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Junius Wright
| Name | Junius Wright |
| Location | Charleston, South Carolina |
| Role | High School Teacher |
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"ReadWriteThink brings a community of the nation's best English teachers to my computer desktop with just a click of the mouse. Working with the RWT editors and reviewers has enriched my experience both as a writer and teacher."
Junius teaches European Literature and Creative Writing at the Academic Magnet High School in Charleston, South Carolina. His goal as a teacher is to nurture in each student a hunger for knowledge and a desire to learn. To achieve this goal, Junius has developed lessons that help students hone the skills they need to independently analyze, interpret, and explain the significance of a work. Many of his lessons were first developed through the Visual Literacy Project (http://www.readingart.net), a program he created to help teachers integrate visual literacy into the traditional classroom curriculum.
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Students use art and poetry to explore and understand major characteristics of the Romantic period.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
Students apply the analytical skills that they use when reading literature to an exploration of the underlying meaning and symbolism in Hieronymous Bosch’s early Renaissance painting Death and the Miser.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
This lesson uses clips from The Matrix and other dystopian movies to introduce students to the characteristics found in dystopian works, such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh’s “1984” Commercial
This lesson uses the “1984” Macintosh Commercial to introduce students to dystopian characteristics. Students analyze techniques used in the commercial and identify the comments that it makes about contemporary society.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
The movie Shrek introduces the satirical techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. Students brainstorm fairy tale characteristics, identify satirical techniques, then create their own satirical versions of fairy tales.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Satire with The Simpsons
This lesson uses an example from popular culture, The Simpsons, as a means to explore the literary technique of satire and to analyze a satirical work.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
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 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
Students analyze propaganda techniques used in pieces of literature and political advertisements. They then look for propaganda in other media, such as print ads and commercials.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
After reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet, students identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli’s painting Birth of Venus and examples from the play illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark Story Ideas
In this lesson, students use found notes and found photographs as inspiration to help them identify subjects, settings, characters, and conflicts for pieces of creative writing.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
The Children’s Picture Book Project
In this lesson students evaluate published children’s picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children’s picture books.
