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Creative Writing in the Natural World: A Framing
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Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.

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10/05/2018
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
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Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.

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10/05/2018
Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
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By looking at advertising and mass media critically, students begin to understand how the media oppresses certain groups, convinces people to purchase certain products, and influences culture.

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10/05/2018
Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
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Students make predictions about the stories and analyze story elements, compare and contrast the different stories, distinguish between fact and opinion, and draw conclusions supported by evidence from their readings.

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10/05/2018
Crossing Boundaries Through Bilingual, Spoken-Word Poetry
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Students explore the idea of crossing boundaries through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.

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Arts Education
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10/05/2018
Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
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A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.

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English Language Arts
Social Studies
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10/05/2018
Cut up, Cover up, and Come Away with Ideas for Writing!
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Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.

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10/05/2018
Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
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Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.

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10/05/2018
The Day Jimmy‰Ûªs Boa Taught Cause and Effect
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This lesson introduces the concept of cause and effect with Trinka Hakes Noble's books about Jimmy and his boa constrictor. Each lesson begins with the teacher reading a new story about Jimmy and his boa and the chaos they bring to each place they visit. Class discussions about each event and its cause are followed by tasks for the students to help illustrate understanding of the concept. Students create cause-and-effect pictures, puzzles, and flow charts as they explore the genre. As a culminating activity, students write their own book with causes and effects, which are assessed with a rubric.

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Vanessa Udry
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10/05/2018
Dear Librarian: Writing a Persuasive Letter
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Students write persuasive letters to their librarian requesting that specific texts be added to the school library. As they work, students plan their arguments and outline their reasons and examples.

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10/05/2018
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
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This lesson uses clips from "The Matrix" and other dystopian movies to introduce students to the characteristics found in dystopian works, such as "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451", and "1984".

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10/05/2018
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's "1984" Commercial
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This lesson uses the Ň1984Ó Macintosh Commercial to introduce students to dystopian characteristics. Students analyze techniques used in the commercial and identify the comments that it makes about contemporary society.

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10/05/2018
Defining Literacy in a Digital World
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Through listing and observation, students identify the many texts that they read and compose: including books and magazines, television shows, movies, audio broadcasts, hypertexts, and animations.

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10/05/2018
Defining Moments: Charting Character Evolution in Lord of the Flies
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Savagery, treachery, lost innocenceÉ "Lord of the Flies" is rife with character development. Use this lesson to help students chart the character changes of Ralph and Jack, both in groups and individually.

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English Language Arts
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10/05/2018
Demonstrating Comprehension Through Journal Writing
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Students demonstrate comprehension by responding to open-ended questions based on the Newbery Honor book "Mr. Popper's Penguins", and then draw from the text and their personal experiences to create journals.

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Date Added:
10/05/2018