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Examining Aspects of Humanity - through NIGHT |
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English Language Arts |
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9,10 |
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Description: |
This is a plan for a unit titled: Examining Aspects of Humanity/ Reflections on Humanity and we will be using many different texts but the main novel is NIGHT. We have used Common Core Standards with this unit as CA will be moving in this direction in the next year and they link well to the CA standards that we have been teaching but allow us to start designing our curriculum around the new standards.... |
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Title: |
Program Notes |
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music |
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Grade: |
6,7,8,9,10,12 |
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Description: |
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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Title: |
Practice Makes Perfect |
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Mathematics |
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Grade: |
9 |
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Description: |
In small groups, students solve for variables using different clue cards and then translate that knowledge practicing like-word problems on their own with their worksheets.... |
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Title: |
Bartok's Allegro Barbaro |
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Arts,music- band |
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Grade: |
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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Title: |
What is slope? |
| Subject: |
Mathematics |
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Grade: |
7,8,9 |
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Description: |
Students will measure stacks of cups of varying sizes. Students will plot the height of the stack as function of the number of cups on a set of axes. Students will then determine the equation of this line conceptually by understanding the meaning of the y-intercept and the slope contextually.... |
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Title: |
Geometry Term Scavenger Hunt |
| Subject: |
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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Title: |
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: |
South Africa Before and After Apartheid |
| Subject: |
History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
9 |
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Description: |
Students will be able to discuss what basic human rights are guaranteed in the US Bill of Rights and Constitution.
Students will be able to compare and contrast the Apartheid laws v. the new SA constitution.
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Title: |
Five Paragraph Essay Writing |
| Subject: |
English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
9 |
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Description: |
This lesson takes students through the process of writing a basic firve paragraph essay using a topic with which they are very familiar- their bedroom. The lesson uses the Step Up to Writing essay process to help students understand the process of organizing an essay. Standards are listed in the plan... |
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Title: |
Review of Literary Devices |
| Subject: |
English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
9 |
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Description: |
Review literary devices from 9th grade unit on Elements of Fiction. Students read short story "Eleven" After analysis of short story, play Taboo and Exclusion Brainstorming to review for unit test. Finish with 3:2:1 closure activity.... |
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Title: |
Summarizing Mitosis and Meiosis WS |
| Subject: |
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 |
| Subject: |
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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