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- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Students study the symbolism, setting, and characterization in Kafka's work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Laura Rose.
- Analyzing significant events in Jim the Boy
- This activity, to be completed after reading Tony Earley's Jim the Boy, helps students identify examples and details and then analyze them effectively. The class will brainstorm examples of life-changing events in Jim's life. The teacher will select one of the events, find the pages in the novel where it is discussed, and show the students how to annotate the text by marking details and commenting on them. Using a "T" chart, the class will then select three of the details to analyze.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Escapes
- This lesson will help students become more understanding of cultural differences. Students will analyze the theme of escape in two poems. They will recognize and record literary elements found in the poems and connect the poems to life in a meaningful way.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Mary Lou Faircloth.
- Examining effective openers and closures in writings
- Students will listen to a reading of Dr. Seuss' and Jack Prelutsky's Hooray for Difendoofer Day! Students will then work cooperatively to edit one another's rough drafts of analytical essay, focusing on openers and closures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Heather Bower and Michele Hicks.
- Focus in writing
- This brief lesson will help students recognize when a paragraph loses focus and will help them understand the concept of focus.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Peter Bobbe.
- Foreshadowing: Quote identification, discovery lesson, and essay prompt analysis
- During the course of this lesson, students identify selected quotes from literary works studied in class. After a brief discussion of what all of the quotes have in common, students will determine that each quote foreshadows an important, upcoming plot development. The class will then examine an essay prompt on foreshadowing, vote on the literary work to be used in planning a response to the prompt, and, as a teacher-led, whole-class activity, come up with a thesis and main point outline for the essay.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Martha Owens.
- Helping students understand text structures: Informational problem/solution
- This exercise teaches students to understand the organizational structure of problem/solution essays by having them write "what it says" and "what it does" statements about a text. Asking students to write these statements about a text will enable students to read the text closely and will ensure that they understand the structure of a problem/solution text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Interpreting a short story
- Students will study the literary genre of the short story and examine how, through writing, an author can comment directly/indirectly on our society as a whole. Hopefully, the students will develop an awareness of the problems/concerns facing our society and an appreciation of how a skilled writer can mirror society's ills and sometimes offer solutions for the problems that plague us.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Regina Johnson.
- Is no man an island?
- This unit is designed to encourage thinking about our connectedness to and responsibilities toward others. Materials in this unit are used to demonstrate humankind's need to refute an impersonal natural order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Jewell Kendrick.
- Join up
- This lesson is designed to help students look more closely at the reasons why Paul and his friends from the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, along with other soldiers, joined the armed forces in WWI. Through primary sources and the novel, students will have a better understanding of propaganda and how it affects people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kari Siko.
- Jonathan Edwards and the art of persuasion
- In this lesson, students will study the elements of persuasive writing in Jonathan Edward's “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” according to the following criteria: speaker, audience, occasion, and means of persuasion, and then analyze a contemporary piece of writing, such as an advertisement, for similar elements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Dave Guiley.
- Looking at an object
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.10
- Students will analyze unfamiliar objects in order to observe the attributes of an object, infer the uses of objects; and discover how archaeologists use objects to learn about the past.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- 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.
- Scientific inquiry
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.8
- In their study of scientific inquiry, students will use an activity sheet to make inferences about what activities go on at different places in school (desk, locker, etc.) and form an hypothesis about how space is used. They will also simulate how archaeologists learn about past people by designing and conducting a research project.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Seeing two poems
- This lesson will teach students how to actively read a poem and identify poetic devices.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Karyn A. Gloden.
- 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.
- Singing the "Song of Life"
- This lesson requires students to use their reading, comprehension, and analysis skills to analyze a poem and respond creatively to the selection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- By Angela Taylor.
- "Sonnet 130": Rude or reality?
- This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130." It contains a copy of the sonnet, questions to use when discussing and analyzing the sonnet, and a creative component. This lesson has modifications for Novice Low Limited English Proficient students
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Elizabeth Mackie and Vicki Moats.
- Thematic and organizational patterns in McLaurin's "The Rite Time of Night"
- Students will learn to identify and color-code thematic and organizational patterns found in the narrative and then use two-column note-taking to highlight how these patterns helped McLaurin give his story focus and organization. As a suggested follow-up activity, students are given ideas for writing their own narratives, using similar techniques as McLaurin.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
