Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

Goal 1

The learner will use language to express individual perspectives drawn from personal or related experience.

Narrate an expressive account (e.g., fictional or autobiographical) which:

uses a coherent organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
tells a story or establishes the significance of an event or events.
uses remembered feelings and specific details.
uses a range of appropriate strategies (e.g., dialogue, suspense, movement, gestures, expressions).

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Descriptive Writing Using Landscape Scenes: This lesson focuses on the descriptive writing process through the use of landscape scenes, the Paragraph Writing Strategy from the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning, and the 4MAT Instructional Model.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 English Language Arts); By Rosemary Reichstetter.

European Shadow Puppets: Students will work in cooperative groups first to read a fairy tale by a European author. Then they will make shadow puppets to use on an overhead projector. Finally, they will present their puppet shows to their class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Marsha Paisley.

Interior design: Designing my dream room: Students will study interior design as a profession. They will integrate their study with math, writing, vocational education, and computer skills by designing their own dream bedroom.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, Computer Technology Skills, and Mathematics); By Paula Hightower.

Alphabiography project: Totally you: In this lesson, students write alphabiographies recording an event, person, object, or feeling associated with each letter of the alphabet after reading Totally Joe by James Howe. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Character clash: A mini-lesson on paragraphing and dialogue: Helps students differentiate dialogue from narrative in their stories. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Choose your own adventure: A Hypertext writing experience: In this lesson that focuses on reading and writing, students discuss various stories and plan their own adventure story. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Creating character: Citizenship: In this lesson from the Shoah Foundation Institute, students explore the concept of citizenship while listening to the perspectives of Holocaust survivors. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); By USC Shoah Foundation Institute.; Provider: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Creating character: Concluding lesson: In this concluding lesson, students evaluate and synthesize concepts of character education they learned in previous lessons. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); By USC Shoah Foundation Institute.; Provider: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Creating character: Perseverance: In this lesson, students listen to the perspectives of three women who discuss the character trait of perseverance. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); By USC Shoah Foundation Institute.; Provider: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Creating character: Respect: In this lesson, students explore the concept of "respect" by listening and viewing testimonials from Holocaust survivors. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); By USC Shoah Foundation Institute.; Provider: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Creating character: Responsibility: In this lesson, students explore the concept of "responsibility," by watching video archives from the Shoah Foundation Institute, which focuses on Holocaust survivors. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); By USC Shoah Foundation Institute.; Provider: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Creating character: Courage: In this lesson, students explore the concept of "courage", in one of six online activities presented by the Shoah Foundation Institute of the University of Southern California. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); By USC Shoah Foundation Institute.; Provider: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Creating character: Justice and Fairness: In this lesson, students explore the concepts of justice and fairness while viewing visual histories from Holocaust survivors. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Guidance, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); By USC Shoah Foundation Institute.; Provider: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Culture shock: This Xpeditions lesson asks students to think about how cultural customs differ throughout the world. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Social Studies and English Language Arts); Provider: National Geographic

Entering history: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Students read Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in conjunction with Nikki Giovanni’s poem “The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.” in order to better understand the speech and the impact it had on observers like Giovanni during the Civil Rights movement and Americans today. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Exploring and sharing family stories: Students access their own life experiences and then discuss family stories they have heard. After choosing a family member to interview, students create questions, interview their relative, and write a personal narrative that describes answers to their questions and their reactions these responses. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Exploring author's voice using Jane Addams Award-winning books: This lesson uses Jane Addams Award-winning books to explore author's voice and style. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Fairy tale autobiographies: Students will work in groups to read and analyze fairy tales, brainstorm for events in their lives that could be changed into fairy tales, and develop setting, characters, and plot for their fairy tale. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Graphic life map: Students brainstorm for important memories, create graphics, and construct a life map, connecting drawings and captions of high and low points with a highway. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Introducing each other: Interviews, memoirs, photos, and internet research: Students interview a partner and write an article, write a personal memoir, take partner photographs, and use the Internet to find pictures and information illustrating their partner's interests. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE