High School English Language Arts Project Based Learnings

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Changemaker Story Series: A Storytelling Challenge

Ashoka

Updated:

2020

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Resource

Multiple Subjects
- Civics and Government
- Community Involvement
- Current Events
- Democracy
- Informative/Explanatory Writing
- Key Ideas and Details
- Language
- Narratives
- Structure
MS, HS

Storytelling is a powerful way to shift mindsets. Writing and sharing stories about how young people are leading change is a powerful tool to inspire...

7 Ideas for Teaching Women's History Month

ADL

Updated:

2017

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Multiple Subjects
- Civic Participation
- Civil Rights
- Current Events
- Dance
- Government
- Immigration
- Language
- Music
- Reading Standards for Fiction
- Reading Standards for Informational Text
- Research Skills
- Speaking and Listening
- State and Local History
- Visual Arts
- Writing
K-2, 3-5, MS, HS

In commemoration of Women’s History Month, we present the following resource to help educators engage students in thinking broadly and critically...

Fahrenheit 451 Activities

Richard B. Williams

Updated:

2019

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Resource

Multiple Subjects
- Craft and Structure
- Discussions
- Informative/Explanatory Writing
- Narratives
- Oral Reports
- Pace and Clarity
- Persuasion
- Speaking and Listening
- Summarizing
- Text Complexity
High School

Common Core

A PowerPoint of assignments and activities students complete while reading the text.

History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Updated:

2017

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Multiple Subjects
- Conduct historical research
- Immigration
- Interpret historical data
- Key Ideas and Details
- Multiple causation
- Nationalism, Imperialism and Colonialism
- The New Deal and the 1930's
- Places and Regions
- Primary and secondary sources
- Research Skills
- State and Local History
- Structure
- Text Complexity
- Various viewpoints
- World War II
MS, HS

Educators, students, and other citizen historians across America are helping the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum discover how their local...

PBL Lesson Plan - Desegregation: A Divergent Perspective

Brenda J Miller

Updated:

2018

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Multiple Subjects
- Discussions
- Informative/Explanatory Writing
- Key Ideas and Details
- Oral Reports
- Pace and Clarity
- Research
- Structure
- Summarizing
- Text Complexity
High School

This project based lesson takes the student on an educational journey which requires delving into the advent of desegregation in a quest to produce a...

The Great Thanksgiving Listen 2018

StoryCorps

Updated:

2018

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Multiple Subjects
- 1950s and 1960s
- 1970s and 1980s
- 1990s and 2000s
- A New Nation
- Arts
- Assessment and Placement
- Civil Rights Movement
- The Civil War
- Classroom Materials
- Contemporary US
- Current Events
- Discussions
- Drama
- English Language Arts
- Foreign Languages
- The Great Depression and the 1920's
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrial and Technology Education
- Information Technology
- Informative/Explanatory Writing
- Instructional Strategies
- Interpret historical data
- Key Ideas and Details
- Language
- Listening and Reading
- Multiple causation
- Narratives
- Native Americans
- Oral Reports
- Pace and Clarity
- Patterns of historical succession and duration
- The Progressive Era
- Reaching out to ELL Students and Families
- Research
- Social Studies
- Speaking
- State and Local History
- Structure
- Summarizing
- Various viewpoints
- Women's History
- Working with Parents
- World War I
- World War II
HS, PD

Common Core

Storytelling and the gift of listening are critical skills for young people. This project offers the opportunity to realize a simple idea: young...

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY'S Essential Everyday Bravery: 6 Lessons Using Literature to Have Difficult Conversations

Folger Shakespeare Library

Updated:

2020

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Multiple Subjects
- Classroom Materials
- Contemporary US
- Craft and Structure
- Current Events
- Discussions
- Drama
- Figurative Language
- Instructional Strategies
- Key Ideas and Details
- Narratives
- Pace and Clarity
- Reconstruction
- Slavery
- Text Complexity
High School

"Right now, every day, in classrooms across the United States and around the world, you and your students face this reality: as a country and across...

Unsung Heroes: Evidence-Based Argument

Art and Remembrance

Updated:

2020

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Resource

Multiple Subjects
- Civic Participation
- Classroom Materials
- Community Involvement
- Current Events
- Discussions
- Drama
- Figurative Language
- Grammar
- Immigration
- Informative/Explanatory Writing
- Instructional Strategies
- Language
- Narratives
- Oral Reports
- Pace and Clarity
- Persuasion
- Reaching out to ELL Students and Families
- Reading Standards for Informational Text
- Research
- Research Skills
- Speaking and Listening
- Summarizing
- Visual Arts
- Working with Parents
- World War II
- Writing
3-5, MS, HS

In this four-part lesson on unsung heroes, students will be guided to either write or record an evidence-based argument to answer the question: “What...