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.
In this lesson, students will read a passage of Dragonwings and then identify and interpret the figurative laungauge in the passage.
In this lesson, students will complete the mid unit assessment using the final stanza of the poem.
In this lesson, students are asked to tread the monologue "Pask, the Runaway" in Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! and consider how the author's word choice contributes to tone and theme development.
This teacher's guide for The Misfits by James Howe containes discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.
This lesson will be completed once students have read the script of the play The Monsters are Due on Maple Street and watched the film adaptation on The Twilight Zone. Students will complete a learning menu that includes an appetizer, entree, and dessert. All students will complete the same starter and main course but will then have a choice for their dessert.
A teachers guide for My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out by Iris Jacob including questions for deeper comprehension, exercises for the class, and suggestions for further reading.
A young Bedouin girl has earned the nickname Nadia the Willful because of her quick temper. Her brother, Hamed, is the only one who can tame her temper. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments; writing samples included.
In this lesson, students will compare the experience of listening to an audio version of the poem versus reading the poem in preparation for the mid unit assessment.
In this lesson, students will continue to develop knowledge of poem structure with an emphasis on punctuation.
This lesson takes advantage of that interest by asking students to create a soundtrack for a novel that they have read. Students begin by analyzing how specific songs might fit with a familiar story. Students then create their own soundtracks for the movie version of a novel they have read. They select songs that match the text and fit specific events in the story. Finally, students share their projects with the class and assess their work using a rubric. Examples in this lesson focus on The Beast by Walter Dean Myers, but any piece of literature can be used as the basis of students' soundtracks.
Although Danny is a young adult of only 17, he is fully capable of taking his father’s boat out to sea to fish. While out on a solo trip one foggy morning, Danny encounters “something†mysterious in the water. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
After completion of the novel, students will explore the different settings in the novel and analyze what major plot event happened at each setting. They will code their Dash robot to move across the map to locate the settings.
After reading the narrative poem, “The Walrus and the Carpenter†by Lewis Carroll, students use a comic strip format to study the organization and presentation of ideas and supporting details in the plot sequence of the poem.
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?
This lesson uses the postmodern picture book Black and White, by David Macaulay, to engage students in a deep analysis of writer's craft. Macaulay's book presents four separate story lines that playfully interact with one another throughout the text. Students explore ways in which authors use words and illustrations to create unexpected plots and connections within a text.
This lesson will be completed once students have read the script of the play A Raisin in the Sun and watched the film adaptation. Students will complete a learning menu that includes an appetizer, entree, and dessert. All students will complete the same appetizer and entree but will then have a choice for their dessert.
Refugee by Alan Gratz focuses on the survival of three characters who flee their homelands during a period of war. The novel follows their journies to freedom and safety. While students read they would follow the characters' stories using 3-column notes focused on standard-based comprehension questions.
This resouce include an editable document of a Choice Board that can be used for students to create presentations at the conclusion of reading a piece of literature. The choice board provides customizable options for students to express their understanding of the literature read and to convey it creatively through digial means. The choice board can be used for whole class reading of the same text, small groups reading the same text, or for individual students reading different texts. The teacher has the flexibility to add to/delete/change the activities and the digital methods used by students to create their presentations.