In this lesson, students will discuss and write messages about how it feels to be grouped or identified by gender. Then, students will work in groups to record and discuss messages shared with others in the class.

George Orwell's experiences as a policemen for the British Empire in India formed the basis for his early writings, including this essay. After receiving some background information on British rule in Burma as well as on Orwell, students will read the essay in order to analyze its use of metaphors, symbolism and irony.

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.

In this lesson plan, students learn a list of Greek and Latin roots, then list words that use them. Students then make 3x5 notecards for each root and define them. Students also complete a four square vocabulary box for each root.

Students practice their ability to understand terms within context. Students will read an excerpt from Hamlet and attempt to identify terms.

Over the course of human history, thousands of languages have developed from what was once a much smaller number. How did we end up with so many? And how do we keep track of them all? This video explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past.

In this lesson, students analyze Jacob Lawrence'sThe Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57(1940-41), Helene Johnson's Harlem Renaissance poem"Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"(1927), and Paul Laurence Dunbar's late-nineteenth-century poem"We Wear the Mask"(1896), considering how each work represents the life and changing roles of African Americans from the late nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance and The Great Migration.

In this lesson, demonstrate their understanding of the jazz age following reading The Great Gatsby by using jazz-age terms to create an original story, scene, or letter.

This simple, straightforward lesson helps English language learners and others practice context clues, close reading, questioning and discussion of text.

Students will read a passage from Poe's work and write to answer questions based on inferences and context. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage from Poe's work and then write the definitions of words based on context as well as write examples of various figurative language from the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage by Shakespeare and analyze selected vocabulary to select synonyms. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage from Poe's work, and write to identify the part of speech, a personal definition, and context clues of underlined words. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This lesson plan is designed to guide students through a reading of the classic short story, "The Lady or the Tiger?". The lesson provides a guide for an in depth analysis of the text by asking students to seek textual evidence to respond to the provided guided questions. A culminating activity is provided, which directs learners to draft an essay that builds upon that textual evidence to draft a response posed by the title's question.

This lesson offers a series of activities that allow students to explore and interact with poetry by writing letters to poets.

This resource provides graphic organizers, questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy, anticipation guides, the Frayer model, and more--all adaptable for a variety of texts, vocabulary, and classrooms.

In this lesson, students take on the challenge of teaching each other about literary terms. Students are assigned terms for which they design posters which are passed between students to share their information with their classmates.

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.

This lesson pairs a magazine article about the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975 with the Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." After comparing and contrasting the elements of each text, students will choose a historical event and, using the song as a model, create a narrative poem about their chosen event. In addition, more contemporary songs and current events will also work for this activity.