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Valentine's Day Hearts for ELL
Valentine's Day provides an excellent opportunity to introduce the concept of idiomatic language to intermediate English language learners (ELLs) ...
K-2: Animal Box for Valentines Day Cards
For this activity, children will create a box for their valentines that has personality with a fun animal face. ...
9-12: Valentine Geometry
Combine geometry construction skills with language arts and artistic ability. *_A lesson plan for Grades 9–12 Algebra 1 and ...
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5 Black Colleges That Changed America
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. February is Black History Month, and TheApple is celebrating the event by taking a look at the most famous black colleges in the nation. Long before Barack Obama was President, these ... -
Five Black Colleges That Changed America
Tennessee State University Motto: "Enter to learn; go forth to serve" Oprah Winfrey’s alma mater, Tennessee State University, was founded in Nashville, Tennessee as a land-grant university. It began as a regional and agricultural black college and has grown today to a nationally recognized school with students matriculating from 42 states and 45 countries. Oprah graduated in 1986 and has gone ... -
Valentine's Day Hearts for ELL
Valentine's Day provides an excellent opportunity to introduce the concept of idiomatic language to intermediate English language learners (ELLs) in Grades 3-12. This unit gives students an occasion to extend their communicative competence in informal settings. It provides them with experience in learning and using language "chunks" and negotiating meaning with native speakers. Students also have the chance to present their ...
