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Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Recurring Lesson
Living the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness
This lesson provides the "action piece" for any study of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this project, students participate in Dr. King's dream by doing 100 acts of kindness.
Telling a Story About Me: Young Children Write Autobiographies
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Telling a Story About Me: Young Children Write Autobiographies
Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

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