Jodi Day
This is for a poetry unit and I used it with 9th Honors Literature. This lesson is done after the students have been taught the literary terms: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhyme. Attached are the instruction sheet and a list of "random words" for the activity. After the students write poems in groups, they present and share. The instruction sheet acts as a rubric.
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Kathy Richter
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Diana Bishop
The over-arching essential question for the year is "How does the American Dream shape American Literature?" I use this assignment which is both differentiated and performance-based to apply their knowledge of what the American Dream represented to the Puritans, as well as apply their talents in a variety of writing genres. Oh... did I mention that it also incorporates technology?
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Shirley Henderson
I got this idea at a workshop and adapted it to HAMLET. It makes students think about the characters in the play and their relationships to each other. Students must make decisions, be creative, and explain to others their thought processes. It is a fun and valuable exercies.
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Wylie Brown
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Beth Morgan
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George Seaman
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Frances Clark
This lesson, created by Frances Clark, is used with 12th grade on-level students enrolled in Contemporary Lit/Comp at Lassiter High School.
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Kristene Moore
My students are creating websites as an alternate assessment of their study of the literature of the Realist movement.
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Susan Preissler
