Grade 9 - Grade 12 Language Arts Lesson Plans

1. Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
2. Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction
3. Introduction to Modernist Poetry
4. Introduction to Seurat and Sondheim
5. Is a Sentence a Poem?
6. It's All in the Translation
7. I've Got the Literacy Blues
8. Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!
9. Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of "The Great Gatsby"
10. Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" : Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in late 19th Century America

1. Kate Chopin's "The Awakening:" No Choice but Under?
2. Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": Searching for Women and Identity in Chopin's "The Awakening"
3. Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
4. Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
5. Landscapes of the Mind
6. Learning the Blues
7. Lessons of the Indian Epic: The "Ramayana," Showing Your Dharma
8. Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
9. Lessons of the Indian Epics: The "Ramayana"
10. Letters from Emily Dickinson: Emulating Emily Dickinson -- Poetry Writing
11. Letters from Emily Dickinson: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words -- Letters and Poems
12. Letters from Emily Dickinson: Responding to Emily Dickinson -- Poetic Analysis
13. Letters from Emily Dickinson: "Will You Be My Preceptor?"
14. Life on the Great Plains
15. Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and Sound
16. Lincoln Goes to War
17. Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
18. Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
19. Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
20. Live from Antiquity
21. Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
22. Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
23. Manipulating Sentences to Reinforce Grammar Skills
24. Mark Twain and American Humor
25. Mental Health Through Literature
26. Monsters
27. More Than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
28. Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
29. Musical Illusion
30. Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
31. N.C. Wyeth: The Art of Illustration
32. Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using Chapter Titles
33. Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
34. National Poetry Month: Forms of Poetry
35. Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
36. New Takes on Old Tales
37. Noh Theater
38. Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution, and Setting
39. November's Literary Lions
40. "Oklahoma!" and the Cultural Myth of America