This website allows students to listen to a brief phone conversation. It contains pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, vocabulary, post-listening exercises and online investigations. The audio file, which lasts fifty-six seconds, is accompanied by a script and a self-scoring quiz. Post-listening exercises and online investigations provide opportunity for students to extend their learning beyond the initial exercise and practice having a phone conversation with a partner as well as compare voice mail services from at least two different companies. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

How do great authors build suspense and keep us engaged? In this lesson students will discuss how they "read" their favorite televsion shows in order to make predictions about what will happen, then apply these skills to speculate about happens to literary characters after the novel or play ends. Finally, they will use the inferences they gain thorugh close reading to create imagined futures for these characters in comic strips, next chapters, letters, journals, or videos.

In this TED Ed lesson focused on the meaning and connotation of words, students will explore tips for using language to convey specific meaning. Students will consider the question: When are words just words, and when do words force action? Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.

In this lesson plan, students analyze important speeches from past presidents. Students then attempt to write a speech for the current president.

Stephen Crane's own experiences informed his short story "The Open Boat," one of the best examples of American literary naturalism. In this lesson students answer text-dependent questions in order to examine the relationship bewteen man and nature as well as the role of the third person, omniscient narrator.

This resource presents methods for adding sentence variety and complexity to writing. Sections are divided into general tips for varying structure, a discussion of sentence types, and specific parts of speech which can aid in sentence variety.

In this series of 3, 50 minute lesson plans, students will compare formal and informal language styles and articulate the specific features common to each style. Students will examine their own language use to note how it varies across contexts. By becoming aware of the changes in their own language use, students can gain greater control over the language styles they adopt in different contexts. (Videos and worksheets included.)

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.

This is a high school level, school-wide, interdisciplinary PBL project that allows students to increase their depth of knowledge of academic and 21st Century Skills by designing, building, and refining a product or service that will help people better prepare for, respond to, or recover from natural disasters. It was done at Tri-County Early College in 2018.

A teacher's guide to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Includes chapter discussion questions, activities, writing assignments and vocabulary.

This lesson examines point of view in nonfiction writing, using "THe Death of Benny Paret" by Norman Mailer. Students explore the point of view of the author and any bias he bring to the writing.

This lesson has students explore point of view. Students first identify types of point of view by identifying the pronouns used before working to incorporate it into their own writing.

Students are invited to explore the cultural offerings around them "” from architecture to books, dance, fashion, film, food, music, theater, TV and video games "” and write reviews about what they experience. The New York Times models along with advice from current Times critics to help them through the process.

This handout provides overviews and examples of how to use tone in business writing. This includes considering the audience and purpose for writing.

A handout/tutorial on correct citations. Included in this resource are guidlines for APA, MLA, and Chicago style plus a citation building resource.