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Standard W.MCC.3

W.MCC.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Episode 1: ELA Short Answer Worksheet | Conversations with Crescent

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Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12

This worksheet accompanies the Conversations with Crescent episode, Conversations on Hair, History, and Popular Culture. Part 1 includes a series of foundational comprehension questions. Part 2...

Episode 1: Essay Prompts | Conversations with Crescent

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Grades: 8

This resource accompanies the Conversations with Crescent episode, Conversations on Hair, History, and Popular Culture and includes a series of writing prompts submitted. This learning activity was...

“The Past is Present” or “Respective Perspectives”

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Grades: 8

Students will examine multiple perspectives of different groups of people on the notion of freedom during the American Revolution. The class forms into 5 groups: Patriots, Loyalists/British, Enslaved...

Professional Careers in Theater [Part 1: Management, Directing, Planning]

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Grades: 8, 9, 10

Within this unit, students will see excellent PBS interviews with theatre professionals employed in these positions: Senior Vice President of Theatre Operations, Theatre Director, Playwright, Producer...

Diary of a Grain of Rice OR an Indigo Plant

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Grades: 8

The mid-1700s saw the rise of plantations across the South and the move from sustenance to cash crops saw a greater dependence on slave labor. The labor-intensive, back-breaking work of planting and...

Restoring the Union

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Grades: 8

The students will be able to create either a free verse poem or journal entry as if they were a freed man during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in order to explain life in SC based on political...