This lesson plan has students create book jackets for independent reading books. Students create the jackets with information about the book, then complete a brief oral presentation about what they think about the novel and why their classmates should read it.

In this lesson, students analyze songs as an introduction to poetry. Students search songs for examples of poetic devices and assemble them in a storyboard that matches each term with an illustration and a line from the song.

In this lesson, students review traits of some of the major characters in Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game. Students start by listing Ender's character traits, then discuss them. Students then choose another character to analyze, searching for passages in the novel that provide evidence of their character traits.

This lesson focuses on the author's use of language; moreover, how it is used to convey mood, images, and meaning. Students are tasked here with examining a selection identifying examples of stylistic devices within the passages. Next, students discuss possible reasons for author's selected style choices. The lesson is detailed with examples from Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, yet the lesson may be altered to be used with other instructor selected text.

Exploring the use of style in literature helps students understand how language conveys mood, images, and meaning. After exploring the styles of two authors, students will translate passages from one author into the style of another. Then they will translate fables into style of one of the authors.

Students will connect stage directions/movements to textual evidence. Students will analyze a scene and then create a performance that contains appropriate movement and tone.

In this video, students explore the use of supernatural elements within William Shakespeare’s plays, focusing particularly on Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest. Students examine supernatural beliefs during the 16th and 17th centuries, and they also identify how supernatural elements drive the plot of many of Shakespeare’s plays.

In this lesson, students will develop comprehensive claims about each inquiry path in their Research Frame, using their Evidence-Based claims Tools. Students will reflect and deepen their understanding.

In this lesson, students take a poll before and after they debate the issue to see if their views change.

A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.

In this lesson, students examine the importance of setting in Ray Bradbury's short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains." Students complete a chart that requires them to think critically about the setting of the story, which can be adapted to other texts, then continue their examination in a written piece.

In this lesson, students define and discuss imagery before searching the text of John Steinbeck's classic novel Of Mice and Men for examples. Students will use their findings as the basis for a literary analysis essay.

In this lesson, students examine symbolism. First, they define symbolism and examine symbols in non-literary situations (religious, national, or cultural symbols). Then, they take the activity further by writing an analysis of a literary symbol.

This lesson introduces the nonfiction work "The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness" to the students and teacher. Simon Wiesenthal's tale pairs with a series of photos from the Holocaust and a powerpoint with background information for the students.

In this lesson, students view art and photographs, then attempt to capture the theme and tone of those works in writing. Students first discuss the art as a class before splitting into pairs to write a first draft of a story or poem that captures the feeling of the visual works.

In this lesson, students examine "The Interlopers," a short story by Saki, in an attempt to find the theme of the tale. Students consider the text and its twist ending, including various elements of short stories, before working in small groups to try and come to a conclusion about what the theme of the story might be.

In this lesson, students imitate Charles Dickens' writing style after reviewing the techniques that make his writing unique.

In this lesson, students introduce each other to the characters from The Canterbury Tales in order to grant background information before reading the tales. Students work in groups to read, analyze, and present on one of the characters from the Tales along with that character's story.

In this lesson, students learn to differentiate between denotation and connotation by using associations with names.

In this lesson, students will compare a photograph to a poem and discuss the connections and greater meaning of the two in context of one another.