This cross-curricular resource contains a pair of nonfiction texts on the French Revolution along with text-dependent questions, vocabulary words, a writing prompt with sample responses, and a graphic organizer for students to use to help them.

Students will review global visualizations of incoming sunlight and surface temperature and discuss seasonal change.

This lesson plan begins with the study of Sophocles' Antigone and the universal issues it raises about power, gender, family obligation, ethics, and honor. It then moves to an exploration of ancient Greece, accents the importance of theater and its staging, the nature of tragedy in this culture, and culminates in student presentations and performances.

This extensive resource provides standard by standard strategies for meeting the goals of each, including graphic organizers, approaches, and multiple informational texts.

This resource provides a lesson pertaining to a close reading of "A Long Thin Line". Students will complete an analysis using a graphic organizer, review the article using the SOAPStone method and finally repsond to the work in the form of a freestyle writing.

This resource contains a primary source about a supreme court case related to World War II. Accompanying the reading are text-dependent questions, an academic vocabulary list, and a writing prompt with student samples.

Lessons, activities and quizzes on identifying varying text structures including cause and effect, narrative, chronological, cause and effect, sequence, and process structures.

Students are presented with a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article "˜History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names"™ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

In this resource from the New York Times, a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article ‘History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names’ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

Students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

In this lesson, students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

This lesson from the New York Times offers suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

Suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

This resource provides a lesson that should accompany a reading of Einstein's four short works by Albert Einstein. Included is a speech, letter, and an essay. Students will read an analyze. Afterwards, students will be responsible for completing an essay.

In this lesson, students will analyze paragraphs 8-10 of "An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton" and focus on both argument structure and her use of figurative language, as well as the interaction between women's role and the state of the nation as a whole.

In this lesson, students explore the historical context of Walt Whitman's concept of "democratic poetry" by reading his poetry and prose and by examining daguerreotypes taken circa 1850. Next, students will compare the poetic concepts and techniques behind Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," and have an opportunity to apply similar concepts and techniques in creating a poem from their own experience.

In this lesson plan, students learn a little about what media literacy is and why it's important. Students turn a critical eye to newspaper headlines and articles while considering what is really important and how to look past what is presented.

In the 1850's abolition was not a widely embraced movement in the U.S. It was considered radical and extreme. In his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglas sought to make abolition acceptable to Northern whites. In addition to making historical points about attitudes towards slavery in the 19th century, this speech can be used to teach formal rhetoric. The lesson features five interactive activities requiring close reading and analysis of Frederick's use of language and rhetorical strategies.

In this lesson, students will examine how Wiesel constructs a compelling argument in "Hope, Despair, and Memory" through claims, counterclaims, evidence, and reasoning.

In this lesson students will learn to write and analyze technical writing instructiuons with consideration to audience, purpose, context, length, and complexity using common household items. After writing their own instructions, students will conduct usability tests of each other’s instructions, providing user feedback. Finally, students use this user feedback to revise their instructions before publishing them.