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Point of View - A summer school lesson plan by Anna Morrison. Fun and helpful ideas for point-of-view, but the lesson plan is badly formatted in wiki, and it does not include links or text of the two worksheets needed for the lesson plan.

 

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Poetry Resources

General Poetry Resources

Includes:

-lesson plans for introducing "what is poetry"

             introduction to poetry

-lessons/handouts for basic types of poetry  - metaphorical, prose, haiku, etc

 

Stylistic Devices in Poetry

Includes resources for:

alliteration, assonance, rhyme, rhythm, and onamonapeia, simile, metaphor, diction, imagery, symbolism, personification

 

 

Author or Movement-specific Poetry Materials

Includes resource for:

authors (Tupac, Silverstein, Shakespeare, maya angelou, others)

movements (Harlem Renaissance, others)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language!! Words, Word Meanings, Special Word Usages, etc

Figurative Language

Simile-Metaphor

Hyperbole, Idiom, Oxymoron

Personification and Hyperbole

Figurative Language Review

 

Personification

Personification - lesson plan

\"Respiration\" text - text of a Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common rap about the city that "breathes"

Personification - Lesson plan that uses the following handout with excerpts from Animal Farm and a Langston Hughes poem

 

Symbolism

Symbolism

Symbolism in Advertising

Symbolism LP (CS)

Symbolism and Theme in Hemingway

 

Irony

Introduction to Irony

Irony

Introduction to 3 types of irony

 

Word Meanings

Connotation-Denotation - lesson plan that uses this handout (text of poem with questions)

Prefix and Suffix Handout

Word Structure-Prefix and Suffix

synonyms antonyms-lesson plan by A. Albanese

Synonyms and Antonyms worksheet - worksheet that can be used with a Syn/Ant lesson plan

 

Diction

Formal vs Informal Language

Introduction to Formal English

 

 

 

 

 

General Activities for an English Classroom

Discussions in the Delta Classroom -ideas and handouts for holding coherent in-class discussions with students

 

Index Card Lesson Plan

 

Review Skills

 

Rules and Regulations for Summer School 2007, Including Syllabus

Rules lesson1 08 -part 1 of summer school 1st class (rules, introductions, etc)

 

Rules lesson2 08 -part 2 of summer school intro class (rules, procedures, etc)

 

English III IV Pretest

 

English I Exam 7 11 08

 

Grammar

 

 

Grammar Activities - Make grammar fun! Share ideas here for making a boring subject more exciting. A list of games, activities, and other ideas for teaching grammar in a non-traditional way...

 

 

Parts of Speech

Introduction to Verbs

Verbs and Adverbs

Progressive Tense Verbs

Introduction to Nouns

Introduction to Adjectives

Introduction to Prepositional Phrases

Intro to Personal and Reflexive Pronouns

 

 

 

Subject Verb Agreement

 

Subject-Verb Agreement #1

Subject Verb Agreement LP1

SubjectVerbAgreementBaseballLP

Subject Verb Agreement LP2 (Scotty)

Subject Verb Agreement (mid-level)

Introduction to Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject-Verb Agreement 3

 

Mechanics

Commas vs Semicolons Lesson Plan

Commas vs Semicolons 2 Lesson Plan

Commas and Semicolons Review and Test Lesson Plan CS

Capitalization, Apostrophes, Commas, Semicolons, Colons

 

 

 

 Sentence Manipulation and Structure

 

Sentence Structure

Phrases-Appositives, Prepositional Phrases, and Infinitive Phrases

Participles

 

 

Literary elements and grammar review (Scotty)

 

Story Elements and Literary Terms

 

Setting and Plot

Setting

Setting and Plot

Setting and Plot

Plot Structure (Scotty)

Plot structure-rising action, climax, resolution

components of plot structure

 

 

Character

Characterization

Characterization 2

Characterization and Conflict I

Characterization and Conflict II

Characterization in A Rose for Emily

Stock Character Lesson Plan

Indirect-Direct Characterization Lesson Plan

 

Theme

Introduction to Theme (CS)

Theme

Theme (with a Eudora Welty short story 'A Worn Path'

 

 

Other

Point of View - A summer school lesson plan by Anna Morrison. Fun and helpful ideas for point-of-view, but the lesson plan is badly formatted in wiki, and it does not include links or text of the two worksheets needed for the lesson plan.

Mood and Tone

Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir

Literary elements and grammar review (Scotty)

 

 

Author Purpose

Author Purpose

Authors Purpose through Connotation 1

Authors Purpose through Connotation 2

 

Figurative Language

Figurative Language in Bambara Story

 

 

 

 

Reading Skills

Active Reading

 

Context Clues

Context Clues Lesson Plan

 

Fact versus Opinion

fact vs opinion (english 1)

 

Drawing conclusions- all sorts of resources for drawing conclusions or making inferences from a text

 

Persuasion in Advertising - a worksheet, with space to fill in notes, to teach recognization of the various persuasive techniques used in ads

 

Propaganda and Bias

 

 

 

Writing Skillz

 

The Five Paragraph Essay

Planning and Prewriting

Informative Essay Prewriting Lesson Plan

 

Persuasive Prompts and Thesis

Persuasive Prompts and Thesis (Modified)

Creating an Informative Essay Graphic Organizer (IEGO!) Lesson Plan - this is the second step in the essay process: after prewriting, before the outline.

Determining audience

Editorial planning process and writing

 

 

Outlining

Informative Essay Outline Lesson Plan lesson plan that could be used with: Basic Five Paragraph Essay Outline -has a brief review/refresher of the parts of an essay, and also guides/explains what each section is all about.

Creating an Outline (5 paragraph essay)-lesson plan that could be used with: Basic Five Paragraph Essay Outline

paraphrasing lesson

Outline to Rough Draft

 

 

Editing

Essay Editing Lesson Plan

Writing a Conclusion- Five Paragraph Essays

 

 

Other Types of Writing

 

Memoirs, Personal Narrative and Autobiograpy

Introduction to Writing a Memoir

Autobiography LP using Frederick Douglass

Creative Autobiography I

Creative Autobiography II

Introductory Personal Narrative

Voice and Narrative Essay

 

Other

Ideas for Journalling Guidelines

5 Sentence Paragraphs

Teaching Literary Analysis -resources to teach kids to write about literature using an argument, and evidence from the text to back that argument up. Also, the technical side of how to incorporate quotes into essays.

Includes: notes, handouts

expository writing

expos essay writing

expository writing structures

 

 

SATP- English II-specific preparation

SATP Multiple Choice I

SATP Multiple Choice II

SATP Basic Parts of an Informative Essay

SATP Informative Essay I

SATP Informative Essay II

 

 

 

ACT preparation

Introduction to the ACT- a handout to explain the ACT to your students, and instructions for giving them a (successful) practice ACT.

(which can backfire very easily -- its a very challenging, very long test with lots of reading.)

 

ACT Reading Section

 

 

ACT English Section

 

 

 

 

Research Paper

Beginning a Research Paper

 

Research Paper Review

 

 

 CITATIONS

 

 

Plagiarism

 

Research Paper Guide- A 21-page guide written by a TFA and E. Savage, with some modifications by A. Morrison. Can be used as "a textbook" for your students during the research paper unit, and has much of the information they will need.... Because pbwiki copy/pasting isn't ideal, this is going to take some serious bolding/italicizing/formatting when you take it off of here.

 

Basic topic subpoints lesson -This lesson reference notecards and sourcecards, so make sure your students know how to do both before sending them to research.

 

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 english 1 paraphrase

 

Literature-Specific Materials

 

Full-length Books and Plays

Includes materials (worksheets, activities, tests, lesson plans) for teaching "A Raisin in the Sun", Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, "The Crucible", The Giver, Old Man and the Sea, Things Fall Apart

 

Million Little Pieces - a little worksheet for drawing conclusions/inferences I made up for the first 6 or so pages of this novel. The kids LOVED it, it silenced them into working on a friday afternoon, and they begged to read the whole thing.

 

Short Stories

Includes materials for: An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, Gift of the Magi, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Story of an Hour, The Lottery

 

Other

American Literature Unit

A sort of historical unit developed by Chris Elias and Dan Doyle as an "overview" of the major American literature periods during summer school.

Includes very, very detailed lesson plans, but missing a few notes/handouts

 

Civil Rights Movement

Incoporates historical time period with Language Arts. Overall objective is to get students to create a narrative response based on a historical period.

 

literary and organizational terms review quiz lesson