Research project and presentation based on the novel The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom. 

This lesson plan was created as a way for students to show their understanding of six different types of figurative language. Students will need to have learned about simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification. Students will also need to have learned about citing sources for images found online. Image License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Students learn how to collect information for a research paper. They also consider what questions to ask when collecting evidence.

This activity emphasizes the importance of teaching reading and writing strategies for students to use with informational text.

This is an introductory unit on Greek and Latin roots. There are three lists with accompanying learning tasks.

This lesson ties into both ELA and Journalism standards asking students to critically analyze online news sources. Students will read Stephen Glass's famously fabricated article "Hack Heaven" and use their understanding of the methods of the CRAAP test to analyze its overall credibility. This lesson can be used in-person and online, synchronously, as well as asynchronously, and ties into a research project where students conduct research to research, report, write, and edit their own news article on a topic of their choosing.

Students will be introduced to vocabulary used to effectively evaluate print and digital sources.

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.