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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (9 - 11), or English Language Arts (9 - 11)
Title: Com'on Down To Eatonville, Florida
Description: You are Mayor Joe Starks from the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and you want more people to relocate to Eatonville, Florida. Identify five amenities that may make Eatonville attractive to African-Americans looking for a place to establish themselves. Using these amenities, draft a thirty to sixty second audio advertisement or draft a one-hundred word advertisement to be published in the Orlando Sentinel.
Subject: English Language Arts (9 - 11), or English Language Arts (9 - 11), or Technology Education (9 - 12)
Title: Digital Story Writing: Cultural Myths
Description: You are a folklorist observing the lives and cultures of different people. You want to tell the world about their culture, beliefs, and values. You and a group of other folklorist are going to research the lives of a an ethnic group, and create a digital story about their lives, and present it to all the folklorist at the "Who are They?" convention.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
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Description: Students write diary entries and revisit the entries as if it were a hundred years from now. Students then brainstorm and write paragraphs about life in the 21st century.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Langston Hughes was born in 1902.
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Description: Students examine the poem '' Dreams'' and identify metaphors in each sentence. Groups of students then compose poems with metaphors for dreams.
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Grade Span: 7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
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Description: In celebration of Keats' birthday, students write stories that include some characters from Keats' books and practice using collage techniques with the Collage Machine.
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Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
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Description: Students read examples of traditional Scottish ballads and use this information to write and perform their own ballads.
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Grade Span: 7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
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Description: After reading Shakespeare's Hamlet, students identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting Birth of Venus and examples from the play illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism.
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Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
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Description: Students discuss Dickinson's poem '' This Is My Letter To The World'' and use it to focus on how audience affects voice.
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Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Author Garc -a M rquez was born on this day.
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Description: Students take place in a collaborative creative writing activity to begin to understand the hallmarks of the literary style known as magical realism.
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Grade Span: 7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Arts,Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
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Description: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students read the poetry of Walt Whitman to determine how he attempts to combine universal themes with individual experiences and feelings. Additionally, students reflect on how Whitman used his experiences in the Civil War in his poetry.
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Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
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Description: Students make mental '' snapshots'' of a natural setting, then capture the details of their setting by writing and then creating a class booklet of the nature walk.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
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Description: Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram.
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Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Today is World Poetry Day.
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Description: Students read and respond to Billy Collins' poem '' Introduction to Poetry.'' Students then write about a favorite poem and imagine the perfect way to read it.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
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Description: After viewing some footage from the actual event, students jot down thoughts and feelings of the Little Rock Nine. Students then write a bio-poem that might have been written by one of these students on this historic day.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
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Description: Students write a script for A Christmas Carol on a level that primary students can read and perform. Older students record the performance and create a website to showcase photographs.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: On this date in 1901, Andrew Carnegie gave $5.2 million to New York City libraries.
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Description: Students write expository and persuasive pieces with the help of the Persuasion Map and Essay Map interactives, and compare the essential features of the two modes of writing.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
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Description: In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
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Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
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Description: Students do a journal entry about barriers that have been broken?such as age, race, and gender?that might impede them in the future, and how they can break through those barriers.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative
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Description: In this lesson, students imagine spending a day in someone else's shoes. After reviewing the characteristics of narrative writing, they then write narratives from that person's point of view.
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Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Veterans Day is celebrated in the United States today.
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Description: Students write biographical poems about a soldier.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.
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Description: Students compare different versions of the fairy tale Cinderella and then rewrite a lesser-known Grimm story and explain the changes they made.
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Grade Span: 7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
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Description: Students analyze scary stories to 'break the code'' of horror writing and use what they learn to write scary stories of their own.
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Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
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Description: Students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read, after exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
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