Use this creative character-analysis activity to help students develop understanding of and empathy for a literary or historical figure.
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Storyboard
Help students track a story’s main ideas and supporting details by having them illustrate important scenes.
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Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World
Use this strategy to improve students’ reading skills and help them connect ideas in a text to their own lives, current events, and history.
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Think, Pair, Share
Facilitate thoughtful group discussions by having students first share their ideas in writing and with a partner.
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Town Hall Circle
Students mimic a town hall meeting as they share their perspectives on a topic.
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Two-Column Note-Taking
Use this teaching strategy to help students learn how to take notes by identifying "key ideas" in one column and their "responses" in another column.
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Two-Minute Interview
Students interview classmates to gather evidence and ideas about a topic as they practice being active listeners.
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Word Wall
Support students’ tracking of new or important vocabulary by displaying these words in a shared space in the classroom.
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Wraparound (Whiparound)
Encourage all students to share their quick reactions to a question, topic, or text.
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Holocaust
Transforming Germany in the 1930s
"Kristallnacht": The November 1938 Pogroms
Scholars discuss the events of Kristallnacht, a series of violent attacks against Jews in Germany, Austria, and part of Czechoslovakia in November, 1938.
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Race in US History
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Journalists explore social media activism by discussing #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, a Twitter hashtag response to what was seen as racism and stereotypes in the images featured in the media.
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