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Goal 1

The learner will demonstrate increasing insight and reflection to print and non-print text through personal expression.

Objective 1.02

Reflect and respond expressively to texts so that the audience will:
- discover multiple perspectives.
- investigate connections between life and literature.
- explore how the student's life experiences influence his or her response to the selection.
- recognize how the responses of others may be different.
- articulate insightful connections between life and literature.
-consider cultural or historical significance.

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“Picturing” America at the turn of the twentieth century: Students link together the literature and the history of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Questions guide students as they study visual documents. Students also read the teacher's choice of two widely anthologized short stories and an excerpt from a best-selling novel of the period. Two exercises will raise student awareness of the impact that visual images have on their lives: one that is based on internet advertising and a second that results in a student-produced scrapbook.; Author: Scott Culclasure; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
"The American Dream": In conjunction with a unit on Puritanism, students will define and illustrate their personal definition of "The American Dream" or their concept of the dream in general.; Author: Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
Analyzing Children's Letters to Mrs. Roosevelt: Students will analyze letters that children wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression.; Author: Angie Panel Holthausen; Format: lesson plan (grades 11–12)
Jonathan Edwards and the art of persuasion: In this lesson, students will study the elements of persuasive writing in Jonathan Edward's “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” according to the following criteria: speaker, audience, occasion, and means of persuasion, and then analyze a contemporary piece of writing, such as an advertisement, for similar elements.; Author: Dave Guiley; Format: lesson plan (grade 11)
Literature-based newspaper: Their Eyes were Watching God: Students will create an Eatonville newspaper depicting the characters and events in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes were Watching God.; Author: Jennifer Swartz; Format: lesson plan (grade 11)
Singing the Song of Life: This lesson requires students to use their reading, comprehension, and analysis skills to analyze a poem and respond creatively to the selection.; Author: Angela Taylor; Format: lesson plan (grade 11)
Two perspectives on slavery: A comparison of personal narratives: This activity for grade 11 will help students evaluate and critique authors' perspectives. Students will read two first-person narratives and analyze how each text is influenced by its author's cultural background.; Author: Dayna Durbin Gleaves; Format: lesson plan (grade 11)
“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.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–11)
Analyzing the purpose and meaning of political cartoons: In this lesson, students evaluate political cartoons for their meaning, message, and persuasiveness.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 9, 11)
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.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–11)
A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives: In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students select American authors to research. They create timelines and biopoems about their authors and then collaborate in teams to design and present a panel presentation where they role-play their authors. The final project requires each student to synthesize information about his or her author in an essay that will be posted online at the U.S. Literary Map Project website. Extension activities include writing a formal research paper and reading other works by the selected authors.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
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.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
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.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grade 9)
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.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
Designing museum exhibits for “The Grapes of Wrath”: A multigenre project: In this lesson, students read The Grapes of Wrath and create multigenre projects that explore issues from the Depression era.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grade 11)
Draft letters: Improving student writing through critical thinking: This lesson challenges students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
Families in Bondage: Uses letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones still in bondage to give students a glimpse into slavery and its effects on African American family life.; Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities; Format: lesson plan (grades 11–12)
From Friedan forward—considering a feminist perspective: In this lesson that focuses on feminism, students are challenged to think about how opinions develop and change based on such things as age, experience, time, and place.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grade 11)
Geography and history in songs: Students look at some historical paintings on the Internet and describe the things the paintings reveal about the places depicted in the paintings.; Provider: National Geographic; Format: lesson plan (grades 9–12)
A Harlem Renaissance retrospective: Connecting art, music, dance, and poetry: Students conduct Internet research, work with an interactive Venn diagram tool, and create a museum exhibit that highlights the work of selected artists, musicians, and poets of the Harlem Renaissance.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 11–12)