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All My Sons Questions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on themes in All My Sons by Arthur Miller.
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Sounding Out, Holiday Relay

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore word sounds by participating in a visual relay game. For this vocabulary identification game, students create holiday themed images and cards based on the different holidays in a year. Students place the cards and images...
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A Moroccan Fairy Tale vs. European Folk/Fairy Tale

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore world geography by reading two different fairy tales. In this cultural storytelling lesson plan, 2nd graders read Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and the Moroccan story The Girl Who Lived with the Gazelles....
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The Harlem Renaissance: Black American Traditions

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, Palmer Hayden, William Johnson, and James Lesesne Wells, the painters and sculptors of the Harlem Renaissance, are featured in a unit study of artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Spring Missing Letters

For Students 2nd - 4th
Welcome the arrival of spring with this fun little spelling worksheet. Including different terms relating to plants, gardening, and springtime weather, children must correctly spell each word by filling in the missing...
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Medieval Stationery

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Two different knights grace this stationery. There are lines provided for writing a story or summary and a box where pupils can mark down a title.
Worksheet
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What's in the Gift?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this division worksheet, students fill in missing Christmas gift "blanks" with the divisor that will product a given sum. A website reference for additional resources is provided.
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Crossroads: Chicano Identity and Border Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and explore complex ways that the theme of "frontiers" or socio-political borders affect Chicano identity in the US and examine notions of "resistance" and "affirmation" as a fundamental ideology in Chicano life,...
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"Double Jeopardy" Class Review

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in "Double Jeopardy," which is a game show type of question/answer game used to review a chapter/unit/region assessment. students use the five themes of geography as the basis for their required number of...
Lesson Plan
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Workers Told "No Smoking" Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the theme of work-related restrictions. They read an article and answer questions related to it. They discuss their answers as a class.
Lesson Plan
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The Cyrano Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a variety of activities in a thorough study of the play, Cyrano De Bergerac. They discuss the themes of the play and how they relate to their own lives. They produce and perform their own interpretation of the...
Lesson Plan
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Quatrain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners write quatrains based on themes recently heard in songs.
Lesson Plan
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Photo Transfer Mixed Media Painting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create their own mixed-media painting on a theme of their choice. They use multimedia applications to transfer photos they pick for their painting. They share their project with the class.
Lesson Plan
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We Are Peacemakers ~ Making a Class Anthology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read books with themes of peace. They discuss how to solve problems peacefully. They create a peace anthology and share their books with the community.
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Curious Curators

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write a theme statement for a collection of diverse objects. Using the internet, they research and write descriptions of various artifact. They role play the role of a museum curator and produce a museum style exhibition. ...
Lesson Plan
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Stamp Stories of Abraham Lincoln

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students build a 5 stamp collection based on the Abraham Lincoln unit theme. In this historical lesson plan, students discuss their collections within their group and build a new collection of 10 stamps. As a class, students debates the...
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Japanese Folktales

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to examples of Japanese folktales and identify universal themes. Students construct a 'kamishibai' - a traditional Japanese storytelling prop - and dramatize a folktale through puppetry.
Lesson Plan
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Resistance Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a definition for the term resistance. Once a definition has been created, they create a visual image to correlate with their definition. Working in groups, students read several different resistance poems and classify...
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Public Policy Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read an article about a pressing public policy issue. Using the text, they identify the themes, facts and ideas presented and develop an argument supporting or disagreeing with the position of the author. In groups, they...
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Film Interpretation of the Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in United States, world, and Washington State history. They also analyze the chronology of the history.
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Writing a Short Story - Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils use the information they wrote about on the topic they chose in studying About Weather. They then write a short story using the information choosing a theme, setting, characters, and the plot.
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Year of the Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze Korean culture from their literature piece. They investigate the theme of oppression by an occupying army. Students encounter courage, resistance movements and explore the underground railroads.
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Poetry

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore poetry. They write a variety of poetry using the writing process. Students choose a topic related to Thanksgiving and write a Thanksgiving themed poem. They write a rough draft and peer edit their poems. Students...
Lesson Plan
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Poetic Expression

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders evaluate the effectiveness of literary techniques including figurative language. They demonstrate an understanding of the main ideas, events, or themes of a variety of novels, stories, poetry, other print material, and...