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

English I

Goal 1, Objective 1.03

Goal 1

The learner will express reflections and reactions to print and non-print text and personal experiences.

Objective 1.03

Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print expressive texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:

  • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
  • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
  • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
  • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
  • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
  • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
  • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
  • making connections between works, self and related topics.
  • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
  • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
  • identifying and analyzing elements of expressive environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.

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Writing about writing: An extended metaphor assignment
In this lesson, students use Richard Wilbur's poem “The Writer” as an inspiration as they write their own extended metaphor describing themselves as writers. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Word maps: Developing critical and analytical thinking about literary characters
In this lesson, students read the short story “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry and focus on the author's use of characterization. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Using student-centered comprehension strategies with Elie Wiesel's "Night"
Working in small groups, students use reciprocal teaching strategies as they read and discuss Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Unlocking the underlying symbolism and themes of a dramatic work
This lesson plan invites students to explore the items relevant to a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun to unlock the drama’s underlying symbolism and themes. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Teaching the epic through ghost stories
In this lesson, students connect to epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Teaching plot structure through short stories
After viewing a PowerPoint presentation on plot structure, students use an online graphic organizer to identify the significant events that shape the structure of several short stories. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Spend a day in my shoes: Exploring the role of perspective in narrative
In this lesson based on To Kill a Mockingbird, students are challenged to imagine spending a day in someone else's shoes. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
So what do you think? Writing a review
After examining samples of movie, music, restaurant, and book reviews, students devise guidelines for writing interesting and informative reviews. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
A significant influence: Describing an important teacher in your life
In this lesson, students write tributes to teachers or mentors who have made profound differences in their lives. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Seuss and Silverstein: Posing questions, presenting points
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, classic stories provide the ideal springboard for struggling readers to discuss relevant social issues. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Pygmies: Getting right to the point
This Xpeditions lesson engages students in research about the Pygmies of Africa are and what their lives are like and challenges them to synthesize information by developing a brief written summary. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic
Put that on the list: Collaboratively writing a catalog poem
Students work in small groups to write a catalog poem based on such human emotions as anger, guilt, and happiness. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
The peace journey: Using process drama in the classroom
In this lesson, students respond to an imaginary advertisement, role-play, and work in small groups to develop a visual map as they explore the notion of peace. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Paying attention to technology: Writing technology autobiographies
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students examine the proliferation of technologies that have become a part of their daily lives. In this activity, students brainstorm lists of their interactions with technology, map these interactions graphically, and... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Paying attention to technology: Exploring a fictional technology
This lesson asks students to complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology and then compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984, Brave New... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Outside in: Finding a character's heart through art
In this lesson, students explore the idea of alienation by examining Edward Hopper's art and Raymond Carver's fiction. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Novel news: Broadcast coverage of character, conflict, resolution, and setting
In this lesson, which is a twist on readers' theater, students are challenged to prepare original news programs based on incidents in a recent reading. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Naming in a digital world: Creating a safe persona on the Internet
This ReadWriteThink lesson explores the issues involved in building digital personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles. Students analyze the underlying connotations of names in digital and non-digital settings and synthesize their... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Name that chapter! Discussing summary and interpretation using chapter titles
In this lesson, students name chapters in novels that they are reading, creating a cumulative list for the novel as they proceed. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Making connections to myth and folktale: The many ways to “Rainy Mountain”
In this assignment, students write a three-voice narrative based on N. Scott Momaday’s structure in The Way to Rainy Mountain. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE

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