In this lesson, students refresh their understanding of the parts of speech before completing a fun activity to reinforce their knowledge. Students make wante posters of themselves using exciting adjectives to describe themselves.

This lesson allows students to use an out-of-the-box informational text - coverage of college basketball statistics and games - and use it to practice reading for information. Students look at information about local teams, interpret graphs and charts, and answer questions with similar stems to those seen on standardized tests.

In this activity, students complete an online scavenger hunt to discover information about famous American author Mark Twain. Three websites are provided from which the students might gather the required information.

In this lesson, students read The Open Window, a short story by Saki that features a twist ending not unlike a horror movie. Students also read The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson, then compare the texts and examine the different ways they feel about both authors' characters.

This lesson contains an introduction to The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story novel by Henry James. Students get background information on the novel from a powerpoint presentation before making some predictions about the text and the characters it contains.

In this cross-curricular lesson, students use Percy Shelley's poem, Ozymandias, as a jumping off point to learn about Ramses II, the Egyptian pharoah about whom the poem was written. Students read and analyze the poem and get some background information on the ruler before diving into research about his life and times.

In this Bright Hub Education lesson plan for teaching Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, questions are broken into acts in order to aid in student comprehension and class discussion. Additional ideas and resources are provided as well.

In this lesson, students learn about Shakespeare's famous comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream by acting the play out, based on a heavily edited script. Students work in groups to perfect a scene from the play, which may be recorded and put together to complete the performance.

This lesson uses a chart and shows three ways to use prediction-making to supplement the reading process. Students use the chart to make predictions either before, during, or after reading.

This lesson provides examples of how to incorporate a discussion of setting into other parts of short story analysis. Students consider the setting in addition to the characters and themes in an attempt to tie all of the elements of a story together.

This lesson encourages students to closely examine a singular aspect of a poem by writing a mirror poem: a poem that imitates another in a specific chosen way. Students read a poem, then write a mirror poem copying an element of the first one as a way of analyzing its use of a specific poetic technique.

This lesson helps students understand the importance of Ancient Greece to the modern world - a perfect pairing for English students reading The Odyssey or The Iliad. Students consider multiple words with roots in ancient Greek to see how the languages of the world have transformed over time.

This lesson introduces new teaching methods for a classic short story. Students and teachers have access to vocabulary terms, a quiz, a powerpoint with background information on the story, and a handout on how to compare the story to an engaging episode of the TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In this project-based learning assessment, students create music playlists to go along with the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Students choose six songs that align with various aspects of the book, and create a poster with images that go along with each song.

This lesson introduces narrative poems by sharing several classic examples. Then, students take a turn at writing their own narrative poems, telling the stories they want to tell in stanzas instead of paragraphs.

In this lesson, students will discover the properties of different types of rocks by participating in a hands on inquiry based activity. Students use hand lenses and scales to observe the rocks, then choose one to write about and draw.The lesson ends with a whole group discussion in which students share what they have learned about their rocks with the class.

This extremely active lesson plan helps illustrate to students how even students with a difficult socioeconomic background can overcome adversity. Students participate in a variety of activities that combine knowledge of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and physical relay-style challenges.

In this lesson, students read the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley before comparing the statue from the poem to famous monuments from around the world. Students complete a graphic organizer before writing an analytical essay about the poem.

This page contains reading questions to help guide students through a reading of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It includes powerpoints with background information about the novel, reading questions for chapters of the book, and quizzes about the reading.

This 5-part lesson plan teaches students the importance of hygiene and how to practice it.