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CCR Anchor 5: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

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1. Comparison Shopping with Online Department Store Sites

Activity Description

Students use web sites for department stores to find product information for similar products in order to compare prices and qualities of products at different stores so that they can make wise buying decisions.

 

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
2. Environmental Conservation Project

Activity Description

Pollution
Source: Pixabay by Sergei Tokmakov (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

Students engage in conversation about the environment, practice listening comprehension by watching a video and answering questions, read an article about the harm of plastics on the environment, brainstorm ways to preserve the natural environment, write a paragraph, and create an inforgraphic based on their ideas.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
3. GED Practice Test from 4Tests

Activity Description

4Tests
Source: 4Tests GED Practice Test page (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

A free online practice test site for the 2014 GED test with the 4 sections of the GED provided by Barrons Educational Series. It includes an explanation for the right answer.

 

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Program Areas

ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

High
4. Generate A TED Talk with AI Assistance

Activity Description

TED Talks: Discover ideas worth spreading
Source: TED Talks by TED Talks (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
In this lesson, students learn about the typical structure and organization of TED Talks. They then use AI text generator tools to either assist them in writing TED Talks about issues that concern them, or if the outcome is pronunciation practice and oral presentation skills, to provide them with an original TED Talk script that they can alter. Students practice their talks and deliver them with images on a slideshow.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

High, Advanced
5. Learning Idioms

Activity Description

Rainstorm
Source: Pixabay by OpenClipart-Vectors (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

Students watch videos and take notes to learn idioms, practice the idioms in conversation and on an online discussion forum (optionally), and then create a "quiz" for their classmates OR select a new idiom from the video channel or other sites,  create a presentation to teach the class the idiom(s) by creating a PowerPoint or Google Slideshow presentation, writing and performing a dialog, using Web sites to create digital films or comic strips based on dialogs, making an infographic, or making videos.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
6. NPR's "This I Believe" and a TED Talk: Springboard for Writing about a Valuable Lesson

Activity Description

 

 

NPR This I Believe
Source: NPR This I Believe (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
Students listen to an NPR's "This I Believe" essay, "Do Talk to Strangers," and answer questions about the essay/recording, and then watch a TED Talk and answer questions, followed by an assignment in which they write their own personal narratives about a valuable life lesson.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Intermediate High, Advanced, Low, Intermediate, High
7. Untold History: Artifacts and Writing about a Personal Artifact

Activity Description

Untold Screenshot
Source: Untold History (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
In this lesson plan, students learn what an artifact is, learn about a national artifact, read about the place of artifacts in history and their importance, and then write about an important personal artifact.
 
This assignment is inspired by the Global Oneness Student Photography Contest - Artifacts in our Lives, online at https://www.globalonenessproject.org/stories/student-project-artifacts-our-lives.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
8. Edsitement! - Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands

Activity Description

 

This lesson invites you to supplement your students' reading of The Diary of a Young Girl by connecting the diary to the study of history and to honor the legacy of Anne Frank, the writer, as she inspires your students to use writing to deepen their insights into their own experiences and the experiences of others.

In the class activity, students look at a series of maps to gain an idea of the territorial changes in Europe after World War I up to the beginning of the defeat of Germany. They complete a map intended to show the speed and reach of Germany's wartime expansion. Then students share information about the German occupation in some European countries, which they then compare to the situation in the Netherlands. Lastly, students analyze a map.

 

Program Areas

ASE: High School Diploma
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