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 allows students to use an out-of-the-box informational text - coverage of college basketball statistics and games - and use it to practice reading for information. Students look at information about local teams, interpret graphs and charts, and answer questions with similar stems to those seen on standardized tests.

Students read a case study and debate the pros and cons of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the region. Then they select a MPA and develop and present a management plan for it.

In this lesson, students read The Open Window, a short story by Saki that features a twist ending not unlike a horror movie. Students also read The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson, then compare the texts and examine the different ways they feel about both authors' characters.

This lesson contains an introduction to The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story novel by Henry James. Students get background information on the novel from a powerpoint presentation before making some predictions about the text and the characters it contains.

This lesson provides examples of how to incorporate a discussion of setting into other parts of short story analysis. Students consider the setting in addition to the characters and themes in an attempt to tie all of the elements of a story together.

This lesson introduces new teaching methods for a classic short story. Students and teachers have access to vocabulary terms, a quiz, a powerpoint with background information on the story, and a handout on how to compare the story to an engaging episode of the TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This lesson from the Smithsonian has students taking the roles of Japanese Americans who faced internment during WWII. Students will read, sythesize and respond to first-hand accounts of internment and publish their responses on a Smithsonian blog page.

In this lesson, students will summarize information found in the Alabama Driver Manual and share their findings in a multimedia presentation. Students will be responsible for self-scoring and peer scoring the multimedia presentations.

This lesson plan has students do research on the myths surrounding Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. They will engage in reading, writing, and research activities that will have them learn skills in distinguishing truth from fiction as well as developing a deeper understanding about an important American historical document. Links to suggested sites for students to do their research on the myths are provided in the lesson.

During this extended unit, students will explore environmental sustainability from a number of different perspectives. They will dive deep into global policies regarding the environment, specifically the dedication of different countries to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Students will review and discuss specific case studies, offering their opinion of certain practices and policies. As a summative assessment, students will create a “Call to Action” project, with the intent of raising awareness and instigating action on environmental sustainability. This unit includes language (objectives, vocabulary, and lesson modifications) that will help the teacher meet the needs of ELL students. These strategies may be helpful for other students, as well.

In this lesson based on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will work in pairs to read and annotate the lesson and then join in a class discussion on the theme of the meaning of beauty.

This page contains reading questions to help guide students through a reading of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It includes powerpoints with background information about the novel, reading questions for chapters of the book, and quizzes about the reading.

The Paragraph Shrinking strategy allows each student to take turns reading, pausing, and summarizing the main points of each paragraph. Students provide each other with feedback as a way to monitor comprehension.

This lesson is designed to assist students with improving their use of punctuation to include: commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points. The lesson is designed to encourage students to focus on emotions and their connections with given forms of punctuation. By examining emotions, students gain the ability to better understand the different uses of various punctuation marks. The lesson includes multiple student handouts and examples. There are also pertinent extension activities attached.

This resource provides a lesson that is designed to assist learners with improving their ability to handle a graphic novel. Students will focus on the beginning of the work Persepolis and examine the art used to varying effects. Students will attempt to familiarize themselves with strategies pertaining to making connections to the visual elements presented.

Students will watch and discuss video clips that show how two men in Chile coped with being prisoners in concentration camps during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Each student will then create a non-fiction picture book that tells the story of one of these men and provides historical context.

In this lesson, students read and analyze the poem, Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Students consider how the poem reflects reality in its treatment of celebrity in discussion and graphic organizers.

Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes help visually display the differences between main ideas and supportive information in outline form. Main ideas or categories are assigned a power 1 rating. Details and examples are assigned power 2s, 3s, or 4s.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun provides a compelling and honest look into one family's aspirations to move to another Chicago neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that raises questions about for whom the "American Dream" is accessible.