Students read about what it"™s like to be a Muslim teenager growing up in America at this moment, then consider ideas for countering stereotypes and Islamophobia. Lessons include guided informational readings, research and writing suggestions, videos, and resources to continue the discussion.
In this lesson students will collect and create bumper stickers to examine how writing can influence people.
A student worksheet on recognizing differing points of view in the newspaper.
In this lesson students analyze comics for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal (ethos, logos, pathos). Students then write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of each rhetorical appeal.
In this reflective essay, Chief Dan George compares his native North American culture with that of white culture. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this essay through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
About a century has passed since the events at the center of this lesson-the Haymarket Affair, the Homestead Strike, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In this lesson, students use primary historical sources to explore some of the questions raised by these events, questions that continue to be relevant in debates about American society: Where do we draw the line between acceptable business practices and unacceptable working conditions? Can an industrial-and indeed a post-industrial-economy succeed without taking advantage of those who do the work?
In this lesson, students will read a third excerpt from Laurence Yep's autobiography, The Lost Garden. Students will infer Yep's perspective of being Chinese.
In this lesson, students will read a second excerpt from Laurence Yep's autobiography, The Lost Garden. Students will focus on inferring Yep's perspective from the details contained in the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt.
In this lesson, students will gain historical reasoning skills by studying primary sources and
comparing them to secondary sources. They will become more familiar with the conditions in Japanese American concentration camps through the personal writings of Stanley Hayami, a high school student who was incarcerated in the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming.
In Jackie Joyner-Kersee's autobiography, she writes of the challenges she faced early on while becoming a track and field athlete. In this CCSS lesson students will explore Jackie Joyner-Kersee's life through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson students rewrite a catalogue description of an item for sale in which the new ad reflects a change in the voice of the writing.
Students will read a passage and write to answer questions about the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read passages from texts and write answers to questions about the passages in order to compare them. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
In this lesson, students will begin to identify the narrator Noah's point of view in Flush and analyze the techniques that Carol Hiaasen uses to develop it.
This lesson was designed to help students gain social studies/history content knowledge by using textual evidence to answer text-dependent questions.
Students will have an opportunity to develop such "live interviews" with ancient athletes; working in small groups, they will produce a script based on the results of their research and they will perform the interview for other students in the class.
In this lesson, students are introduced to Laurence Yep's autobiography, The Lost Garden. Students will read three excerpts in order to identify how his culture affects his perspective.
Students will explore the personalities of the Revolutionary War's Patriots and Loyalists by participating in a character role play. The lesson will culminate with students researching and writing a character sketch of a key Revolutionary figure of their choice and participating in a Colonial Town Hall & Debate.
In this lesson, students will analyze word/phrase meaning; the ways the author has conveyed her point of view of the relief-camps; and how the author has introduced/illustrated/elaborated on relief-camps.
This Achieve the Core 7th grade mini-assessment for The Long Night of the Little Boats by Basil Heater includes the text excerpt, quantitative and qualitative analyses of the text, question annotations, and supplemental materials so that students will experience an indepth understanding of the text.