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English IV

Goal 1, Objective 1.01

Goal 1

The learner will express reflections and reactions to print and non-print text as well as to personal experience.

Objective 1.01

Compose reflective texts that give the audience:
- an understanding of complex thoughts and feelings.
- a sense of significance (social, political, or philosophical implications).
- a sense of encouragement to reflect on his or her own ideas.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Sonnet 130-- rude or reality?
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130." It contains a copy of the sonnet, questions to use when discussing and analyzing the sonnet, and a creative component.

This lesson has modifications for Novice Low Limited English Proficient students
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
By Elizabeth Mackie and Vicki Moats.
A survivor's story: How does it really feel?
Students use oral history excerpts of a Hurricane Floyd survivor to explore the concept of contradiction or irony.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts)
By Kristin Post.

Lesson plans on the web

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)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the unreliable biographers
Students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the history behind the satire
In this lesson, after exploring the historical allusions in Dr. Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book, the whole class discusses the history behind a passage from Gulliver’s Travels. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
In literature, interpretation is the thing
This lesson challenges students to examine the relationship between the text and a reader’s interpretation. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 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
Monsters
In this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students use Beowulf to investigate views about “monsters” in society. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 Visual Arts Education, Music Education, and English Language Arts)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Paying attention to technology: Writing technology autobiographies
Students brainstorm lists of their interactions with technology, map these interactions graphically, and then compose narratives of their most significant interactions with technology. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
A poem of possibilities: Thinking about the future
Inspired by John Updike’s poem “Ex-Basketball Player,&rdquo each student creates a poem or prose poem presenting a vivid picture of who he or she will be five years in the future. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Scripting the past: Exploring women's history through film
Students employ the screenwriter's craft to gain a fresh perspective on historical research. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Theatre Arts Education)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities