51 Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students read and examine the novel, As I Lay Dying. Students explore the social and historical context in which the novel was written and draw parallels between the author's experiences and the way life is depicted in the text.... Career Fields: Hospitality & Tourism, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 52 Identity, Oppression, and Protest: To Kill a Mocking Bird and the Blues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: African American history during the Jim Crow era includes encounters with poverty, racism, disrespect, and protest. Harper Lee develops all four of these themes in her famous 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.... 53 The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts: Ethnographic Field Studies in Fiction Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This instructional unit uses The Grapes of Wrath and digital images from the American Memory collections to explore cultural and literary themes. Students use the American Memory collections to conduct research and gather artifacts.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 54 Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and Back Again Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: Exploring the use of style in literature helps students understand how language conveys mood, images, and meaning. In this activity, students translate passages that demonstrate specific stylistic devices, then translate fables into the style of one of the authors they have been reading.... Career Fields: Marketing Projects: Standards First 55 The "Secret Society" and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: The high school social scene is rife with drama. Who's out?... 56 Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing The Odyssey with Contemporary Works Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson is based on The Odyssey and the young-adult novel Running Out of Summer—a contemporary epic by Peter Morgan that follows the protagonist’s journey from Atlanta to Santa Monica to attend school. Students select one character from each as the basis for a comparison-contrast graphic organizer.... 57 Painting Portraits with Words: A Language Arts Lesson Based on an Exhibition on William Butler Yeats Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource uses a feature article from the New York Times to examine how an exhibition of William Butler Yeats' writings represents a portrait or biography of the author's life. Designated a promising practice, this lesson allows students to analyze various poems by Yeats using varied written forms.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource is a study of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to analyze, interpret, and respond to language, meaning, and ideas in the play.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 59 Allen Ginsberg: Poetry and Politics Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on the works of Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg. Students participate in literary discussions, complete journal responses, and conduct web-based research.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: A Midwife's Tale is an innovative dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during the chaotic decades following the American Revolution. The variety of resources used to tell the story of Martha Ballard adds to the richness of this resource.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Health Science, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First |