Read chapter four from The Joy Luck Club to answer questions about character interactions.
React to part four, chapter three from The Joy Luck Club to discover how Lindo convinces her husband to marry her.
Students will be introduced to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and will explore how this hierarchy relates to the needs that humans have. Students will also be introduced to background information about the South during Jim Crow through an informational article, the song "Strange Fruit," and a video about Ernest Gaines. Students will also read chapters 1-7 of A Lesson Before Dying and participate in a whole-class discussion about the similarities between the characters' situations and where these characters fall on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about the lessons Grant and Jefferson have learned about humanity in the first seven chapters.
Students read chapter eighteen of A Lesson Before Dying. Students will deepen their understanding about the lessons that Grant and Jefferson are learning about humanity by rereading sections of the text and answering questions. Students will also add to the humanity understanding tool and the character interaction understanding tool.
Read chapter eighteen from A Lesson Before Dying in pairs and analyze the development of characters.
React to chapters twenty-five and twenty-six from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of the conflicts of the characters.
Students will read chapters 28- 31 of A Lesson Before Dying. They participate in a whole-class discussion about the changes that occur in the main characters and how these changes relate to lessons being learned. Students will analyze how the author develops tone in the last chapters of the book and how this tone relates to "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay and make connections between the themes that are developed in the poems and in the last four chapters of the novel.
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about how characters Grant and Jefferson have changed throughout the story.
React to chapter twenty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore how the events affect Grant and how they contribute to the tone of the text.
Show the plot structure of a narrative by creating a presentation in Google Slides. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Why do hot air balloons float? This resource from the NOVA Web site offers a series of interactive activities that illustrates the physics of hot air balloons.
Discover the difference between free-falling and weightlessness in this interactive activity from the NOVA: "Stationed in the Stars" Web site.
Learn what it takes to build an igloo from the best kind of snow to the most effective tools and other little-known facts about these traditional Canadian Inuit structures in this interactive activity from NOVA.
Learn about what motivated Flora, a woman from the city, to move to the African bush in this short video from Nature/National Geographic. This is one in a series of three videos about Flora's life. [7:00]
Nitrogen, one of the most abundant elements in the universe, is essential to life. This interactive activity adapted from the University of Alberta provides an overview of the nitrogen cycle. Includes background reading handout and discussion questions.
Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
You're the geneticist now. In this interactive feature developed for the companion Web site for NOVA/FRONTLINE: "Harvest of Fear," use the latest in genetic technology to engineer your own "supercrop" of tomatoes.
This interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain provides detailed information about the chemical properties of elements and illustrates the electron configurations that determine those characteristics.
Students read Act II of Romeo and Juliet and deepen their understanding about characters and themes in the play by examining Shakespeare's use of images.
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.