A teacher's guide to Agatha Christie's, And Then There Were None. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.
A teacher's guide to Harper Lee's, Go Set A Watchman. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.
A comprehensive teacher's guide to Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.
Students will explore how an artist emphasized the narrative in a work of art that depicts a single moment from the story. They then write a newspaper article, using visual clues in the painting to imagine how the narrative depicted many have unfolded.
This resource details ten exercises to prepare students for writing a narrative essay.
In this lesson, students explore how word choice, line length, punctuation, and rhythm contribute to the overall effect of a poem.
In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and notions of manliness in Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” as they conduct in-depth literary character analysis, consider the significance of environment to growing up and investigate Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning, unique prose style. In addition, they will have the opportunity to write and revise a short story based on their own childhood experiences and together create a short story collection.
In this lesson, students create a timeline with 4 important national and world events in their life, and write an essay about their life including those 4 events.
This resource gives ten different activities for spurring students to write creatively.
In this lesson, students practice pre-writing techniques such as using graphic organizers, checklists, and a rubric.
In this lesson, students become familiar with point of view while rewriting their favorite fairy tale from another character's perspective other than the one in which it is written.
This lesson allows students to see and experience how a story can drastically change when told from the perspective of a character whose voice was not heard in the story's original form. After reading and discussing a New York Times review of the latest Tarzan film, students will select a favorite children's story and rewrite it from another character's point of view, focusing on the character's view of the elements of the plot, other characters, and himself or herself.
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In this lesson, students will write a short autobiographical sketch and produce an author page to be used with their writing throughout the year.
In this lesson, students write an essay to answer the question, “What kind of student do I want to be?”
In this lesson, students complete a post-reading activity for Where The Red Fern Grows by writing a letter from the point-of-view of the character Billy to his grandfather.
In this three week unit on the novel The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, students examine and discuss the characteristics of a novel, compare and contrast the novel to folk tales and short stories, write chapter summaries and essays, and conduct Internet research to prepare slideshow presentations on related topics including those reflecting cultural differences of the novel's characters and those issues involving the economic principle of supply and demand.
In this lesson, students read fairy tales and then write a modernized version of the story.
In this lesson, students read and then use details from Ernest L. Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" to create a newspaper article about the events of the story.
In this lesson, students write their own continuation of the novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.
In this lesson geared for ELL or regular education students, the students will develop an understanding of their own experiences from their native home and relate them to the text. This text helps trigger memories, as well as gives students appropritate examples of past tense uses. Students can explore the story further by researching the author before reading and sharing experiences in a similar format.