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Jacqueline Podolski
| Name | Jacqueline Podolski |
| Location | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Role | Middle School Teacher |
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"I enjoy the challenge of adapting my own lesson plans to meet the technological requirements of ReadWriteThink."
Jackie spent three and a half years teaching sixth grade in the Milwaukee Public Schools. During that time, she helped create new, district-wide, standards-based assessments for oral language, research, and writing. She also coordinated vertical and horizontal English curriculum allignment between the nine English teachers in her school and those of a local high school.
Jackie earned a degree in Secondary English Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her areas of expertise include grammar and writing instruction, as well as sentence imitation and combining, the focus of her Master's thesis. She is a member of Phi Delta Kappa and NCTE.
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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.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
Students read sonnets, charting the poems’ characteristics and using their observations to deduce traditional sonnet forms. They then write original sonnets, using a poem they have analyzed as a model.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with Nothing But the Truth
Students read Avi’s Nothing But the Truth and examine the First Amendment and student rights, and then decide whether the rights of the novel's protagonist, Philip, are violated.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction Strategies
Students examine opening sentences of texts they will read during a unit or course and make predictions. They return to their predictions throughout the course as they read the texts.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Focusing Reader Response Through Vocabulary Analysis
Students suggest and categorize words that they associate with a novel they have recently read, ranging from details about the plot to feelings about a character.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
He Said/She Said: Analyzing Gender Roles through Dialogue
Students analyze dialogue tags used with male and female characters in a book they have read. They then evaluate the message the dialogue tags convey about gender roles.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
Students identify genre characteristics for short stories and newspaper articles then practice both genres by turning a short story into a news article and an article into a short story.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Literary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis
Students stage a mock trial for a literary character, with groups of students acting as the prosecution, defense, and jury.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching Voice with Anthony Browne’s Voices in the Park
Students analyze Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne to determine how an author keeps an audience interested by creating voice and to applying that knowledge to their own writing.
