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Argument Writing Practice: College Value
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This resource provides ideas for administering an argument writing assignment that involves responding to a prompt about the value of a four-year college degree and completing reading or research to find facts to engage with as students support their claim. The information provided is specific to the state of Virginia in terms of both the suggested resources for research and the Virginia Standards of Learning rubric. Teachers can use this to prepare students for the End of Course writing assessment.

Subject:
English
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Date Added:
11/25/2019
As Great as Gatsby: Supplemental resources for teaching a great American novel
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This resource is a list of supplemental materials for teachers to consider when teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. This resource is a remix (or addendum) to The Digital Public Library of America's open educational resource "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." Here is a link to that original resource, which is full of supplemental materials to the novel: https://goopenva.org/courses/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-2/view.

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English
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Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Date Added:
10/08/2020
As Great as Gatsby: Supplemental resources for teaching a great American novel
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This resource is a list of supplemental materials for teachers to consider when teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. This resource is a remix (or addendum) to The Digital Public Library of America's open educational resource "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." Here is a link to that original resource, which is full of supplemental materials to the novel: https://goopenva.org/courses/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-2/view.

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English
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Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Date Added:
12/12/2019
As Great as Gatsby: Supplemental resources for teaching a great American novel
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This resource is a list of supplemental materials for teachers to consider when teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. This resource is a remix (or addendum) to The Digital Public Library of America's open educational resource "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." Here is a link to that original resource, which is full of supplemental materials to the novel: https://goopenva.org/courses/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-2/view.

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English
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Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Date Added:
11/30/2019
Explore the Life and Work of Louis Draper, Photographer and Virginian
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This resource presents a variety of digital resources hosted by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that students can use to explore the life and work of renowned African-American photographer Louis Draper.  

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American History
History/Social Sciences
Research
Social Sciences
Virginia History
Visual Art
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Activity/Lab
Visual Media
Author:
VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Date Added:
02/07/2020
Historical Fiction Research: A Cross-Curricular Unit
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This represents an entire unit designed to be cross curricular in nature for English 11 and VA/US History. The Historical Fiction Research Unit Google Doc can be found here and contains various links to additional resources to support this unit of study.The "before", "during", and "after" are included in each day for this series.  The unit will take approximately 12 days.

Subject:
American History
Communication and Multimodal Literacy
Cross-Curricular
English
Non-fiction
Research
Writing
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Unit of Study
Author:
Bridget Mariano
Catherine Bailey
Date Added:
04/28/2021
Interactive Exercise: Thought Ladder Sammy Baloji - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for thoughtful inquiry and ideation. For students, documenting their ideas as they work to interpret an artwork offers the chance to exercise metacognition. With this interactive exercise featuring an artwork by Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, students are can gain insight into how they process information and formulate ideas.

Subject:
Cross-Curricular
English
Fine Arts
History/Social Sciences
Humanities
Research
Visual Art
World History
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)
Author:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Date Added:
01/06/2021
Interactive Exercise: Thought Ladder - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for thoughtful inquiry and ideation. For students, documenting their ideas as they work to interpret an artwork offers the chance to exercise metacognition. With this interactive exercise featuring an artwork from the Mughal Empire, students can gain insight into how they process information and formulate ideas. This activity is good practice for formulating research questions and synthesizing ideas.

Subject:
Cross-Curricular
English
Fine Arts
History/Social Sciences
Humanities
Research
Visual Art
World History
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)
Author:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Date Added:
09/04/2020
Invisible Man and the Harlem Renaissance - Connecting Literature with Visual Art
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This resource pairs visual and written primary resources. The works of art with have been chosen from the American Art collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Art. Students will pair visual media with a paired piece of literature, in this case, Invisible Man by Ralph Waldo Ellison, to help explore the connection between and across art forms as well as the connection between art and its historical setting.

Subject:
American History
English
Fine Arts
History/Social Sciences
Reading
Visual Art
Material Type:
Primary Source
Reading
Visual Media
Date Added:
11/13/2019
Invisible Man and the Harlem Renaissance - Connecting Literature with Visual Art
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This resource pairs visual and written primary resources. The works of art with have been chosen from the American Art collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Art. Students will pair visual media with a paired piece of literature, in this case, Invisible Man by Ralph Waldo Ellison, to help explore the connection between and across art forms as well as the connection between art and its historical setting.

Subject:
American History
English
Fine Arts
History/Social Sciences
Reading
Visual Art
Material Type:
Primary Source
Reading
Visual Media
Date Added:
12/17/2019
Letter to the Editor: Performance Task Grade 11
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Students will be writing a standard-format letter to the editor of a local newspaper using data and research on an issue they care about that affects others. While it must be a school-appropriate issue, students have the opportunity to select any issue of interest to them to rebut the original writer’s post.** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.

Subject:
Writing
Material Type:
Assessment
Author:
Chelsea Kulp
Date Added:
04/01/2021
Practicing Evaluating Sources
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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.

Subject:
English
Research
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Date Added:
11/25/2019
Practicing Evaluating Sources
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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.

Subject:
English
Research
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Date Added:
09/12/2020
Raise Your Voice! Part I:  Research-Based Argument
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For the following project, students will be engaging in real-world topics research on a topic of their choice and producing an essay or proposal that argues their position on that topic.  This is a persuasive paper, not an expository paper.  They will need to take a position regarding the position they choose and support it using research.

Subject:
English
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Bridget Mariano
Victoria Finnegan-Copen
Date Added:
12/18/2020
A Raisin in the Sun: Whose American Dream? and the American Dream Project
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An extension project to pair with A Raisin in the Sun: Whose American Dream? from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Retrieved from https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/raisin-sun-whose-american-dream

Subject:
Communication and Multimodal Literacy
English
Research
Material Type:
Assessment
Date Added:
11/27/2019
Research Lesson
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Students will find, evaluate, and select credible sources to create a research product.

Subject:
ESL
English
Research
Writing
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Alex Torrens
Date Added:
03/20/2021
Summative Activities (remix) for A Raisin in the Sun
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This resource provides Summative extension activity options for an existing resource entitled: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorrain Hansberry. Teachers work with the original resource first to guide their main unit-instruction: https://goopenva.org/courses/a-raisin-in-the-sun-by-lorraine-hansberry-2/view

Next, they can review the Summative extension options provided in this resource to produce creative sythensis activities designed to extend the depth of knowledge students will gain from this lesson.

Subject:
Communication and Multimodal Literacy
English
Fiction
Reading
Writing
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Interactive
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Date Added:
07/08/2020
Summative Activities (remix) for A Raisin in the Sun
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This resource provides Summative extension activity options for an existing resource entitled: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorrain Hansberry. Teachers work with the original resource first to guide their main unit-instruction: https://goopenva.org/courses/a-raisin-in-the-sun-by-lorraine-hansberry-2/view

Next, they can review the Summative extension options provided in this resource to produce creative sythensis activities designed to extend the depth of knowledge students will gain from this lesson.

Subject:
Communication and Multimodal Literacy
English
Fiction
Reading
Writing
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Interactive
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Visual Media
Date Added:
11/21/2019
Virtual Learning Persuasive Prompt: Performance Assessment Grade 10
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Last March, schools all around the world were thrust into virtual learning, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In the future, do you think virtual learning should continue to be an option for high school students?  Why or why not?** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.

Subject:
Writing
Material Type:
Assessment
Author:
Chelsea Kulp
Date Added:
04/01/2021
What is True?: Memoir Research
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This resource presents an approach for reading memoirs with students that examines the role of truth in the genre and in the specific work(s) chosen. It gives suggestions for activities during the reading and focuses on a culminating activity in which students engage in research to investigate the facts behind the accounts the author(s) present in the memoir. Students learn about evaluating sources, locate a reliable source and discuss its credibility and impact on their understanding of the events,. Finally, they present their findings and analysis to the class.

Subject:
English
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Date Added:
12/15/2019