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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvaluating Eyewitness Reports
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Humanities, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from EDSITEment, offers students experience in drawing historical meaning from eyewitness accounts that present a r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEdgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. They also be...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCensorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to transfer the analytical skills that they commonly use when reading traditional pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGhosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, invites students to investigate what it is that is so fascinating about scary stories. They do...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExamining Tone in Parody and Tragedy
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Theatre, LiteratureIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students entertain the idea that the scene in "Romeo and Juliet" in which Juliet is discovered by the N...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBuilding Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Technology, Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students read a book about Vietnam, as a whole class or in literature circles. Then, workin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Poetics of Hip Hop
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Music, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets, works of American poets, and hip hop music to determine...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAudio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences With Audio Texts
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to radio, music, and other stre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's "Night"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use reciprocal teaching strategies as they read and discuss Holocaust survivor Elie Wies...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCommunicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students research a local issue using Internet and print sources. They then argue a position on t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGaining Background for the Graphic Novel "Persepolis": A WebQuest on Iran
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, History-Social Science, Technology, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students prepare to read the novel "Persepolis" by engaging in a WebQuest that builds their backg...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesigning Effective Poster Presentations
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the genre of posters, review informational writing and visual design, and then d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEkphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis lesson from ReadWriteThink explores the concept of ekphrasis-writing inspired by art. Students begin by reading and discuss...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis lesson, focusing on two sets of stories "renamed" by Raymond Carver, allows students to develop an appreciation of the impo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions is a lesson plan in which students create their own multi-media epic poems abou...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAbraham Lincoln Papers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, The Civil War & Reconstruction, American Democracy, Branches of Government, United States HistoryAbraham Lincoln Papers presents Lincoln's draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, his second inaugural address, an 1864 memo exp...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChanging the World: Social Entrepreneurs Part One
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social ScienceLesson addresses the role of social entrepreneurs in affecting positive social change around the world. Introduces students to t...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVidal's History--and Yours?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, History-Social Science, American Democracy, Reading Comprehension and 3 additional..In this lesson plan, from the PBS American Masters Web site, students apply the Guided Reading approach to Gore Vidal s writin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCycling Through Controversy: Debating Values and Viewpoints
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Oral Presentations, Life Sciences, Science, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, found on the Journey North Web site, focuses on debating skills. While students track a selected migration in the p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0