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- A Christmas Carol chronology
- Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Judy Gibbs.
- Night of the Twisters
- Reading strategies are used to introduce a literary work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Authurice Mitchell.
- The Great Gilly Hopkins: Characterization and prediction
- In the final chapters of the novel, Gilly's grandmother learns she has a granddaughter and decides to take Gilly out of foster care. Many of my classroom readers are often dismayed by this unexpected conflict and its outcome. In this lesson, the classroom becomes a courtroom where students predict the outcome of this conflict.
This activity can be used at the end of the novel, but I like to use it after reading chapters 10 and 11 so students can compare the courtroom decision to the end of the novel. - Format: lesson plan (grade 4–6 English Language Arts)
- By Emily Vann.
- 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.
- The Wish Giver: Cause and effect
- Through a discussion of the characters in the novel The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain, the teacher will teach the students to identify and analyze the cause/effect relationship and its importance in reading comprehension.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Becky Ellzey.
- To Kill A Mockingbird role-play: A Maycomb pig pickin'
- Somewhere near the middle of reading the novel, students start to become confused about characters. This fun role-play activity works especially well just after Chapter 21 and allows students to get to know characters beyond Jem and Scout. It also can be a springboard into further discussions of point of view, theme, and stereotypes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By David Ansbacher.
- 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.
- Caricature character tour
- Students create a caricature of a literary character using magazine cutouts to practice reading for details and characterization.
- Format: lesson plan (grade English Language Arts)
- By Janice Ianniello.
- Defining risk: A search for theme in Fahrenheit 451
- Students explore their understanding of the notion of risk in relation to their own experiences and in response to a variety of quotes. This exercise serves as a springboard to themes in the novel Fahrenheit 451.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Leatha Fields-Carey.
- Description as mind control: Using details to help readers visualize your story
- Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- First draft/final draft
- Students will compare paragraphs with and without elaboration and descriptive details. They will learn how to revise their own writing by adding descriptive details such as adjectives, adverbs, concrete nouns, and precise verbs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Focusing activity to begin novel: Hatchet by Paulsen
- Students will visualize how Brian Robeson will feel when he crash lands on the deserted island at the beginning of the novel, Hatchet. This whole class period will be spent using prior knowledge of survival skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Robin Simmons.
- Introduction to Animal Farm
- This lesson introduces students to Orwell's Animal Farm. They will summarize and reflect on reading and connect the novel to life in a meaningful way.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Mary Lou Faircloth.
- Issues, we've all got them: Language arts/visual arts integration
- Students will learn how to deal positively with social issues important in their lives through personal investigation of social issues addressed in literature and art.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and English Language Development)
- By Runell Carpenter.
- 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.
- Justice for all?: To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill
- Following a study of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, students will view the courtroom scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill and determine factors which influenced the verdicts in each trial.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.
- Literature-based newspaper: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Students will create an Eatonville newspaper depicting the characters and events in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Swartz.
- Picturing America at the turn of the twentieth century
- Students link together the literature and the history of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Questions guide students as they study visual documents. Students also read the teacher's choice of two widely anthologized short stories and an excerpt from a best-selling novel of the period. Two exercises will raise student awareness of the impact that visual images have on their lives: one that is based on internet advertising and a second that results in a student-produced scrapbook.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Scott Culclasure.
- Poetry from prose: A different kind of "book report"
- Students use a word-processing program to write a poem that summarizes important themes or events central to the plot of a novel. Once the poem is proofread, students type the poem according to specific directions. They then print their work and illustrate over or around the writing for an illustrated "book report." Students incorporate details from the novel in their writing and in their illustrations of their poems. In this way, students focus on the themes or events in the novel that appeal to them most -- the ones they feel are most important to the novel's meaning.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Sally Watts.
- The scarlet “A”: Role-play in writing
- This lesson was created to follow a close reading and examination of Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. The plan uses a small group format and rotation schedule. The activities created strengthen students' understanding of an author's use of characterization, while reinforcing reading and creative writing skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Tonya White.
