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Students will create a flowchart showing the evolution of a specific technology including failed attempts at advancement. This task includes research and understanding the iterative process. Easily differentiated.
- Subject:
- Algorithms and Programming
- Impacts of Computing
- English
- Non-fiction
- Research
- Writing
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Casey Holbrook
- Acse Grant
- Amanda Coode
- Date Added:
- 02/12/2022
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This course is a survey of American Literature from 1650 through 1820. It covers Early American and Puritan Literature, Enlightenment Literature, and Romantic Literature. It teaches in the context of American History and introduces the student to literary criticism and research.
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Lumen Learning
- Provider Set:
- Candela Courseware
- Date Added:
- 06/11/2019
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This lesson concentrates on Anne Frank as a writer. After a look at Anne Frank the adolescent, and a consideration of how the experiences of growing up shaped her composition of the Diary, students explore some of the writing techniques Anne invented for herself and practice those techniques with material drawn from their own lives.
- Subject:
- English
- Non-fiction
- History/Social Sciences
- American History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 10/22/2019
Students will read an informational text about variations in college completion rates for people born in different years. To help students better understand the text, the teacher will model how to annotate the first half. Students will then annotate the second half themselves. After that, students will answer a series of questions about the text, drawing inferences from what they've read and citing textual evidence to support their responses.
- Subject:
- Cross-Curricular
- English
- Non-fiction
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Provider Set:
- Statistics in Schools
- Date Added:
- 01/06/2020
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Students will read a variety of texts to include Fiction and Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, and Expository Nonfiction to complete the following tasks:1) read and annotate both a fiction and nonfiction paired passage2) complete the Author's Craft Graphic Organizer for each text.3) write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the two texts using the graphic organizer for guidance.
- Subject:
- English
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Author:
- Deb Wilkinson
- Date Added:
- 03/28/2021
Teachers will engage students in a discussion about what the Census Bureau does and what types of information it collects. Then students will read and annotate informational texts from the Census Bureau and work with a partner to answer questions about the texts. Students will also analyze an infographic of people with different professions to determine how each of those people might use the data gathered by the Census Bureau; students will be asked to use evidence from the infographic text to support their answers. Students will then complete a wireframe (similar to a graphic organizer) for an online resource about how census data can help their own community.
- Subject:
- Cross-Curricular
- English
- Communication and Multimodal Literacy
- Non-fiction
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Provider Set:
- Statistics in Schools
- Date Added:
- 01/06/2020
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This lesson looks at Thomas Paine and at some of the ideas presented in his pamphlet, "Common Sense," such as national unity, natural rights, the illegitimacy of the monarchy and of hereditary aristocracy, and the necessity for independence and the revolutionary struggle.
- Subject:
- English
- Non-fiction
- History/Social Sciences
- American History
- Government and Civics
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 10/22/2019
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Check out how a Science 6 CLT from Arlington, Virginia partnered with the school librarian, resource teacher for the gifted (RTG), SPED teacher, and English Learner (EL) teachers to engage and support all students in a personal research project...remotely! We are sharing our project resources, experiences, and how this project personalizes distance learning.
- Subject:
- Cross-Curricular
- Non-fiction
- History/Social Sciences
- Science
- Material Type:
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Julie Hutsell
- Date Added:
- 06/30/2020
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Remix of https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/citizen-vi-train-woman-standing-claudia-rankine Adding a variety of texts to compare and connect to the original poem activity
- Subject:
- Cross-Curricular
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Reading
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Elizabeth Huggin
- Date Added:
- 12/09/2019
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After reading a variety of nonfiction articles, students will select one article to read, annotate, and complete the Exploring NF Text Graphic Organizer with their chosen text.Students will also summarize their chosen article by creating an objective and true summary including a strong main idea and supporting details.
- Subject:
- English
- Non-fiction
- Reading
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Author:
- Deb Wilkinson
- Date Added:
- 03/28/2021
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Students will read nonfiction articles on a topic of their choice to create an informative article that incorporates important details, evidence, and uses vocabulary that expresses ideas precisely and concisely. Students will include one purposefully crafted visual text feature in their writing. Students will organize their writing in a way that aids comprehension for the reader.
- Subject:
- English
- Non-fiction
- Reading
- Writing
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Author:
- Deb Wilkinson
- Date Added:
- 03/28/2021
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Students will demonstrate their ability to write an expository text by selecting a topic of their choice to write 3-5 short paragraphs, each following a different organizational pattern. The writing should incorporate a main idea and important details while choosing language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely. Students should also show the best tone and voice in their writing to fit each organizational pattern and to vary their sentences to make their writing interesting.
- Subject:
- English
- Non-fiction
- Writing
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Author:
- Deb Wilkinson
- Date Added:
- 03/28/2021
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This lesson reimagines an existing instructional resource, "The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck" created by Franky Abbott, Digital Public Library of America.
<https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-grapes-of-wrath-by-john-steinbeck>.
In this remix, "The Grapes of Wrath" and the related primary source documents are exchanged for "Farewell to Manzanar" and related primary sources accessed through secondary open-source databases.
Discussion questions ask students to consider the memoir in light of its historical context and students gain experience reading and evaluating visual sources including political cartoons and propaganda posters to understand how elements of rhetorical can shape and/or reflect cultural values.
- Subject:
- Communication and Multimodal Literacy
- Non-fiction
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Case Study
- Primary Source
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Andrea Yarbough
- Date Added:
- 12/12/2019
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This collection uses primary sources to explore The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
- Subject:
- English
- Non-fiction
- History/Social Sciences
- American History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Provider:
- Digital Public Library of America
- Author:
- Samantha Gibson
- Date Added:
- 04/11/2016
As 5th grade students are learning about force and motion in science, these comprehension “mix-ups” are a great way to monitor students’ understanding of the content along with checking reading comprehension.
- Subject:
- Non-fiction
- Force/Motion/Energy
- Material Type:
- Homework/Assignment
- Author:
- Beth Scherm
- Date Added:
- 10/21/2022
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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:
- Cross-Curricular
- English
- Communication and Multimodal Literacy
- Non-fiction
- Research
- Writing
- American History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Primary Source
- Unit of Study
- Author:
- Bridget Mariano
- Catherine Bailey
- Date Added:
- 04/28/2021
The teacher will facilitate a class discussion for students to share their opinions about young adulthood before they start the activity. After some teacher modeling, students will read, annotate, and answer questions about a technical document-including tables and graphs-to gather evidence to support conversations with their classmates about young adulthood. Then, students will write a paragraph about how their generation defines young adulthood.
- Subject:
- Cross-Curricular
- English
- Non-fiction
- Writing
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Provider Set:
- Statistics in Schools
- Date Added:
- 01/06/2020
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This activity is an engaging way to allow students to practice genre identification. Students will work in pairs to find an example of each type of genre listed on the form. This is an engaging activity to help students to learn to identify different genre types. This is an engaging activity for SOL 4.5d.
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Reading
- Research
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Nicole Snead
- Date Added:
- 01/05/2021
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This collection uses primary sources to explore Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
- Subject:
- English
- Non-fiction
- History/Social Sciences
- American History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Provider:
- Digital Public Library of America
- Author:
- Samantha Gibson
- Date Added:
- 04/11/2016