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- Directed reading lesson: Dear Mr. Blueberry
- This plan is a directed reading/thinking activity for the book Dear Mr. Blueberry with questioning and a follow-up written activity that focuses on the story elements. Another activity involves discussing facts about whales in the story and, then, finding other facts about whales that are used for a writing activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Candace Hall.
- Integrating computer use into a Trainable Mentally Disabled Level IV curriculum.
- Students involved in the Trainable Mentally Disabled program will use computers to supplement reading and personal information skills being taught as part of the implementation of student's Individual Education Plan. This activity will also allow students to reinforce fine-motor, visual-motor and behavioral skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Suzanne Morris.
- Colors and symbols of stigmatization
- This lesson is an introduction to the reading of Night by Elie Wiesel, which students will read independently. The students will do research to discover the different colors and symbols used to symbolize the Nazi party's list of undesirable people. The students will gain an understanding of how other people can arbitrarily judge other people as inferior.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Sandra Hurd and Wilma Gale.
- Focus
- In The five features of effective writing, page 2
- Focus, the first Feature of Effective Writing, is the "so what?" in a piece of writing. This article will help you teach students to stay on topic.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Do you really believe in magic?
- Students are introduced to the genre (or mode) of Magical Realism in World Literature by reading Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." This lesson plan is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) at the Intermediate Low (IL) proficiency level.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.
- Cloudy with a chance of... what?
- Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Science)
- By BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe.
- Reading Amadas and Barlowe
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 4.2
- In this lesson, students will read about Amadas and Barlowe's 1584 voyage to the Outer Banks, and will practice thinking critically and analyzing primary source documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Analyzing primary sources: John White and the "lost colonists"
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 4.3
- In this lesson, students will read about John White's attempt to find the "lost colonists" in 1590, and will practice thinking critically and analyzing primary source documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- A Birthday Basket For Tia
- This lesson will provide your students with an opportunity to brainstorm, predict, and check for understanding throughout this wonderful story about a little girl, Cecilia, who is preparing a special birthday gift for her 90 year-old Aunt Tia. Cecilia collects objects that represent her favorite memories with her aunt. Many uses of technology are suggested to integrate math and science with language and reading.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Jenny Walters.
- Student life at UNC
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.7
- Excerpts from minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1802, setting costs for attending the university and establishing rules for student behavior. Includes historical commentary.
- "Be saved from the jaws of an angry hell"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.7
- An 1831 letter from Thomas Whitmell Harriss to his sister, in which he begs her to accept Christ as her savior. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Romeo and Juliet: The Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2)
- O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Lesson will help struggling readers to comprehend figurative language and overall meaning in the famous balcony scene. It will also compare text to two media depictions. This lesson has been created with exceptional children and limited English proficient (novice low) students in mind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Elizabeth Mackie and Vicki Moats.
- Learning in colonial Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.8
- During the late 1600s and early 1700s, education in Carolina was largely informal. Most children learned by watching and imitating parents and older community members. The sons of the wealthy were sent away to schools in other colonies or in England. The first efforts to provide formal education in Carolina were made by religious groups — the Quakers, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians.
- Format: article
- By Betty Dishong Renfer.
- Organization
- In The five features of effective writing, page 3
- Organization, the second Feature of Effective Writing, should be addressed after a writer has established a focus and will help strengthen that focus.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- I, the basket: Writing a first-person story as an inanimate object
- In this interdisciplinary lesson for grade seven, students explore the first-person point of view through children's literature and images of Nepal. Students exhibit their understanding of first-person narrative by writing a children's story from the perspective of an inanimate object.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Two paths to knowledge
- For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- Martin Luther's Reformation in Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The setting of Victor Hugo's novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the fifteenth century, the transitional period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance/Reformation era. This era ushers in the period known as the modern age and historical events are chronicled through Hugo's novel. Hugo sets The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the decline of feudalism and the infancy of absolutism through Louis XI (Spider King), the rise of a urban middle class and the beginnings of commerce as it is known today. Primarily this novel satirizes the Catholic Church's absolute power -- its abuses, and its excesses. Students will discover how Hugo's satire operates to show the Catholic Church's abuse of power during the late Middle Ages and the early Reformation in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Nancy Webber.
- Think for yourself! Media literacy every day
- Information, like air, is everywhere, and we breathe it in whether we mean to or not. If we want our students to be rational, responsible citizens and consumers, we have to help them develop a filter they can use all the time, not just when they're doing research.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Turning the century
- Students will create a museum display illustrating life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Stamey.
- Arranging for independence
- Erin Espinoza's kindergarten classroom encourages children to learn on their own. A classroom profile.
- By Sydney Brown.
