Students will create and record character monologues based on a character in Alan Wolfe's The Watch that Ends the Night. Students will analyze a particular character’s attitude toward and interpretation of various events and other characters in a story. Students will analyze what their character does, says, and thinks throughout a text in order to determine how the author has developed and communicated his/her unique perspective. Students will then present in collaboration stations and will analyze and connect other characters and their perspectives to their own. The purpose of the project and the presentation is to enable students to make connections to other characters and perspectives and ultimately to deepen the understanding of the plot and characters. 

 Students will use the green screen to create a newscast in a small group based on the setting of a WWII literature circle novel. Students will first write their informational skit, create text features (charts, diagrams, photos w/ captions, etc) inside of their news presentations in order to teach the class about WWII from their novel's perspective and setting. 

Echo is a nymph that likes to gossip so a spell is cast upon her to only reiterate things that she has heard. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

A guideline for teachers to compare the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce and discuss how their narration choices affect the piece and the reader.

In this lesson students will identify the effective use of imagery and practice analyzing and creating imagery in particular selections.

This lesson explores how The Giver addresses issues of personal identity, memory, and the value of reading and education. It also examines how this newer read relates to other famous classics in this genre and books that students may have read on their own.

This page contains a set of reading question for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

In this lesson, students will read and discuss two poems to explore the use of figurative language. Students will identify tone and examples of imagery and metaphor in poems. They will also explain how imagery and metaphor work together to create tone and create images to describe a scene.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of how writers make intentional choices that impact the message of a story. This lesson was developed by Jaclyn Garing as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will create a realistic shoe drawing of their personal shoe including a background that visually explains where they have been, where they would like to go, or how they got to where they are now using the Elements and Principles of Art and Design (ex. line, shape, texture, space, form, emphasis). This lesson was developed by Laura Mitchell as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson students begin to analyze characters by examining their point of view.

In this lesson, students continue to practice gathering evidence from the text to support their understanding of character point of view.

In this lesson students answer a series of text-dependent questions after a close reading of a new chapter in the text.

In this assessment students gather evidence to analyze points of view in the central text.

In this lesson students use a text-based discussion protocol to revisit chapters 1-5 in the novel and discuss points of view.

In this lesson students are introduced to their performance task for the module, a two voice poem, in order to give the teacher time to give students feedback on their literary analysis essays.

In this lesson students are introduced to the concept of juxtaposition through analysis of characters in the novel.

In this lesson students use a text based discussion protocol to analyze theme and characters in the novel.

In this lesson students analyze point of view by considering how comparing and contrasting Salva’s and Nya’s experiences allows Park to show what factors enabled survival in Sudan.