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Factorials: Let's have a Dinner Party!

Overview

In collaborative groups of four, students will act out a dinner party where four dinner guests will attend. The students must act out the different ways to arrange four dinner guests.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will use a real-life problem to calculate permutations and/or factorials.

National/Other Standards

Mathematical Practice Standards:

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

PER - PIN - TIC - YOU - LER!(Part 2 to Take the Stairs Lesson)

Overview

This lesson allows students to investigate the slope criteria and characteristics of perpendicular lines using graphing calculators and rectangle/square tiles. Students will also use equations and graphs. Students will work cooperatively to develop and justify ideas/conjectures.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will discover and use the properties of perpendicular lines. Students will find equations of perpendicular lines given other equations of lines passing through other points. Students will use slope definitions with rise over run and slope/distance formulas to solve problems and justify reasoning for developed discoveries.

Additional Learning Objective(s)

Students will work cooperatively to discover patterns in the graph table of values while problem solving. Students will verify conclusions by finding slope/distance and understanding properties of perpendicular lines. Students will measure and document lengths of the L shape of a rectangle/square traced on a coordinate grid or a triangle verified with pythagorean triples verified and compare values to determine perpendicular slopes.

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National/Other Standards

Standard 1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Standard 2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively
Standard 3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Standard 4: Model with mathematics
Standard 5: Use appropriate tools strategically
Standard 6: Attend to precision
Standard 7: Look for and make use of structure
Standard 8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Understanding You: Using Understood You in Fiction Writing

Overview

In this lesson students will review the use of understood "you" in writing and create their own creative nonfiction essay using understood "you" as the narrative technique.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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English Language Arts

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Explain the purpose of understood you.

Identify the use of understood you.

Evaluate how the use of understood you impacts the tone and impact of essay writing.

Identify the use of understood you in complex nonfiction text.

Locate and correct pronoun usage errors involving the use of understood you.

Create an original narrative essay utilizing understood you.

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Content Standard(s)

AAS.ELA15.11.12

Connotation and Denotation in "My Papa's Waltz"

Overview

Students will review the meanings of connotation and denotation. Students will apply knowledge of connotation and denotation to "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will review the meaning of connotation and denotation.
Students will apply knowledge of connotation and denotation to the poem "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke.
Students will annotate "My Papa's Waltz."

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The Art of the Conquest of Mexico

Overview

Students will explore two different interpretations of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spanish, one in art and the other in literature. The perspectives of the same events as seen by the Spanish and the Aztecs will be explored. Students will highlight portions of both pieces of art to gain perspective of both sides.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will compare and contrast artistic representations of the Conquest of Mexico in art and poetry.

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Content Standard(s)

AAS.SS10.10.1

SS10.US1.1

Giddy Up Cinderella

Overview

Students will read two different western versions of the story Cinderella. They will engage in activities where they will compare and contrast different versions of the story. Students will participate in listening, speaking, and writing activities that require them to reflect on the stories.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story.

Students will answer questions by gathering information from the provided sources.

Students will carry on conversations with peers in small groups, listening attentively, or taking turns speaking.

Students will write opinion pieces that tell which version of the story is their favorite.

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Michael Phelps.... or not?

Overview

This lesson is created to have students compare themselves to Michael Phelps and the features that make him such a good swimmer. Students will measure their height and arm span and graph them on a coordinate graph. Students will then compare their height and arm span to their classmates' to see who might be the best swimmer in the class!

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Primary Learning Objectives

The students will measure, plot, and compare their height and arm span using coordinate graph.

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Burst the Inverse!

Overview

This lesson allows students to investigate functions and their inverses by hand and using graphing calculators. Students will also use equations and graphs. Students will work cooperatively to develop and justify ideas/conjectures about functions and inverses.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students will discover and use the properties of functions and their inverses. Students will find inverse equations of linear functions given other linear function equations. Students will use slope criteria and formulas to solve problems and justify reasoning for developed discoveries.

Additional Learning Objective(s)

Students will work cooperatively to discover patterns in the graph table of values while problem solving. Students will verify conclusions by finding slope, developing equations and graphing both functions on the same axes. Students can manually or use graphing calculators to complete the tasks.

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Aligned Standards

National/Other Standards

Standard 1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Standard 2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively
Standard 3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Standard 4: Model with mathematics
Standard 5: Use appropriate tools strategically
Standard 6: Attend to precision
Standard 7: Look for and make use of structure
Standard 8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Fakebook: Analyzing point-of-view in Duck Dynasty

Overview

Students will analyze the varying points-of-view in a text by creating two Fakebook pages delineating separate points-of-view. Students will be able to represent two individual people from the text by using a format that they are familiar with and that they enjoy. Students will enjoy creating top friends, uploading photos, and creating posts about individuals in a text.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Subject Area

English Language Arts

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will analyze contrasting points-of-view in a text by creation of two Fakebook pages.

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Content Standard(s)

AAS.ELA15.7.12

Listening Comprehension Read Aloud-Who Was Ruby Bridges?

Overview

Listening to narrative text offers students a chance to go beyond decoding and word meaning. Listening as the teacher reads a story gives students an opportunity to appreciate, and draw significance, and meaning as well as informal practice using story elements. Listening to read-alouds gives the teacher the opportunity to model "close" reading skills as well as model thinking.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Primary Learning Objectives

Students will be able to recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud such as Who, What, When, Where Why and How.

Students will be able to identify the contributions of significant figures that influenced the state in the past and present.

Content Standard(s)

AAS.SS10.1.4

SS10.1.4

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