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English I
Goal 5, Objective 5.03
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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
- Analyzing the stylistic choices of political cartoonists
- In this lesson, students learn terminology that describes comics and political (or editorial) cartoons and discuss how the cartoonists' choices influence the messages that they communicate. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Animals versus people: Who's the better navigator?
- This Xpeditions lesson asks students to focus on people's innate navigational abilities. They first read about animal navigation and then compare animal and human navigational capabilities. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 Science and English Language Arts)
- Provider: National Geographic
- The comic book show and tell
- In this brief authentic writing experience, students compose original comic book scripts using detailed, descriptive language and exciting dialogue. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- 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
- Defining literacy in a digital world
- In this lesson, students create an inventory of personal texts, including a range of print, visual and audio texts in order to create a working definition of literacy. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- 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 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
- Exploring satire with The Simpsons
- Using the images from the television show, The Simpsons, students explore the elements of satire—exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Graffiti wall: Discussing and responding to literature using graphics
- In collaborative groups, students create graphics that illustrate elements of fiction in student-selected novels. (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
- Identifying and understanding the fallacies used in advertising
- Students examine the fallacies that they encounter daily through exposure to advertising. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 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 scrapbooks online: An electronic reader-response project
- This lesson leads students to reflect on and respond to literature by creating an online scrapbook. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Magazine redux: An exercise in critical literacy
- This lesson prompts students to act as critical readers as they consider how and why their approach and experiences differ when reading an online version versus a print version of a magazine. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
