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English I
Goal 1, Objective 1.03
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- “You're the Top!” Pop culture then and now
- In an exploration of Cole Porter's song, “You're the Top!,” students write about present-day pop culture and learn about pop culture of the past. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Analyzing the purpose and meaning of political cartoons
- In this lesson, students evaluate political cartoons for their meaning, message, and persuasiveness. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Audio listening practices: Exploring personal experiences with audio texts
- In this lesson designed to develop students’ involvement with media literacy, students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to radio, music (e.g., songs on MP3 players, podcasting), and other streaming media or archived broadcasts. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Blogtopia: Blogging about your own utopia
- In this lesson, students study utopian literature, design a unique utopian society and publish an explanation of their ideal world on a blog. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Building Vietnam War scavenger hunts through web-based inquiry
- After reading a book about the Vietnam War, students, working in small groups, adopt the perspective of members of a group involved in the war (e.g., soldier, nurse, doctor, photojournalist, TV reporter) and conduct Internet research to explore how that particular group was affected. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Critical reading: Two stories, two authors, same plot?
- This lesson encourages students to read and respond critically to two different pieces of literature with the same title. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Decoding “The Matrix”: Exploring dystopian characteristics through film
- In this lesson, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Decoding the dystopian characteristics of Macintosh's "1984" commercial
- Students explore the dystopian characteristics and symbols presented in Macintosh's “1984” commercial and analyze the comments that it makes about contemporary society. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Discovering traditional sonnet forms
- Students explore the traditional form of sonnets and write original poems in the manner of well–known poets. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Exploring language and identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and beyond
- Students examine Amy Tan's “Mother Tongue” and produce personal narratives that examine language and identity issues. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Exploring literature through letter writing groups
- Working in groups, students will explore a work of literature by exchanging a series of open-ended letters. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Exploring satire with Shrek
- Using the animated film, Shrek, students identify common characteristics of fairy tales and evaluate how this form of literature makes satirical social commentary. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Heroes are made of this: Studying the character of heroes
- Students explore the qualities of heroic characters in various genres through small group discussion and comparative analysis of multiple works of literature. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Id, ego, and superego in Dr. Seuss's “Cat in the Hat”
- In this lesson, students explore plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism using The Cat in the Hat. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Investigating names to explore personal history and cultural traditions
- In this lesson, students investigate the meanings and origins of their own names in order to establish their own personal histories and to explore the cultural significance of naming traditions. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Is a sentence a poem?
- In this lesson, students analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a chosen one-sentence poem to decide what makes it a poem. Then students write one-sentence poems describing a picture. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Literary parodies: Exploring a writer's style through imitation
- In this lesson, students analyze the features of a poet's work and then create their own poems based on the original model. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
- Provider: 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)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- 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)
- Provider: 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)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE