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- Reading picture books: resources for teachers
- Illustrations, picturebook finding aids, and great picture book websites.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Digital literature
- Electronic books offer numerous benefits: They're usually searchable, they can be made instantly accessible to the visually impaired, they're often free, and, perhaps best of all, they're accessible right now. This list compiles some of the best sources for finding great works of literature on the Web.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Teaching point-of-view
- Students will learn point of view by comparing and contrasting the views of slaves and a doctor in The People Could Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and The Passing Cloud -- The Southern Negro by David Morrill. I strongly suggest the teacher previews The Passing Cloud -- The Southern Negro by David Morrill. The entire text is not needed in order for students to form an opinion or to learn point of view. Some students and parents may find the language offensive. I found the text interesting because it allows students to actually read the historical views of some people who lived in the area during the 1800's and early 1900's.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Angela Strother.
- Replica of a period newspaper: World literature
- Students will research a specific time in history in order to create the front page of a newspaper relevant to the selected time period.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Dechant.
- Gardens all around
- Students learn to appreciate the plants and animals that make their homes in the gardens of North Carolina.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Bambi Heavner.
- Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the antebellum period (1830–1860). Topics include slavery, daily life, agriculture, industry, technology, and the arts, as well as the events leading to secession and civil war.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- 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.
- 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 11 English Language Arts)
- By Angela Taylor.
- Haiku and photography: A natural connection
- This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By steven sather.
- African American history
- A guide to lesson plans, articles, and websites to help bring African American history alive in your classroom.
- Format: bibliography/help
- English historical newsletter project
- This is the major research activity for my senior English students enrolled in MHS average English. It is a term-long project that coincides with their ongoing thematic portfolios in British literature. These portfolios with other class ingredients (including this research activity) culminate in a final showcase portfolio which is their final exam. Students pick (first come, first served) from a list of decades (i.e. 1790-99, 1800-1809, etc.) and become an English subject of that decade. In this role, they are to publish a documented newsletter reflecting a week (covering 10 areas) of their life in the decade. They must also generate an annotated bibliography to document their multiple types of sources (20). Students must report on 3 required items (popular writer's latest effort, a new invention from the decade and a new clothing fashion). The remaining 7 areas come from a supplied list: a concert they attended, a new medical discovery, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Joe Huddleston.
- The Colored State Normal Schools
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.6
- Excerpt from the catalog of the North Carolina Colored State Normal Schools (now Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, and Elizabeth City State University), 1906. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- 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.
- Nephelococcygia - Cloud watching
- As part of the 2nd grade science objectives dealing with weather, students will learn the various types of clouds as well as the term and the act of nephelococcygia -- cloud watching.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and Science)
- By Kelley James.
- North Carolina in the New South
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the decades after the Civil War (1870–1900). Topics include changes in agriculture, the growth of cities and industry, the experiences of farmers and mill workers, education, cultural changes, politics and political activism, and the Wilmington Race Riot.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Hidden stories: A three-part lesson in African American history, research, and children’s literature
- In this high school lesson plan, students will create a timeline of African American history, review a work of children's literature, and then create their own works of children's literature drawing on a primary source document pertaining to the life of an ordinary African American.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Observing connections: Art, poetry and the environment (Lesson 1)
- Students will explore the poem of Pat Lowery Collins, “I Am An Artist” and create their own poem from what they see and experience. They will then illustrate their poems with a visual design. This is the first lesson in a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations: Observing Connections —Art, Poetry, and the Environment (Lesson 1); Observing Connections—Changing Landscapes (Lesson 2); Observing Connections—North Carolina Pottery and Face Jugs (Lesson 3)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
- By Lisa Mitchell.
- Colonial North Carolina
- Colonial North Carolina from the establishment of the Carolina in 1663 to the eve of the American Revolution in 1763. Compares the original vision for the colony with the way it actually developed. Covers the people who settled North Carolina; the growth of institutions, trade, and slavery; the impact of colonization on American Indians; and significant events such as Culpeper's Rebellion, the Tuscarora War, and the French and Indian Wars.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Seven directions: Making connections between literature and American Indian history
- This middle school lesson uses picture books to integrate American Indian culture and belief systems with language and visual arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Good medicine
- Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Leslie Ramsey.
