Students in K-5 enjoy this lesson during their "Library Time" every year during the month of April, which is National Poetry Month.
Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
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 is a lesson plan created by Johanna Durham for use in a virtual 7/8 grade classroom on prefixes and suffixes. This lesson draws connections between affixes and roots and how Pokemon names work. This lesson will help students gain a better understanding of different parts of a word.Image Credit: Mikel on Unsplash - https://unsplash.com/photos/DypO_XgAE4Y
This lesson utilizes the experience-text-relationship method to enhance comprehension and prediction skills of the story "Coyote and the Rolling Stone," a traditional tale shared by the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation. It also helps students become familiar with cultural storytelling and its importance in Native cultures. Students will have a brief introduction to the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation and its location in Utah. The lesson includes an experience-eliciting discussion/activity, a discussion about the students' reading of the story, and a discussion relating students' experiences to the content of the story.
Students analyze propaganda techniques used in pieces of literature and political advertisements. They then look for propaganda in other media, such as print ads and commercials.
This Folger Shakespeare Library resource provides a brief history of Queen Elizabeth I's life and her connection to playwright William Shakespeare.
Learn how Jim Crow laws impacted home ownership and the pursuit of the American Dream in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. Lorraine Hansberry’s family was at the forefront of fighting segregation in Chicago in the 1940s, even taking the fight all the way to the Supreme Court. Hansberry’s famous play, A Raisin in the Sun, continues the legacy of her parents by using literature to take a stand against racial inequality and injustice.
Support materials include discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student handout comparing the experience of Lorraine Hansberry’s family and the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun.
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.
Explore how reading can be a revolutionary act in this video from the American Masters film Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.
In this lesson, students find a fairy tale from their culture. They do their own retelling of the story through video, using acting, images, music, voiceovers, and any other effects they would like to use. Photo by Дмитрий Хрусталев-Григорьев on Unsplash
This lesson plan is the ninth in the "Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community" series. It provides a video recording of the poet, Joy Harjo, reading the poem "Remember." The companion lesson contains a sequence of activities for use with secondary students before, during, and after reading to help them enter and experience the poem.
This lesson is designed for Kindergarten students. Students will create a digital story using props and recording devices to retell a familiar story. Technology aspects of this lesson can be adjusted up or down depending on student ability. This lesson addresses the Kindergarten ELA Reading: Literature Standard 2 and 3. Title Image: Photo by Nong Vang on Unsplash
This is a lesson plan created to help students learn how to retell the events of a story using first, next, then, and last using the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Students are also learning the life cycle of a seed.
This is a lesson plan created to help students learn how to retell the events of a story using first, next, then, and last using the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Students are also learning the life cycle of a seed.
Students will practice story retell by viewing a video on an entertaining version of the Three Little Pigs from the wolf's perspective. Then they will retell it including key details and demonstrate understanding of the central message or lesson. The lesson will take about 30 minutes including a 9 minute video. Students should be familiar with the original version of The Three Little Pigs. "Feb 24 2016" - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurasian_wolf_2.jpg
Studying Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," students explore the intricate relationship between a poem's form and its content.
Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, is a CCSS exemplar for grades 11 "“ CCR taught at the upper high school level and in AP English. This three lesson unit looks at a variety of schisms and divisions in the novel. It provides a close reading of the novel by considering Dostoevsky's view of human nature, through his characters; the theoretical division Man v Superman; the societal setting in the novel.
Jonathan Swift's 1729 pamphlet "A Modest Proposal" is a model for satirizing social problems. In this lesson, students complete multiple readings of Swift's essay: a guided reading with the teacher, a collaborative reading with a peer, and an independent reading. The online Notetaker tool helps students restate key ideas from Swift's essay as they read and elaborate upon these ideas postreading. After independent reading, pairs of students develop a mock television newscast or editorial script, like those found on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report, including appropriate visual images in PowerPoint.
In this lesson, students will create an Instagram Post using their knowledge of Shakespeare's life and works.