This lesson introduces an important theme in the novel, the Golden Rule. The Gallery Walk introduction of this theme incorporates a wide variety of worldviews, philosophies, and religions. Students also view a short segment of the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.
In this lesson, students practice writing a summary of a literary work. These summaries are useful formative assessment data. Review student writing, provide meaningful feedback, and inform instruction on summary writing in future lessons.
In this lesson, students do a close read of Chapter 5 to practice analyzing figurative language, as well as making inferences about the text.
This activity emphasizes the importance of teaching reading and writing strategies for students to use with informational text.
This resource contains a GDrive Folder that houses 4 separate root word quizzes. Each quiz contains 21 terms for a total of 84. I have linked the list I used for these quizzes, I do not own the list nor do I take any credit for its creation.
Harriet Tubman's first journey to Canada on the Underground Railroad is fraught with danger, harsh conditions, and uncertainty. In order to keep her disillusioned party of runaway slaves safe during the long journey, she bolsters their spirits by telling stories of freedom and singing spirituals. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, student partners practice new words using their verbal, visual, and kinesthetic intelligences.
In this lesson student groups create story sheets with missing vocabulary words in order to locate context clues, justify their work, and evaluate their responses.
Students are introduced to the discrimination, exploitation, isolation, and execution of the Jews during the Holocaust.
These excerpts from Maya Angelou’s autobiography describe important points in her childhood. First Angelou describes the importance of her Grandmother’s store. Later, when she becomes withdrawn and unhappy, Mrs. Flowers takes an interest in her and encourages her to read aloud and share her thoughts. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students practice analyzing word meanings by learning root words and affixes. They work in a variety of ways with a list of about 20 common but challenging words to learn the definition and spelling of each. Then students get in small groups to design and play the Make-a-Word card game, during which they must form complete words with three cards: a prefix, a root word, and a suffix.
This poem was written in letter format and was addressed to the U.S. authorities in response to Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. The speaker of this poem is a fourteen-year-old girl, who stresses that she is an American. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this poem through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this autobiographical text, Gary Paulson narrates experiences he had in the bitter cold of the North which taught him to respect all animals. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Students will complete a word map for building vocabulary by following the eight perscribed steps. Students will also increase their retention of selected vocabulary by making a personal connection to each word. In addition, students will demonstrate internalization of vocabulary by writing an original sentence using the chosen word. Finally, students will generate a journal response by reflecting to this way of learning vocabulary words.
In “Invocation†from John Brown’s Body, Stephen Vincent Benet calls on the muse of America to inspire him. He invokes the varied American landscape and the many kinds of people who have contributed to American culture and life. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson students will analyze idioms in order to comprehend their literal meanings through illustrations and paraphrasing.
In this lesson, students complete a literary analysis on a Shakespearean Sonnet, understand the language that empowers the piece, and gain inspiration from Shakespeare's words to write their own sonnet.
Students will read a text, use context clues in order to determine the best words to complete the text, and write synonyms for those words. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read background information, a passage, information, vocabulary words, and vocabulary in context. Students will write answers to questions, quotations to support a main idea, and a response to a prompt. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences and use context clues in order to determine the meaning of an underlined word. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.