Lessons, activities and quizzes on identifying varying text structures including cause and effect, narrative, chronological, cause and effect, sequence, and process structures.

Students are presented with a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article "˜History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names"™ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

In this resource from the New York Times, a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article ‘History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names’ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

Students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

In this lesson, students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

This lesson from the New York Times offers suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

Suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

In this lesson, students will continue their reading of Sugar Changed the World and begin reading “The Sound of Liberty” about the events set in motion by the Haitian Revolution. Students will use the Unfolding Analysis Tool to identify and analyze the series of events presented in the passage.

In this second part of a two-lesson End-of-Unit Assessment, stduents will synthesize analysis across texts, using a fishbowl method for discussion.

This resource provides a lesson that should accompany a reading of Einstein's four short works by Albert Einstein. Included is a speech, letter, and an essay. Students will read an analyze. Afterwards, students will be responsible for completing an essay.

This article helps students understand how concepts of law, justice and the rules of fair play influence more than our legal system.

This lesson explores the twofold concept of "arete" (virture and excellence in sports) focusing on the ways in which the concept of arete bridges the gap between philosphy and sports. Students will read and critically evaluate an academic essay arguing that through the concept of arete, the ancient Greeks created a specialized athletic culture.

Creating Facebook-like presentations via Microsoft PowerPoint will engage and motivate students to learn about famous people of the American Revolution. To gain background knowledge prior to their study of the Revolutionary War, students will research people who played an important role during this time period. While sharing their research in their PowerPoint presentations, students provide written feedback.

In this lesson, students examine some of the fundamental ideas about government that are contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the U.S. Constiution.

Students write about present-day pop culture as well as learning about pop culture of the past by using Cole Porter's song "You're the Top!" (1934) to touch on many issues relevant to a language arts classroom, especially the literary technique of cataloguing. After an introduction and context information about Porter's song, students listen to the song and examine the lyrics. They look at the list of the pop culture items referenced in the song to see what they feel is still valid today, brainstorm replacements for other items, and create revised lyrics for the song. They then present their updated lyrics to the class.