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Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.
Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with "The Things They Carried"
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with "The Things They Carried"
This lesson uses a letter-writing activity based on Tim O'Brien's story "The Things They Carried" to build empathy as students examine the weight they symbolically carry in their own lives.
It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.
Bio-graph: Graphing Life Events
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Bio-graph: Graphing Life Events
Students interview other students, choose significant life events, rate them, graph them, and write about one or more, in this activity that integrates mathematical graphing with writing.
Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Cultural Connections and Writing for Change

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.

Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas
V is for vocabulary. A content area unit provides the theme for a specialized ABC book, as students select, research, define, and illustrate a word for each alphabet letter.
Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.
Vote for Me! Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches
Grades
4 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Vote for Me! Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches
This lesson encourages students in grades 4 and 5 to think critically and write persuasively by focusing on preparing, presenting, and evaluating mock campaign speeches.
Learning About Research and Writing Using the American Revolution
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Learning About Research and Writing Using the American Revolution
Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.
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.
Writers' Workshop: The Biographical Sketch
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Writers' Workshop: The Biographical Sketch
Students use the faces and places they learn about in their research to write a biography about a contemporary or historical figure.
Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Recurring Lesson
Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube

Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.

Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
Book Cover Creator
Grades
K - 8
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Student Interactive
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Writing & Publishing Prose
Book Cover Creator

The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Grades
9 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
Students use the Timeline Tool and Drama Map to create a decade-by-decade record and play of their community's history.
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
Grades
9 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
After reading O'Brien's story "A True War Story" from The Things They Carried, students choose a powerful event from their own lives and map it using the Timeline Tool. They then create a fictional version of this event.
Memorial Day is observed in the United States today.
Grades
5 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Memorial Day is observed in the United States today.

Observed on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day honors the men and women who died while serving in the United States military. In addition to having celebrations with family and friends, many people visit cemeteries and memorials and place flags on the grave sites of fallen servicemen and women.

In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall.
Grades
7 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall.
Students view Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation letter to the DAR in response to Andersen being denied permission to sing. Students write a letter to a newspaper editor about social injustice.
Author Gabriel García Márquez was born on this day.
Grades
7 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Author Gabriel García Márquez was born on this day.
Students take place in a collaborative creative writing activity to begin to understand the hallmarks of the literary style known as magical realism.

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