Shapes
Which shapes fit? Learners practice visual discrimination using a geometry learning exercise, which has them examine shapes that have been divided in half. They observe a set of shapes to determine which of them would fit into each half...
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Making Two-Dimensional Shapes
Find the shapes that fit. Pupils explore visual discrimination in a set of geometry worksheets, which has them examine shapes that have been divided in half. They observe a set of shapes to determine which of them would fit into each...
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