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Lesson Plans - 9th Grade

Eight-Square Scrabble Spell-Off

Build words from eight Scrabble® tiles. Who’ll earn the highest score?

Who Wrote That

Students respond to a writing prompt. Then they try to identify the classmate who wrote each response. In the process, they learn a lot about one another.

From Concrete to Memory: Scrapbooking the Berlin Wall

In this lesson, students consider how ordinary citizens contributed to and experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall. They then develop scrapbooks depicting how people experienced the wall and use the books as symbolic bricks in building a classroom Berlin Wall.

Ho Ho Poetry

In this lesson, students read about the sights and sounds of a Las Vegas Christmas. They then use words and phrases taken from articles in today?s New York Times to create holiday-themed ?found poems

Christmas Spirit?

In this lesson, students reflect on how they greet the holiday season and participate in a fishbowl discussion to explore the ongoing debate on how best to celebrate the holidays.