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"The Big Lie" Response Journal
Eighth graders utilize a variety of reading and writing skills in completing social studies activities on "The Big Lie." students express their understanding of right and wrong actions based on the characters through a personal response...
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Ask Personal Questions – Female Profile 3
In this asking questions worksheet, students will cut apart a list of personal answers about a woman named Brenda Holmes. Then students will think of the questions that need to be asked in order to elicit the responses.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Ask Personal Questions – Female Profile 1
For this asking questions worksheet, students will read the answers to 10 personal questions about a woman named Helen Burnley. Then students will think of the questions that would elicit these responses.
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Assessment and Discussion
"Without concerned citizen action to uphold them (human rights) close to home; we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. . ." Eleanor Roosevelt's comment is used to set the stage for the conclusion of a five-lesson unit...
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Teaching Responsibility
In this responsibility worksheet, students complete a true/false checklist about being responsible and complete discussion questions after viewing a referenced video. Suggestions for writing and students activities are also given.
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Fabulous Felines
Students create a list of pet needs. For this personal responsibility lesson, students discover which items a cat needs in order to survive. Students complete worksheets based on cat ownership.
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Rights and Responsibilities
Start a discussion about individual rights and responsibilities with your class. As they will find out there is a difference between a person's rights and their responsibilities. Included are four discussion questions, activity...
King Country
Lesson 9: Communication - Day 2: Assertiveness
Appropriate assertive and non-verbal assertive communication is the focus of this lesson designed for the special education classroom. Using mirrors, class members practice assertive responses to a variety of situations.
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Rights and Responsibilities - Part 2
Citizenship and basic human rights are the focus of the lesson plan presented here. In it, learners compile a basic list of human rights, then access a website in order to complete some activities that are based on rights and...
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Assessing Personal Plan of Study for Life-Long Learning
Twelfth graders examine and evaluate their personal education plans and discuss the importance of life-long learning. They discuss personal education plans and goals and reflect on their own plans, complete a Personal Plan of Study...
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Poetry Introduction: Reading Strategy and Response
Fifth graders analyze a poem. In this poetry analysis instructional activity students read a poem, analyze it, and write a response. They write about their own thoughts on the poem's meaning and any feelings they have about the poem.
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What Is Your Favorite Place?
Good writing can come from personal places. Budding online authors read an excerpt from a narrative-style newspaper article and then respond to several related writing prompts. They compose blog responses that use vivid imagery to...
New South Wales of Education and Communities
Planning for Personal Safety
Trust, Talk, Take control. Working in pairs and then groups, class members strategize to develop personal safety plans.
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2003 AP® Calculus BC Free-Response Questions
There are shaded areas, particles, polar equations, oh my! Teachers use the materials to see how their pupils compare to the AP® Calculus BC exam expectations. Scholars use the released items to practice on several BC topics and become...
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Annotating Nonfiction - Conflicts, Cliques, Stereotypes: What Makes Us Clique?
John Hughes' The Breakfast Club takes center stage in a lesson plan about annotating nonfiction texts to keep track of evidence that may be used later in discussions and writings. Scholars consider the stereotypes and conflicts presented...
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Student Opinion: When Did You Have a Great Conversation?
Conduct a classroom conversation about communication using this resource as a jumping-off point. For this The Learning Network activity, learners read an excerpt from The New York Times opinion piece, "The Flight From Conversation," and...
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Student Opinion: What Teacher Do You Appreciate?
This online resource is composed of a writing sample about teacher appreciation and a writing prompt for learners. You could use this as an in-class journal activity or you could have class members post their responses on the New...
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Take Responsibility
Young scholars examine the importance of responsibility. In this character education lesson plan, students participate in a group discussion to explore and define responsibility.
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Being Responsible
In this responsibility worksheet, students read a checklist about being responsible and complete discussion questions after viewing a referenced video. Suggestions for writing and students activities are also given.
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Personal Written Response Activity
Students complete a final written project. For this personal response lesson, students respond in a creative way to one of the issues presented in the unit. Students may choose to create a series of postcards from a natural...
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Dodging Responsibility
Young scholars examine what makes people be responsible. In this responsibility lesson, students chart the good and bad things that happen if you take responsibility and if you don't.
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Human Conditioned Responses
Students participate in a demonstration designed to illustrate how easily and quickly a person can be conditioned to respond to external stimuli. Students look at numerous ways in which conditioned behavior affects their day to day...
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Journalism and Responsibility
Students explore the world of journalism. In this media awareness lesson, students investigate the roles and responsibilities of journalists. Students watch segments of videos and research websites to inform them prior to writing their...
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Stepping Into Careers
In this career instructional activity, students take a look at the qualities a person must possess in order to be considered a "cooperative person." Students make a record of daily activities showing responsibility at school and home for...