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- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
This lesson has students explore freedom of speech by examining the Pledge of Allegiance from a historical and personal perspective and in relationship to fictional situations in novels. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the Satire
Use Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book as an accessible introduction to satire. Reading, discussing, and researching this picture book paves the way for a deeper understanding of Gulliver's Travels. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
From Friedan ForwardConsidering a Feminist Perspective
Students write letters expressing personal views on issues like equal pay, equal education/employment opportunity, and gender rolesand receive these letters six years later. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
From Little House to My House: Exploring History and Family Roles
Blaze a trail to new perspectives on home and family through historical fiction read-alouds. Students compare an episode from one of the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (in picture book format) with the author's life and with their own experiences. - Classroom Resources | Grades 8 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
From Text to Film: Exploring Classic Literature Adaptations
Students create storyboards to compare and contrast a book and its film adaptation. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A WebQuest on Iran
To prepare students for reading the graphic novel Persepolis, this lesson uses a WebQuest to focus students' research on finding reliable information about Iran before and during the Islamic Revolution. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Get the GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area
GIST is a summarizing technique that can be used in any content area. Students will learn and apply the strategy while doing online research and writing activities on news stories. - Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Glogging About Natural Disasters
After researching various natural disasters, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel
In this graphical mapping project, students assign a value to the events, characters, and themes in a novel and think about how the elements of the story are all interconnected.