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Writing-expository Common Core RI.9-10.1 homework
Life in Elizabethan England Research Assignment
Whether you're starting a Romeo and Juliet Unit or exploring another Shakespearean work, this student-led research activity on Life in Elizabethan England is a fantastic way for students to enhance their research skills, practice paraphrasing and citing sources, evaluate information, and gain insights into the historical period.Research can sometimes be challenging to engage students with, especially when they're confronted with the same old articles. However, the element of student choice in th
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7th - 10th
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Understanding Euphemisms, Ambiguities, and Twisted Wording in Nonfiction
Spin-doctoring, the purposeful twisting of words to manipulate nonfiction readers, can create dangerous propaganda for minds unaccustomed to critical analysis of word choices. We must teach 6th- through 9th-grade students to read critically and be on the lookout for subtly injected points-of-view in nonfiction and misleading "facts."
This lesson, in the form of a ready-to-use handout, takes a humorous approach to verbal manipulation by first presenting a funny retelling of a criminal's history
Grades:
6th - 9th
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension with Questions: The Rise of the Demagogue
Help your students to understand the consequences of anti-Semitism and other forms of racism. This nonfiction reading comprehension unit with questions contains subtle descriptions, carefully-chosen words, historical facts, quotations from primary sources, and age-appropriate content. It is designed to provide an overview of the events leading to Adolf Hitler's totalitarian rule. Aligned with Common Core and requiring no preparation, its subtopics are as follows.The Three German ReichsThe Tangle
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Nonfiction Reading Comprehension with Questions: The Holocaust
"A Noiseless Flash" Grid Assignment
The short story "A Noiseless Flash" changes perspectives and has six main characters. This can be very confusing for students, especially if you ask them to keep track of their differing accounts of the same event. This grid assignment helps keep those different details on track!
This grid practices:
- comprehension
- character point of view
- irony
- responding to literature
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9th - 12th
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