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Endangered Animals Trading Cards This lesson is designed to help students understand that they can apply their knowledge about endangered animals to helping make a difference in a real-world context by spreading awareness and raising money for a cause. 1, 2
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Taking Action for Human Rights 4: Evaluate How can ordinary people defend human rights? Students will research and develop an action plan regarding a contemporary human rights violation. Students will gain hands-on experience in grassroots activism which will inform and inspire human rights activism later in life. *Lesson four of four.* 10, 11, 12
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Letter Writing for Human Rights Students will be able to identify which human rights are being violated in a given case summary and explain how those rights are being violated. Students will be able to clearly and formally express arguments and concerns regarding human rights violations. This lesson is designed to address two essential questions: What are human rights? How can ordinary people defend human rights? 10, 11, 12
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Diary of a Worm/Fiction and Non-Fiction The essential concept of this lesson was designed for the student to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction and to compare the habitat relationships between worm, spider, and fly. The Essential Questions: What does it mean if a book is fiction or non-fiction? How would you explain the benefits a worm has on the world? What would happen if fly, spider, and worm were all friends? 1, 2
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Closing Lesson for the Gothic Genre The gothic introductory lesson is the pre-curser to a unit on gothic literature. At the close of the lesson the students will be asked to complete a culminating project on the genre in conjunction with the school librarian. The students must create a display within the library that outlines gothic literature and features selections of gothic literature within the display. Students will also be required to write a short essay, answer the following essential question: How does the “gothic” or popular culture compare with the “gothic” of American Literature? 11
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