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English IV
Goal 6, Objective 6.01
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Sentence combining and decombining
- Students will focus on stylistic choices and sentence fluency by combining, decombining, and recombining sentences in professional writing, peer writing, and their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- By Peter Bobbe.
- English historical newsletter project
- This is the major research activity for my senior English students enrolled in MHS average English. It is a term-long project that coincides with their ongoing thematic portfolios in British literature. These portfolios with other class ingredients (including this research activity) culminate in a final showcase portfolio which is their final exam. Students pick (first come, first served) from a list of decades (i.e. 1790-99, 1800-1809, etc.) and become an English subject of that decade. In this role, they are to publish a documented newsletter reflecting a week (covering 10 areas) of their life in the decade. They must also generate an annotated bibliography to document their multiple types of sources (20). Students must report on 3 required items (popular writer's latest effort, a new invention from the decade and a new clothing fashion). The remaining 7 areas come from a supplied list: a concert they attended, a new medical discovery, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Joe Huddleston.
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- 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
- 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... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- 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
- 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
- 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... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- 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)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
