In this lesson, students view podcasting as a form of communication. Students will read and discuss podcasting, listen to a podcast, and work collaboratively to produce their own podcast.

Students will read, critically analyze and write about a series of poems dealing with poetry. Students will define poetry in their own terms.

In this lesson, students read and analyze the poem, Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Students consider how the poem reflects reality in its treatment of celebrity in discussion and graphic organizers.

In this lesson plan unit, students will complete four different lessons to delve deeply into the poem and its meaning and structure.

Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes help visually display the differences between main ideas and supportive information in outline form. Main ideas or categories are assigned a power 1 rating. Details and examples are assigned power 2s, 3s, or 4s.

In this lesson plan, students will analyze and then present their understanding of the central idea of paragraphs 8-10 of the text "How Bernard Madoff Did It."

Students learn how a growing demand for natural resources threatens habitats and wildlife. They select an issue to focus on and develop a list of actions people could take to reduce or reverse the problem.

Teachers can use this survey since the first day of the school to meet their students intoroducing everybosy in class having a guideline that ask them the questions to answer then to help the to write a parragrapf about themselves.They can lear how to make questions and alse what kind of questions they can make and what kind of questions they cannot make in the USA, in this case you ahve a chance to teach or provide some cultural information

In this performance task, students will work cooperatively to research the history of radio drama. Resources include original scripts from the 30's and 40's and an audio recording of Orson Wells' "War of the Worlds." Using what they've learned from their research, each group will create a script for a new mystery series. Students can extend the lesson by recording their drama complete with sound effects.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun provides a compelling and honest look into one family's aspirations to move to another Chicago neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that raises questions about for whom the "American Dream" is accessible.

In this extensive 9th grade ELA resource, students will explore analyzing literature and informational text by using close reading and evidence based discussion and writing.

In this lesson, students will analyze an excerpt from Mary Rowlandson's The Captive: The True Story Of The Captivity Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Among The Indians. They then compare an excerpt of Shakespeare's The Tempest with Aimé Césaire's A Tempest in order to facilitate a postcolonial reading of Shakespeare. Students will arrive at an understanding of "the other" and will consider how canonical literature may position white characters in relation to those of different ethnicities.

Literature circles are a way to engage students in reading by selecting texts to read and discuss with peers. Instead of traditional literature circle roles, use question stems as a way to spark discussion. These question stems build in the complexity of thinking required. Reflection questions are included for debriefing after the small group discussion.

In this lesson, students use debate as a tool for discussing the Revolutionary War.

Studying Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," students explore the intricate relationship between a poem's form and its content.

This lesson has students look at the characters of Romeo and Juliet and perform a quick analysis in an attempt to figure out who to blame for the tragic ending of the play.

In this lesson, students create video review of film versions of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Working in groups, students view one of a list of modern interpretations of the play, then plan, record, and publish a video review of their chosen film.

In this lesson, students investigate where on the bus Rosa Parks sat on the day of her arrest. They explore two primary documents—one that contests and one that supports—the account presented in the textbook. First, the teacher elicits students’ beliefs about where Rosa Parks sat, and asks where students learned their information. Then, students read a textbook passage and two conflicting primary documents. Finally, students decide which of the primary documents they believe is more trustworthy and write a paragraph defending their choice.

In this lesson, students critique a standard textbook account of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They read and analyze two primary documents and consider how this evidence specifically contests the textbook’s account. First, the teacher elicits students’ existing knowledge about Rosa Parks. Then, students read a textbook passage and two conflicting primary documents. Finally, students write a revised textbook account or an editorial pointing out the textbook account’s deficiencies and how these affect our understanding of this important event.

This resource provides a lesson designed to guide a reading of The Scarlet Ibis. Students will complete a guided reading initially before rereading the text independently. The lesson provides guiding questions, vocabulary, as well as a culminating writing task.