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Revise Your Punctuation - 2

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore various punctuation marks used in writing.  In this lesson, students read an article on punctuation, then complete several exercises to practice what they learned.
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television (Series of 4)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers incorporate language from Twelfth Night into their own skits.  For this Hamlet lesson, students use a handout to assist them as they dub over the skits created earlier with specific language from Twelfth Night. 
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MND Sound Ball Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are introduced to Act II, scene 1, lines 188-244 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They explore and analyze how dramatic lines can have varied interpretations by playing a game of sound ball utilizing a list of vocabulary...
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Expressions of Anti-Racism through Painting: The Puerto Rican Community from West Side Story to Connecticut

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a graffiti wall using their own name or personal symbol. They examine their own understanding of the film as a source of inspiration and listen to the music from the soundtrack as an effective motivation. They make...
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The Sonnet: Renaissance Representative

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compose couplets, quatrains, and sonnets after learning about Italian and English sonnets. In this sonnets lesson plan, students read sonnets, analyze them, connect them to the Renaissance and present times, and then write their...
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Reading Poems Aloud: Sound And Meaning

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students consider the elements involved in reading poetry aloud. They discuss different poetic forms and how the choices a reader makes in tone, emphasis, breaths, and pauses can affect the listener's interpretation and understanding of...
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Breathing New Life into Old Traditions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the role of ceremonies and other traditions of Native American cultures. They research various Native American nations and create posters that visually depict their research.
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The Power of Music

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the music Shakespeare chose for his play The Tempest. They seek to research why he alluded to popular music and contemporary artists. Students make connections between their own musical knowledge/tastes/interests and the...
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Line It Up

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars examine the structure of different poems by various artists. They discuss how the breaks in the poems change the way it is to be read. They also examine the use of tone in the poems.
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Playing it Straight

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Pupils view live theatre. In this play productions lesson plan, students visit selected venues online or in person to see up to 32 plays in the United Kingdom.
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Pre-Reading Hamlet with "Hamlet: An Insider’s Guide"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Prove that Gertrude did kill Ophelia from practicing the word inflections activities with these pre-reading strategies for Hamlet. Thespians practice the line, “Is that your sandwich?” as they stress and accent different words, and...
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Dorothea Lange

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explain that a person's experiences influence their life, write a time line of their life, and analyze Dorothea's photographs and list descriptive words.
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Scatterbrained Soliloquies

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils reconstruct a famous soliloquy from Romeo and Juliet which the teacher has cut apart and scattered. They piece the soliloquy back together making sense of the passage.

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