1.   Mixed Bags: Fiction and Nonfiction This lesson helps students compare fiction and nonfiction books on the same topic so that they see the differences between the two kinds of writing.

2.   Comparing and Contrasting Fiction and Nonfiction Allows students to compare fiction and nonfiction with a Venn Diagram.

3.   Holes Match 'Em Up Challenge Students explore how the various plotlines In Holes are connected. They matching and collecting symbols and key ideas that appear throughout the story and in multiple story strands.

4.   Cause and Effect with the Treasure of Green Lake Students answer questions about the plot of the story Holes, make decisions using their understanding of the cause-and-effect relationships, and exercise problem-solving skills as well.

5.   Picture the Process! Students study the author of Chasing Vermeer's writing process and make connections between the book and the author's real-life experiences. They apply that writing process to writing their own mysteries.

6.   Getting Ready to Write Students learn about Cornelia Funke's writing process and apply what they learn to their own writing through a variety of activities.

7.   Picturing the Story Presents a lesson about character development and plot elements, that centers on a reading of the book Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen.

1.   Illustrated Character Eureka! Teacher Lesson Plans Lesson: Illustrated Character Possible Adaptations: May be used for a work with many characters May be adapted to show different aspects of characterization Goal of Lesson: To teach close analysis of character. Materials Needed: Directions Literary text Materials for artistic decoration, if assigned in class Description of Activity: 1. Assign a character to each student, or let them choose their own. 2. Go over the directions for how to create an illustrated character. (attached) 3. Let students prese...

2.   Language Arts: Practicing Literary Analysis LOGO - PULSE Practicing Literary Analysis Author: Jill Torrey Emmons Time: 2 class periods Preparation 15 minutes Time: Materials: Copies of ?The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? by Coleridge. Abstract In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned about literary elements in order to analyze a challenging tex...

3.   Appreciating The Scarlet Letter - Author(s)Tom Panara - ...is also aligned with social studies 11 and the same periods of time are studied in both. Students need to know the following: characterization, setting, terminology (Puritanism, morality, ethics), conflict, and sequence of events. STANDARD 3 STUDENTS WILL READ, WRITE, LISTEN, AND SPEAK FOR CRITICAL ANALYSIS ANE EVALUATION PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: essay writing, comparison-contrast exercises, cooperative learning activities, and final test This fits into the English 11R curriculum because we are focusing on developing student awareness of viewing literature on an interpretive level of understanding in keeping wit...

4.   Analytical Essay Guidelines Analytical Essay Guidelines Analysis begins with a whole object, such as a poem, novel, short story or play. The analyst (or you, as the writer of the analytical essay) tries to take things apart to examine the individual pieces that make up the whole. An analytical essay (often referred to as a five-paragraph essay though there's nothing speci...

5.   Language Arts: A Formal Analysis of Science Fiction LOGO - PULSE A Formal Analysis of Science Fiction Author: Catharine Niuzzo Honaman Time: 2 days Preparation 30 Time: minutes to read the lesson plan Materials: Access to a computer lab to write and edit the themes Students will need the story they read and their notes from the Explain Lesson Abstract Students will use the observations tha...

6.   Language Arts: Book Review ...? 3 classes Preparation 30 minutes to read the Time: lesson and to make arrangements to use the computer lab Materials: Computer lab in which to write the papers Abstract Students will write a five paragraph theme that explains how the novel which they read in this unit effectively utilized various literary elements to portray the impact of a disease on a population. Each student will decide which three literary elements to write about because these best explored the impact of the disease on the time and culture examined in his or her book. This is the apply lesson. Students will write their five paragraph expo...

7.   Pick a Short Story ..._ NYLearns.orgUniversity at _ Buffalo Home_Login_Help _ _ _ Curriculum Educational Assessment Professional Additional _ Resources Development Links _ _ Lesson Plan _ _ Printer Friendly Version Send to a Friend _ Pick a Short Story _ Description: _ Students will pick a short story and apply various literary terms that they have used in the course of the year and describe how the literary terms apply to the chosen stories. _ Objectives: 1. Students will be able to deconstruct a short story according to plot, setting, characterization, and theme. 2. Students will be able to select, define, and apply two literary...

8.   PowerPoint Lesson Plan Poetry Unit for Tenth Grade Language Arts Lesson: Day One, Introduction to literary terms and Spanish and Latin American poetry Designed by: The Linguaphiles Objectives: This lesson aims to familiarize students with literary terms and to teach them the basic concepts needed to analyze poetry. In this lesson, I want the students to: 1. Become familiar with literary terms, and 2. Become famil...

9.   Language Arts: Introduction to Literary Analysis LOGO - PULSE Introduction to Literary Analysis Author: Jill Torrey Emmons Time: 1 class period Preparation 25 minutes Time: Materials: Copies of ?A Daring Escape? excerpt from The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, related articles on waves, film clip from ?The Perfect Storm?, TV/VCR Abstract Students will begin to explore the fascinating ways i...

10.   Global Citizen 2000 - Civil Wars ...Vietnam in cleaning up the environmental effects of the chemical defoliants used during the war according to the 1925 Geneva Convention or any other chemical warfare ban? 5. OR afterwards have students read each of the 5 poems to review the impact of the Vietnam War on the common person and do the Literary Analysis for Homework. Materials: Video Clip on the Environmental Destruction of the Vietnam War (Realplayer required) Resuscitation of the Dead Earth (Acrobat Reader required) Select Poems from Shallow Graves (Acrobat Reader required) Literary Analysis Worksheet Resources: Video Clip The Environmental Destr...