J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut and James Joyce		Language Organizers Vol. 2
	Mark Twain and Virginia Woolf Lesson Set		Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell and Ayn Rand
	Great Authors Theme		William Shakespeare and William Faulkner
	Great Authors Worksheets		Teacher Forms Workbook
	Language Organizers Workbook

Great Authors Lesson Plans

1. A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives - In this lesson, students select American authors to research, create timelines and biopoems about their authors, and then collaborate in teams to design and present a panel presentation where they role-play as their authors.
2. Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons - Develop critical question to explore the artistic techniques used in political cartoons and how these techniques impact a cartoon's message.
3. Author! Author!- The goal is for the students to explore the personal and professional worlds of an author in children's literature. The outcome is for students to gather information and learn how to express it in their own words.
4. Author's Purpose and Perspective - To identify and discuss an author's purpose for writing. To determine an author's perspective.
5. Authors Purpose & Fact or Opinion - Students should be able to understand the authors purpose and facts and opinions.
6. Author Study - During this lesson, students will learn more about their favorite authors by researching them on the Internet and presenting to the class, school, and community. Students will see that authors are real people thereby developing an appreciation for reading and writing.
7. Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison - Students benefit from direct comprehension instruction, moving along a continuum from literal understanding to evaluation.

1. Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare’s Secret - Extend and synthesize what they have learned by working in cooperative groups to plan, write, and perform a short dramatic skit
2. Book Report Alternative: Character and Author Business Cards - In the business world, people often exchange business cards when they meet.
3. Characterization in Literature - In this lesson, students explore various methods authors use to create effective characters. Students consider what makes a character believable and create their own characterizations.
4. Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot? - Many students often lack critical thinking skills to be able to analyze what they read. This lesson encourages students to read and respond critically to two different pieces of literature with the same title.
5. Descriptive Character Analysis - Students can visualize a character or event from a story or book and then personalize it through drawings.
6. Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books - This lesson uses Jane Addams Award-winning books to explore author's voice and style. The Jane Addams Book Awards are given to children's books that effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races.
7. Exploring the Lives of Authors Through Their Literature - In this lesson, students use a piece of literature by and an article about Edgar Allan Poe to investigate the relationship between word choice and the reader’s mood and interpretation of a piece of writing.
8. Fiction of Franz Kafka - The lesson uses the Synectics II Model to analyze the themes of Kafka's writings. The Synectics II Model makes use of analogy and metaphor to help students comprehend and understand new or complex concepts.
9. Florida's Prize-Winning Authors - After students study a gazetteer of Florida's prize-winning authors in a pamphlet entitled Florida Literary Map, they select one of the mentioned authors, research his or her life, take notes, and prepare a brief biographical report.
10. Get to Know Your Favorite Author - Student will learn how to research author information and synthesize the information into an essay.
11. Grammar Review: My Favorite Author - Each student will combine this knowledge with tools from grammar review and will compose a well-written report about a book he/she has read, or he/she may choose to present a mini-play with other students or a solo presentation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
12. Guess Who? - Guess Who? Students write riddles about each other using descriptive words.
13. Hawthorne: Author and Narrator - To recognize the difference between a narrator and an author; to explore the impact of an author's personal history on his or her creative life, particularly in the context of American society.
14. Huck Finn: Controversy Through the Years - Few books in American literature have been both as influential and as thoroughly debated as Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . This project is designed to help students understand the way a book can be seen differently over the years, depending on the political and historical context.
15. I Can Write; I’m an Author! - This lesson provides students with concrete graphic organizers to help them develop a story, and it helps to keep writing from becoming "The Neglected ‘R’" as the committee so discouragingly suggests.
16. Introduction to Shakespeare - Introduction to Shakespeare's A Mid Summer Night's Dream using information technology and common sense. The relevance of Shakespeare in modern society is stressed in both his works and the implementation of the Globe Theater.
17. Introduction to Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era - The main concepts covered in this lesson would be the life of William Shakespeare (i.e.. his childhood, early acting career, life as a playwright, his personal life) and the Elizabethan Era. There would be a number of concepts covered under the heading of the Elizabethan Era such as: Queen Elizabeth I, Education, Medicine and Health, Law and Punishment, Clothing, Entertainment, Theatre, and The Globe.
18. Irish Literature Alive - Literature of Ireland comes alive with an introduction to the writings of Mc Court, Heaney and Yeats.
19. Irish Literature Scavenger Hunt - Students locate and evaluate various books, journals, anthologies, and Internet sources that contain information that may be used in answering the scavenger hunt questions related to Ireland and Irish literature.
20. Life in Letters - In this lesson, students consider the relationship between an author's life and his or her work.
21. Maycomb News Today - The assignment will be to write a newspaper article about people or events in "To Kill A Mockingbird", by Harper Lee. Students will need to have a headline, a lead, and know the who, what, where, when, why and how of the event.
22. My Year With _________ - Students in English classes will research the life and works of an author and relate their findings to their classmates in a fun and interesting way.
23. Reading Stories from Shakespeare - The activity may become part of a unit about classical drama or Shakespeare and his dramatic works in reading/language arts.
24. Still I Rise: Maya Angelou - A lesson plan using the famous poem, "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. I created this lesson plan to expose students to Maya Angelou’s powerful poem, "Still I Rise" as well as to enhance their understanding of the power of poetry.
25. Style: Defining and Exploring an Author’s Stylistic Choices - Exploring the use of style in literature helps students understand how language conveys mood, images, and meaning. In this activity, students will find examples of specific stylistic devices in sample literary passages then search for additional examples and explore the reasons for the stylistic choices that the author has made.
26. Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and Back Again - In this activity, students will translate passages that demonstrate specific stylistic devices, then translate fables into the style of one of the authors they have been reading.
27. The Scarlet Letter - Students wil understand the following: Compare/Contast Puritina times with today.
28. Unlocking the Author in You - This lesson is designed to help students develop a love for writing. Students use the attached presentation to guide them in the writing process. They will navigate a variety of websites to help them learn about writing.
29. WANTED: A Few Of Our Favorite Authors - This unit is designed to spotlight the work of one children's author each month. Students explore the life and writing styles of each author studied, as well as incorporating studies of story elements in the various works.
30. Wanted: New Authors! - The students will learn to write a short autobiographical sketch and produce an author page to be used throughout the year with their writing. Students will learn how to take digital camera photos and produce a PowerPoint slide show with their photos and information.
31. Why Do Authors Write? - In this lesson students use short reading passages to identify, explain, and discuss the author's purpose for writing.
32. Writing the Newspaper Article - Turn students into reporters. After analyzing newspaper articles, students interview classmates for newsworthy events and write their own newspaper articles.