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- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
BOOKMATCH: Scaffolding Independent Book Selection
This lesson will be turning heads and pages as students learn how to choose appropriate books for independent reading exercises and later evaluate their choices. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make textselfworld connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
Students examine three examples of revisionist fairy tales in which female characters act in empowered roles rather than behaving helpless and submissive. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
E-pals Around the World
With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Give Them a Hand: Promoting Positive Interaction in Literature Circles
Students circle their desks as they analyze their own participation within a small group discussion. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Heroes Around Us
Students select, read about, and report on a hero and then identify how their hero matches certain criteria and characteristics. Hero reports are then compiled into a class book.
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