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Grades: 10
In groups of three or four, students will research, potentially by field trip but invariably online, a miniature portrait found in the colonial American section of the Gibbes Museum of Art. Students...
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Grades: 1 2 3 4 5
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Lesson
Grades: 8
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...
Lesson
Grades: 8, 9, 10
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...
Lesson
Grades: Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3
Students will determine the authors purpose in creating a story.
Lesson
Grades: 9
This lesson explores the vocabulary within the novel "Night" but this lesson could be extrapolated to other novels or lists of vocabulary.
Lesson
Grades: 9
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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Grades: 1, 2, 3, 4
Students will learn about similes by finding them in popular culture.