High School Resources

[Robert Rozema]

Use this forum item to share your best resources--unit plans, lesson plans, writing invitations, or other ideas that have worked for you in a high school setting.

Just reply to this discussion item with a brief description of your resource (e.g., American Literature--Great Gatsby Unit Plan) and then attach any files that go along with it. Ideally, we'll have a rich archive for new and veteran teachers alike. Be sure to include your name, and be sure to credit any resources you use from this site.

[Tracy Brosseit]

Brosseit.zip
My name is Tracy Brosseit and I am a senior at Grand Valley State University. Attatched to this discussion is a file containing my Eng. 311 pedagogy project. It contains a 10 day, student-centered unit plan titled; Social Realitie: Teaching World Awareness to 11th Graders Through the Voice of One Girl. The main text used in this unit is a YA novel titled Tree Girl. However, this unit uses a combination of images, text and technology to encourage students to become aware of the social injustices happening world wide. I spent a lot of time creating it and hope that it will be useful.

[Elizabeth Longcore]

My name is Elizabeth Longcore. The following is my pedagogy project for ENG 311, which is a two week unit plan on Of Mice and Men. It is entitled "Entering the World of Of Mice and Men" and is designed for a tenth grade classroom.
My unit plan focuses on helping students to connect with the themes and the characters in Of Mice and Men through activities like blogging, drama, group activities and discussion.

[Adam Kennedy]

My name is Adam Kennedy and my lesson plan is entitled "Understanding The Short Story".

The lesson takes place over a 10 day period and is appropriate for 11th or 12th grade English because it involves quite a bit of reading and high level thinking, however, it could easily be altered to work with lower grades by taking away a few of the texts or slowing the pace of the lesson. The unit focuses on connecting literature to students lives in a meaningful way. It is aimed at helping them "enter the story world". To achieve this aim, the lesson involves blogging, drama exercises, and a substantial amount of small group work. These activities will help students better understand the nature of the short story.

Any suggestions or improvements are welcome as I have not put this lesson into practice it is, up to this point, just theory.

[Jory]

Hey,

Jory Sanders here, this is my final project. It is a unit plan for a ninth grade literature class. It examines Sandra Cisneros' "House on Mango Street," as a parent text, and also looks at other related works, such as Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" in order to A: gain a better crosscultural understanding, as well as to B: understand and apply the authors methods in creating their own "Literary Portraits."

[Lynnette Van Dyke]

This is a wonderful feature. Thank you, Rob

[Jen Haberling]

Great stuff-- a good pairing of high interest and classical works! Thanks for sharing this!