In this lesson and resource, students learn what a thesis statement is and how it relates to an informational reading.

The lesson, which focuses on vocal renderings of poems, will encourage students to discerning meaning through tone of voice, inflection and context.

This unit contains a series a poetry lessons and poem suggestions on the poetry of war. Students will read and closely analyze several 'poems of war' and write their own poem as a culminating activity.

This lesson revisits the original nine African-American children who broke the color barrier at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1954. Lessons include close reading and analysis of news reports, television news accounts and writing assignments.

In his essay, Mandela explains his shifting understandings of freedom based on different stages in his life. Mandela explains how his perceptions of freedom evolved from wanting freedom for just himself to fighting for freedom for others, and concluding that denying freedom to others robs the oppressors of their own freedom. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson students will improve their writing skills by finding, defining, and correctly using new and interesting vocabulary words and then integrate them into a persuasive piece of writing.

The lesson plan will guide students while reading the novel "Love that Dog" by Sharon Creech. The discussion questions are perfect for literature circles. Provided is a summary of the book and more about the author. This resource is provided by Scholastic.

From the Standford University Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, this lesson, Love and Faith, introduces students to the music and poetry of the modern African American Freedom Struggle and challenges them to create their own creative works.

Students will read, critically analyze and write about a series of poems dealing with love.

Students will analyze the sisters in Macbeth by examining a primary source: Holinshed’s The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. Students will use the elements of visual literacy to analyze a woodcut from Holinshed. Students will synthesize the information from the primary source, the play, and the visual to create descriptions of the sisters.

A series of worksheets with answer keys to help students of differing levels identify main ideas from selcted texts.

In this lesson and resource, students use charts and graphs to determine the main idea in a visual literacy exercise.

For this online interactive, students recognize and recall dolch sight words by flipping the cards and making a pair of the matching words. This activity is desgined to sharpen students' memory skills and build their vocabulary which aids in improving their reading skills.

A series of worksheets with answer keys to help students of differing levels make predictions from selcted texts.

From the Standford University Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute,the primary goal of this lesson is to challenge students’ preconceived notions about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and the roles they played in the African American Freedom Struggle. While there is certainly much to be learned by examining the different philosophies and tactics of each leader, these two men, who combined their religious leadership with political action, have much more to teach us as we explore how their vision for racial justice developed into a call for social and economic equality and human rights.

In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.

The following lesson plan uses Guy De Maupassant's "The Necklace" to guide students through a close annotated reading of the short story with an emphasis on insight, comprehension, analysis, characterization, structure, tone, and gathering of textual support.

In this lesson, students read four or more books and use graphic organizers to demonstrate proficiency with comprehension strategies.