In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Students will explore the distinction between a hero and an idol. Based on collaboratively established criteria for heroism and characteristics of heroes, students will select, read about, and report on a hero. Students will identify how their hero matches their criteria and characteristics. Hero reports will be compiled into a class book. As a follow-up, the teacher will read aloud and lead a discussion of the poem Heroes We Never Name to emphasize the fact that there are heroes all around us. Students will write about a hero they know and describe this person's noble qualities and deeds.
The hero's journey is an ancient story pattern that can be found in texts from thousands of years ago or in newly released Hollywood blockbusters. This interactive tool will provide students with background on the hero's journey and give them a chance to explore several of the journey's key elements. Students can use the tool to record examples from a hero's journey they have read or viewed or to plan out a hero's journey of their own.
The highwayman is an eighteenth century thief, who promises to return to his love Bess, the landlord’s daughter. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson students will collect and create bumper stickers to examine how writing can influence people.
In this lesson students use a school map to create a charted course and a corresponding written description of the directions for travel from class to class, beginning with an arrival location in the morning and ending with a departure location in the afternoon.
In this lesson students analyze comics for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal (ethos, logos, pathos). Students then write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of each rhetorical appeal.
An interactive resource on writing business emails.
In this interactive lesson students will learn the basics of how to write their own poem by matching words with one of the five senses, identifing how the senses are used in writing, writing a poem, and using details.
Featuring the India Arie song "I Am Not My Hair," this lesson takes students through the pre-writing, production, and editing phases of an informative essay.
In this reflective essay, Chief Dan George compares his native North American culture with that of white culture. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this essay through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This lesson will use the "infinite variety" of resources on the Internet to let students find their own image of Othello. The lesson will take them on a WebQuest, first to textual references, and then to on-line searches for images of Othello in film, play productions, and art. Then, students will write an essay about the casting of Othello to conclude the lesson.
Jabberwocky is an epic poem told through nonsense words. The poem relates a father’s quest for his son that involves the slaying of a beast (The Jabberwock). The poem charts the son’s progress from his departure to his successful return. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this poem through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This autobiographical piece tells what a neat, tidy rule-follower this author was in his youth—except for his yo-yo. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson students rewrite a catalogue description of an item for sale in which the new ad reflects a change in the voice of the writing.
Students will read sentences and write the sentences correctly, editing for spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read a paragraph that contains errors and rewrite it to correct the errors. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read background information, a passage, information, vocabulary words, and vocabulary in context. Students will write answers to questions, quotations to support a main idea, and a response to a prompt. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read "The Road Not Taken," and writes to analyze it for its figurative meaning. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
