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Richard Matkins

Text to Text | 'A Raisin in the Sun' and 'Discrimination in Housing... - 0 views

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    In this Text to Text, we examine a famous scene from the play “A Raisin in the Sun” paired with a 2013 Times article on the persistence of the problem of housing discrimination in the United States.
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    In this Text to Text, we examine a famous scene from the play “A Raisin in the Sun” paired with a 2013 Times article on the persistence of the problem of housing discrimination in the United States.
Christine Molloy

What is the difference between a leader and a hero? Lesson - 1 views

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    Lesson and Materials: What is the difference between a leader and a hero?
Richard Matkins

A Picture Of Language: The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences - 0 views

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    When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words - not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long - and controversial - history in U.S. schools.
Richard Matkins

"A Raisin in the Sun": The Quest for the American Dream | EDSITEment - 0 views

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    "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry is the focal point for discussion of "The American Dream" as students explore how the social, educational, economical and political climate of the 1950s affected African Americans' quest for the good life in the suburbs.
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    "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry is the focal point for discussion of "The American Dream" as students explore how the social, educational, economical and political climate of the 1950s affected African Americans' quest for the good life in the suburbs.
Richard Matkins

Romeo and Juliet through the Ages | Folger Shakespeare Library - 0 views

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    Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 12 "For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." -Romeo and Juliet (5.3.320) Though the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet is a perennial favorite, the world around the play has changed in the four centuries since it was first performed. Shifting attitudes about taboo love and marriage, gender roles, and even guns and street violence inform the way we read or see the play today.
Christine Molloy

France Halloween Catacombs :: WRAL.com - 0 views

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    FILE - This is a Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 filoe photo of skulls and bones are stacked at the Catacombs in Paris, France. The subterranean tunnels, which once gave refuge to smugglers and saints, cradle the bones of some 6 million Parisians from centuries past. The Catacombs form a dark, 200-mile (322 kilometer) underground labyrinth beneath the City of Light. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Christine Molloy

A Superhero Gets Sick | The Moth - 0 views

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    Goes with the other video that talks about how to create a riveting story.
Richard Matkins

How to Write a Believable Happy Ending - 1 views

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    By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Claire Messud, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Happy endings are famously rare in literature. We turn to great books for emotional and ethical complexity, and broad-scale resolution cheats our sense of what real life is like.
Richard Matkins

Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob Lawrence : Code Swi... - 0 views

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    A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.
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    A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.
Christine Molloy

Potrait poems and visual artwork - 1 views

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    a new vision of the old bio poem
Christine Molloy

Who raised you? Poem - 2 views

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    A new take on the bio poem
Christine Molloy

Setting Description Samples - 1 views

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    Three descriptive paragraphs to teach students how to use setting details to create a specific mood.
Christine Molloy

How to Teach the Passive Voice - While Being Active! - 1 views

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    It may seem like a contradiction, but there’s nothing “passive” about learning the passive voice. Students need to be as “active” as ever and fully engaged in t
Christine Molloy

How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce | TED-Ed - 0 views

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    Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence-which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actuall...
Christine Molloy

Using stakes to keep your reader interested (interview) - 0 views

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    Great interview on how to keep a reader interested by using continual conflict. Also discusses finding the frame or theme of your story.
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