This lesson asks students to write a profile of a classmate, with a particular focus on a talent, interest, or passion of that classmate. As an introduction to the feature article, students compare the characteristics of a hard news story to those of a feature story. They then practice writing about the same event in the two different styles.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Robertson Davies' Fifth Business, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

This lesson focuses on revising the paragraph side of the Freaky Frog trading card.

This mini lesson and activity assist learners with improving their ability to read and decipher unfamiliar terms by utilizing context clues.

In this lesson, students will expand the concept of love poems to move beyond romantic love to explore other kinds of love, particularly the love within a family. Students work in small groups to read and analyze poems that expand the definition of love poetry. They write or select a personal memoir about love, particularly focusing on love within a family. Finally, they compose and peer review found poems based on the memoir.

Students will take on a mystery, Sherlock Holmes style, to uncover the secrets, history, and deeper meanings of Moyo Ogundipe's painting Soliloquy: Life's Fragile Fictions.

Students will be able to: explain why Ogundipe used particular colors, patterns, and images for his painting; discuss what the snakes and birds symbolize in the picture; and express in their own words at least three reasons the different elements of the painting are a treasure.

Students read an excerpt from John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech. Afterwards, learners will be responsible for responding to questions whereupon they must attempt to decipher meaning utilizing textual evidence. This activity may be used to support instruction pertaining to drafting constructed responses.

This activity is meant to be used in conjunction with the article "A Fire Waiting to Be Lit: The Origins of World War I." In this activity, students debate the following proposition: The Austrian government should have accepted the Serbian responses as meeting its demands. The article can be accessed at: http://www.crf-usa.org/resources/a-fire-waiting-to-be-lit-the-origins-of-world-war-i

This acitvity is meant to be used in conjunction with the article "A Fire Waiting to Be Lit: The Origins of World War I." In this activity, students create plans for successfully resolving the crisis that occurred following Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908. The article can be accessed at: http://www.crf-usa.org/resources/a-fire-waiting-to-be-lit-the-origins-of-world-war-i

This acitvity is meant to be used in conjunction with the article "A Fire Waiting to Be Lit: The Origins of World War I." In this activity, students role play members of a commission who read experts' differing assessments on blame for World War I and decide which country, if any, was responsible for the war. The article can be accessed at: http://www.crf-usa.org/resources/a-fire-waiting-to-be-lit-the-origins-of-world-war-i

In this unit, students will build upon the concept that people are not free to do whatever they want, and that there are reasons for rules at home, in school, and in their community. Students need a strong foundation in Civics and Government to help them better understand their own community and their own lives. Building upon the concept that people are not free to do whatever they want. Concepts of power and authority are introduced as students identify examples of people using power with and without authority in the school setting.

In this lesson, students use mentor texts to deepen their understanding of a text and of an author's craft or purpose.

Students will study "Flamingo Capsule", a painting by James Rosenquist drawing on the Apollo 1 training disaster. Students will try to connect the painting to the event by deconstructing the painting. Students will consider Rosenquist's composition and discuss the level of success the artist reached in portraying two opposite concepts within a single work. Students will research newspaper accounts of the Apollo 1 tragedy and create their own work responding to the event. Students will also experiment with scaling-up, the technique Rosenquist used to produce very large works.

Students will create a timeline outlining various groups' struggles for equal opportunity and create a 30-second radio or video public service announcement (PSA).

This interactive lesson allows students the opportunity to fill in the blanks of a story with words created through a virtual flip of a chip. Students will use chips as tools for showing different affixes and roots that can be joined together to create words. The created words are inserted in a paragraph according to context clues. Students can work in pairs to create their own set of chips and corresponding paragraph. Students then exchange their packets to see whether the context clues are stong enough to enable classmates to fill in the blanks correctly.

In this lesson, students will read and discuss two poems to explore the use of figurative language. Students will identify tone and examples of imagery and metaphor in poems. They will also explain how imagery and metaphor work together to create tone and create images to describe a scene.

This resource provides a lesson designed to assist learners with improving their ability to make predictions about a given work by analyzing the first lines of a text. The lesson provides an interactive example and accompanying activity to assist students with acquiring this pre-reading skill.

In this activity, students define common forms of government, compare common forms of government and identify real-life examples of each.

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 reading of Jonathan Lethem’s acclaimed coming of age novel, The Fortress of Solitude.