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Before watching Newsies, students can complete this 24-question, 12-point Webquest to learn more about the historical context of the movie. The four categories are Key Terms, Child Labor, 1899 History, and Pulitzer/Hearst. Sources are linked in the directions for each section and a key is provided.

After reading tuesdays with morrie by Mitch Albom, students will choose three "life lessons" quotes from Morrie to analyze (strategically grouped so they will complete one about ambition, relationships, and compassion no matter what they choose). They have three activities and must complete each with the quote of their choosing. This assignment provides choice in two different ways, opportunities for collaboration, demonstration of reading and writing proficiency, and application/experience of

Use with a selection of similar poems to break students into smaller groups. Have them become the expert on their poem and then create heterogenous groupings so they can share information with each other.

Using SNO's Award-Winning Sites collection, students will be encouraged to peruse a few high school news online publications. There are questions to direct them to respond to the presentation and content of the site and connect it back to their own experience with writing the school newspaper. They are provided with six site options and must give feedback on three of them.

This worksheet uses a clip from the movie "The Glass Castle," based on the book by Jeanette Walls, to practice dialogue punctuation (via transcript of scene), theme (using TDA-style analysis), and sensory details (describe as if you were the narrator). The YouTube clip is linked in the instructions and there is an answer key included with this PDF.

This worksheet can be used with any poems for analysis. Students choose six questions to answer out of the twelve given. Questions are grouped by general concept so they will be answering a little bit of everything about the poem.

This worksheet gives information on words often misused, e.g. accept/except, imply/infer, and there are a few questions at the end to practice.