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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.
- The Legend of the Blue Bonnet
- Students will create their own version/retelling of The Legend of the Blue Bonnet by Tomie dePaola
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Shari Peacock.
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- This lesson plan focuses on a English Language Arts objectives: similarity and difference. Students compare the story The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Students will work collaboratively in small heterogeneous groups to apply strategies for comprehension and vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Betty Coleman-Canty and Michelle Swain.
- Oedipus the King reader's theatre
- Students will rewrite the Greek tragedy in a modern context in order to review and analyze the plot. This assignment is designed as a final project in a Greek Theatre unit. It is expected that the literature has already been read and analyzed as a class. I have found that this project is an innovative way to review for a unit test on the play and Greek Theatre.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- Bubba: A Cinderella story
- This lesson focuses on the whimsical interpretation of the Cinderella story. Students explore the story Bubba, the Cowboy Prince, through rich text and interpretations of the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Jennifer Fessler and Karen Wright.
- Figurative language: Metaphor
- This lesson is a part of a unit on poetry and figurative language. It is designed to teach students the characteristics of metaphor within the context of poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy Meyers.
- 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.
- An integrated poetry unit
- My students have always disliked poetry. The different ways in which this lesson approaches poetry and the connection it makes to their "March Madness" studies seems to make poetry more enjoyable, fun, and relevant for my students. In order to integrate with the sixth grade math and social studies teachers, I teach this unit during the ACC tournament to coincide with the "March Madness" unit that is covered in the math classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy Guthrie.
- Introducing simple machines: A machine walk
- This is an integrated lesson exploring simple machines. The poetry response part of this lesson serves to spark the students' interest as well as allow the teacher to identify students' prior knowledge of machine concepts and vocabulary. The machine walk gives a baseline assessment of students' understanding. The majority of students originally focus on complex machines; this will be evident by the types of machines they identify on their list.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Terri Fannin.
- Is Mr. Wolf really a bad guy?
- This lesson is intended to show children the importance of evaluating information as they read. The author's point of view is limited in that it only truly shows one side of the story. There is always another perspective. How the author views a subject colors everything that he or she writes about.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- 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.
- The mythology connection
- Mythology is fascinating and students enjoy the research and learning more about different characters. By allowing them to choose some of the activities for the booklet, they take more ownership in learning. They also enjoy dressing up and pretending to become a mythological character. This unit incorporates many goals in a fun and stimulating way.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Bowman.
- One, two, three... go Poe!
- In this lesson, students will be able to compare and contrast three short stories they have read by Edgar Allan Poe. The assignment will be divided into three parts: (1) They will have read and discussed or completed other classroom activities on each of the three stories. (2) They will work in small groups to brainstorm and create comparison/contrast charts that will be shared with the class. (3) Students will create their own graphic organizers based on the ideas shared in step two and then create a draft and final paper.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
- By Janie Peak.
- 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.
- Positively poetry
- Students will be learning about and writing limericks. Since limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern and word count, the students will work in partners to create their own limericks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Maribeth Warren, Pam Purifoy, and Tracy Dagenhart.
- 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.
- 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.
- Storytelling with Cherokee folktales
- This is a two day lesson pertaining to telling Cherokee folktales. This lesson can be modified and used with any folktale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Ricky Hamilton.
- Tableaux tour of texts
- Students express their empathy for characters and events from books read in small groups by creating tableaux (freeze-frames) of key scenes to present to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Bowen.
- The wolf in children's books
- Students will explore the ways wolves are represented in children's stories. They will decide if the wolf is a protagonist or an antagonist in the story. They will also attempt to determine if these representations are scientifically accurate. The first in a two-part lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Vanessa Olson.
