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Website Layout
Eleventh graders finish presenting their one minute novel evaluations while choosing one of the novels to read independentally. They view a variety of graphic organizers to strategically plan out their website content. In addition, they...
Curated OER
Traverse City Trouble Makers
Learners investigate how to become advocates in an authentic environmental issue, in this case the invasion of the zebra mussel invasion of the Great Lakes. They complete graphic organizers during Internet research, while reading...
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Poetry
Fourth graders participate in reading and listening to poetry. They are exposed to a variety of poems and examine and identify basic elements of poetry. They write their own poems and recite a poem with enthusiasm, expression, and props.
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Where in the World?
Sixth graders research online various types of poetry. In this poetry analysis activity, 6th graders research different types of poetry online, their characteristics, and poets. Students create a class atlas that incorporates the seven...
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Storytelling
Eighth graders retell stories to peers and the entire class. In this storytelling lesson, 8th graders research short stories and select a short story to retell. Students rewrite the stories in their own words and tell it aloud.
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Silent Spring
Students read background information about Rachel Carson found on the listed website links. They analyze and answer questions about her work and how it is linked to science then they research pesticide usage and alternative methods.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: King James Bible
This lesson from a unit on Seventeenth Century British Literature focuses on the King James Bible and its influence. It features links to a brief history of the King James Bible, Online text and audio versions of King James Bible,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Poetry: Thomas Hardy, 1840 1928
This lesson from a unit on Victorian Literature focuses on Thomas Hardy's poetry. While Hardy is primarily considered a for his bleak, pessimisic, and ironic novels, he also wrote poetry that provides a transition from Victorian to the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Poetry: a.e. Housman, 1859 1936
This page of a unit on Victorican Literature focuses on the poetry of A.E. Housman, whose goal of poetry was to "transfuse emotion" to "pack a punch" for the reader. It includes links to three of his poems and a worksheet handout for the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Prose: Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
This lesson from a unit on Victorian Literature focuses on John Ruskin and his works that defended the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who did prefered the paintings of the earlier painters to those of Raphael, using the human image. It...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Prose: Victorian Views on Education
This lesson from a unit on Victorian Literature focuses on Victorian views on education. Compulsary education for students ages 5 to 11 was enacted in 1870, and this lessons discusses the works of three Victorians on that topic:John...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Literature of the u.s. Civil War
This very thorough unit plan focuses on the literature of the Civil War for 4th and 5th graders. It includes both a student and teacher bibliography.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Curriculum Units (1978 Present)
A collection of volumes of curriculum materials, organized by year, that were developed by teachers and cover a wide range of topics in science, social studies, language arts, math, etc. Each volume focuses on an over-riding theme or...
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Teach 21: "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel (Unit Plan)
This seven-lesson unit on "The Pigman" covers all the essential elements of the novel, putting special emphasis on motivating young scholars to apply high-order information literacy and reasoning skills. Includes useful handouts that...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Introduction
This is the introduction to a unit on Victorian Literature, a period describing the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) as prudish and old fashioned, but is considered by some as a second English Renaissance, a time of wealth, power, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet
This is an introduction to a modern poetry unit; it features links to poetry and technology standards and a list of key terms. The essential questions for the unit focuses on the characteristics of contemporary poetry, how poets use...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Colonial Literature Assignments
This lesson focuses on the assignments for the unit on Colonial Literature. It features a list of reading assignments, thought questions, a mini-research project assignment, and links to websites on Native American Culture and Native...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Survival
This is an introduction to a unit on survival literature; it focuses on the memoir Night by Elie Weisel, hie story of survival of The Holocaust.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Short Stories
This lesson provides and introduction to a short story unit. It focuses the lessons and morals taught by short stories and the use of literary elements in fiction. I provides a list of essential questions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Rationalism
This is an introduction to a unit on Rationalism, also known as The Age of Reason or Enlightenment, was set during the American Revolutionary period. It focuses on the belief that the power of reason and science would further human...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Comp: Rationalism: Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on the literary terms needed for the unit on Rationalism. I provides a list of terms and a crossword puzzle using them.
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Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Walden
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Henry David Thoreau's Walden, a book about his living a frugal life in a secluded life in a cabin on Walden Pond. Links are provided to a Discovery Education video about...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Walt Whitman and his invention of the American free verse. It includes links to his poems "Song of Myself" and "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." It provides...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Transcendentalism: Emily Dickinson
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Emily Dickinson and her poetry. It includes links to a Discovery Education video: "Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: An Overview of Her Work" (registration required) and four of...