Lesson
Grades
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This unit is a fun and activity-packed venture into sensory-inspired writing and public speaking , culminating in the class production of THE WEIRDEST DREAM GAMESHOW! By finishing the unit as a...
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Lesson
Grades
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The students will review ou/ow word blends and identify cause and effect relationships in 'Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia.'
Lesson
Grades
- Kindergarten
- 1
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The students will read to identify cause and effect. They will retell a story to show understanding, and answer questions about a story.
Video
Grades
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Young poets read their winning entries and met former U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, at the 2019 Young Minds Dreaming Contest held for the third year in a row at the South Carolina State...
Video
Grades
- 3
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- Higher Education
Episode
9
Dr. Matthew Downs discusses the writing process behind the book The American South And The Great War, 1914 - 1924, which he co-authored with Dr. Ryan Floyd.
Video
Grades
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- Higher Education
Episode
12
Dr. Fritz Hamer discusses the types of sources he used for writing A Southern City Reborn: Charleston, Its Navy Yard and World War II, as well as Forward Together: South Carolinians in the Great War.
Video
Grades
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- Higher Education
Episode
16
Dr. Courtney Tollison Hartness talks about the research and writing process behind her upcoming book: Our Country First: The Making of a Southern City During the Progressive Era and The Great War.
Lesson
Grades
- Kindergarten
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The students will be learning new vocabulary words and discussing authors purpose by generating questions and drawing conclusions.
Lesson
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...
Lesson
Grades
- 10
In groups of three or four, students will research, potentially by field trip but invariably online, a miniature portrait found in the colonial American section of the Gibbes Museum of Art. Students...