In this lesson, students learn about two early historians. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will participate in 2 news conferences where Herodotus will answer questions from the press on the Persian Wars and Thucydides will answer questions about the Peloponnesian War.
In this lesson, students work at collaborative learning stations to learn background information before they begin reading The Diary of Anne Frank. Students participate in a variety of online learning activities and examine multimedia related to propaganda and the historical events leading up to the Holocaust.
This resource provides a lesson designed to assist learners with acquiring skills needed to differentiate between real and fictious, possibly malicious, websites. Students will evaluate hoax sites prior to outlining and designing one of their own. It is expected that this lesson will help students to better recognize trustworthy sites for online reading and research.
This is an introductory lesson for any unit/text on the Holocaust. Students will first gallery walk various pictures, terms, and quotes about the Holocaust to connect with any previous knowledge and engage curiosity. The second activity asks the students to watch the National Holocaust Museum's movie about the events leading to the Holocaust. Finally students look closely at a text about the events leading up to Holocaust.
In this lesson, students will analyze how authors in Sugar Changed the World use the stories of important figures in order to refine central ideas in the text.
In this lesson, students learn the basics of annotating poetry as a means to analyze it. Students use a short poem of their (or your) choice and follow step-by-step instructions to break it down.
Students will investigate the diversity of resources present within the cloud forest and how humans could benefit from this rich ecosystem. A debate structure is provided, through which students will discuss the role that humans should play in utilizing the cloud forest ecosystem of Monteverde, Costa Rica.
In this lesson, students will identify the literary elements of plot, theme, and character in a work and use indirect characterization and psychoanalytic criticism to analyze a character and explain how the character contributes to plot and theme. Final assessment inclues an analytical essay.
This lesson alerts students to the fallacies that surround them every day. In this lesson, students deconstruct fallacious images and messages in advertisements and demonstrate their understanding of the fallacies through multimedia presentations.
This lesson looks at the song lyrics of Bruce Springsteen as lyrical poetry. Students analyze his use of imagery, hyperbole, and vivid language in his songs, then write lines of their own lyrics that use similar language.
In this lesson, students will work collaboratively to analyze how the texts refine and define the central ideas, focusing on the impact that local decisions make on a global scale.
In this lesson, students read the poem "An Incident in the Rose Garden" by Donald Justice, then go through a series of activities to examine the use of figurative language in the text.
In this lesson, students will understand the economic, environmental, societal effects that various inventions had upon the population by researching key figures, events, documents, maps, photos, videos, and recordings. This project-based learning lesson plan attempts to develop collaborative and communicative skills as well as higher order thinking by having students work together on teams to research the industrial revolution using primary and secondary sources. They will then create a product or presentation that answers the driving question and present their work to the class.
In this lesson, students will learn how to analyze and review a claim and how to chart the subtopics and evidence in that claim.
In this lesson, students will both work with peers and conference with the teacher in order to revise and evaluate both their own and others' work.
In this lesson, students will analyze the article "Firing, Not Hiring" by Nancy Hayes, and work in pairs to add to their Subtopics and Evidence Charts.
In this introductory lesson, students discuss and share the role of authority figures in life by considering the perspective of their parents.
In this writing lesson, students will work in pairs to examine an argument model and analyze how the author both organizes and appeals to readers.
In this lesson, students will work in small groups to examine an informative writing model and identify how the writer organizes and conveys information.
Students begin by evaluating the universal theme of betrayal from multiple perspectives. After reading time period scenarios as well as reflecting on personal experiences, students use critical thinking skills to explore and identify interventions for each betrayal scenario, including personal examples. Students then research Roman history as they write down thier own critical perspective of a scenario depicting plausible scenes from Roman times. As the culminating project and assessment, students will create comic strips with the Interactive Comic Creator