In this Penguin Classics guide to Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Supplemental readings are suggested.
Students will be able to discuss depictions of the civil rights movement; analyze the effectiveness of juxtaposing image and text; create an image that addresses a social, economic, or political problem in their community; and write accompanying text to an image that addresses a social, economic, or political problem in their community.
In the TED Ed lesson focused on grammar, students will explore the age-old argument between linguistic prescriptivists and descriptivists — who have two very different opinions on the matter. Discussion questions and additional resources are linked in the sidebar.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of Peter Heller’s novel about a pilot and his dog trying to survive in a world filled with loss, The Dog Stars.
This teacher's guide for Doll Bones by Holly Black contains a prereading activity, discussion questions, and postreading assignments.
This resource explains plant and animal domestication and it effect on humans.
Students will use conventions of punctuation (including but not limited to commas, parentheses, dashes,ellpsis, semicolons, quotations, apostrophes) in student written sentences.
In this lesson, students learn what goods and services are. They listen to the story Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! They listen to the story again and identify letters and goods and services from the book that begin with those letters. They learn a song about goods and services, identify goods and services they use, and identify the first letter of their first or last names and draw a good or a service that starts with that letter. The extension activities provide opportunities for role-play and counting.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions to explore Dracula, Bram Stoker’s hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, the quintessential story of suspense and horror.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list designed to enhance student discussion of Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina GarcÃa, a book that presents a unique vision and a haunting lamentation for a past that might have been.
In this Penguin Classics guide to James Joyce's Dubliners, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Supplemental readings are suggested.
In this lesson, the students will get practice in reading and writing habits that they have been working with throughout the curriculum, in this case using poetry.
In this lesson, students will understand examples of persuasive language and will learn about conditions in the Dust Bowl region in the mid-1930s by examining a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a letter written by farmer Caroline Henderson.
In this grammar resource from PBS Learning Media, students will recognize the difference between formal language and informal language and analyze examples of each. They will then complete an activity in which they rewrite informal sentences to use formal language.
In this resource from PBS Learning Media, students will learn about nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements and how they function in sentences. They will learn how to use commas, dashes, and parentheses to separate these elements from the rest of the sentence. Students will complete an activity to enclose nonrestrictive elements in sentences using punctuation.
In this grammar resource from PBS Learning Media, students will learn the difference between coordinating and cumulative adjectives and when to use commas between adjectives.
In this resource from PBS Learning Media, students will learn how to use ellipses to indicate omitted portions from a quoted text.
In this grammar resource from PBS Learning Media, students will interpret information presented in diverse media and formats by analyzing an essay and a video about the same topic. Students will then complete activities in which they analyze information presented in an article and a map.
In this lesson, students practice their fluency skills by performing their freaky frog poem aloud to a peer.
Students will be introduced to artists who developed new visual forms through experimentation; consider artists' choices of material; introduced to the term "Constructivism."