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The Tell-Tale Heart Unit Plan

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This unit plan encompasses the elements of short stories, playwriting, and video production, with a focus on The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes detailed lesson plans, vocabulary terms, journaling and discussion prompts, activities and assignments for each day, and a final film project.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Examining George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men

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This lesson moves beyond typical character analysis lessons by asking students to identify reasonable occupations for characters based on the characters’ qualities as evidenced in the story. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Melody Casey

New Character Creation Using Voki (AIG IRP)

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As part of a literature unit, the AIG students will be grouped to extend character analysis. They will work collaboratively to create a new character they would add to the selected story, and create a Voki, a digital avatar, to represent their created character. They will determine a specific purpose for the new character and analyze the relationship of the added character to the story's plot and sequence of events. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Melody Casey

6.RP Hippos Love Pumpkins

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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Hippos sometimes get to eat pumpkins as a special treat. If 3 hippos eat 5 pumpkins, how many pumpkins per hippo is that? Lindy made 24 jelly-bread san...

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

Fraction Creativity (AIG IRP)

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This lesson is designed to challenge students who demonstrate mastery of understanding fractions as numbers (unit fractions, partitioning…etc.) and a strong understanding of fractions as a number on the number line.  It integrates technology, writing, and mathematics (focus on fractions) through the use of a RAFT writing activity.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Melody Casey

The Age of Enlightenment

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Students will explore the Age of Enlightenment through a Power Point presentation and class discussion. Students will then further explore this period of history and its prominent figures by designing a dinner party for 12 Enlightenment thinkers. This project will encourage students to learn more about the period and the philosophers associated with it, as well as synthesize what they have learned while utilizing higher order thinking, group work skills, and creativity.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Carolina K12