Tag: common core
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A Dramatic ReVISION
Reviving revision through storytelling and poetry.
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My Skeleton
How do human body systems function to maintain homeostasis?
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My Lungs
This lesson engages students with several learning styles, including kinesthetic aural, visual and interpersonal.
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Inside Poems
A poetry lesson exploring Lorca, Simic, and Apollinaire.
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Magic Johnson Metaphors
How powerful imagery can (literally) move readers.
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My Heart
Common core lesson plan
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
Take one thought and open up a child’s world.
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Point of View and the Pyramids
Arnold offers ideas for exploring literary point of view through studying the Egyptian pyramids.
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Irony and the Waldorf Astoria
Sarah Porter brings sarcasm to sixth-graders
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Journey Poems
David A. Stoler brings students into the past with a study of “journey poems.”
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I Shall Not Live In Vain
Concrete images to express abstract concepts.
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Constancy and Change, Humans in Their Environment
Needs and tradeoffs.
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Ain’t I a Teacher?
Teaching persuasive writing inspired by Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”
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The Megaphonic Voice
Manifestos and the Argumentative Essay
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Dear Future
Here is home.
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Change It Up
Susanna Horng offers a fresh way to introduce young writers to the pleasures of revision.
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Empathy and the Persona Poem
Empathy and the persona poem.
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Be in Love with Your Life. Every Detail of It.
Details and Autobiography
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Getting Creative with the Common Core
A Versatile Form Encourages Creative Writing Across the Curriculum
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Paint a Picture With Words
Lesson Plan
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I Believe Personal Essay
A lesson plan by Sarah Dohrmann.