Lesson guides for "Old Man, Runagate Runagate" and "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind". In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Poets achieve popular acclaim only when they express clear and widely shared emotions with a forceful, distinctive, and memorable voice. But what is meant by voice in poetry, and what qualities have made the voice of Langston Hughes a favorite for so many people?
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
The story Raymond's Run is told through the eyes of Hazel Squeaky Parker, who is the fastest runner in her Harlem neighborhood. She spends the majority of her time practicing for upcoming races and taking care of her brother, Raymond, who is mentally challenged and to whom she is very devoted. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Lesson covers several kinds of figurative language, especially omission.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 8th Grade ELA.
In this lesson, students explore word choice, paraphrasing, and summarizing by playing a vocabulary game to create riddles and answers.
The speaker reflects on the risks and responsibilities of making choices and deciding which road to take. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this poem through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this play through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this literary unit, students explore rural life during the Great Depression by analyzing Richard Peck's, A Year Down Yonder.
“The Secret†tells the story of Henry Cooper, a reporter, returning for the second time to report on the colonies now existing on the Moon. Based on a hunch, he becomes suspicious of a “secret†that may be looming on the Moon. Cooper sets out on a mission to confirm his suspicions, which leads him to discover that life on the moon can be as long as 200 years. Cooper must then decide if this “secret†should be kept or shared with those back on Earth. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Activities and worksheets on the use and identification of similies.
In this lesson, students solve unknown words using context clues, select and generate words for semantic gradients, and develop new semantic gradients and contexts.
In the magazine article, “The Story of an Eyewitness,†Jack London describes the effects of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. His account describes its immediate aftermath and utter destruction of the city by the ensuing fire. The National Archives article provides a brief third-person account of the San Francisco Earthquake that can be used to compare and contrast first- versus third-person accounts of the same event. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.
In this lesson, students compose Haiku poetry and visually enhance it with writing ink.
In this lesson, students explore how word choice, line length, punctuation, and rhythm contribute to the overall effect of a poem.
In this lesson, students use small group work and interviews to explore the existence and evolution of slang between generations.
In this lesson, students learn about the history of some idioms and how they are used in our language today, and practice using idioms themselves.