This lesson plan is the fourth in the "Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating …
This lesson plan is the fourth in the "Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community" series.It provides a video of the poet, Edward Hirsch, offering a little backstory, then reading the poem "Cotton Candy." The companion lesson contains a sequence of activities for use with secondary students before, during, and after reading to help them enter and experience the poem.
Heavily influenced by social and scientific theories, including those of Darwin, writers …
Heavily influenced by social and scientific theories, including those of Darwin, writers of naturalism described"â€usually from a detached or journalistic perspective"â€the influence of society and surroundings on the development of the individual. In the following lesson plan, students will learn the key characteristics that comprise American literary naturalism as they explore London's "To Build a Fire" and Crane's "The Open Boat."
Huckleberry Finn opens with a warning from its author that misinterpreting readers …
Huckleberry Finn opens with a warning from its author that misinterpreting readers will be shot. Despite the danger, readers have been approaching the novel from such diverse critical perspectives for 120 years that it is both commonly taught and frequently banned, for a variety of reasons. Studying both the novel and its critics with an emphasis on cultural context will help students develop analytical tools essential for navigating this work and other American controversies. This lesson asks students to combine internet historical research with critical reading. Then students will produce several writing assignments exploring what readers see in Huckleberry Finn and why they see it that way.
In this lesson, students read and discuss poems about crossing borders before …
In this lesson, students read and discuss poems about crossing borders before creating their own border-crossing poem. Using a Readers'/Writers' Workshop format, students and teachers explore what it means to cross borders, either literal or figurative, and what we can learn about ourselves and others in a border-crossing experience.
This feature outlines the context of The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 …
This feature outlines the context of The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 which produced the "Declaration of Sentiments," a CCSS exemplar for grades 11 CCR. This document made a bold argument, modeled on the language and logic of the Declaration of Independence that American women should be given civil and political rights equal to those of American men, including the right to vote.
Learn how to identify explicit evidence and understand implicit meaning in a …
Learn how to identify explicit evidence and understand implicit meaning in a text.You will be able to identify literal and nonliteral words and phrases in sentences and stories. You will also be able to find the meaning or words and phrases by looking carefully at what the author is saying.
Using Wonders Literature Anthology and students Reading/Writing Companion, students will learn “What …
Using Wonders Literature Anthology and students Reading/Writing Companion, students will learn “What are different kinds of energy?”. Students will complete a pre and post assessment for data collection. Students will read about solar energy, wind energy, and fossil fuels. Using information from the text, students will create a poster board to present information about each form of energy and will code a Dash Robot. Students will code Dash to move to the different types of energy, and students will voice record themselves describing and giving detail of each energy form.
This lesson represents approximately 90 minutes of instruction and can be taught …
This lesson represents approximately 90 minutes of instruction and can be taught over 3-4 days. The teacher introduces the lesson by explaining the five senses, and creates an anchor chart that will be used throughout the lesson. The teacher reads the first half of the text, modeling how to locate words that appeal to the senses and recording the words on an anchor chart. Next, the teacher reads the second half of the text and asks students to identify additional words that appeal to the senses, again recording them on the chart. With partners, students listen to a text and record words that appeal to the senses on graphic organizers. Students share a few of the words they found that appeal to the senses. The other students hold up pictures (from the graphic organizers) that indicate which sense that word appeals to.
Students examine the divided nature of Raskolnikov's character and personality. Then they …
Students examine the divided nature of Raskolnikov's character and personality. Then they uncover the divided natures of other characters"”a fact that becomes increasingly evident as the novel progresses to go beyond character analysis to comprehend Dostoyevsky's underlying themes. What does the novel imply about human nature? Dostoevsky clearly perceived that people are neither simple nor easily classified; they are often torn in opposite directions by forces both inside of and outside of themselves, sometimes with catastrophic results.
By closely reading historical documents and attempting to interpret them, students consider …
By closely reading historical documents and attempting to interpret them, students consider how Arthur Miller interpreted the facts of the Salem witch trials and how he successfully dramatized them in his play, "The Crucible." As they explore historical materials, such as the biographies of key players (the accused and the accusers) and transcripts of the Salem Witch trials themselves, students will be guided by aesthetic and dramatic concerns: In what ways do historical events lend themselves (or not) to dramatization? What makes a particular dramatization of history effective and memorable?
Below are two articles that explain why earthquakes occur. The first article …
Below are two articles that explain why earthquakes occur. The first article explains this occurance from the perspective of the ancient Greeks and the second is a modern day explanation. After reading both articles, discuss the questions at the end of the story. You shoud also complete the Venn DIagram to compare and contrast the information found in both stories.
We are naturally curious about the lives (and deaths) of authors, especially …
We are naturally curious about the lives (and deaths) of authors, especially those, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce, who have left us with so many intriguing mysteries. But does biographical knowledge add to our understanding of their works? And if so, how do we distinguish between the accurate detail and the rumor; between truth and exaggeration? In this lesson, students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. They also become careful critics, taking a stand on whether extra-literary materials such as biographies and letters should influence the way readers understand a writer's texts.
“Ekphrasis” is an obscure word for a common phenomenon: the impulse of …
“Ekphrasis” is an obscure word for a common phenomenon: the impulse of artists of various media to compose creative responses to other artists’ work. In Greek, the word translates roughly into “description,” and “ekphrastic writing” is often defined as writing that describes an artistic product. However, description is only one among many elements in a successful piece of ekphrastic writing. What follows is an outline for a three-day unit in a creative writing class, designed to introduce students to the writing of ekphrastic poetry. The final assignment requires students to apply their knowledge of ekphrastic writing to works within the Washington and Lee collection. The course could easily be adjusted to cover ekphrastic prose, with an altered set of readings.
Emily Dickinson's poetry often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. …
Emily Dickinson's poetry often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. She writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to describe the sky and the sea.
An introduction to the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou through …
An introduction to the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou through nature. The original work includes all the needed materials for Emily Dickinson. Maya Angelou's information is added here.
This choice board can be used at multiple grade levels as a …
This choice board can be used at multiple grade levels as a reading promotion and to encourage diversity in reading. The board is not meant to be a lesson in and of itself, but as an additional resource for independent reading, reading initiatives and/or to deliver choice as a formative assessment. The list of extensions and additional uses are also just examples and offer possible paths in which to utilize the resource.
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