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- Similes
- "The Talking Eggs" by Robert San Souci is used to introduce and illustrate an author's use of language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Students will draw a picture to show what this author meant, create similes to describe themselves, and finally use a simile in their next story in Writer's Workshop.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By jennifer lettieri.
- Story tellers and poets
- Students will examine the style, purpose, and organization of folktales and poetry in order to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of both genres. With this knowledge, students will use the word choice and repetition of traditional folktales to transform them into modern poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Heather Bower and Michele Hicks.
- Cause and effect writing: What it looks like and who reads it
- Students examine the causes and effects presented in a brochure called “Ozone: The Good and the Bad.” They also examine the language of the brochure with regard to audience appropriateness. Students then write their own brochures examine their classmates' brochures for cause and effect and for audience appropriateness.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Michelle Roberts.
- Two perspectives on slavery: A comparison of personal narratives
- This activity for grade 11 will help students evaluate and critique authors' perspectives. Students will read two first-person narratives and analyze how each text is influenced by its author's cultural background.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- 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 9–11 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- 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.
- Getting hooked: Introduction for a narrative
- Students will be able to identify techniques for writing an introduction for a narrative and use them effectively.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Leann Kelley.
- Pre-writing planning guide
- A graphic organizer to help students plan narrative writing. Includes space for author, audience, purpose, title, genre, time and place, narrator, point of view, plot, an illustrating image, comments, and questions.
- Format: document/worksheet
- Selection policy and disclaimer for "Best of the Web"
- The purpose of LEARN NC's Best of the Web collection is to provide web resources that support the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. These resources have been selected according to our selection policy.
- Format: article/help
- Media mind control
- Some research studies indicate that the common portrayal of violence on television has desensitized children towards it. The purpose of this lesson is to help students redevelop their sensitivity towards violence and develop a critical attitude towards the purpose of violence in television.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance)
- By Linda Nelson.
- About wills and probate inventories
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 7.1
- Explanation of legal documents surrounding a person's death and how historians use them to understand daily life, family structure, and other aspects of the past.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Determining the author's purpose: Analyzing a recruitment video
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.10
- In this lesson plan, students analyze a video about ROTC to determine why the video was created.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- Modify a seed
- This activity is set up so that students will try to modify their model seed, so that it conforms to an assigned seed dispersal strategy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Bert Wartski.
- Lesson plans for teaching style
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching style, the fourth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Effective communication for successful careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.7
- In this lesson plan, students consider the elements of effective communication and write an informative or persuasive paper with a particular audience in mind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- Literature biography project
- For this project, students will learn to develop the various processes used in researching and writing a biographical research paper, including brainstorming, note taking, outlining, creating a bibliography, and writing the final draft. This project is designed to act as an independent study geared toward AG or Level 3 and Level 4 students, but each step in the research process can also be taught directly to students in the classroom.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Sandra Dail.
- Focus activity using RAFT
- Better writing requires consideration of RAFT: Role, Audience, Format and Topic.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Kathleen Bost and Leigh Ann Webb.
- Tarantulas
- Students will read Tarantula by Jenny Feely. Then they will summarize what they have learned about tarantulas by writing descriptive words or phrases on a graphic organizer. Finally, using the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe (or other similar drawing program), students will write sentences about tarantulas and make an illustration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- Diction in Maya Angelou's poem "Remembering"
- The class will annotate and discuss Angelou's poem. Then they will select specific words and complete a webbing that asks them to explore the connotations of the word as well as consider the author's purpose in using it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Just link it?
- A hyperlink is a citation to someone else's intellectual property; therefore, linking should protect the source's integrity and make its identity clear.
- By Melissa Thibault.
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