Grade 6 - Grade 8 Language Arts Lesson Plans

1. Folktale Frenzy: WebQuest Writing
2. Found Poems/Parallel Poems
3. From Story to Stage
4. Girls Read: Online Literature Circles
5. GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Use in Any Content Area
6. Giving Voice to History
7. Graphic Life Map
8. Greek Mythology: Cultures and Art
9. Harlem Renaissance: A Living Museum
10. Harmonic Composition, An Essay
11. Harrowing Halloween: Spooky, Supernatural, and Suspenseful
12. Haunting Music
13. He Said/She Said: Analyzing Gender Roles through Dialogue
14. Heroes Around Us
15. Honoring Our Veterans Through Poetry Prewriting

1. Identity Boxes
2. Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
3. In the Poet's Shoes
4. In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
5. Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pages for a Class Collection
6. Inside or Outside? A Mini-Lesson on Quotation Marks and More
7. Inspired by Muses, Graces, and Fates
8. Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
9. Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
10. Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions
11. Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention
12. Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion
13. Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural Traditions
14. Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
15. Jack London's "The Call of the Wild": "Nature Faker"?
16. Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men
17. King Arthur: Man or Legend?
18. Leading to Great Places in the Middle School Classroom
19. Let It Grow: An Inquiry-Based Organic Gardening Research Project
20. Letters and Learning Genre
21. Lewis and Clark: Artful Recordings
22. Lewis and Clark: Prized Possession
23. Lift Every Voice and Sing
24. Light in the Storm Unit
25. Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
26. Listen to the Nightingale
27. Listening to History
28. Literary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis
29. Literature Circle Roles Reframed: Reading as a Film Crew
30. Live from Ancient Olympia!
31. Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
32. Look in the Mythic Mirror
33. Making Beds
34. Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using "A Girl Named Disaster"
35. Mapping the Past