Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students engage in a series of activities comparing Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The lesson is part of a larger unit and is intended to be used for conducting a comparative analysis after reading both plays.... 1142 Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students study setting, plot, and character development in Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, and discuss its impact on American theatre. Suggestions for experiencing the play by reading and analyzing it in small groups, as a whole class, and independently are included along with discussion questions.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–3 Professional Commentary: Students compare and contrast three variations of the Cinderella folktale: Rhodopis, the Egyptian version; Yeh-Shen, the Chinese version; and The Hidden One, the Native American story. Through class discussion and various activities, students explore storytelling traditions, categories of folktales, and the basic components of fairy tales.... 1144 What Does this Song Really Say? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides an opportunity for students to understand the experience of a slave trying to escape captivity through the Underground Railroad. Students listen to and sing African-American spirituals, and then learn the "coded messages" or true meaning of the lyrics. Once students understand the secret signals and passwords communicated through spirituals, they write their own original lyrics that contain coded... 1145 Writing an Original Fable Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the elements of fables. Links are provided to websites featuring wide collections of fables.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the common elements of various types of folktales (e.g. tall tales, fairy tales, animal tales).... 1147 Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson, students use an interactive online tool called the Bio-Cube as a structure for summarizing a biographical article. Explicit suggestions are provided for scaffolded instruction and teacher modeling through the use of think-alouds.... 1148 Traveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this series of interdisciplinary lessons, students read and discuss young adult historical fiction set in the time of slavery and the Underground Railroad. Characterization is particularly emphasized along with a consideration of the criteria for historical fiction. Students also have the opportunity to work together conducting online research through a Road to Freedom WebQuest.... 1149 Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare’s Secret Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Shakespeare’s Secret, a young adult mystery novel by Elise Broach, includes many historical details from William Shakespeare’s life. These details enhance the story and expose students to the discussion some scholars are having regarding the possibility that Edward de Vere is actually the author of Shakespeare's works.... 1150 More than One Way to Create Vivid Verbs Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson helps students focus on the power of specific nouns and vivid verbs in their writing. To review specific nouns, students write a description of their bedrooms at the "peak of messiness." During revision, they pay special attention to adding specific nouns from a list they have brainstormed.... |