This lesson plan is for ninth grade language arts class.  It includes writing and critical thinking skills.  It connects students to the humanities and encourages them to use different types of texts.  Digital media will be included.

The Importance of Digital Citizenship HyperDoc will help students learn about, understand, and use their gained knowledge of digital citizenship wisely.  Students will visit five links about different aspects of digital citizenship and communicate, through writing notes, what they learn and experience in each section.  

Hi! My name is Pili Lee and I am a Speech-Language Pathologist. Everyday, I work with students on practicing their speech or language skills. Overtime, when students are close to reaching mastery, we often shift to practicing in a more natural and unstructured setting to help them generalize their skills outside of speech therapy activities. Although there are many different things we can do, I recently learned about “genius hour” and especially love the idea of helping my students discover and learn more about things they are interested in or passionate about. When my students get to work on things they love and are excited about, not only does it keep them motivated to practice their speech and language skills, it also prepares them to communicate well when it comes time they get to share what they love and know about in everyday life. Image created by Pili Lee using Canva

The lesson provides an opportunity for students to not only read and view the importance of choosing career choices now, but gives them an opportunity to write about their future career goals and think about the best way to achieve them starting now.

This is a lesson plan created by Amy Baldwin.Students will interviw each other using an interest inventory. They will work work in pairs and then indepently create a google slide presentation based on their answers to their inventory.They will present their slide show to the class. Teacher will use a rubric to grade while student is presenting.

This is a lesson plan created by Amy Baldwin.Students will interview each other using an interest inventory. They will work in pairs and then independently create a google slide presentation based on their answers to their inventory.They will present their slide show to the class. The teacher will use a rubric to grade while the student is presenting.

This activity helps students understand that science writing is organized in identifiable patterns called text structures. Understanding and using these different text structures help refine students' abilities to both read and write in science.

In this lesson, students learn about archetypes and spend time analyzing their use in both traditional and modern stories.

The various genres and subgenres are presented to the students using a video and presentation, and use of examples of several fiction, non-fiction, and poetry books. Then, using a mixed-genre set of books, and the notes they took during the presentation, students will identify the genres represented in each set.

The various genres and subgenres are presented to the students using a video and presentation, and use of examples of several fiction, non-fiction, and poetry books. Then, using a mixed-genre set of books, and the notes they took during the presentation, students will identify the genres represented in each set.After students finish reading a book independently, they will use what they learned from the presentation to identify the book's genre in their book reviews for their ELA teacher.

This lesson plan has been created to help students build their annotation skills, close reading skills, and ability to identify and analyze the central idea of a text.  This lesson plan also has been created to build digital annotation skills using the Pages application for iPad.  The overall outcome of this lesson plan is to show students the benefits of annotating a text using a digital tool and then taking the information from a text and applying it to create a Public Service Announcement that will bring awareness to a real-world issue or historical event that has had a large impact on our society.  

Short Story from French author Daudet in English. Students receive their last lesson in their native French after German takeover.

Learn how to make inferences in literature, nonfiction and real life, and to support those inferences with strong, reliable evidence.

An inference is just coming to a logical conclusion from whatever evidence you have. It’s one of the most valuable thinking skills you can learn.

The ability to make inferences is one of the things that make a person what we call “smart.” And we say the person who can’t make inferences is “a little slow on the uptake,” right?, because other people figure out what’s going on more quickly than he or she does. We have to spell things out explicitly for that person.

So, when your teacher says he or she is going to help you learn how to make good inferences, imagine in your head that he or just said that you’re going to learn how to be smart today. You’re going to learn how to think, because, ultimately, that’s what making inferences is all about.

This lesson is a Unit to help students learn more about who they are and to be able to share their story with others.  They focus on diversity, dignity, culture and their country.  The learnign hub has different lessons and activities to help students to improve their conversation skills and pronuncation skills.  

This lesson is intended to teach students digital annotation skills and reinforce their knowledge of rhetorical devices (ethos, pathos, and logos) using Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.This resource can be modified to focus on annotating physical copies of a document and with other documents.Cover image: Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-strategycom/1054179588/sizes/m/

This lesson is intended to teach students digital annotation skills and reinforce their knowledge of rhetorical devices using Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. This resource can be modified to focus on annotating physical copies of a document and with other documents.Cover image: Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash

Getting students to connect with literature or history can be challenging, but if you have immersive hands-on activities designed to content standards, students will beg to dig deeper. This "Library Locker" will foster deep critical thinking while offering fun standards based learning opportunity designed with unit outcomes in mind.  Students love these and teachers do too, the ability to make learning with artifacts, literature, collaboration and writing all happen at once gives teachers a way to leverage this type of learning to its fullest extent.

This lesson is designed to be used as a library orientation generally done in conjunction with Ninth Grade English teachers and their classes.

This lesson plan is meant to assist in teaching and assessing students' ability to define literary and grammatical terms and then communicate those definitions to others. This resource can be modified to fit a novel unit study, short stories, or plays that have terms students need to know. The resource is intended to be used as a digital element in an in-person class but can be modified to fit other class types and modalities.Cover image: Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash