Reading and Defining Poetry By exploring a variety of poems, students will learn poetic techniques in this two-day lesson.		Holiday Poems Students will write an acrostic poem from the name of a winter holiday: "Christmas," "Kwanzaa,"...
Don'ts List Poem Students make lists of the don'ts they have heard in their lives, and they make them into a...		Harriet Brent Jacobs Harriet Brent Jacobs was a slave who wrote an autobiography. Students read an excerpt and react...
Using a Double-Entry Journal with Shakespeare's Hamlet Learn how to incorporate journaling in while teaching Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of...		Benjamin Banneker's Letter Review Banneker's life, read a letter he wrote to Jefferson, and write analogies in this lesson...
Comparing Fractions with Unlike Numerators Using Journaling Use a lesson that is an introduction to comparing fractions with like denominators and unlike...		Jose Garcia Villa Students will read and analyze a poem and then read the poet's analysis of the same poem.
It's a Storybook Life! Students use a web resource to explore oral histories as part of the broad tradition of...		The Rights of Bike Riders Students will write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in reaction to the bicycle helmet...
Letters from the Past Students explore a Civil War Website and read authentic letters from a soldier. This lesson...		African Storytellers Students will use the Internet to find out more about griots, or African storytellers. Their...
Historical Sites Project Students will research an historically important site and make a project explaining its...		Creating Opera Work with students to improvise dialogue (speaking and singing), music, and scenery to turn a...
Who Writes History? Rethinking Columbus Day In this lesson plan, students explore their ideas about history and who writes it. The...		Sell the Book PowerPoint Slide Show In this lesson plan, students design a PowerPoint slide with an advertisement for a book they...
Rhyming States What's in a state? What makes it great? Students learn more about a chosen state and create a...