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Adding Support and Detail Without Getting Arrested!: This lesson plan is designed to teach students the concept of using facts to support ideas and to interpret (elaborate on) those facts in order to create a synthesized paragraph.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts); By Bonnie Mcmurray and Julie Joslin.

Colors and Symbols of Stigmatization: This lesson is an introduction to the reading of NIGHT by Elie Wiesel, which students will read independently. The students will do research to discover the different colors and symbols used to symbolize the Nazi party's list of undesirable people. The students will gain an understanding of how other people can arbitrarily judge other people as inferior.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Sandra Hurd and Wilma Gale.

Defining Tyranny: Students will focus on gathering support for and elaborating on ideas for an essay of definition on tyranny. Students will use examples from history and from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Bethany Hill.

Eyewitness to the flood: In this lesson, students will listen to oral history excerpts from Hurricane Floyd survivors and contrast their experiences with the experiences of the characters in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 and 12 English Language Arts); By Kristin Post.

Improving Student Essay Writing: English II teachers are constantly searching for strategies to improve students' analytical responses to literature. This lesson is designed for all types of learners, offering various activities for all learning styles. Individual, small group, and whole class activities on essay writing culminate with the student writing his or her own formal response to literature.

This generic writing activity may be used with any literary unit and at any point in your students' development of the writing process.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Shawn Parker.

Looking Back - An Art/English/History Interdisciplinary unit: This is an interdisciplinary unit that incorporates research of historical events of the past century. By students learning to recognize that society impacts the themes within art and literature, students then take this knowledge base and interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a collage, and oral presentation.

The lesson can be modified to take two weeks or longer. Some of the activites are designed for long-term assignments.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies); By Julie Osmon.

Replica of a Period Newspaper/World Literature: Students will research a specific time in history in order to create the front page of a newspaper relevant to the selected time period.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Kim Dechant.

War Is...: Upon consideration of the perspectives on war from their classmates, the poet Stephen Crane in "War is Kind," and various characters from All Quiet on the Western Front, students will write an editorial for the school newspaper in which they share opinions about war.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Rhonda Dillingham.

You Ate What??: After reading the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, students will use primary sources to relate Paul's experience to the life of a North Carolina soldier. Students will create their own primary source journal entry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Kari Siko.

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

Congressional committees and the legislative process: Introduces students to the pivotal role that Congressional committees play in the legislative process, focusing on how their own Congressional representatives influence legislation through their committee appointments. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Don't be fooled by a photograph: Students will discuss how a photograph conveys information, and how changing that photograph can change its message. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5–10 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Social Studies); Provider: National Geographic

Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible": Students examine some of Arthur Miller's historical sources and read a summary of the historical events in Salem. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Gods, heroes, and other celebrated Greeks: This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, is designed to help students shape a frame of reference for examining specific areas of ancient Greek influence on Western thought and culture. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Visual Arts Education, Social Studies, and English Language Arts); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Using technology to analyze and illustrate symbolism in Night.: This step-by-step lesson introduces students to Elie Wiesel's use of symbolism in his autobiographical novel, Night. After learning about symbolism and discussing its use in the book, students create photomontages using online resources. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Weaving the multigenre web: In this lesson, students read novels, analyze the literary elements, and create a multigenre project to present information to their peers. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE