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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.

Eroded Land, Eroded Lives: Agriculture and The Grapes of Wrath (lesson 1 of 10): This description is of only the first lesson in the unit, to be taught before students read the novel; thus, its primary purpose is to put this novel in historical context. Toward that end, students will learn about the (unintentional) abuse of soil that allowed the Dust Bowl to be so devastating and extensive. They will also see photographs by Dorothea Lange and others depicting the wasted land and subsequent wasted dreams of thousands. See Supplemental Resources and Relevant Web Sites for material.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Annie Henry.

Family Story with Research: Using the book, When The Legends Die and a Native American story-telling unit, students gather a family story of their own.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Eric Broer.

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.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Jennifer Swartz.

Women of the South in a Changing Society: This lesson examines the lives of women in Southern Appalachia and other areas of the south during the Civil War and focuses particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.

“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

Argument, persuasion, or propaganda? Analyzing World War II posters: In this lesson that can be used in both English and social studies classes, students analyze World War II posters to explore how argument, persuasion, and propaganda differ. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts and Social Studies); 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

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.
(Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Broken worlds: This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, provides a variety of options for conducting comparative analysis between two plays. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 Theatre Arts Education and English Language Arts); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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

Copyright infringement or not? The debate over downloading music: In this lesson, students investigate the controversial topic of downloading music from the Internet as part of a persuasive debate unit. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Cultural change: Students examine the arguments used to win the vote for American women and explore the cultural dimension of these arguments. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Exploring audience and purpose with a single issue: In this lesson, students explore the rhetorical concept of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925—the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education); Provider: National Geographic