Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

Goal 5

The learner will respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.

Increase fluency, comprehension, and insight through a meaningful and comprehensive literacy program by:

using effective reading strategies to match type of text.
reading self-selected literature and other materials of interest to the individual.
reading literature and other materials selected by the teacher.
assuming a leadership role in student-teacher reading conferences.
leading small group discussions.
taking an active role in whole class seminars.
analyzing the effects of elements such as plot, theme, charaterization, style, mood, and tone.
discussing the effects of such literary devices as figurative language, dialogue, flashback, allusion, irony, and symbolism.
analyzing and evaluating themes and central ideas in literature and other texts in relation to personal and societal issues.
extending understanding by creating products for different purposes, different audiences, and within various contexts.
analyzing and evaluating the relationships between and among characters, ideas, concepts, and/or experiences.

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Civil War Music: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students use the Internet as a resource to compare and contrast Civil War songs of the North and the South. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 8 English Language Arts, Music Education, and Social Studies); Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Choose your own adventure: A Hypertext writing experience: In this lesson students create original “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories and using web-authoring software, develop their own Internet sites with the parts of the story hyperlinked to each other. After a review of setting, character development,... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa": Adapted from Carol Jago's Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom, this ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to explore what Jago calls the place "where life and art intersect." Students complete a close reading of Giovanni's poem "Nikki-Rosa" and then... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Child labor: Giving voice to the industrial revolution through monologues: Students gather information using selected websites and explore issues related to child labor, particularly as it occurred in England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Building reading comprehension through think-alouds: Introduces the think-aloud strategy to students. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Book report alternative: Creating careers for characters: Students become characters in a novel or short story they have read and find a job for those characters. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8 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

Beyond the story: A Dickens of a party: In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are invited to attend a 19th Century party as a character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. To play their roles, students must understand the values and customs that Dickens' characters represented... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Battling for liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's language of resistance: This lesson extends the study of Patrick Henry's “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech to demonstrate the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric and action. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); 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

Audience, purpose, and language use in electronic messages: This ReadWriteThink lesson explores the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing. Furthermore, it explores the freedom and creativity for using Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examines the importance of a more formal... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

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