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The Trial of Hamlet: In this lesson students have the chance to research courtroom procedure to try Hamlet for the murder of Polonius. Then, with some students in the roles of characters from the play, the class will conduct the trial of Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero.; Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts); By Ross White.

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

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

Decoding “The Matrix”: Exploring dystopian characteristics through film: In this lesson, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 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

Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Burying Addie's Voice: Students consider the role of Addie Bundren in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, the effect she has on the other characters, and the impact created by Faulkner's use of multiple narrative perspectives on revelation of character and exploration of themes. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Crossing the River: Students consider the symbolism of the river crossing in As I Lay Dying and how Faulkner's use of multiple narrative perspectives relates to the author's thematic concerns. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Focus on first lines: Increasing comprehension through prediction strategies: In this lesson, students examine opening sentences in literary works and make predictions about the content of the texts they will read later. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provider: 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); 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

Identifying and understanding the fallacies used in advertising: Students examine the fallacies that they encounter daily through exposure to advertising. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 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

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); 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

Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus: Students use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus and examples from Shakespeare's Hamlet illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. (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