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English IV
Goal 1, Objective 1.01
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- 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 (multiple pages)
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- 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)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- 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)
- Provided by: 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, English Language Arts, and Music Education)
- Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- 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
- 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)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- 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)
- Provided by: 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)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- 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
