In this lesson, students will compare the risks and benefits of entertainment screen time, as well as practice speaking and listening skills in preparation for their upcoming Fishbowl.
In this lesson, students will share his or her learning aloud with the class, as well as learn from other classmates before committing to a position.
In this lesson, students will start a Writing Improvement Tracker to grow awareness of their strengths and challenges.
In this lesson, students will focus on using all their gathered materials in order to draft their argument essay on Eliza Doolittle's internal changes.
In this lesson, students will reflect on how the Fishbowls have helped to refine and clarify their thinking about whether or not to raise the AAP's screen recommendation.
In this lesson, students will evaluate other students' arguments, building a culture of achievement, collaboration, and open mindedness.
In this lesson, students finish the draft of their essay about Lyddie signing the petition.
In this activity, students will analyze and interpret a number of "letters to the editor", and use this information to write their own.
In this lesson, students will brainstorm "crimes" committed by characters from that text. Groups of students will work together to act as the prosecution or defense for the selected characters, while also acting as the jury for other groups. Students will use several sources to research for their case, including the novel and internet resources. All the while, students will be writing a persuasive piece to complement their trial work.
In this lesson, students recognize loaded words when reading and purposefully use them in persuasive writing.
In this lesson, students explore and understand the use of transition words in context and write their own persuasive essay using transition words.
Students develop and present an evidence-based argument about a change they would like to bring about at their school to make it a healthier place for all students. In this interactive lesson designed for both full-class and individual or small-group work, students examine a similar effort, chronicled in BASIC BLACK: Youth Fighting Fat, in which a group of concerned Boston teens seeks to address the problem of obesity in their community.
In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.
In this lesson students examine how imagery is used to represent ideas, themes, periods of history, and make cultural connections to poem, "Still I Rise." Students will reflect through written expression how resiliency is in their lives, school, and community.
Students are immersed in popular culture. As educators, we have an opportunity to engage them in literacy activities that make use of this fun and engaging resource. In this lesson, students develop media literacy skills as they explore and analyze an episode of a popular television series. Possible shows include Zoe 101, The Secret Life of the American Teenager,or any of the High School Musical movies. Students reflect on characters, motivations, problems, and solutions as they view and interpret media. They then propose a new television series that more realistically portrays teenagers.
When a sudden and inexplicable force causes everything to stop working on Maple Street, the people there begin to wonder who or what is responsible. Fear begins to invade each person’s mind. This behavior reveals that the real monsters on Maple Street are the people themselves and the fears and prejudices they harbor. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students will discover how much they can learn from this mixed genre memoir/biography about what inspires life choices.
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This lesson plan provides a selection of writing prompts for students to choose from, centered around baseball.
Using the topic of Mythology, students will work through various activities to learn the characteristics of a Narrative Essay. This particular unit will/should take place prior to writing the Narrative Essay. Many of the lessons address how to identify, create, apply and analyze point of view, theme, dialogue punctuation, argumenative qualities and citing direct and indirect evidence.