101 Short Stories that Will Leave You Smiling, Crying and Thinking post written by: Marc Chernoff Email Since its inception eighteen months ago, our sister site Makes Me Think (MMT) has truly evolved into a remarkable online community. As stated on the MMT About page, sometimes the most random everyday encounters force us to stop and rethink the truths and perceptions we have ingrained in our minds. I believe the 101 stories listed below perfectly fulfill that description. What do you think? To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. While it is the story of Scout’s growing up, it is also a story of the racially charged atmosphere in the town in the years of the Great Depression. Mockingbird therefore falls into a particular subset of American literature called Southern literature, since it deals explicitly and implicitly with themes and issues that were uniquely Southern. Other notable works of Southern literature include Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find. In 2015, Lee’s publisher released Go Set a Watchman, which was billed as a sequel to Mockingbird but was actually her first draft of Mockingbird. It’s set 20 years after the events of Mockingbird.
How the Necronomicon Works" Weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft created a mythology that includes bizarre monsters, troubled communities, insane scholars and a library of books filled with forbidden lore. Of all the books detailing this mythology that Lovecraft mentions in his fiction, one in particular captures the imagination more than any other: the "Necronomicon." In reality, the "Necronomicon" doesn't exist, though more than a half dozen books with the title "Necronomicon" are available at bookstores. The "Necronomicon" plays an important role in the Cthulhu mythos -- the mythology behind much of Lovecraft's work involving extraterrestrial beings of immense power. Lovecraft tells us that the author of the book was the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, who perished in A.D. 738 after being eaten by one or more invisible monsters. So what's in this book? In other words, the book is a fictional history about our world and the creatures that eons ago ruled the Earth and other realms.
UNICEF Specialised agency of United Nations UNICEF ( YOO-nee-SEF), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund,[a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.[3][4] The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a presence in 192 countries and territories.[5] UNICEF's activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.[6] UNICEF is the successor of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, created on 11 December 1946, in New York, by the U.N. UNICEF relies entirely on voluntary contributions from governments and private donors. Creation[edit]
Southern Ghost Stories, Folktales, Storytelling: The Moonlit Road.com Instructional Unit Samples - 8th Grade Over the fall/winter of 2013-14, the content specialists in the Standards and Instructional Support office worked with educators across the state of Colorado to build instructional units based on select curriculum overview samples. Teams of teachers authored units for each grade and content area of the Colorado Academic Standards. Below, are sample instructional units for 8th grade mathematics, reading, writing, and communicating, science, social studies, comprehensive health, visual arts, drama/theatre, dance, and music. As examples, these units are intended to provide support for teachers, schools, and districts as they make their own local decisions around the best instructional plans and practices for all students. Comprehensive Health Unit Title: Who Influences Me? Instructional Unit (Word or PDF) Unit Storyboard Unit Title: Setting and Respecting Personal Boundaries (Durango School District) Instructional Unit (Word or PDF) Unit Storyboard Dance Drama and Theatre Arts Mathematics Music
Bullet Catch History Deaths Houdini Dorothy Dietrich Chung Ling Soo Penn & Teller Instructional Unit Samples - High School Over the fall/winter of 2013-14, the content specialists in the Standards and Instructional Support office worked with educators across the state of Colorado to build instructional units based on select curriculum overview samples. Teams of teachers authored units for each grade and content area of the Colorado Academic Standards. Below, are sample instructional units for high school mathematics, reading, writing, and communicating, science, social studies, comprehensive health, visual arts, drama/theatre, dance, and music. The units include learning experiences, teacher and student resources, assessment ideas, and differentiation options. As examples, these units are intended to provide support for teachers, schools, and districts as they make their own local decisions around the best instructional plans and practices for all students. Click here to view additional High School curriculum overview samples and write your own instructional units using the Colorado based template. Dance Music
Learn Criss Angel Style Magic Tricks "Awesome, you're a great illusionist!" Criss Angel is a great entertainer, performing many stunning illusions. Here are some great Criss Angel style coin tricks that look like real magic! THE EFFECT: You place any coin on the palm of your open hand, giving a magical snap, it vanishes into thin air! Watch the effect, then learn it! Do you want to own all my tutorial videos? THE SECRET: Ok, ok the saying "nothing up my sleeve" does not apply here! Be warned the 'flick move' does take some practice. To achieve a good 'flick' place the coin on your palm and your middle finger and thumb (of the other hand) in a clicking position above and in front of the coin. As you click your fingers allow the finger to strike the coin. When you have finished the trick you can push both of your sleeves up, the coin will be taken up too in the fabric. Needless to say when performing this trick you need to wear long sleeves that are quite baggy, otherwise you will never pull it off!
EngageNY English Language Arts Collection Resources Updating search results... 59 affiliated resources As students will have previous exposure to the historical themes and factual ... As students will have previous exposure to the historical themes and factual information about the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the United States involvement in WWII, and the internment of Japanese in camps throughout the western United States, this lesson exemplar will allow students to participate in critical discussion of two stories that illuminate important, yet divergent, experiences of war and conflict. Subject: English Language Arts Material Type: Activity/Lab Assessment Lesson Plan Reading Teaching/Learning Strategy Provider: New York State Education Department Provider Set: EngageNY Date Added: The goal of the Listening and Learning Strand is for students to ... Language, Grammar and Vocabulary Diagram/Illustration Unit of Study The Listening and Learning Strand consists of a series of read_alouds organized ... Arts and Humanities Literature Reading Informational Text
Multiple Choice Zombie Apocalypse Survival Game | Choice of Zombies You really aren't awake yet. You never are until at least your second cup of coffee, and this is only your first. You're having a hard time getting your eyes to focus. But it certainly looks like there's a man in your front yard, crouched down on all fours, gnawing at a leg. A human leg. Definitely. The man gnawing on the human leg suddenly stops chewing, as though some sound disturbs him. You've heard about the outbreak in Millbury, of course. But it seems the newscasters were at least a little right, because there's a zombie chowing down on a human leg in your front yard. Shit.
ELA Curriculum Resources By design, the standards do not specify any one method of instruction or approach. Specific programmatic design, choices in literature, and instructional strategies and approaches all remain as decisions for individual districts. In order to provide curriculum development guidance, the Introduction to the NYS Next Generation English Language Arts Standards provides strategies for using the new standards in the classroom, supports for applying the standards to students with disabilities and multilingual/English language learners, as well as guidance on utilization of the new Lifelong Practices for Readers and Writers. In addition to the support within the introduction, NYSED offers the following materials to guide local curriculum development. NEW! NEW! Other valuable resources include:
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive ELA G8: Grade 8 English Language Arts Description This grade 8 curriculum modules are designed to address CCSS ELA outcomes during a 45-minute English Language Arts block. The overarching focus for all modules is on building students’ literacy skills as they develop knowledge about the world. Taken as a whole, these modules are designed to give teachers concrete strategies to address the “instructional shifts” required by the CCSS. Structure of a Module Each module provides eight weeks of instruction, broken into three shorter units. – Six unit-level assessments that almost always are on-demand: students’ independent work on a reading, writing, speaking, or listening task. – One final performance task that is a more supported project, often involving research. About Downloadable Resources Grade 8 ELA Curriculum Map: The grade 8 curriculum modules are designed to address CCSS ELA outcomes during a 45-minute English Language Arts block. Appendix 1: Protocols and Resources Credits