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Literacy in Content Areas: Three Lessons, 2008.
A comparison of three styles of lessons - one online lesson plan, one group activity and one individual exercise.
1,407 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses and compares three lessons. It looks at one which made some use of online lesson plan activities, one that used class discussion and group activities, and one that used individual exercises. The paper shows how the content areas that were addressed in the lessons were reinforcing or reactivating the students' prior knowledge of writing skills and assessing reading comprehension. It discusses the student participation and enjoyment and the lessons' effectiveness.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Reinforcing or Activating Prior Knowledge
Written Assignments
Assessing Reading Comprehension
Comparison
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"The lessons that used group activities seemed to generate the most student excitement and involvement. The written poetry lesson plan that encouraged the most student creativity and personal engagement seemed to be the most exciting for the students, and felt the least like 'forced activity.' It is important to generate a sense of joy when learning to read, or when learning to read like a more engaged and critical reader. Using group activities engaged students who might otherwise find reading boring or, and the use of poetry is a particularly expressive way to show students that the sound and creative use of words are fun and are used to express ideas and emotions."
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"Abstract Animals" Lesson Plan, 2002.
This paper evaluates Crayola?s website lesson plan database and describes the use of the "Abstract Animals" lesson plan from that site.
815 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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The author feels that the Crayola? website, which has hundreds of lessons plans for all age groups, can be used almost exclusively as a source of lesson plans, ranging from science to pop art to multicultural and classical art styles. The paper describes the "Abstract Animals" lesson, very fitting for third graders, which teaches kids how to use simple shapes and colors to draw animals and other objects after the style of more modern representational artists. The author uses this lesson plan within a comprehensive interdisciplinary art curriculum that teaches about the relevance of art within its social and historical setting.
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"The third section is called ?Directions,? and for a change is precisely what it claims to be. The directions for this lesson are, in short, to show the children images of various animals and forms and to use tracing paper to draw simple geometric shapes over the forms. (For example, an elephant?s head would be a circle with two large ovals for the ears and a long thin oval for the trunk.) Subsequently these designs are redrawn with marker on construction paper and colored in with chalk."
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"Brain Friendly" Lesson Plans, 2007.
A research proposal for a "brain friendly" lesson plan for children in kindergarten to third grade.
2,852 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 84.95
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The research proposal provides two lesson plans and a survey to assess whether children are learning in a "brain friendly" environment. The paper explores how classroom environments that are conducive to learning are a vital component in the education process. The paper examines how providing students with a "brain compatible" program of instruction - one that appeals to all of the senses, is inviting, playful and happy, feels comfortable and smells great - will result in a regimen that provides nutritious "Brain Food" for these kindergartners to third graders. The paper includes a survey to be administered to both children and adult workshop participants to determine how well they enjoyed the lessons, and what recommendations they may have for future workshops.
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Lesson Plan No. 1:
Area
Level
Time
Type of Lesson
Ontario Standards
Objective(s)
Materials
Procedure
Development
Summary/Closure
Assessment
Reinforcement
Lesson Plan No. 2:
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Level
Time
Type of Lesson
Ontario Standards
Objective(s)
Materials
Procedure
Development
Summary/Closure
Assessment
Reinforcement
Lesson Plan No. 3:
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Level
Time
Type of Lesson
Ontario Standards
Objective(s)
Materials
Procedure
Development
Summary/Closure
Assessment
Reinforcement
References
Appendix
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"The results of this experiment will likely confirm that as people grow older, they begin to lose their sense of smell (the teacher should ensure that the concentration of the first level jar is sufficiently weak that the average adult cannot discern it, while a young person can). Students will be asked why younger people might smell better than older people, and the teacher can explain that this difference in smelling ability could be caused by a lot of things such as being exposed to more pollution in the air, lifestyle habits such as smoking, or maybe just as a result of the aging process itself."
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Ernest J. Gaines' "A Lesson Before Dying", 2000.
Explores the lesson that the main characters learn in "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest J. Gaines.
1,315 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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A look at the questions of racism and human dignity raised in Gaines' novel, "A Lesson Before Dying" and how the imprisoned and oppressed may find freedom even in the moment of their death.
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"In a small Cajun community during the 1940's in Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper has been murdered during a robbery gone bad; and though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty. "I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be" (p.3). So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines' powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. "
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Lessons, 2005.
This paper provides lessons on a range of educational topics and theories.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 178.95
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This paper offers lessons created as part of a graduate program in education. The lessons consist of a range of documents, from lesson plans to texts created using programs such as Kidspiration. The lessons also include analyses of education programs in terms of a range of learning theories and models such as social constructivism and other Western theories of education and development.
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"The issue of teaching learners in P/J who are afraid of math problems is admittedly a challenging one. It must be acknowledged that it is unlikely that we will ever be able to reach the point where learners will "welcome problems with open arms and minds". Given an educational context in which even many candidates at our Teachers' Colleges admit to having a high degree of anxiety when facing math problems in their youth, it may be realistically concluded that nothing less than a profound overhaul of our education system's approach to the math curriculum will address this fear and anxiety."
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Third Grade Lesson Plans, 2005.
Presents five different third grade lesson plans on improving language skills.
2,204 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 68.95
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This paper describes the objectives, assignments, materials and handouts of five different lesson plans designed for the third grade level. The lesson plans focus on language skills and include a lesson plan for ESL students.
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"The goals of this lesson are to give a student-centered approach that focuses on the language skill of speaking and using grammar on the level of verbal interchange and conversation. The third grade student will therefore be able to practice verbal literacy in a structured environment around a lesson plan that concentrates on the free exchange of ideas between individuals. The content topic incorporated into the lesson is one of speaking rather than listening because routine oral skills are the focus of the lesson in terms of practice and maintenance. Additional goals include the need to, "Determine student "level" and "needs"(e.g.,Ferris & Tagg (1996) found the most important
academic language need was authentic practice in classroom participation). Determine related functional uses of language (e.g., identify specific purposes such as planning business meetings, and their related speech acts such as greetings, apologies)" (Lazarton, 2001). This can be done with groups of students or by the teacher in any classroom situation including tutoring or one on one lessons. The lesson generally has objectives or goals of increasing fluency and proficiency in English language verbal skills through structured conversation. In this way, the student will learn the language as something that is living and useful to them, rather than abstract or the subject of endless repetition
by the teacher."
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Media Framing Lesson Plan, 2007.
A description of a lesson plan for teaching current trends in Chinese culture through media framing.
957 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper presents a lesson plan with the aim of identifying current trends in Chinese culture through media framing. The paper presents an overview of the subject material - an essay written by K. Hallahan, titled "Seven Models of Framing: Implications for Public Relations". The paper then discusses the objectives for the lesson and the requirements of the students. It provides a suggested procedure and student assessment for the information taught.
Table of Contents:
Overview
Connections to the Curriculum
Time Required
Materials Required
Objectives of the Exercise
Analytic Skills
Suggested Procedure
Opening
Development
Closing
Suggested Student Assessment
Extending the Lesson
Related Links
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"Suggested Student Assessment. Because the media framing analysis is a highly subjective process, students will be requested to defend their respective positions on a given news account in the form of an essay that will be assessed on the basis of how well it takes into account the various media framing structural dimensions in supporting its position."
"Extending the Lesson. When students identify an issue that is particularly interesting to them, they would refine and extend its concepts through a WebQuest approach that uses a free Web site account. WebQuests have become increasingly popular in recent years for this purpose, and these become a "work in progress" that students continue to contribute to as additional research is completed and more news accounts become available."
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The Lessons of Nature Poetry, 2009.
This paper looks at the inspiration of nature and discusses that moral lessons and reflections on society have always been a staple of poetry.
1,655 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer notes that for many poets nature has always been a source of material and maintains that nature has always played a big part in the inspiration of many writers. The writer points out that inspiration is drawn from the peacefulness, the majesty, the grandeur, or maybe even the violence. Many people never take the time to reach deeper into the poem and explore the lessons contained within it. The writer discusses that because nature is such an inspiration for writers it is only natural that the writers may tend to project their own thoughts and ideas into the nature described in their poems. The writer looks at particular examples in different poems and concludes that poets tend to try to subtly teach their reader a moral lesson within their poems. It may not be at the forefront of the poem, yet under the exterior layers one begins to see the lesson unfold.
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"Whitman feels that if humans could perhaps be a bit more like animals that many of the world's problems would not be a consideration. We can see that Whitman admires the animals for their lack of dissatisfaction with the problems surrounding them. They simply deal with them and move on; no words of complaint, no attempts to justify or rectify them. Whitman sees much of himself in these animals. He feels more of a kindred-spirit with them than with his fellow man. This can be taken at face value or it can be applied to and looked at in the context of society. Whitman feels that humanity is heading down the wrong path by their actions and feelings. He feels that if we were just a bit more like animals that maybe society would begin to mirror that of nature."
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Lessons Learned from the Vietnam Phoenix Program, 2009.
An examination of the lessons that could be learned from the Vietnam Phoenix program and how they could be applied to Iraq.
15,901 words (approx. 63.6 pages), 54 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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This paper examines the Vietnam Phoenix program and discusses whether the Phoenix program was successful and the problems that were associated with it. It specifically discusses the lessons that can be learned for counterinsurgency from the years 1967 to 1972 and then goes on to examine how these lessons can be applied to the War in Iraq.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Research Question
Scope and Significance
Summation
Thesis Overview
Literature Review
The Phoenix Program in Vietnam
Methodology
Data and Findings
Lessons Learned from Phoenix
Conclusions/Recommendations
Applications for Iraq
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"The lesson learned from Phoenix and from the Vietnam War in general was that the open airing of the ugly side of war is to be avoided at all costs, and yet the Abu Ghraib offenders seem to have never learned this particular lesson. Moving forward from this discussion the U.S. must come up with a comprehensive plan to regain the trust of the Muslim world. The U.S. must disunite a previously fractured system of groups, who united on the idealism of the high level of morality that is stressed in the Islamic faith, all without further dividing the many factions that will eventually have to live together in a unified nation, if that is still in the cards. It is for this reason that the humanitarian lessons of the Phoenix Program must be reiterated even further, as well as the need to win back the hearts and minds of those Iraqis not interested in further strife and insurgent attacks. Another lesson that was learned during the Phoenix Program was an essential need to rely on the civic system to relate information and understanding regarding the history and intentions of each group. Armed militias, not unlike those in North Vietnam, assert power and influence through coercion and violence and demand infrastructural support from the region in which they work, similar to the VC. The lesson here is being that state-building and realistic infrastructural support systems must be built in these regions, for lasting change to become effected."
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Lessons From "Beloved", 2008.
An analysis of the universal lessons that can be learned from Toni Morrison's "Beloved".
949 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses how in Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved", the ghost character of Beloved relays not only the horrors of slavery but also many universal lessons - specifically that it is important to let go of the past and focus on the present and future, that acceptance without thought can be dangerous, that short-term gain leads to long term consequences and, finally, that revenge can be very real. The paper also looks at how these lessons are usually imposed upon the character of Sethe, and how it is ironic that not only is she the victim of the ghost, but she is also the ghost's creator.
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"Another lesson developed through Sethe's ignorance is the problem of acceptance based solely on emotion or greed and not on thought or reason. When the strange girl Beloved appears, Sethe accepts the girl into her house without question, despite the strange circumstances. Denver also refuses to think it through logically and acts simply out of emotion. Paul D is suspicious, having seen Beloved "pick up the rocker with one hand" (Morrison 56). But Sethe outright tells him "[you] didn't [see that]" (Morrison 56), and Denver lies about seeing it. Both Sethe and Denver side with the ghost when they know far more about the credibility of Paul D than they do Beloved. A universal parallel, one using the issues in the novel, would be the early acceptance of slavery by the African community. For money and safety the Africans on the West Coast began selling men from rival tribes into slavery, without the slightest hesitation to think about the consequences."
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?Fast Car? and ?Driving Lessons?, 2004.
An analysis of the social messages in Tracy Chapman?s song, ?Fast Car?, and Neal Bower?s poem, ?Driving Lessons?.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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Tracy Chapman?s song, ?Fast Car?, tells the story of lovers who desperately want to escape poverty, but can?t find a way out. Neal Bower?s poem, ?Driving Lessons?, discusses a son who is in the middle of his parents? unhappy marriage. This paper explains that, while they tell very different stories on the surface, the two are similar in theme and the type of imagery used. Both use driving as a metaphor, questioning the traditional idea of driving as freedom, instead seeing driving as a symbol of being trapped. Both ?Fast Car and ?Driving Lessons? deal with the inevitability of family obligation, and loneliness is a theme throughout the song and the poem.
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"Unlike the traditional idea of the car as a means to freedom, both ?Fast Car? and ?Driving Lessons prove that one cannot drive away from problems. In ?Fast Car,? Chapman?s protagonist initially sees the car as a means of escape from her dreary, everyday life, but she soon realizes that her problems go deeper than immediate location. At first her lover?s fast car seem like the way to freedom, but she eventually realizes that this freedom is an illusion: ?You got a fast car/And we go cruising to entertain ourselves/You still ain't got a job/And I work in a market as a checkout girl? (Chapman). Despite the fast car and the physical ability to escape, she and lover remain mired in their poverty and cannot escape. In the end, the song?s protagonist gives up on the idea of driving to freedom: ?I'd always hoped for better/Thought maybe together you and me would find it/I got no plans/I ain't going nowhere/So take your fast car and keep on driving? (Chapman)."
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Lesson Plan Creation: Learning Processes & Bloom's Taxonomy, 2004.
A lesson plan created to show how to incorporate learning processes & Bloom's Taxonomy.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The paper shows how education students should incorporate Bloom's Taxonomy and student learning processes into their lesson plans. The course created in this paper is for adult learners, but the processes and procedures used can also be used for any grade level. This paper itemizes and explains each of the steps in preparing a lesson plan, beginning with defining the topic, audience, and environment of the course, and ending with a listing of technologies to be used as learning adjuncts.
Table of Contents:
Topic
Audience
Environment
Course Objectives
Learning Process and Bloom's Taxonomy
Idea Map
Outline
Storyboard
Instructional Technology Usage
Resources
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"The class which I am preparing this lesson plan for is "Coping with Separation," a part of the Operation READY (Resources for Education About Deployment and You) educational system for soldiers and their families. This course has been adapted by me to help soldiers and their family members to be able to recognize and deal with stress-related problems associated with deployments."
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A Lesson Plan Utilizing the Scientific Inquiry Model, 2007.
A lesson plan, predicated upon the scientific inquiry model, that asks students to consider how human beings impact the mating and feeding habits of wildlife whose ecosystems suddenly are disrupted by human waste.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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The paper relates that the lesson plan presented seeks to employ the scientific inquiry model to foster rational, rigorous and inductive thought and to facilitate the ability of students to communicate about technical/environmental matters in a second language. The author points out that the class will enter the room to find a poster depicting seagulls or other marine wildlife mired in an oil spill, which emphasizes the dangers of human pollution. The paper includes a step-by-step procedure for the lesson. The author states that the student observations will be assessed for grammatical fluency, for descriptiveness, for answering all of the questions posed by the instructor and the amount of detail devoted to answering each question.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Expectations/Opportunities
Pre-assessment/Student Accommodations
Resources
Lead-in
Step-by-Step Procedure
Assessment/Evaluation
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"As part of their observations, students will be asked to answer the following questions: "what happens when one particular area is cleaned up and another area is not?" (The class has brought garbage bags to clean up some areas which are especially hard-hit by pollution while leaving others alone for longer-term observation). "What happens to the soil and vegetation of areas that have been polluted and littered with garbage?" "
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"The Lesson", 2005.
A literary analysis of Toni Cade Bambara's short story,"The Lesson".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines Toni Cade Bambara's short story,'The Lesson,' concentrating on the story's main theme of racial and economic inequality. It looks at the valuable lessons the children learn on a field trip to an upscale toy store.
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"In the short story "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, a group of African-American children are confronted with class and economic distinctions for the first time during a trip to F A O Schwartz in New York. Sylvia the story's narrator is clearly affected by ..."
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