A teacher's guide to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Includes chapter discussion questions, activities, writing assignments and vocabulary.
In this lesson, students learn the key parts of paragraph writing. Students review sentence and paragraph types, then break down a nonfiction piece by sentence to see how the different types of sentences are used in context.
In this lesson, students explore the important elements of resume writing by using fictional characters from books they've read to create resumes. Students first examine what goes into a good resume, then choose a fictional character to create one for.
Students are presented with a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article "˜History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names"™ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.
In this resource from the New York Times, a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article ‘History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names’ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students will analyze song lyrics and then choose their own soundtrack to go along with The Catcher in the Rye. Students work in groups to come up with a tracklist for their soundtracks before writing a comparison between the novel and a song chosen by the teacher.
Students are invited to explore the cultural offerings around them "” from architecture to books, dance, fashion, film, food, music, theater, TV and video games "” and write reviews about what they experience. The New York Times models along with advice from current Times critics to help them through the process.
This resource provides 10 different prompts for descriptive writing.
This resource provides ten activities for informative writing.
In this lesson, students read a piece of literature and analyze it from three different perspectives.
This lesson introduces several assignments related to In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Students create powerpoint presentations that describe the case and crime from the novel, view the short horror film "The Strangers," and write an essay comparing the film and the novel.
In this second part of a two part lesson, students will write a multi-paragraph response evaluating two central ideas in Hamlet and exploring how they interact and are developed by Shakespeare's language choices.
This resource provides a lesson that should accompany a reading of Einstein's four short works by Albert Einstein. Included is a speech, letter, and an essay. Students will read an analyze. Afterwards, students will be responsible for completing an essay.
In this lesson, students will analyze the rhetorical strategies Malcolm X used in his speeches, such as tone, emotional appeal, and descriptive language. They will also consider the strategies used by African American leaders during the Civil Rights Movement and the social implications of these strategies, contrasting the leadership and ideology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in the Civil Rights Movement and evaluate their legacies. They will identify personal values and use them to determine appropriate behaviors for protecting their individual rights.
In this lesson, students explore the historical context of Walt Whitman's concept of "democratic poetry" by reading his poetry and prose and by examining daguerreotypes taken circa 1850. Next, students will compare the poetic concepts and techniques behind Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," and have an opportunity to apply similar concepts and techniques in creating a poem from their own experience.
In this DBQ Project mini document based question activity based on the Dust Bowl, students will examine multiple sources and reflect on what led to and caused the event.
Creating Facebook-like presentations via Microsoft PowerPoint will engage and motivate students to learn about famous people of the American Revolution. To gain background knowledge prior to their study of the Revolutionary War, students will research people who played an important role during this time period. While sharing their research in their PowerPoint presentations, students provide written feedback.
In this lesson, students read The Wife of Bath's prologue from The Canterbury Tales, then look for modern texts such as magazine articles that contain similar contradictions to the Wife's prologue. Also included are several writing prompts to continue the lesson.
In this lesson, students select quotes from Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac" on which to elaborate and then write two original quotes.
In this lesson students will learn to write and analyze technical writing instructiuons with consideration to audience, purpose, context, length, and complexity using common household items. After writing their own instructions, students will conduct usability tests of each other’s instructions, providing user feedback. Finally, students use this user feedback to revise their instructions before publishing them.