The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate …
The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.
After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups …
After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.
Students will create a beginning resume that represents their current work experience …
Students will create a beginning resume that represents their current work experience and demonstrates their knowledge of rhetorical situations for professional writing.
Students will identify how Martin Luther King Jr's dream of nonviolent conflict-resolution …
Students will identify how Martin Luther King Jr's dream of nonviolent conflict-resolution is reinterpreted in modern texts. Homework is differentiated to prompt discussion on how nonviolence is portrayed through characterization and conflict. Students will be formally assessed on a thesis essay that addresses the Six Kingian Principles of Nonviolence.
Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase …
Tell me about it in your own words! If students can paraphrase the information they have read, then youand they can be confident that they understand it.
Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. …
Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. Working collaboratively, they investigate the materials, prepare oral responses, and produce a topic-based newspaper to complete their research.
Students participate in learning clubs, select content area topics, and draw on …
Students participate in learning clubs, select content area topics, and draw on texts - including websites, printed material, video, and music - to investigate their topics, and share their learning using similar media.
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by …
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
The interactive explores the ways that poets choose line breaks in their …
The interactive explores the ways that poets choose line breaks in their writing. After viewing the demonstration, students are invited to experiment with line breaks themselves.
After reading a work of literature as a class, students will brainstorm …
After reading a work of literature as a class, students will brainstorm "crimes" committed by characters from that text. Groups of students will work together to act as the prosecution or defense for the selected characters, while also acting as the jury for other groups. Students will use several sources to research for their case, including the novel and internet resources. All the while, students will be writing a persuasive piece to complement their trial work.
While this lesson uses Shakespeare's The Tempest, there are several other text options. Handouts (except for the model case handout) are generic so that they can be used with any text.
Capture students enthusiasm for film and transfer it to reading and literature …
Capture students enthusiasm for film and transfer it to reading and literature by substituting film production roles for the traditional literature circle roles.
Following the model of N. Scott Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain, …
Following the model of N. Scott Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain, students write three-voice narratives based on Kiowa folktales, an interview with an Elder, and personal connections to theme.
Students compare the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with the song, "The …
Students compare the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with the song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," then create their own poetry about a historical event.
Spark the engagement of English-language learners or reluctant readers with the graphic …
Spark the engagement of English-language learners or reluctant readers with the graphic novel "Maus". The visual information provided by the genre serves as a support for reading and critical engagement.
Pop culture and the classroom collide in this lesson when students go …
Pop culture and the classroom collide in this lesson when students go behind the scenes to analyze a television series for characterization to use in an original television show proposal.
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