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English III
Goal 6, Objective 6.02
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- Writing about writing: An extended metaphor assignment
- In this lesson, students use Richard Wilbur's poem “The Writer” as an inspiration as they write their own extended metaphor describing themselves as writers. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Word maps: Developing critical and analytical thinking about literary characters
- In this lesson, students read the short story “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry and focus on the author's use of characterization. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- What's my subject? A subject-verb agreement mini-lesson
- In this lesson, students explore subject–verb agreement using real-life examples from newspapers and song lyrics. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- That's not fair! Examining civil liberties with the U.S. Supreme Court
- In this lesson, high school students work in collaborative groups to explore the issue of civil liberties by conducting Internet research on related court cases of their choosing. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Style: Translating stylistic choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and back again
- In this lesson, students translate passages that demonstrate specific stylistic devices and then translate fables into the style of one of the authors they have been reading. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- So what do you think? Writing a review
- After examining samples of movie, music, restaurant, and book reviews, students devise guidelines for writing interesting and informative reviews. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Reader response in Hypertext: Making personal connections to literature
- In this lesson, students choose four quotations that inspire personal responses to a novel they have read and create a multi-genre project to express these feelings. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Propaganda techniques in literature and online political ads
- This lesson suggests using Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to introduce students to propaganda techniques used in literature and popular culture. This short unit would be appropriate to use with various novels and when discussing advertising campaigns... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Preparing a character for a new job: Character analysis through job placement
- In this lesson, students act as employment counselors and design resumes and potential interview questions for literary characters in order to help prepare them for job interviews. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Poetry: Sound and sense
- In this lesson, students read and listen to several poems while concentrating on the author's language choices. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Outside in: Finding a character's heart through art
- In this lesson, students explore the idea of alienation by examining Edward Hopper's art and Raymond Carver's fiction. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: 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)
- Provided by: 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)
- Provided by: 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)
- Provided by: 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)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- 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)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- 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. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- 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)
- Provided by: 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)
- Provided by: 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)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE