In this lesson, students can use their desktop publishing skiills to showcase information about a selected profession is to make a career brochure.

In this lesson, which can be paired with any number of texts based during the Civil War, students create a five-paragraph character sketch of a character from the story they've recently read. Students outline the sketch before starting to write, then assess each others' work with a rubric.

In this lesson, students experiment with creating mood in their stories using digital photographs for inspiration. Students examine a list of mood words, then try to write and create moods that match the photos they see. Students may optionally read from a list of short stories that all excel at creating mood.

In this lesson, students critically approach television commercials in an attempt to understand the advertising techniques being used. Stduents watch television commercials on their own time and try to identify the characteristics of the advertisements before discussing as a class and ultimately making their own commercials.

This lesson has students work in cooperative groups to understand and analyze Shakespearean sonnets. The final product is a scrapbook containing analyses of the sonnets by the different group members.

In this lesson, students learn some of the basics of rhythm in poetry by writing haiku. Students select from a variety of photos of nature, then write about their chosen photo.

This lesson details methods for teaching students about complex sentences. Students examine the types of sentences, then practice combining elements into a complex sentence.

This lesson introduces narrative poems by sharing several classic examples. Then, students take a turn at writing their own narrative poems, telling the stories they want to tell in stanzas instead of paragraphs.

In this lesson, students will use multiple intelligences to interpret and study Sonnets 29, 116, and 130 by William Shakespeare. Students will focus on metaphor, simile, mood, end rhyme, and iambic pentameter.

In this lesson, students learn or review the elements of a plot by writing their own short stories. To avoid the common problem of students having difficulty ending their stories, students start at the end and work their way backwards through the plot chart to the exposition of the story.

This lesson plan has students create book jackets for independent reading books. Students create the jackets with information about the book, then complete a brief oral presentation about what they think about the novel and why their classmates should read it.

Students will learn how to create a cover letter for job applications using block style format.

In this lesson, students choose and adapt a myth from the culture of their choice into a short play, which they then perform for the class. Students also write a prologue and make creative decisions, such as whether to modernize the play or not.

In this lesson, students will learn about Renaissance poetry by seveal famous English Renaissance authors using the jigsaw method. Students will become an expert on one of the poets, then share what they learned with a group.

This lesson gives students the information they need to practice writing great introductions for essays and other academic writing assignments.

In this lesson, students work on writing paragraphs that contain characterization. Students review types of characters, then use fill-in-the-blank paragraphs to attempt to write their own examples of characterization.

This lesson plan starts students on a research paper assignment about the American Civil War. Students do background research, formulate a thesis statement, and begin writing, while avoiding plagiarism.