ASE: High School Diploma

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In this activity, students use the Poetry App to explore hundreds of poems by numerous authors and then write their own poetry and record their voices on an iPad. 

The Poetry App is an excellent reference resource for any classroom. Students can choose the audio option and listen along with the reader. This helps to bring each poem to life. Students can also add selected poems to their favorites. This app is best suited as a self-paced learning tool for students to explore independently in the classroom.

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In this activity, students explore the poem "maggie and milly and molly and may" by E. E. Cummings. This is just one of the numerous poems and lesson plans given so that the depth of the student experience can be adjusted to meet the needs of your students.

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This activity titled "Songs My Teacher Taught Me" is a series of three lesson plans intended to guide students through approximately one month of poetry study. This unit involves minimal technology requirements but extends across a wide range of poetry. Of the eighteen poets included; eight are women, six are African-American; two are nineteenth-century poets and the three lesson plans are thematically broken into "What is Poetry?", "Poems of Childhood," and "Self and Society." Each of the three lesson plans includes a short reading list, a brief introduction setting tone and theme, a series of analytical questions, two creative activities, and at least one writing assignment.

Also at the site, you will find all you will need to teach poetry including curriculum, essays on poetry, biographies of more than 200 poets, the text of nearly 600 poems, and RealAudio of 80 poems read by their authors. Poets.org also allows visitors to create their own anthologies of content from the site.

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The President-Elect site is a great site to help your students learn about the electoral college. The "FAQ" page would be a good place to start, as these may represent most of your students' questions about the electoral college and how it works. The site is per election year so check for the current election.

In this activity, students use an interactive quiz to correctly put the steps of how a bill becomes a law in order. They must be careful to consider ALL the steps, even those that take place when the bill doesn't go smoothly.

A screenshot of How a Bill Becomes a Law Activity.