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- 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.
- The value of oral history
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 1
- Why use oral history with your students? Oral history has benefits that no other historical source provides.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Life history slide show
- Students will use photos to create a slide show of their life. They will plan a presentation based on significant episodes of their life and describe their personal experiences in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts)
- By Mary Lou Faircloth.
- 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.
- Eyewitness to the flood
- In this lesson, students will listen to oral history excerpts from Hurricane Floyd survivors and contrast their experiences with the experiences of the characters in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- I know who they are, but who am I?
- In The First Year, page 3.10
- In your efforts to build relationships with your students, be sure to maintain your status as their teacher.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Careers in medicine and the ancient Greeks
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.4
- In this lesson for grade six, students will learn about ancient Greek medicine and the Hippocratic Oath, and will research contemporary medical careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.
- Guidelines for writing best practice articles
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 2.2
- Not every good teaching idea can be written as a lesson plan or buried within one. Some ideas are more general and apply throughout a curriculum area or even across curricula. If you find yourself explaining concepts, strategies, or practices, consider writing...
- Format: /help
- 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.
- "Un viaje inolvidable" (Gouin series booklet)
- Students will create a 12-page booklet about a real or imaginary plane trip (within or beyond the United States). The twelve pages include a title page, 10 pages (each with one sentence using a verb or various verbs in the preterit tense) and an ending page. Students share the processes involved in preparing to travel by plane, as well as activities enjoyed during the trip itself and at the destination.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Mary Thomas.
- Defining risk: A search for theme in Fahrenheit 451
- Students explore their understanding of the notion of risk in relation to their own experiences and in response to a variety of quotes. This exercise serves as a springboard to themes in the novel Fahrenheit 451.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Leatha Fields-Carey.
- Crossing Cultures: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Crossing Cultures, a course to help teachers gain a greater awareness of their own cultural background, as well as acquire tools to interact appropriately and effectively with people from a variety of cultures.
- Format: syllabus
- Looking for support
- An elementary special education teacher talks about finding support in challenging situations.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Women of the South in a changing society
- This lesson examines the lives of women in Southern Appalachia and other areas of the south during the Civil War and focuses particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.
- Night of the Twisters
- Reading strategies are used to introduce a literary work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Authurice Mitchell.
- English language learners and special education testing
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.4
- English language learners are often incorrectly labeled with learning disabilities because of inffective diagnostic tests. A more effective model of testing and instruction would be based upon the educational concepts of scaffolding instruction and the Zone of Proximal Development.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- Foreword
- Developing online resources for beginning teachers is not easy. What new teachers need most of all is a mentor — an experienced, thoughtful, successful teacher who can take the time to guide them through their first year. They need someone to steer them...
- By David Walbert.
- Developing Your Online Course: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course Developing Your Online Course designed to help teachers develop strategies for building online courses.
- Format: syllabus
- Interviewing artists in the classroom
- Inviting guests into your classroom can enrich students' learning experiences, but teaching students to ask good questions is crucial. This article explains how to prepare students to interview guests and how to teach them to ask good, open-ended questions.
- Slavery across North Carolina
- In this lesson for grade 8, students read excerpts from slave narratives to gain an understanding of how slavery developed in each region of North Carolina, and how regional differences created a variety of slave experiences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
