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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvaluating Eyewitness Reports
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, HumanitiesThis 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: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, 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: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn 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: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkBuilding Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Technology, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn 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: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Music, Visual 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 / HyperLinkUsing Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's "Night"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, World History, History-Social Science, 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 / HyperLinkGaining Background for the Graphic Novel "Persepolis": A WebQuest on Iran
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Technology, Reading Comprehension, World History, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkEkphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, 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: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, 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 / 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 / HyperLinkFound in the Translation: Exploring Multilingual Communication on the Internet
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Foreign LanguagesIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the quirks of machine translation and explore the bar...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConsider the Source: Comparing News Coverage About the Taliban Regime from Around the World
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn to critically compare news reporting from around the wo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Object Is Objectivity: Investigating World Reaction to the U.S. Strike Against the Taliban
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students search for and read articles about the initial United States ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEncapsulating Moments in Time: Creating "Year in Review" Posters
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students evaluate important events, discoveries, and people from 1998....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGive a Little, Get a Lot: Exploring Charitable Causes and Organizations on the Web
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, allows students to explore the notions of caring, giving, and providing s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGetting In the Game: Exploring Interactive Relationships Between Television Shows and the Internet
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Technology, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Health & Physical Education and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore how interactive Web sites support live sports program...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGazing Into the Faces of AIDS: Creating Public Service Announcements to Help Educate Others about the AIDS Epidemic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Health & Physical Education, Writing Strategies, Personal and Community Health, Life Sciences and 8 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students consider whether or not there are generalizations that can be...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0