Master Teacher lessons
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Students use pendulums to observe and collect data on periodic motion.
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Students make waves and find an important relationship between variables.
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Students work through a lab practical on acceleration, an extension of the Motion on an Incline Lab.
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We've spent two weeks looking at a graphic memoir--now it's time to see how other writers use imagery to teach us their life lessons.
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Students will revise their claim and develop counterclaims to create a stronger, more well-rounded argument.
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Students analyze the possible issues that Langston Hughes wanted to explore and expose in his short story.
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Why does Montag read "Dover Beach" to Mildred and her friends?
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A hero is more than a sandwich in today's lesson as students examine the characteristics of heroes.
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How was the world created: with a bang, with a word, with a splash? Through Iroquois' creation story, students identify the elements of a creation myth and the role of balance in the natural world.
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Students find the accelerations due to gravity for different planets.
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Use colorful diagrams and hand gestures to unpack the cell cycle and mitosis as an effective pre-writing activity!
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Heroic Villain or Villainous Hero? Through reading a Navajo myth, students will identify the traits of a Trickster and extend to other examples of the archetype.
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Students develop "untruths" in order to build classroom community and become familiar with classmates
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Once students have a clearer understanding of the complex characters in the short story "Sucker," it's time to put their ideas on paper.
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Fire & Wrath! Jonathan Edwards' vivid imagery in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" delivers a fear-filled impact.
