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Emily Dickinson
In this online interactive literature quiz worksheet, high schoolers respond to 7 short answer and essay questions about the life and accomplishments of Emily Dickinson.
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Kissing Coyotes
Fourth graders are read the book "Kissing Coyotes". During the story, they make predictions about what they believe might happen next. After the story, they create their own story using their imagination and draw illustrations.
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The Three Perfections
Students discover the various styles, form, beauty, and grace of Chinese calligraphy by examining works of art from different eras in China's history. This lesson includes two possible enrichment activities.
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Four Ancient River Civilizations
Students explore how the environment shapes man, how man transformed his world, nd how art became part of the human process. The group is divided into clans and their migratory routes developed in the eight lessons of this unit.
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Investigation of Timbre
Students design an experiment to analyze the timbre of different instruments. In this physics instructional activity, students analyze the missing quality in sound. They discuss their results in class.
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Exploration and Settlement of the American Southwest
Students scrutinize the Zuni Pueblo Revolt in this seven lessons unit on early Spanish explorers in the American southwest. The discovery of the Spanish missions, the search for the seven cities of gold, and particular geological...
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Solid Waste and Recycling
In this unit of lessons, students examine solid waste and recycling. They examine the relationship between Native Americans and land. They also decorate bags in which they discover the concept of decomposition.
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Nefertari: For Whom The Sun Shines
Students watch "Nefertari," which looks at the life of an Ancient Egyptian queen and the society she lived in. It also examines the issues archeologists face in preserving materials from the past.
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Regions of South America
Students explore facts about South America in the four lessons of this unit. Booklets are created from the materials produced as the class delves into the topic.
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On the Road Again": Moving People, Products, and Ideas
In this lesson plan learners learn how to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving people, products, and ideas from place to place. Students also study the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of...
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Tango's Story
Fifth graders listen to "Grandfather Tang's Story" and use tangram pieces to create animals described by the main character.
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Storytelling: The Lantern Night Excursion Of Zhong Kui
Third graders create Chinese hand scrolls to tell the story: The Lantern Night Excursion Of Zhong Kui in this cross-curricular lesson for the third grade. The lesson is adaptable to many different grade/ability levels.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
Using international folklore as subject matter, lead your students in a unit to research literary forms and foreign countries. There is a printout available for instruction and assessment.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Camelot Times: Writing a Newspaper
As part of a unit on Arthurian literature and medieval culture, middle schoolers imagine they are reporters living in the realm of King Arthur and create newsletters/newspapers based on their study and research.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Robert Johnson Classroom Activity
This classroom activity is intended as a celebration and commemoration of blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday. From ReadWriteThink's calendar on May 8, 2007.
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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Medieval Diary Multimedia Project [Pdf]
This is a two-page PDF of the instructions for a Medieval Diary Multimedia Project. Students choose a character from an Arthurian legend and write a diary as the character. It provides instructions, topics for discussion, format choices,...
California Digital Library
E Scholarship Editions: The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
University professor Sheila Delany takes Chaucer's poem "Legend of Good Women" as the basis for a scholarly work that examines the ideas in and surrounding the poem. Follow this link to access the publication in full.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing About Literature: Additional Resources
This is "'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow': An Allegory for a Young America," an exceptional student example of literary analysis as well as an explanation to the main body of her paper. A link to the MLA website is also provided.
Aaron Shepherd
The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese Legend (R's Theater)
A reader's theater version of a folktale from Vietnam for 13 players, ages 10 and up. Adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his picture book "The Crystal Heart," the themes explored are kindness and false imagining....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Legend Lives On
In this lesson plan, students will Use "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", sung by Gordon Lightfoot as a model. They will write poems that tell a detailed story of a historical event. The poem will be brought to life using a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Confict Res.
Students read picture books to explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution. They first learn about the connections between reading and writing, and then revise their own writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
Aaron Shepherd
Aaron Shepherd: The Legend of Lightning Larry
At this site listen to a tale retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as writing ideas and posters.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Myths and Legends in Art: Compare/contrast
Students choose two works of art from twenty-six choices available. Each work has a picture followed by brief factual information. Students compare and contrast the two works based on information presented with both words and pictures....
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1974 to commemorate Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". With a short passage on the details of this eloquent folktale.