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Program Notes |
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music |
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This lesson will provide a template for having your students write the program notes for your next program. This is a great way for the students to do their own research and have a better understanding of where they music they are performing comes from.... |
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Bartok's Allegro Barbaro |
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Arts,music- band |
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9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
Allegro Barbaro is a piano composition by Bela Bartok. Tom Wallace of the Arranger's Publishing Company has arragned it for concert band. This is an interactive lesson to teach the students about Bartok and the original composition.... |
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Geometry Term Scavenger Hunt |
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Mathematics,Geometry |
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Grade: |
9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
Students will explore the world around them to find geometric shapes. They will use cameras to take pictures of the shapes and then make a powerpoint pressentation that highlights the figure and provides a deffinition. ... |
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IPA |
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Foreign Languages |
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Grade: |
9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
Use IPA as a summative assessment can be an effective way to give feedback to both the students and the teachers alike. Here is an IPA that I did.... |
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Title: |
Interviewing Skills |
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English Language Arts,Journalism |
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Grade: |
10,11,12 |
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Description: |
In this lessons, students will compare two similar (but actually very different) interviews. Both Stephen Colbert (on The Colbert Report) and Terry Gross (on NPR's Fresh Air) interviewed journalist Jose Antonio Vargas after he disclosed his status as an undocumented immigrant in a New York Times article. These interviews are very different, and while students are usually attracted by Colbert's style, they eventually see that Gross runs a much better interview.... |
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Title: |
Personal Essay Writing |
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English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
12 |
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Description: |
This is a lesson which allows students to gain insight into the challenging process of college essay writing. The lesson uses four excellent sample essays that allow students to see what colleges are really expecting through example. THis lesson also includes a rubric for the personal essay that highlights key features that colleges look for when analyzing a personal statement.... |
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Title: |
Scholast Press Law Background |
| Subject: |
Journalism |
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Grade: |
10,11,12 |
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Description: |
This lesson is a brief overview of Scholastic Press Law, as it applies to student journalists in the State of California. It begins with the First Amendment, which is where press rights originate from. It discusses three landmark Supreme Court cases that have influenced student press rights: Tinker, Fraser, and Hazelwood. It concludes with a description of California Ed. Code 48907, which provides student journalists substantially more rights than are currently guranteed by Supreme Court rulings.
Please note that I'm a journalism adviser and not a lawyer. The information contained in this presentation is accurate to the best of my knowledge. Also, please note that it will not apply to all journalism programs - particularly those in private schools or outside of California.... |
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Title: |
Documentary Book |
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Career Technical Education |
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Grade: |
11,12 |
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Description: |
Students will create a Documentary Book of a community person/organization. The book will feature the student's original writing, photography, and book layout design.... |
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Title: |
Summarizing Mitosis and Meiosis WS |
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Science |
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Grade: |
9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
A graphic organizer worksheet that summs up the differences in chromosome number and ploidy when comparing mitosis and meiosis. Not particulary complex, but really drives home the differences between the two.... |
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Title: |
Fat and Sugar Calculation |
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Nutrition |
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Grade: |
6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
In this lesson, students will learn to read the Nutriction Facts label on processed food; and learn the two formulas for finding the amount of fat in food, as well as sugar in soft drinks.... |
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Title: |
Contour Drawing and Silhouette of a Plant |
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Arts |
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Grade: |
9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
In this lesson students will learn concepts of line, outline, contour, and silhouette. Students will draw objects from nature with complicated contour from observation and turn one of them into finished composition with thorough treatment of a background.
This assignment was inspired by M.C.Escher’s drawing Woods Near Menton.
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