Students will look at Serra's 'Circuit, 1972' and Brancusi's 'Torso' and compare the two works. Students will consider how sculptors articulate a form in space and how the sculptor draws a volume. They will also consider the phrase 'articulation of process' as expressed in much of Serra's early work. Students will reflect on Serra's verb list and experiment by making three different works from three different materials in response to a verb. Students will also create a more advanced sculpture based on Serra's second verb list incorporating suggested action or movement within the work.

Students will look at Brancusi's 'The Kiss' and compare it to other sculptures they have seen. Students will also comment on some of Brancusi's aphorisms about art and the creative process. Students will create an artwork that responds to the artwork of Brancusi or Serra or Rodin. Students will also explore direct carving after the work of Brancusi.

Students will look at Richard Serra's 'The Consequence of Consequence'. They will then create a mock-up of a space in or near their school and create model sculptures for the space. Students will also write a dialogue between the artists Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra depicting what the artists might say to each other with the conversation revealing insights into their work.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions and other material intended to enhance student conversation about Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote’s brilliant novella about two friends living in a Manhattan apartment building during World War II, as well as the three classic short stories also included in the volume.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance discussion of Kevin Brockmeier’s brilliantly imagined apocalyptic novel, The Brief History of the Dead.

In this lesson plan students use literary perspective to analyze passages from Slaughterhouse-Five and then apply that perspective by creating a compilation album, CD cover, and liner notes that demonstrate their interpretation, understanding, and evaluation of the themes and ideas in the novel.

In this lesson plan with multiple activities ranging from group work to actual annotation practices, students will review strategies of annotation and consider the benefits. They will brainstorm ways to annotate, explore various methods in depth, and test the value of annotating while reading.

A teachers guide for Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell, including a chapter-by-chapter summary, questions for deeper comprehension while reading, and questions for class discussion post-read.

This extensive study guide for Brighton Rock by Graham Greene summarizes the novel and explores characterization and themes in depth, and includes discussion questions for each part of the novel and strategies for assessment preparation.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide, the introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading are intended to enhance student discussion of Edwidge Danticat's book, Brother, I'm Dying, a memoir of the tragedy and losses of a Haitian family and the hope of a new life in America.

A new instructional model, called Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI), is introduced to elementary teachers in this article. The author shows how school librarians and classroom teachers can collaborate to help students construct and communicate evidence, or arguments. Evidence buckets, a collaborative activity, and related online resources are presented. The article appears in the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which is structured around the seven essential principles of climate literacy.

This lesson is designed to be a bridge from the idea of overcoming personal obstacles to overcoming obstacles in the physical environment that make it hard to access books. That Book Woman involves characters who struggle with both types of obstacles. This leads into an informational text in the latter part of the lesson that helps students build background knowledge about environments around the world. This lays the foundation for later work in the unit involving research into how people around the world overcome the physical obstacles to accessing books.

This lesson introduces students to the importance of building a constituency to support or oppose public policies using the case study of the Montgomery Bus Boycott as an example. Students read primary documents from the boycott and discuss how the documents show how leaders tried to build support.

Through this lesson, the teacher will model the think-aloud strategy for students. Components of think-alouds will be introduced, as well as type of text interactions. Students will develop the ability to use think-alouds to aid in reading comprehension tasks.

In these activities, students utilize play to refine and clarify vocabulary without feeling embarrassed or singled out in the classroom. Suggested methods include creating non-examples to show understanding; using online tools like Wordle or Visual Thesaurus; drawing pictures of unknown words; and using physical movement and a intensity rating scale to determine nuance and meaning.

These questions can be used to discuss the following economic concepts in the book Bunny Money: human saving, savings goal, and spending.

In this lesson, students read Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle in chunks of three to five pages, each of while corresponds to a main idea about adaptations: habitat, predators and prey, and life cycle.

In this lesson, students continue to compare and contrast sections of two texts about the poison dart frog.

In this lesson, students continue to compare and contrast sections of two texts about the poison dart frog.

In this lesson, students compare and contrast sections of two texts about the poison dart frog.