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Standards: 14.5, 15.7
Objective: Students identify, analyze, and use sensory imagery and figurative language.
Instructional Block
Activator: : List each of the five senses and write five phrases – adjective(s) + noun – that evoke vivid images, i.e., royal purple pashmina (seeing), screeching gears (hearing), sharp pins (touching), salty corn chips (tasting), musty cellar (smelling).
SENSE
PHRASE
Then complete the Hershey [...]
Objective: Students will know and be able to respond to and analyze the effects of, form and figurative language, in order to uncover meaning in poetry.
Instructional Block
Activator: The highwaymen were often depicted as “bad” people. From the information you gathered yesterday, why do you think they were thought of in a negative way?
Mini lesson: Teach [...]
Shakespeare: His Life and Times
This lesson plan is designed to be an introduction for students who will be reading the play, Macbeth. It provides historical background for the life of the Bard
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Objective: Students will relate a work to its historical background and analyze [...]
Objective: Students will identify basic facts and main ideas and use them as a basis for interpretation.
Instructional Block
Activator: In twos or threes, share the five pieces of text in last night’s reading that you highlighted as significant.
Mini Lesson: 1) Intro-duce/teach/model text annotation using transparencies of last night’s article and the text you highlighted as significant [...]
Objective:
Students will be able to identify Aristotle and his ideas about government.
(Lesson is based on information contained in Aristotle’s Politics. Link to excerpt below.)
Excerpt - Aristotle’s Politics
Activator:
Define Philosopher in your notebook and describe how philosophy might affect society.
Teacher Directed Activity:
Describe Aristotle’s beliefs of government.
Student Directed Learning Activity:
Read excerpts from Aristotle’s Politics.
Answer teacher created [...]
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to identify the key features of the Athenian and Spartan city-states and describes the differences in the forms of government.
Activator:
Using a K-W-L chart, complete the sections indicating what you know and what you want to know about Ancient Greece.
Teacher Directed Activity:
3. Describe the city-states of Athens and Sparta.
4. Compare [...]
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to identify the geographical features of Ancient Greece and explain the influence of geography on the diverse development of city-states.
Activator:
Using a K-W-L chart, complete the sections indicating what you know and what you want to know about Ancient Greece.
Teacher Directed Activity:
1. Identify the geographical features of [...]
Objective: Students will relate a literary work to the seminal ideas of its time.
Instructional Block
Activator: Pretend you are in jail. You have been arrested for protesting the lack of civil rights for people who refused to drink at the proper water fountain, use the proper restroom, or eat in the proper restaurant. Write [...]
Objective: Students will identify theme as a central idea. They will be able to state theme in terms of a subject and a predicate.
Instructional Block
Activator: Answer the question: What influence do adults have on children? Provide examples of positive and negative adult role models and share/discuss with learning partner.
Mini [...]
