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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvaluating Eyewitness Reports
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkCensorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn 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: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to transfer the analytical skills that they commonly use when reading traditional pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAfrican American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from EDSITEment, explores the role played by African-American servicemen in World War I. Students consider the disc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Reading Comprehension, HumanitiesThis unit of four lessons, from EDSITEment, introduces activities in which students read the Continental Congress's resolutions ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Peace Journey: Using Process Drama in the Classroom
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students respond to an imaginary advertisement, role-play, and work in small groups to develop a ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAuthentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, invites students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books and genres to explore durin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBehind the Masks: Exploring Culture and Self Through Art and Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Foreign Languages, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink lesson engages high school students in an extended study of the relationship between masks and cultures. Stu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFreedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: U.S. Constitution, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink lesson is based on a study of the Pledge of Allegiance. This lesson plan asks students to explore rote learn...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment unit of three lessons, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, "Narrative of the Life of Fre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Wright Way
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Engineering & Design, Reading Comprehension, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students use Internet research, language arts activities, and visual arts activities to learn about Fra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBuilding Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Technology, United States History, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkUsing Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's "Night"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature, Reading Comprehension, World HistoryIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use reciprocal teaching strategies as they read and discuss Holocaust survivor Elie Wies...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConnecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students make real-world connections between themselves and their community by gathering photos, ...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, History-Social Science, Technology, Reading Comprehension, World HistoryIn 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 / HyperLinkBeyond "What I Did on Vacation": Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are introduced to the genre of travel writing. After reading some short examples an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEkphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis 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 / HyperLink1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis1900 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 / HyperLinkCourt Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis lesson relates to two clauses in the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, which ensure Americans the right to assemble pe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 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