Grade 9 - Grade 12 Language Arts Lesson Plans

1. A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
2. A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
3. A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance and Poetry
4. A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective: Connecting Art, Music, Dance, and Poetry
5. A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
6. A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future
7. A Question of Style
8. A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher in Your Life
9. A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
10. Adapting a Musical

1. African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions
2. African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
3. African-American History Month
4. All the News That's Fit to Print
5. An Introduction to Beowulf: Language and Poetics
6. Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About Women
7. Analyzing Character in "Hamlet" Through Epitaphs
8. Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
9. Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in "Death and the Miser"
10. Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
11. Analyzing the Structure of Williams' "Cat"
12. Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
13. Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
14. Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
15. Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
16. Artists as Explorers
17. Asian-Pacific Heritage Month
18. Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
19. Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
20. Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences With Audio Texts
21. Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
22. Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-fair Pronouns
23. Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
24. Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture and Self Through Art and Poetry
25. Blogtopia: Blogging about Your Own Utopia
26. Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
27. Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
28. Broken Worlds
29. Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue
30. Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
31. Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
32. Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
33. Characterization in Literature
34. Charles Baudelaire: The Poet of Sickness and Evil
35. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" -- Writing Women
36. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"-The "New Woman"
37. Chaucer's Wife of Bath
38. Cheerful Hearts and Willing Feet
39. Chivalry and Courtly Love
40. Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Mini-Lesson