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- 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.
- Understanding the elements of a story
- Students will read a story, understand the elements of the story, analyze characters, and complete research about good and evil.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Abha Bhatnagar and Meera Madan.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oral history through personal narratives
- Students apply their knowledge of story elements to art and literature of the 1950s by developing a story, comprehending someone else's story, and diagramming the five elements of plot. Students will then create, revise, edit, and publish their own personal narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Mary Magee.
- N.C.- The Rip Van Winkle State
- This lesson introduces students to Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" and correlates it with the history of North Carolina. In the 1800s North Carolina was nicknamed "The Rip Van Winkle State."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kay D. Lopossay.
- Creating a book review using a multimedia stack
- In this lesson, students will identify title, characters, setting, plot of a story that they have read. They will also be able to state their opinion of the story read and provide information about themselves as a reviewer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Crystal Johnston.
- Walking in the woods with Owl Moon
- This is an integrated project using the book Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. Students will use the story to write a personal narrative, understand the elements of a story, and practice answering open-ended questions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Birty Lightner.
- Creating found poetry from picture books
- Students select and read a picture book and afterwards create “found poetry” based on the picture book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.
- Friends Fly Together
- Because THE RED BALLOON is a silent film about a little boy (Pascal) and his friendship with a red balloon, students are not distracted by trying to translate spoken text. They can concentrate on what they are watching. They take notes in their home language or English--whichever is more comfortable--on what they see. These informal notes serve as scaffolding for discussion and writing.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Wendy Bell.
- India: A filmmaking capital
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 4.5
- In this lesson for grade seven, students take on the role of film production crew members, planning the production of a trailer for a film about the life of Mohandas Gandhi.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Meredith Ebert.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- The Johnstown Flood: Cause and effect
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 3
- This lesson plan combines work with the Johnstown Flood, one of the most significant news events of the late nineteenth century, and the development of cause and effect argument.
- Format: (grade 11 Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
- An integrated poetry unit
- My students have always disliked poetry. The different ways in which this lesson approaches poetry and the connection it makes to their "March Madness" studies seems to make poetry more enjoyable, fun, and relevant for my students. In order to integrate with the sixth grade math and social studies teachers, I teach this unit during the ACC tournament to coincide with the "March Madness" unit that is covered in the math classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy Guthrie.
- Evaluating conclusions
- Using the North Carolina End-of-Course II March 1998 prompt, students will evaluate seven conclusions which use A Doll's House for the prompt response.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Carol Harris2.
- 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.
- Hamilton and Burr: Compare and contrast
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 2
- This lesson plan compares Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s Vice President. The lesson plan uses the duel between the two (at which Hamilton was fatally wounded) as an opportunity to contrast two early political leaders that have stark similarities as well as definite differences.
- Format: article (grade 11 Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
- The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Students will evaluate a sampling of literary selections by Edgar Allan Poe and assess the influence of Poe's life on his works.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Peggy Stanley.
- 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.
- Sita undergoes fire ordeal (Thai Ramayana mural)
- Sita undergoes a fire ordeal, as seen on a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. In this depiction, Sita appears to float and dance unharmed above a large outdoor bonfire. Figures of human and monkey kings, including Hanuman, stand on both sides of...
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
