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High school informational text lessons for SMART Notebook
Synthesizing - Using a Magical Illusion for infering and research/Train Escape
TEACHER INFORMATION
PURPOSE: This activity combines the mystery and intrigue of an amazing illusion and students ability to synthesize new information. Students have a hard time understanding the process of synthesis. This very engaging activity will have students go through the process of synthesis by combining information presented in different media (media and text) to develop a better understanding of the topic, and draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, an
Grades:
5th - 12th
Media Studies: The Problem with Pornography
Package is a Smart Board lesson that introduces the prevalence and problems of pornography. We use it after we have used my Media Studies Introduction units, which include lessons on explicit and implicit media images and on the construction and reconstruction of problematic social norms of women, men, race, and violence through implicit media images. After this Introduction, we find it effective to show the TED Talk, "Why I Stopped Using Pornography." All of this material is available here on T
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Media Studies Bundle
Martin Luther King - Letter From a Birmingham Jail - First 4 Paragraphs Analysis
This interactive analysis of the first four paragraphs of MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" contains instructional vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers and text. This is a great tool for teaching common core standard R.I.8. I use this as an introduction to persuasive writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Deconstruction Lab - Discovering Main Idea
This is a STEM and Inquiry based lesson which the objective of having students discover organization and main idea. It was designed to be a common experience for students as the beginning of a unit on Main Idea.
The lesson meets the Language Arts common core standard:
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Students actively engage with a given text to uncover the writing's structure and orga
Grades:
6th - 9th
Close Read- Cloning for Struggling Readers grades 3-9
Are you having a difficult time finding interesting nonfiction articles to coincide with the new shifts in the CCSS? If so, this close read may be right for you.
This close read is about cloning and has two separate articles included in it. The first article is at a 3rd grade level and is designed to both introduce the concept of cloning, promoting background knowledge, and boost student confidence as they move to the second article. The second article ranges between grades 6-9 and is more adva
Grades:
3rd - 9th
America the Beautiful Song Lyrics
This eleven slide Smartboard file teaches students the first verse of the song America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates . Each slide has one line of the lyrics with a picture. Activities include a) random image selection with multiple choice responses. Pictures and words are: sea, fruit, sky, grain, brotherhood, mountain, America, purple, majesties and good. b) A cloze reading exercise is a summary and includes eight missing words from the lyrics for the students to complete. The answer
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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What time is it? (SMARTBOARD FILE)
This is an interactive file intended to teach ELL students how to tell time in American English. Vocabulary includes: clock, grandfather clock, hour glass, watch. Once slide is matching English to English synonyms such as: AM/ in the morning, an hour/ 60 minutes, half an hour/ 30 minutes, a quarter of an hour/ 15 minutes, it's 12:00/ it's noon etc. As students match the synonyms a secret picture is revealed: Salvador Dali's painting Clocks That Melt. Also includes informational text in a sh
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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AP Language Charlie Hebdo Paris Cover Argument Practice Smart Notebook
This is an editable Smart Notebook file containing a quick write regarding the Nov. 18 Charlie Hebdo cover (visual rhetoric) in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris on Fri. Nov. 13. The quick write leads into a review of the types of claims, types of thesis statement, and types of evidence. Follows nicely with Chapter 3 in The Language of Composition textbook, but is not necessary to have the textbook to implement the lesson. Check out my word document file that follows along with the less
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Grades:
11th - 12th
Martin Luther King - Letter From a Birmingham Jail - First 4 Paragraphs Argument
This interactive product will help you teach common core standard R.I.8. I followed Coleman's analysis from the common core state standards videos.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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