Learning Objectives: Analyze primary and secondary sources to construct a biography and …
Learning Objectives: Analyze primary and secondary sources to construct a biography and context for an author's writing. Identify text-based examples of craft, perspective, and other literary elements. Construct a position on whether materials outside of the texts, such as biographies and letters, should influence the way readers understand Poe's texts (and, by implication, any artist's work).
This vocabulary exercise introduces students to the works of Edgar Allan Poe …
This vocabulary exercise introduces students to the works of Edgar Allan Poe while also expanding their vocabulary of the words Poe invented. Students will identify meanings, parts of speech, and parts of the word through context clues in the text and using word-reference materials.
This lesson focuses primarily on decompressing poetry by understanding binary sequences. The …
This lesson focuses primarily on decompressing poetry by understanding binary sequences. The advanced version of the lesson will ask students to identify examples of figurative language once the poem is decompressed.
1.)Literature should be puzzling, magical and mystifying. The best literature hinders easy …
1.)Literature should be puzzling, magical and mystifying. The best literature hinders easy interpretation and compels return visits. Poetry serves this purpose perfectly. Poetry is not meant to be solved. The ambiguous nature of the poem is one of the reasons it is not a favorite of the majority of class, but rather the minority.Poetry allows me to teach my students how to write, read, and understand any text. It also provides a healthy outlet for swelling teenage emotions. Some of the most empathetic and trusting moments in the classroom community for me over the past twenty years has come from students sharing their original work, to say nothing of the speaking and listening SOLS that are often overlooked in high school English. This lesson is for the discovery of poetry.
This lesson remixes an original lesson created by Susan Ketcham entitled "The …
This lesson remixes an original lesson created by Susan Ketcham entitled "The Poetry of Maya Angelou." In this lesson, students expand on a classroom activity (discussion question number 4) from the original source lesson and will use that as a foundation for learning and preparing for their own oral recitation of a poem. In order to successfully complete this task, students will need to explore one poem for both literal and figurative meaning and then determine how that poem would sound if spoken aloud. This last step requires students to critically explore how oral techniques such as tone, pauses, shifts, etc. help develop meaning.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV …
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch LaTissha Boyce teach about how to tell the difference between 1st person and 3rd person point of view.
Students will investigate the components of strong passwords. They will also learn …
Students will investigate the components of strong passwords. They will also learn why you should have different passwords for different accounts as well as why you should change your password periodically.
In this unit, students explore the power of reading and writing around …
In this unit, students explore the power of reading and writing around the world. Over the course of the unit, students will grapple with and explore the power involved with education and reading, and why so many people across the world seek the power to read. Students will also discover that not all people have equal access to education and that in many places receiving a high-quality education is not an easy feat. As a connection to the informational unit on continents, when the setting is clearly defined by the author either in the author's note or directly in the text, make sure to reference it and challenge students to notice features of the culture or country. It is important to note that many of the texts in this unit are fiction; therefore, large generalizations about an entire culture or country should not be made based on the books alone. Students should, however, be challenged to think about the ways in which the author portrays the characters' struggles and desire for education and what we can learn from the characters' experiences. It is our hope that this unit, in connection with other units in the sequence, will begin to open students' eyes to the world around us and the ways in which values are similar and different around the world.
In reading, it is assumed that students are inquisitive consumers of the text and are able to retell stories, including key details, using both the illustrations and words as a guide. Therefore, in this unit students will be pushed further to notice more nuanced central messages, particularly related to the idea of education and reading. Students will also be pushed to notice the words and phrases an author includes to suggest feeling and appeal to the senses. In Unit 3, students were exposed to the skill of compare and contrast by comparing and contrasting similar versions of the same story. In this unit, students will be pushed to the next level by comparing and contrasting more nuanced experiences and messages across multiple stories.
In writing, students will continue to write daily in response to the text. In every piece of writing, students should be expected to correctly answer the question and provide details from the text to support their answer. In this unit, students will begin to learn how to explain their evidence and thinking in a way that shows a deeper understanding of the question or text. By the end of the unit, most students should be able to score a 3 on the Reading Response rubric.
This resource provides a tutorial video for students to learn about the …
This resource provides a tutorial video for students to learn about the importance of using credible sources and how to determine a source's credibility. Students then apply what they have learned as they answer questions about sources they find while researching.
This resource provides a tutorial video for students to learn about the …
This resource provides a tutorial video for students to learn about the importance of using credible sources and how to determine a source's credibility. Students then apply what they have learned as they answer questions about sources they find while researching.
In this kinesthetic and fun lesson students will become “ponies” who will …
In this kinesthetic and fun lesson students will become “ponies” who will use pattern matching of rhymes or word family endings of rhyming words in order to jump through the correct hula-hoop.
Students will use decomposition strategies to predict what will happen in a …
Students will use decomposition strategies to predict what will happen in a story based on the pictures through the use of the 5W and 1H question words. Students will identify the characters and setting of the story and make a prediction based on the information they gained from the images.These materials were created by CodeVA in partnership with George Mason University and were funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant Award #1837380
Erik Moore and Krissy Sanderlin of Virginia Beach developed (and are still …
Erik Moore and Krissy Sanderlin of Virginia Beach developed (and are still developing, as it is a work-in-progress) this presentation on management of the hybrid classroom with a Teaching Assistant. It is a great starting point to create your own presentation for your teachers.
Students will brainstorm different types of problems that can occur throughout their …
Students will brainstorm different types of problems that can occur throughout their day. Then students will share with a partner what they have written down. The teacher will talk about the process of solving problems. Students will pick a specific problem and then write down the steps they took to solve it. The teacher will explain to the class that there is a process to solving problems. The teacher will show a poster of a computer with labels on the board and tell the class that they are going to use a process for solving technology problems. Define, Prepare, Try, Reflect is the 4 step process that the teacher will review with the students.
Students will learn how both flow maps and plain-text can outline complex …
Students will learn how both flow maps and plain-text can outline complex processes into component steps by presenting them in both formats. Students will take an everyday process and turn it into a technical flow map and then a plain-text paragraph. Doing so, students will utilize CS standards language to discuss and create their flow map, and process signal words/ phrases (English standards) for their paragraph.
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