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- Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens
- Students read, discuss, and write about Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens by Spencer Johnson, M.D., a parable about life's changes, and how best to benefit from them. By reading the parable, students will learn ways to react positively to inevitable change, and gain insight into their personal decision-making processes regarding changes in their lives, now and in the future. This lesson plan is modified for Advanced English Language Learners in the 9th and 10th grades. It is written for 45 minute class periods, but can be modified for 90 minute block classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber.
- How ironic!
- This lesson will introduce students to the concept of irony. Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony will be defined, but the focus of the lesson is situational irony. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories that contain situational irony. This lesson is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) who reads at the Intermediate Low (IL) level.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.
- A matter of identity: Writing an extended metaphor poem
- Students apply their knowledge of literary devices by reading and analyzing the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco. Students then create their own poem incorporating the literary devices studied and analyzed in the above mentioned poem. This lesson includes modifications for a Novice Low Limited English student.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Susan Brooks and Carrie Mabry.
- Poetry through music: "Smooth"
- This lesson draws students into a study of poetry, using Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" as an entry point.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Andrea Belletti.
- Romeo and Juliet: The Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2)
- O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Lesson will help struggling readers to comprehend figurative language and overall meaning in the famous balcony scene. It will also compare text to two media depictions. This lesson has been created with exceptional children and limited English proficient (novice low) students in mind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Elizabeth Mackie and Vicki Moats.
- Setting and Symbolism in A Doll's House
- This lesson is designed as a follow-up to the reading and discussion of the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. An understanding of the two literary terms setting and symbolism, and their impact on a work of literature, are essential to students' success in following the guidelines outlined in the North Carolina English Language Arts Standard Course of Study. This lesson has been modified for English Language Learners at the intermediate high proficiency level, but would also be adaptable for learners at the novice or advanced levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Guy Hill and Crystal Brown.
