This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, …
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography designed to enhance student understanding of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
This curriculum guide for The Heart of Everything That Is: Young Readers …
This curriculum guide for The Heart of Everything That Is: Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin contains discussion questions for each chapter, key vocabulary terms, and extra activities for after reading.
This curriculum guide covers six works of Laurie Halse Anderson (Chains, Forge, …
This curriculum guide covers six works of Laurie Halse Anderson (Chains, Forge, Ashes, Fever 1793, Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution, and Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving), and contains discussion prompts, key vocabulary terms, and ideas for assignments and activities related to each book.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Edith Wharton's The Custom of the …
In this Penguin Classics guide to Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.
The Cyrus Cylinder, a proclamation by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, …
The Cyrus Cylinder, a proclamation by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, gives rare historical insight into ancient Persian culture. These guides can be used to explore the Cyrus Cylinder and related objects in the Getty Villa's collection to learn about Persian culture and Persian interactions with the Greeks. Each guide contains information for teachers as well activities for students that can be carried out in the classroom. Resources include:
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to assess …
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to assess the validity of this statement: "British colonial and North American perceptions of each other created exonomic cooperation and social friction between the two groups prior to the American Revolution." Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to assess …
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to assess the validity of this statement, with regard to diplomacy, religion, and commerce: "From 1607 to 1763, Indian/white relations in colonial America shifted from mutual dependency and cooperation towards conflict and tension." Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to answer …
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to answer this question: "To what extent did colonial encounters with Native Americans from 1607 to 1763 shape a unique American identity?" Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to respond …
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to respond to the statement: "Analyze the extent to which western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans during the period 1860–90 and evaluate the role of the federal government in those effects." Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to respond …
In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to respond to this statement: "Assess the social, political, and economic impact of the development of the Federal Interstate Highway System from 1940 to the mid-1960s." Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.
In this lesson, students will analyze the Allied war aims, strategies and …
In this lesson, students will analyze the Allied war aims, strategies and major turning points of the war by reading the prescribed text pages and participate in class discussions and by defining terms and names into notebooks. They will describe the impact of events on the people at the home front by creating cartoons summarizing events depicted in the New York Times articles and describe the role and sacrifices of members of the American armed forces by writing a letter home from the perspective of a D-Day survivor.
Students will become familiar with the terms landscape, iconography, abstract, and will …
Students will become familiar with the terms landscape, iconography, abstract, and will revisit the terms foreground, middle ground, and background; explore how the artist's perception impacts the way he or she interprets and represents a subject.
Students will be introduced to some of the conventions of portraiture; consider …
Students will be introduced to some of the conventions of portraiture; consider how symbols can be used in a portrait to add meaning; be introduced to the technique of photomontage.
Students will be introduced to the strategy of collage; be introduced to …
Students will be introduced to the strategy of collage; be introduced to the concept of chance and how it has played a role in the production of visual art; explore how artists incorporated materials from everyday life into their works of art, including images from the mass media.
Students will consider their own definitions of art; consider how Dada and …
Students will consider their own definitions of art; consider how Dada and Surrealist artists challenged conventional ideas of art; be introduced to Readymades and photograms.
Students will look at Ortega's installation art "False Movement (Stability and Economic …
Students will look at Ortega's installation art "False Movement (Stability and Economic Growth), read about the work, and describe the work in detail. Students will explore the concepts of capitalism, politics, and social issues and how they may be addressed through art by investigating aspects of form and structure such as fragility, levity, gravity, and weight; balance and tension. Students will participate in The Marshmallow Challenge (link provided). Students will also create a digital collage on a topic that concerns them.
This teacher's guide for The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman …
This teacher's guide for The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman contains a summary of the text, discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to …
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to help students explore Charles Dickens' novel, David Copperfield. The book most closely resembling Dickens' own life, its hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains.
In this Penguin Classics guide to Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, students …
In this Penguin Classics guide to Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.
In this lesson, students learn of Davy Crocket who becomes an American …
In this lesson, students learn of Davy Crocket who becomes an American Hero by saving the Earth. Students utilize reading skills to respond to questions about the text and demonstrate understanding.
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