In this lesson, students reread selected passages carefully to gather and analyze textual evidence about why Lyddie should or should not sign the petition.
In this lesson, students will compare the risks and benefits of entertainment screen time, as well as practice speaking and listening skills in preparation for their upcoming Fishbowl.
In this lesson, students will participate in a modified Gallery Walk to preview and connect the case studies that compose this module.
In this lesson, students will consider a short video and then participate in a modified Gallery Walk to preview and connect to the learning in future lessons.
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the foundational concepts of media, advertisements, and media literacy.
In this lesson, student will return to the article, "Teens and Decision Making," in order to self assess their ability to analyze the main idea and supporting details in their homework.
In this lesson, students will examine in depth the central idea of persuasive techniques used in advertising.
In this lesson, students will analyze the main idea and supporting details and apply it to the video they watch, "Insight into the Teenage Brain."
In this lesson, students will analyze how plot, character, and setting interact in Lyddie.
In this lesson, students will learn how to create targeted research questions.
This lesson is intended to be used with the PBS FRONTLINE documentary "League of Denial" and supports students learning by contextualizing the concussion crisis in the NFL with background on concussions in youth.
This lesson was designed to help students gain social studies/history content knowledge by using textual evidence to answer text-dependent questions.
In this lesson students examine how imagery is used to represent ideas, themes, periods of history, and make cultural connections to poem, "Still I Rise." Students will reflect through written expression how resiliency is in their lives, school, and community.
This resource includes six text-dependent questions, one constructed-response writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS and a mini-assessment.
Students will watch and discuss video clips that show how two men in Chile coped with being prisoners in concentration camps during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Each student will then create a non-fiction picture book that tells the story of one of these men and provides historical context.
In this lesson, students will use text from Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" to connect with Mandela's life and words.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade English Language Arts.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade ELA.
In this lesson, students view non-print campaign advertisements and analyze them for factual and persuasive information, then determine which advertisement is the most persuasive and share reasons to support their decisions with a peer.
Students will use PowerPoint to create a presentation on a given genre. As a culminating activity, students will present their presentation to the class and teach their genre.