A guideline for teachers to compare the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce and discuss how their narration choices affect the piece and the reader.

This lesson capitalizes on a student's love of jokes to understand how word context and inference are used in everyday language to create humor.

During this unit, students will learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They will read about the GPGP and then prepare a presentation with their findings and solutions.  Lastly, they will create a prototype to help with the ocean cleanup and use Spheros to maneuver the prototype to pick up trash in water.

In this lesson, students select and research a real-life hero. They then prepare short lectures for their classmates based upon the research they gain from a variety of primary and secondary sources.

This webpage contains theme-based discussion prompts for each vignette in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, as well as a selection of follow-up activities.

This PDF allows students to read passages, identify the text structure, and write information from the passage into the appropriate graphic organizer. The handout will serve as a great means of practice to remediate, enrich, or extended students? knowledge about various types of text structures found in informational text.

In this lesson students will analyze idioms in order to comprehend their literal meanings through illustrations and paraphrasing.

The following series of activities for the classroom allow students to explore and interact with poetry by writing letters to poets.

In this lesson students will improve their writing skills by finding, defining, and correctly using new and interesting vocabulary words and then integrate them into a persuasive piece of writing.

In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.

In this lesson, after being introduced to the novel Out of the Dust, students examine unfamiliar words and phrases and interpret them using context and word structure, making inferences and generalizations, using graphic organizers and comparing and contrasting skills.

The PQP technique—Praise–Question–Polish—requires group members to take a turn reading their drafts aloud as the other students follow along with copies. This oral reading helps the writer to hear the piece in another voice and to identify possible changes independently.

In this lesson, students create games of their choice to be played with the class to reinforce their knowledge of prefixes.

For this lesson, students deliver an oral, informative presentation on a favorite poem that the he/she has artistically illustrated with images, title, author's name, and words of poem on a clay flowerpot, effectively communicating ideas and feelings about the poem.

This lesson plan introduces the practice of using primary sources; where to find primary sources, what they are, how to examine them, and how to construct a context to tell more of the story.Students will:Analyze personal artifacts as primary sources; Analyze historical primary sources; andConnect historical text with primary sources.Materials/Links Included:Primary Source Analysis ToolPrimary source setsTeacher's guide to Analyzing Primary Sources

Using a variety of magazines for this lesson, students work cooperatively to determine the main idea of a text and how details help support the main idea.

This mini-unit is part of a much larger content focus on Linear Functions in an 8th grade Resource Math class. Students will be learning about the basics in functions and their use in Pre-Algebra. This unit allows students to receive direct interaction with teachers to receive content in a managable format, while giving them opportunities to learn and discover some of the content on their own. The mini-unit focus solely on the different representations of functions in their basic form. By the end of the unit, students will be able to identifying and compare and contrast different representations of functions.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math.