Four Questions Protocol is a good strategy for students to use when reading the material.
3 column notes on a novel
In this lesson, students learn how to use supporting details to support claims made in writing. It also provides a list of information about what makes for a quality supporting detail.
Students read an excerpt from the novel Great Expectations and respond by attempting to offer reasoning regarding the effect of the author's choice of words within the text. This activity may coincide with instruction pertaining to constructed response writing.
This activity asks students to examine and evaluate how the structure of a work can impact meaning and audience experience. Students are tasked with examining text structure, plotting events for a visual representation of the "highs and lows" of the story, and composing a formal paragraph explaining their findings/analysis. It is divided into 3 sections, which can be spread out and completed individually or it can be a single assignment. It should take students about 120 minutes to complete all parts.
In this plan, students work with the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," by Robert Frost to practice incorporating quotations into smooth prose. Students write a paragraph about the main idea of the poem using quotations from the text to back up their claims.
This resource provides a lesson designed to guide students through a reading of the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter". Students will read and analyze the text. Afterwards, students will reflect through response to guided questions and write an essay.
Is Holden Caufield suffering from your typical teenage angst or does he have a deeper issue? This lesson plan asks students to diagnose the main character from The Catcher in the Rye, using textual evidence to support their conclusions about him.