UEN Homeroom is excited to welcome the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Syndee Dickson, to be the final guest in our Learn @ Home series. As part of her role in guiding K-12 schools we talk with Dr. Dickson about the decisions leading up to the soft close of schools and the eventual decision to close in-person instruction for the rest of the school year. We also cover topics like preparing the state for distance learning for the past several years through the DTL program, how to help families and communities through services provided at the schools, and how to help schools return, recover, and reimagine education for the future.

Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.

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This document is an order to show cause in the Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court case. An order to show cause explains that a defendant is expected to appear before the judge and defend his or her actions. The document shows damage from the 1898 fire in the Capitol Building.

This video segment from Kentucky Life explains the differences between dragonflies and damselflies and explores their habitats.

Dragons Love TacosNarrative/Story Grammar Lesson Plan Could be added to any Narrative Retell Unit

Students will investigate a series of maps depicting a voyage by Sir Francis Drake which involved attacks on the Spanish settlements off the coast of Africa (Santiago), Caribbean (Santo Domingo), South America (Cartagena), and North America (St. Augustine). Students will then examine a map of the entire voyage. Students will look closely at the details of each of these depictions and draw conclusions about the individual events as well as the entire voyage.

Children will act out the story by copying the actions the little girl has done while wearing different shoes  to help demonstrate the beginning, middle, and end of the story. 

Children will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Children will be able to identify body parts, review and label several color words, and use rhyming to predict what will be painted next.  

Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end.

Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Mel is learning to fly and perseveres until she is successful.

Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. 

Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. 

By closely reading historical documents and attempting to interpret them, students consider how Arthur Miller interpreted the facts of the Salem witch trials and how he successfully dramatized them in his play, "The Crucible." As they explore historical materials, such as the biographies of key players (the accused and the accusers) and transcripts of the Salem Witch trials themselves, students will be guided by aesthetic and dramatic concerns: In what ways do historical events lend themselves (or not) to dramatization? What makes a particular dramatization of history effective and memorable?

(Mixed Crafts)
Christmas tale based on the Catalan tradition of the magic Yule log which children fatten up days before Christmas so that on Christmas day, with its appetite satisfied, they hit it with a stick and it releases all the toys it has inside.
In this story, curious Caroline creeps inside the hollow Yule Log intent on finding out the mystery of where Christmas presents come from and gets herself into trouble for going where she shouldn't. There she befriends another prisoner, the ogre Ot, and together they make their escape.

(Mixed Media)
Poor Cinderella is treated like a maid by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. One day her Fairy Godmother appears and with a wave of her magic wand allows Cinderella to go to the ball where she meets the Prince. He falls madly in love with her at first sight. But Cinderella must be home by midnight. As she flees the palace, she loses her slipper on the stair and the Prince searches the kingdom to find the person whose foot fits into the slipper and make her his wife.

(Cut-Outs)
After making Ambrose an orphan, Death returns to become the baby's godfather. Ambrose grows up to be the best doctor in the country, but he is aided in his diagnoses by Death. If the patient is to recover Death stands at the head of the patient's bed but if the patient is to die, he stands at the foot of the bed. One day Dr. Ambrose is summoned by the King to cure his ill daughter Camilla. Dr. Ambrose and Camilla fall in love at first sight and when he sees death stand at the foot of the bed, he turns the bed around in a flash. Dr. Ambrose's dirty trick on Death changes the patient's fate and outrages Death. The doctor loses all his powers, but Princess Camilla recovers. Soon after, they marry and live happily ever after because Ambrose no longer has Death for a Godfather.

(Creative Crafts)
Fearless Peter is not afraid of anything, but he wants to find out what fear is so he sets out in search of it. He comes to a country ruled by three kings and fearlessly helps them kill three seemingly invincible giants. He then steals a magic salve from a witch who uses it to revive the giants. To prove the salve's powers he tells the kings to cut off his head, certain that they can re-attach it with the salve, but the kings accidentally attach his head to his feet. Terrified, Peter asks them to cut his head off again and attach it to the right place. Peter can return home because he finally had a taste of fear.

(Oils & Ink)
Goldilocks goes out for a walk in the forest and comes across a pretty cabin. Being a curious young girl, she enters the house and makes herself right at home, but she is in for quite a surprise when the three bears who live there return home and find her sleeping in Baby Bear's bed.

(Chocolate & Frostings)
Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the forest by their parents who are so poor they can no longer care for them. Lost and frightened they come upon a strange house made out of chocolate. As they are about to take a bite, the witch appears and puts Hansel in a cage to fatten him before cooking him and enslaves Gretel to do the housework. The children manage to escape in the nick of time and run deep into the forest. Suddenly, when they are more lost than ever, they hear a far-off voice calling out to them. It's their father who comes looking for them and begs their forgiveness. Promising never to abandon them again, they live happily ever after.