Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This lesson is designed to help students use an excerpt from “In Praise of Bats” to identify the author’s purpose by analyzing word choice and figurative language use. By examining an author’s purpose and the mood of a text, students will be able to better identify with texts on a deeper level. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: November 12th, 2024
Identifying an Author's Purpose and Intended Response
This lesson on comma usage focuses on equipping students with a solid understanding of comma rules and their practical application in writing. Through interactive activities and examples, students will learn how to use commas to separate items in a list, set off introductory elements, join independent... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2024
Comma Usage
Students review prior knowledge about sentence creation and punctuation by rearranging sentence cards. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
August 28th, 2024
Compare & Contrast Nursing Past and Present
In this lesson, students look through the lens of nursing to think about what it means to overcome adversity. Students will read Civil War-era memoirs from Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott. They will then compare and contrast the descriptions of nursing in those texts with an account of modern nursing... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: September 3rd, 2024
Compare & Contrast Nursing Past and Present
List of 8 invites students to improve their listening and speaking skills while focusing on content-specific prompts. This strategy is helpful for reviewing and activating prior knowledge. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
April 10th, 2024
In this strategy, students practice analysis and citation skills with focused questions. Having this focus helps students think specifically and critically about a text. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
April 9th, 2024
This strategy can be used to help students ask questions, review key vocabulary, and practice subject specific skills, specifically grammar. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
April 9th, 2024
The Reign of Terror: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
This lesson centers on Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann which examines the Osage murders of the 1920s. Students analyze the connections between the events depicted in the book and the factual background of the Reign of Terror as presented in an interactive e-learning activity, helping to foster... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
The Reign of Terror: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
An ELA strategy that uses movement to enhance students' memory of grammatical concepts. This can be used as review, introduction of key terms, or formative assessment. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
September 10th, 2024
An ELA strategy that has students connect punctuation to different movements to aid in memory retention. This can be used for reviewing or exploring a new concept. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
February 26th, 2024
