Vickie Smith
I taught at Enloe High School in Raleigh, NC, for eight years. I am currently staying home with my daughter and working as an English consultant.
Resources created by Vickie Smith
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- Analyzing Author Style using Sentence Combining
- This activity should be completed before reading the essay “Beach People, Mountain People” by Suzanne Britt. Students will combine three sets of kernel sentences based on the first paragraph of Britt's writing. They will then compare their sentences to Britt's. The class will discuss what sentence combining strategy or strategies they used and observe how Britt varies her sentences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Analyzing Significant Events in Jim the Boy
- This activity, to be completed after reading Tony Earley's Jim the Boy, helps students identify examples and details and then analyze them effectively. The class will brainstorm examples of life-changing events in Jim's life. The teacher will select one of the events, find the pages in the novel where it is discussed, and show the students how to annotate the text by marking details and commenting on them. Using a "T" chart, the class will then select three of the details to analyze.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Diction in Maya Angelou's poem, "Remembering"
- The class will annotate and discuss Angelou's poem. Then they will select specific words and complete a webbing that asks them to explore the connotations of the word as well as consider the author's purpose in using it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Thematic and Organizational Patterns in McLaurin's "The Rite Time of Night"
- Students will learn to identify and color-code thematic and organizational patterns found in the narrative and then use two-column notetaking to highlight how these patterns helped McLaurin give his story focus and organization. As a suggested follow-up activity, students are given ideas for writing their own narratives, using similar techniques as McLaurin.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
