A link to a primary source set followed by a project focused on modern-day types of hysteria that will provide students with a greater understanding of the sociopolitical contexts of the play
This is a virtual learning assignment that could be used in any course to address current events, information literacy skills, and media literacy skills. Please note that the assignment references a proprietary resource: the Proquest online database. Teachers may need to modify the referenced resource (particularly in Phase 1) to include one that is available to their students.
English Instructional Plan – Grades 9- 12: Current Events Persuasive Debate and Essay
Students will learn about cyber security and keeping their information safe. They will then create a presentation for younger students to teach them about cyber security.
Students will identify and work to solve various cyber security concerns by answering a rEnglishted prompt and working through the problem.
TSW research different careers within cybersecurity to come up with an answer to the SOL Prompt “Many schools have partnerships with local companies and organizations that allow students to explore certain professions. Write a letter to the manager of a local workplace that performs the type of work that you would like to pursue. Convince the employer to allow you to visit. Include details about why you chose that workplace and the specific job.” After we have created and drafted a sample essay as a class, students will brainstorm, create a foldable/graphic organizer or outline of their ideas, and write their own response to the prompt question. As this is focused heavily on writing and modeling I recommend using this lesson in Q1 or Q2 (at the latest).
Cori Sowers provides short, targeted video presentations about various topics for Google, Canvas, and other technologies linked from this page.
Students will sort and analyze data about a main character from the novel they are studying and create a desk or room depicting the accomplishments, life events and/or experiences, positive and negative of a character in a novel they are studying. This exercise would work well as a literature circle activity, group activity for a class novel, or an extension activity for an advanced class. Students will work in lit circle (small) groups on a project where they sort the data that they have learned directly and through inference while reading their story.. Students will use the data collected to create a depiction of the character's desk/room.
This is day 1 of a 5 day lesson. This lesson introduces r-controlled vowels in one and two syllable words.Resources include:syllable division warm upword list to view syllable patternchunk chunk blendsdecodable textvideo resources
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Amanda Knighton teach about writing a diary entry.
During this lesson, students will make connections between Computer Science and making predictions in fiction and literary nonfiction. Students will make, confirm, and revise predictions and then see how this is rEnglishted to sequencing, looping, and debugging in Computer Science. Students will practice using text evidence and prior knowledge to make predictions. When their predictions are not correct, students will revise them by looking at the existing text evidence, adding or changing text evidence, re-evaluate their prior knowledge, and then make a new prediction. Students will learn that when they revise their predictions, it’s like Computer Scientists who have to debug algorithms when the result does not meet the expected outcome.
TSW will be able to see the corrEnglishtion between CS standards of debugging and the English standard of recursive writing and editing. This lesson will take place after the teacher has gone over the writing rubric for Grade 8 SOL and has covered such topics as Content Written Expression and Usage and Mechanics in writing. Students should have a basic understanding of the five paragraph essay, outlining, desired construct of written essay, and have been provided with examples. Ideally this lesson will take place in the second or third quarter of the school year.
Students will debug a text by working in pairs or small groups to review a grade level text to determine where quotation marks are needed to indicate dialogue. Students will connect edits to the story to finding errors in computer programs. Provide examples.
The focus of this episode is to understand the importance of developing problem solving skills and ways to make positive decisions. This lesson works through the many character traits that students will learn in Kindergarten that will grow with them throughout life.
Students will take the role of a PSA (Public Service Announcement) team, creating a visual presentation of a problem using thinking maps/graphic organizers, and presenting potential research-based solutions for a problem. Students will have three different problems to choose from (Ocean plastic, head injuries in football, and too much testing in schools), each with a scaffolded set of resources for them to choose from in order to aid in research and information gathering.
Students will make tasks (party planning, building a tower, writing a story) easier by breaking the problems down into manageable chunks. Students will also break down words into root words and affixes.
Sequencing is a skill that is important in many content areas as well as computer science. After listening to a well known story such as The 3 Little Pigs or The 3 Bears and Goldilocks, students will demonstrate an understanding of sequence by drawing the beginning, middle and end of the story and labeling it with b for beginning, m for middle, and e for ending.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Jadah Jones teach about using reference materials.
Students will review denotation and connotation. The teacher will provide examples. Students will then work independently or in pairs to replace the underlined words in the given sentences with synonyms that have either a positive connotation or a negative connotation. Students will share their answers with the class.
English Instructional Plan- Describing Characters