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Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of Mexican migrant farmers, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in Southern California. As a child, he attended school in a variety of small towns from San Francisco to San...Visit the South Carolina Department of Education for ELA standards.
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Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of Mexican migrant farmers, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in Southern California. As a child, he attended school in a variety of small towns from San Francisco to San...Lesson
This lesson falls at the beginning of a 3-week children's book writing unit. It is meant to get students thinking about all the different types of conflict that they can pull from later when they...
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There are many jobs that go under the heading of FILMMAKER...learn about writing, planning, directing, editing, set decoration, costuming, filming "on location", and the other exciting challenges that...
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This lesson explores the vocabulary within the novel "Night" but this lesson could be extrapolated to other novels or lists of vocabulary.
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Students will evaluate effective writing techniques in non-fiction storytelling. Students will complete an assignment where they will tell their own life stories.
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The students will be able to understand perspective by identifying multiple characters’ feelings, thoughts, emotions, and actions.
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The students will be able to identify rhyming words. They will also be able to communicate two rhyming words of their own aloud during the lesson.