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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.

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.

The Death of John Lawson: Baron Christoph Von Graffenried's drawing, The Death of John Lawson, depicts Von Graffenried, his servant, and John Lawson being held captive by Tuscarora Indians shortly before Lawson's death. In the center of the drawing, the...; Format: image/illustration

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.

Lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration: A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration, the third of the five features of effective writing.; Format: bibliography/help

A soldier recalls the Trail of Tears: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.8; In this letter to his children, written on his eightieth birthday, Private John G. Burnett tells the story of the removal of the Cherokee to the West. Includes historical commentary.; Format: letter

William Hilton explores the Cape Fear River: In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.7; A 1663 report by the English explorer William Hilton about the geography and native peoples of the Cape Fear region, including a story of conflict between New Englanders and Cape Fear Indians. Includes historical commentary.; Format: book

Of the inlets and havens of this country: In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.7; Excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 A New Voyage to Carolina detailing the geography of North Carolina's coast. Includes historical commentary and notes about how the coastline has changed since the colonial period.; Format: book; Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The book by Thomas R. Gray, allegedly containing the prison "confession" of Nat Turner, an enslaved man who led an 1831 insurrection in Southampton, Virginia.; Format: book

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