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- Character education: Honesty
- This lesson will focus on two character education traits - honesty and friendship. During this lesson the students will conduct a character analysis and link prior knowledge to help understand the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By LaTina Robinson.
- 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.
- Walk Two Moons: An integrated unit
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a bittersweet story of a teenager who desperately wants to be reunited with her mother. This unit is an integrated study combining setting, theme, point of view, character, and plot with geography and geometry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Janet Fore.
- 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 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Susan Brooks and Carrie Mabry.
- Slavery and Childhood
- This lesson is designed to extend student understanding of the experiences of slaves living in the American, antebellum south. The chosen samples and excerpts from the Documenting the American South collection reflect the childhood of two enslaved people born in America, Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglas, and two people born in Africa, Oloudah Equiano and Omar Bin Said. Two knew what it was like to be free before being captured and placed into servitude, and longed to be free again; two were born into slavery and like the two native born Africans had aspirations of freedom. Students are invited to compare their childhood memories with the lives of these children in an effort to make history more human.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- 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 Greedy Triangle
- Students review geometric terms by making predictions about what the Greedy Triangle will become as the teacher reads the book, The Greedy Triangle. Students will create geometric creatures after the review.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Renee Allen.
- Understanding Culpeper's Rebellion
- This lesson will allow students to present their understanding of a critical event in the history of colonial Carolina by analyzing the article "Culpeper’s Rebellion," examining the causes and effects, and in groups developing and performing a skit that tells the story of the rebellion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Reading for relevance in literature
- A unit-length instructional plan for using graphic organizers to promote active reading of novels, using The Count of Monte Cristo as an example.
- By Suzanne Micallef.
- Differences across the curriculum: Part 2
- This set of lessons can be used with "Differences across the curriculum: Part 1" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias, which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 2, is meant to augment the pre-reading activities completed in Part 1 in a Social Studies class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Lynn Carter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alternative discussion formats: The talk show
- In Alternative discussion formats, page 2
- The talk show is a format with which students are already familiar, and it provides the structure for a great discussion.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Survival in Abel's Island: Segment 1
- This is the first segment of a literature study on the book Abel's Island by William Steig. This unit is centered around the concept of survival. The instruction involves the student in analysis of all that is involved in what we simply term "survival". It prepares students for situations in their real worlds that are symbolized by events in the novel as well as hopefully increasing their understanding and ability to analyze these situations, break them down and make logical decisions supported by evidence and higher level thinking skills.
This unit is especially appropriate for gifted students, using different models (Bloom, Bruner, Kohlberg) in the lesson formats. It contains intense analysis of passages from the novel and questioning strategies that pull the students into a higher realm of thinking and reasoning.
This first lesson is a combination of an introduction to natural disasters (which is the first major conflict in the book), the start of a diary and analysis of a passage. - Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- By Courtney Pickett.
- Spinning spider stories
- This interdisciplinary lesson is designed to introduce students to the purpose and process of comparative literature. The literary selections may be altered according to audience and purpose, from grades 5 through 8.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Industrialization and Progressive Reform in the Craft Revival
- In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will analyze the process of making a hobby into a job. They will explore Craft Revival work environments, representations of industrial work environments, and data regarding Craft Revival work. To close the activity, students write a journal entry comparing Craft Revival and industrial work experiences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Patrick Velde.
- Learning literary elements through African and African American folktales
- In this eighth grade lesson, students will apply their knowledge of literary elements (plot structure and archetypal characters) to the analysis and creation of African and African American folktales. Students will work in groups to read several picture book versions of African and African American folktales. Each group then creates a plot map for a story and highlights other literary elements identified within the text. Students then compare the folktales with fairy tales from other cultures and explain what they learned about African and African American culture from reading the folktales. Finally, students work independently to write their own modern-day folktale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Hardin Engelhardt.
- "The Cask of Amontillado"
- The short story "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allan Poe is an effective venue for teaching English I literary terms. The following lesson plan is designed to engage the reader in a deeper than superficial reading of the text. It is also designed to elicit discussion and written critical-thinking responses. This lesson assumes that the literary terms have already been introduced. However, if they have not, the teacher may use this lesson to introduce these terms in the context of the literature.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Guy Hill and Crystal Brown.
- Visualizations: Black poet, Langston Hughes
- Third grade or fourth grade students will have an opportunity to read and appreciate selected poetry of the African-American poet, Langston Hughes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Floanna Long.
