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.

In this lesson, students examine Ray Bradbury's use of sensory details in his short story, The Pedestrian. Students discuss descriptive writing, then look for examples of sensory details in the text before revising a previous draft of their own work to strengthen the sensory details it contains.

In this lesson, students examine the importance of setting in Ray Bradbury's short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains." Students complete a chart that requires them to think critically about the setting of the story, which can be adapted to other texts, then continue their examination in a written piece.

In this lesson, students define and discuss imagery before searching the text of John Steinbeck's classic novel Of Mice and Men for examples. Students will use their findings as the basis for a literary analysis essay.

In this lesson, students learn and practice summarizing strategies that they will continue to use during their academic careers.

In this lesson, students examine symbolism. First, they define symbolism and examine symbols in non-literary situations (religious, national, or cultural symbols). Then, they take the activity further by writing an analysis of a literary symbol.

In this lesson, students examine "The Interlopers," a short story by Saki, in an attempt to find the theme of the tale. Students consider the text and its twist ending, including various elements of short stories, before working in small groups to try and come to a conclusion about what the theme of the story might be.

In this lesson, students examine their own voice in their personal writing. Students examine two passages chosen by the author, comparing the author's voice in each. Students then revise their own work in an attempt to make sure that they use appropriate voice in their writing.

In this lesson, students imitate Charles Dickens' writing style after reviewing the techniques that make his writing unique.

In this set of three mini lessons, students make judgements on situations and characters from literary works. Students establish criteria for judgement, make graphic organizers to help their thoughts flow, then judge characters from the novel Frankenstein (or another work).

This page details two lessons centered around projects based on The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe. Students create masks and discuss the symbolic significance of the seven rooms of Prospero's palace.

This pair of mini-lessons offer convenient ways to teach cause and effect in the English classroom. The first lesson uses graphic organizers to show students cause and effect visually, and the second uses statistics to give students practice interpreting graphs and statistics.

In this lesson, students review the concepts of diction, connotation, and denotation. Students split into groups and work with lists of words to review whether they have a positive or negative connotation. Then, students revise one of their own pieces of writing to fix words with incorrect connotations.

This lesson has students use context clues to figure out the meaning of nonsense words as practice for actually figuring out word meanings. Students look at replacement words in a section from The Most Dangerous Game. The Jabberwocky is available for additional practice.

In this lesson, students review the definition of imagery and look at some examples before practicing their own use of imagery by revising boring sentences with better examples of imagery.

In this lesson, students use inquiry to choose a topic for an essay. Students start with a general topic, then develop lines of questioning leading them to specific questions they want to answer with an essay.

This lesson plan teaches students to vary the types of sentences used in their writing to create stronger overall written pieces. Students review types of sentences and practice arranging them before revising their own works for better sentence structures.

In this lesson plan, students practice incorporate specific tone into their writing. Students are broken into groups and given a specific tone to write with before rewriting their own personal drafts to improve the use of tone.

This activity has students complete a webquest using the webpage for Elie Wiesel's Foundation for Hunanity. Students may be familiar with Wiesel as the author of Night, a powerful holocaust memoir. Students search the foundation's webpage for information.

In this lesson, students learn the difference between a hyphen and a dash and when to use each one. Students take notes on the topic before practicing hyphens and dashes with a written paragraph.