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CPALMS

Analyzing Vonnegut's View of the Future and His Commentary on the Present in Harrison Bergeron

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron" engages adolescents with its theme about the dangers of complete societal equality. Learners complete a graphic organizer to track literary elements in the story, as well as an inference...
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Curated OER

Pronoun Agreement Worksheet #1

For Students 3rd - 4th
Each of 20 sentences has two options for the correct pronoun. Your grammarians simply choose one of them. Focus is on subjective and objective forms. 
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Curated OER

Subject/Verb Agreement

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Learners recognize the relationship between singular and plural subjects and verbs as they relate to developing stronger writing skills. For this writing lesson, students write and organize their thoughts and feelings while using their...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Multisensory Grammar Activities

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Meet your scholar's individual needs with four activities designed to address auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles to reinforce the concept of subject and object pronouns.
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Lord Fairfax Community College

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
It's often hard for people to see eye to eye, but it's easy to get pronouns and their antecedents to agree! Practice changing subjective and objective pronouns to agree with their nouns with ten different sentences.
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Curated OER

Back to School: Style Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Jump back into expository writing and analysis at the start of a new school year! Start with a review of an authors' stylistic choices in diction, syntax, treatment of subject matter, and figurative language. Writers choose a text to...
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Curated OER

Grammar Review

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Review grammar rules for simple and compound sentences. Learners diagram sentences and identify conjunctions, interjections, and prepositional phrases. As a class, they study their notes and complete pages in their grammar book to...
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Curated OER

Choosing a Subject for a Research Paper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers choose an appropriate subject for a research project.  In this choosing a research subject lesson, students discuss the purpose and process of writing a research paper and read a sample paper.  Middle schoolers create a...
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Curated OER

Who's Who? Subject and Object Pronouns

For Students 4th - 8th
In this subject/object pronoun instructional activity, students play a game, choosing cards with pronouns written on them and placing the pronoun in sentence. Other players determine whether it has been correctly used in the sentence to...
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Curated OER

Sampling the American Dream

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Pupils, after viewing a variety of different and unique websites, write a short paragraph on each one that describes their reactions to specific information on unfamiliar subjects. They react to each website as personally as they can.
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University of Kansas

Newspaper in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
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Curated OER

Reading Pictures, Seeing Poetry

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the painting, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan based on a poem by Lord Byron. They compare how Romantic artists and writers made choices about visual elements and language to depict their subjects.
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Curated OER

Tech Integration Project Lesson Accelerator: Project Overview

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Talk about technology in the classroom. This plan has all the resources needed to create a non-linear or branching story. Included is a step-by-step tutorial that walks middle schoolers through the project description, a model of a...
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PBS

Does Art Imitate Life?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Write what you know, sound advice for any writer and something many famous authors are known to have done. Use these materials to explore how Shakespeare's life influenced his plays. This resource is packed with readings, video segments,...
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Shakespeare Uncovered

War and Leadership in Shakespeare’s Henry V

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
“Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.” “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” These two views of war, embodied in George Patton’s statement and Lorraine Schneider‘s famous 1966...
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Briscoe Center for American History

Applying the SOAPS Method of Analyzing Historical Documents

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Young historians use the SOAPS (Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject) method of questioning to determine the historical value of primary source documents. The third in a series of five lessons that model for learners how...
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Curated OER

Using Words as a Way into Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Use the Visual Thesaurus to predict the subject matter of Rick Riordan's book The Lightning Thief. A pre-reading activity encourages middle schoolers to use context clues and word meaning to discover what the book is about. After they...
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Curated OER

Pronouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game. In this pronouns instructional activity, students watch a video and read a book about pronouns. Students review types of pronouns, fill in missing pronouns in sentences, read a newspaper article and find as many...
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Curated OER

Press Review

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How can word choice affect a political speech? Middle and high schoolers examine the text of the 1999 State of the Union Address, and then determine how newspaper articles and television reports describe and analyze the event. Use this...
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Curated OER

Irish Eyes: Taking a Look at Local Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Direct your class’s attention to the elements that make their community unique. After examining sample travel brochures, groups select something from their community to use as the subject, and then research, create, and publish a...
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Curated OER

How are People Portrayed by Different Media?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Your 9th - 12th graders can hone their analysis and critical thinking skills by studying the way a subject is portrayed across media types. They examine how various print, visual, and online sources have portrayed key players in the 9/11...
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Curated OER

Play Ball: A Major League Review Game

For Teachers K - 12th
Apply the game of baseball to a fun review activity. Pupils earn a "base" for each subject question that they answer correctly. This activity can be modified and used for any subject area, including math, social studies, and language arts.
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Curated OER

"Memories of Mom" Memento

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars brainstorm a list of writing topics for a "Memories of Mom" book, choose one of the topics as the subject of a daily essay and combine a week of daily essays into a book to give their mothers for Mother's Day.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners read and analyze William Faulkner's novel, 'As I Lay Dying.' They define Faulkner's place in American literary history, describe Faulkner's "South" in the context of the historical South and examine the Bundren family through...

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