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Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans, Color Prints and Worksheets forExploring Eight World Cultures

~ Five detailed projects for each of eight world cultures (to yourleft)
~ Large, full-color museum illustrations for each project
~ Clear, step-by-step project directions
~ Photographs of completed student studio projects
~ Historical and cultural background for each culture
~ Dozens of reproducible worksheets to save you time and work
~ And more! ... Read more

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What a wonderful way of teaching. Bravo!
Susan Hogan's book is a fascinating exploration of several different cultures through their art, their customs, geography and history. Her insight into the nature of the different societies brings a deep understanding of how art has been interwoven with the needs and rituals of that society. It also points out the need for us to use our hands, our minds and emotions - expecially in this electronic age. It brings us back to ourselves, to make these things with our hands. I have worked with children of different ages for more than a decade. I find the students really enjoy the easy to do projects that help them produce beautiful articles they can actually use. What a wonderful way of teaching. Bravo!

A resource that real teachers can use with real students
This book is not going to get dusty on the shelf. It is a real resource--for art teachers, social studies teachers, home schoolers and anyone else who wants to use art to teach world culture (or conversely world culture to teach art). The lessons makes sense. The art projects are doable. This book had been well thought out. It's also been tested with real students. It is ideal for teachers who want to do multi-cultural education and not just talk about it. ... Read more

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Complete lesson plans for teaching Steinbeck's Of Miceand Men. Includes introduction to the unit, unit objectives, readingassignments, unit outline, study questions (short answer), study/quizquestions (multiple choice), vocabulary worksheets, daily lessonsplanned, related nonfiction reading assignment, oral readingevaluation, biographical info about the author, three detailed writingassignments (inform, persuade, personal opinion), vocabulary reviewgames & activities, unit review games & activities, at least one groupactivity assignment, discussion questions on all levels (factual,critical, interpretive, personal response), 2 short answer unit tests,2 multiple choice unit tests, 1 advanced short answer unit test, unitand vocabulary crossword puzzles, unit and vocabulary extra worksheets& games, bulletin board ideas, ready-to-copy student materials, answerkeys, and more! ... Read more

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Useful, especially for new teachers
The Teacher's Pet Publications LitPlans are a terrific resource, especially for starting teachers.They are, in themselves, a complete unit plan utilizing day by day lessons, vocabulary, tests and quizzes, puzzles, and enrichment activities.

They are, by no means, a way for you to teach the book without having done your own research and planning.However, if you suddenly find, as I have in the past, that you are to teach a book you've not yet read, there are enough opening activities for you to get the students started while you read ahead of them.

I highly recommend Mary B. Collins' series of units as a starting point, but you and the students will be much happier if you adapt them to your own needs rather than teach them 'by the book.'I have purchased a number of these: _Of Mice and Men_, _Fahrenheit 451_, _Animal Farm_ and _A Separate Peace_.They say they are graded for middle and high school, but as a high school teacher, the vocabulary and context exercises seem to me to be aimed at younger children, or those who are struggling readers.Again, I recommend adapting what is here to your own needs. ... Read more

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In this book Mark Wheeller reflects on his ongoing career as a secondary school drama teacher after 30 years in the profession. The book is interspersed with some fascinating biographical detail which will make this an interesting read and a useful resource for both those already familiar with Mark Wheeller's output, and those discovering his work for the first time. Drama Schemes also features a section in which Mark discusses the crucial role of the much-maligned school production. Throught this chapter he shows how he developed many of his plays, which have become staple parts of the curriculum, both in the UK and overseas.Two of the schemes also focus on his use of drama across the curriculum, including his growing admiration for the Mantel of the Expert system of learning. ... Read more

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Helping me through my PGCE!
Mark Wheeller has always been an inspiration to me and I am glad to have recently bought this book on his Schemes of Work. I have just started teaching in my first placement on a very hard PGCE Drama course and this book has been invaluable to me.
It's a great resource for all Drama teachers too I should imagine. Very easy to read and understand. ... Read more

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Complete lesson plans for teaching The ScarletLetter. Includes introduction to the unit, unit objectives, readingassignments, unit outline, study questions (short answer), study/quizquestions (multiple choice), vocabulary worksheets, daily lessonsplanned, related nonfiction reading assignment, oral readingevaluation, biographical info about the author, three detailed writingassignments (inform, persuade, personal opinion), vocabulary reviewgames & activities, unit review games & activities, at least one groupactivity assignment, discussion questions on all levels (factual,critical, interpretive, personal response), 2 short answer unit tests,2 multiple choice unit tests, 1 advanced short answer unit test, unitand vocabulary crossword puzzles, unit and vocabulary extra worksheets& games, bulletin board ideas, ready-to-copy student materials, answerkeys, and more! ... Read more

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Make full use of Greenwood's highly acclaimed Daily Life through History and bring history lessons to life with these 50 exciting new document-based lesson plans covering 7 key curriculum strands.

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Requires online subscription
This product could be great, but to access the information required for students to complete the tasks, you need a paid subscription to the publisher's online database. If you really wanted to use these activities I suppose you could compile your own resources for each one, web-based or otherwise, but that sort of defeats the purpose of these DBQ compilations in my opinion. Subscription requirement should have been in the product description. If your school already subscribes to Greenwood's Daily Life Through History, then this might be worth it. ... Read more

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Complete lesson plans for teaching Steinbeck's ThePearl. Includes introduction to the unit, unit objectives, readingassignments, unit outline, study questions (short answer), study/quizquestions (multiple choice), vocabulary worksheets, daily lessonsplanned, related nonfiction reading assignment, oral readingevaluation, biographical info about the author, three detailed writingassignments (inform, persuade, personal opinion), vocabulary reviewgames & activities, unit review games & activities, at least one groupactivity assignment, discussion questions on all levels (factual,critical, interpretive, personal response), 2 short answer unit tests,2 multiple choice unit tests, 1 advanced short answer unit test, unitand vocabulary crossword puzzles, unit and vocabulary extra worksheets& games, bulletin board ideas, ready-to-copy student materials, answerkeys, and more! ... Read more

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Great Plans!
I am looking forward to using this CD in teaching "The Pearl". I have already printed off quite a few pages and am compiling a workbook for each student to use while reading the book. I plan to use the crossword puzzles as extra credit assignments. The CD includes such things as lesson plan ideas, bulletin board ideas, questions and answers to discuss while reading the book, vocabulary words and activities for each chapter, quizzes and tests, and ideas for student essays. This beats trying to find ideas on the internet and coming up with my own ideas. The only thing that I would have liked to see included are the reading standards that are covered in each lesson. I recommend this highly to all teachers who plan to read "The Pearl" with their classes. It is well worth the money spent.

A little expensive, but very helpful
This download (which requires Adobe) is fairly accommodating for educators who need some fairly quick resources for John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl, but don't know where to start. You can look online for some materials, and probably find some sporadically, but this file is quite thorough in giving a teacher an ample amount of materials to choose from in trying to plan and build a unit.

Included are study questions, quizzes, activity ideas, background information on Steinbeck and the novel, symbols, themes, crossword puzzles, a lengthy list of vocabulary words, and several different tests for the novel. The lengthy vocabulary lists are quite handy for anyone who pre-teaches the vocabulary for a novel ahead of time. I also liked the writing activities included, which can be used at certain points in the reading of the novel, as well as the ideas for essay prompts.

If there is one beef I have, it is the price. While this product is informative and helpful, I think a shade below seventeen dollars is a bit pricey. Still, overall, I thought everything in the download was organized nicely, and this makes it quite easy to refer to.
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This is a photocopiable pack of 24 drama lesson plans, designed for the non-specialist teacher of drama. The lessons are topic-based and many of the themes are already familiar to pupils. The contents include "Little Red Riding Hood", the Egyptians and the "Diary of Anne Frank". The plans are written for Key Stages 1-3 of the National Curriculum in England and Wales, and for Levels A-E in Scotland. Target ability level is signalled at the beginning of each plan, together with a list of outcomes for assessment purposes. The required resources and classroom organization are listed, and the lesson plans are cross-curricular. ... Read more

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High-interest, lower ability resource for KS2-3. Designed to provide high-interest books for lower level readers aged 6 to 12+ years. Excellent for Guided Reading. Ideal for struggling readers and writers. Can be used in small-group teaching, and also for independent teaching. Benefits English as a Second Language (ESL) readers, and offers excellent cross-curricular coverage. Each of the Wildcats titles is an anthology wth a variety of genre and text-types in each: from fantasy to fable, poem to personal narrative and non-fiction. These Lesson Plans accompany the Panthers series. (Readability - 11 years, interest level 12+ years). ... Read more

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High-interest, lower ability resource for KS2-3. Designed to provide high-interest books for lower level readers aged 6 to 12+ years. Excellent for Guided Reading. Ideal for struggling readers and writers. Can be used in small-group teaching, and also for independent teaching. Benefits English as a Second Language (ESL) readers, and offers excellent cross-curricular coverage. Each of the Wildcats titles is an anthology wth a variety of genre and text-types in each: from fantasy to fable, poem to personal narrative and non-fiction. These Lesson Plans accompany the Lions series. (Readability - 7 years, interest level 9+ years). ... Read more

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High-interest, lower ability resource for KS2-3. Designed to provide high-interest books for lower level readers aged 6 to 12+ years. Excellent for Guided Reading. Ideal for struggling readers and writers. Can be used in small-group teaching, and also for independent teaching. Benefits English as a Second Language (ESL) readers, and offers excellent cross-curricular coverage. Each of the Wildcats titles is an anthology wth a variety of genre and text-types in each: from fantasy to fable, poem to personal narrative and non-fiction. These Lesson Plans accompany the Leopards series. (Readability - 10 years, interest level 12+ years). ... Read more

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A state of the art set of lesson plans that can be used for differentiated instruction of students with dysgraphia, dyslexia, and OWL LD, this book gives teachers of Grades 4 6 a whole school year of specialized group instruction that improves the literacy skills of students who struggle with written language. Students in Ginger Berninger's research studies showed significant improvement in their reading and writing after using these lessons now available to teachers for the first time ever in one convenient book! The practical companion to Teaching Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia (ISBN 978-1557669346), these step-by-step lessons deliver positive results in brief interventions, and these are the only lessons of their kind that are proven effective by brain research studies. The highly organized lesson plans, which are detailed but not rigid, help students improve in multiple subject areas, and show teachers how to incorporate reading and writing in science and social studies content areas of the curricula by making it easy to incorporate research based instruction into classrooms to meet the needs of ALL students.
Each ready to use lesson is complete with teacher materials and student materials. The teacher materials give educators warmup exercises that target key skills, simple activities with clear and detailed descriptions, and adaptable sample scripts that help them elicit student responses. And with the student materials, teachers will have photocopiable worksheets that help children sharpen their skills in creative, engaging ways. ... Read more

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Complete lesson plans for teaching Twain's Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. Includes introduction to the unit, unit objectives,reading assignments, unit outline, study questions (short answer),study/quiz questions (multiple choice), vocabulary worksheets, dailylessons planned, related nonfiction reading assignment, oral readingevaluation, biographical info about the author, three detailed writingassignments (inform, persuade, personal opinion), vocabulary reviewgames & activities, unit review games & activities, at least one groupactivity assignment, discussion questions on all levels (factual,critical, interpretive, personal response), 2 short answer unit tests,2 multiple choice unit tests, 1 advanced short answer unit test, unitand vocabulary crossword puzzles, unit and vocabulary extra worksheets& games, bulletin board ideas, ready-to-copy student materials, answerkeys, and more! ... Read more

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OK
OK, but doesn't really seem to offer much more than any other study guide does. ... Read more