In this lesson, students use a newspaper employment advertisement and work together to rewrite the ad using complete sentences. Student then rewrite the advertisement.
A video discussion of Frank McCourt's memoir Angela's Ashes.
The Frayer Model is a strategy that uses a graphic organizer for vocabulary building. This technique requires students to (1) define the target vocabulary words or concepts, and (2) apply this information by generating examples and non-examples. This information is placed on a chart that is divided into four sections to provide a visual representation for students.
A short instructional video on the Freedom Writers and how they use writing for personal expression and to fight prejudice.
In this lesson, students participate in a Socratic seminar discussing a person's right to refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
In this personal essay by Isaac Asimov, the author relates his journey of becoming a science fiction writer. Asimov explains discovering science fiction through magazines despite his father’s objections. He also recounts publishing his first science fiction story at the age of eighteen and the challenges of being an immigrant. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This resource includes one poem, with an accompanying link to the poem being read aloud, and nine text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students), and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.
This selection provides an overview of two laws dealing with fugitives from slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 establishes monetary penalties for protecting fugitives. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 addresses the same topic but is more detailed. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
GIST is a strategy to help students write brief, accurate, and complete summaries of material they read. In this lesson, students work together summarizing larger and larger portions of text, keeping their summaries at 25 words or fewer.
This video contains a series of videos from Shakespeare Uncovered that highlight commonly held beliefs regarding gender roles and identity in society. As you view the videos and complete the activities, examine the ways in which women and men are presented in the plays and think about what motivates their actions--is it their individualism or their gender?
This poetry lesson provides suggestions on interactive activities using student generated haiku.
This lesson capitalizes on a student's love of jokes to understand how word context and inference are used in everyday language to create humor.
Students will read, critically analyze and write about a series of poems dealing with ghosts and spirits.
This lesson and resource uses a topic of their choice to prep for a mock speech to Congress.
This video from Shakespeare Uncovered explores the origins, unique characteristics and challenges presented by the 17th century Globe Theatre. Students will take a glimpse into the world of Elizabethan theater by watching actors perform scenes from Shakespeare’s plays on the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe, a modern-day replica of the Globe Theatre located one hundred feet from the original.
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students read like a writer and analyze figurative language and the author’s word choice, meaning, and tone in Chapter 3 of Bud, Not Buddy.
In this module, students consider the guiding question: How do writers capture a reader's imagination? as they take a deep study of the classic tale Peter Pan.
Using the prolgue of Antigone, students will complete close textual reading questions aligned with Common Core shifts for literacy. Scroll to "ELA 9-10 Antigone Prologue" to access download.
Students will complete close textual reading questions aligned with Common Core shifts for literacy. Scroll to "ELA 11-12 Canterbury Tales" to access download.