LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1

The learner will use language to express individual perspectives in response to personal, social, cultural, and historical issues.

Objective 1.03

Interact in group settings by:

  • responding appropriately to comments and questions.
  • offering personal opinions confidently without dominating.
  • giving appropriate reasons that support opinions.
  • soliciting and respecting another person's opinion.

Resources aligned to this objective

Resources on the web

Deep-sea technology
Students will discuss the story of the biblical flood and the theory of how the flood may have occurred. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic
Culture shock
In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore how cultural customs differ throughout the world. Activities in this lesson engage students in whole class discussion, online learning, creation of a project, and writing assignments. Students will:... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic
Critical media literacy: Commercial advertising
Conducting an evaluation of television and magazine advertisements, students critique the effect mass media has on American culture. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Critical literacy: Point of view
Students learn to look at texts from different viewpoints. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Creative communication frames: Discovering similarities between writing and art
Students will build a comparative frame to explore the creative processes of writing and art as communication. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Cosmic oranges: Observation and inquiry through descriptive writing and art
This lesson employs scientific observation, descriptive writing, sketching, reading, investigation, and poetry writing to train students to use their senses and focus their attention. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Cooking up descriptive language: Designing restaurant menus
In this lesson students explore the genre of menus by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants and creating their own original menus. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Choosing, chatting, and collecting: Vocabulary self-collection strategy
Students are introduced to the vocabulary self-collection strategy, using an online Shakespeare text as an example. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Children of war
Explores the realities and effects of war on children by examining diaries, journals, and letters written by children during times of war. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Campaigning for fair use: Public service announcements on copyright awareness
In this lesson that introduces issues of fair usage and copyright laws, students create audio public service announcements that can be broadcast over the school's public address system or published as podcasts on the Internet. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Book reviews, annotation, and web technology
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students will write a group book review, taking notes in their journals throughout the reading and discussion process; write short research papers as annotations for their reviews; and post them to the Web, demonstrating... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Book report alternative: Creating a childhood for a character
In this lesson, students examine the character traits of an adult character in a book they have read, create a childhood for the character, and describe that childhood in the form of a short story, journal entry, or time capsule letter. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Book report alternative: Comic strips and cartoon squares
This lesson incorporates student handouts and a comic creator interactive to encourage student creativity and expression. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A connotation mini-lesson
In this lesson that introduces connotation in literature, students examine familiar car names (such as Avalanche, Aztek, Bravada, Suburban or Vue) for underlying meaning. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Ancient Egypt: Stories and myths
In this Xpeditions lesson, students examine stories and myths about ancient Egypt through time. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic
Analyzing advice as an introduction to Shakespeare
Students read and analyze the advice given in Mary Schmich's 1997 Chicago Tribune column “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young,” as an introduction to studying the advice that Polonius gives to Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
ABC bookmaking builds vocabulary in the content areas
Engages and motivates students in building content area vocabulary through the creation of ABC books. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE