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Analyzing Quotes

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		MINI-LESSON: Analyzing Quotes Students will analyze quotes in a news story. Additional resources available at www.timeforkids.com

• Notable Quotables
  In this lesson, students explore a selected New York Times Quote of the Day to understand how these quotations reflect significant events and beliefs.
  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19991016saturday.html
• A Quotation a Day: Just What the Language Doctor Ordered!
  Discover the power of famous quotations. Such quotations can be used to develop students' writing and critical thinking skills.
  http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson132.shtml
• Hardships on the Oregon Trail
  The story is told with quotations from first-person accounts as well as video clips from historian Merrill Mattes.
  http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Hardships.html
• To Kill a Mockingbird: Interpret a Quotation
  The objective of this lesson plan is use famous quotes/aphorisms about fear or anxiety as a springboard for conversation about war and terrorism.
  http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/tokil/activity2.htm
• PBS: Responding to Quotes/Aphorisms
  This lesson illustrates that making an inference is the ability to connect what is in a text with what's in your mind to create educated assumptions about meaning.
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/iraq/quotes.html
• Public Lands: Hidden Histories
  In this lesson, students will interpret Native American quotes that demonstrate the unique relationship between Native Americans and the land.
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/17/g68/hiddenhistory.html

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