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Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan

Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas

Students’ responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they’ve researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.

 

Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan

A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension

Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.

 

Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan

Learning Clubs: Motivating Middle School Readers and Writers

Students participate in learning clubs, select content area topics, and draw on texts—including websites, printed material, video, and music—to investigate their topics, and share their learning using similar media.

 

Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan

Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature

Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.

 

Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan

Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism.

 

Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan

Analyzing First-Person Narration in Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind

Students explore the different facets of complexity in the compelling first-person narrator in Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind.