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English IV
Goal 1, Objective 1.02
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- Analyzing character in "Hamlet" through epitaphs
- Students compose epitaphs for deceased characters in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, paying particular attention to how their words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Audio broadcasts and podcasts: Oral storytelling and dramatization
- In this lesson, students explore the historical information surrounding the broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds and develop criteria for producing their own podcast of a literary work. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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: Exploring a fictional technology
- This lesson asks students to complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology and then compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts)
- 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
- Reading literature in translation: "Beowulf" as a case study
- This lesson introduces students to the verse form and poetic techniques used in various translations of Beowulf. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: 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)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
