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Lesson Plans - Language Arts

My Family Past, Present, and Future

Students in grade two explore the lives of actual people who make a difference in their everyday lives and differentiate between events that happened long ago and events that happened yesterday by studying their family histories.

Seasoning the School Year

Grade school botanists and climatologists investigate seasonal changes, and create class books for the National Arbor Day Foundation.

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.