Language Arts Lesson Plans

From "Oh the Places You'll Go" Dr. Seuss to Late-breaking News: an In-depth Investigation of the Lyme Art Colony, find teacher approved language arts lesson plans that inspire student learning.

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2nd - 4th Grade
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Students listen to the story "Oh the Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss and discuss the multiple meanings of the vocabulary words. In this language arts unit, consisting of 11 (45 minute) lessons, students will write in their journals, create hot air balloons, and study a map. They will also study vocabulary and rhyming words, create a brochure, and make kazoo style instruments.

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6th - 8th Grade
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Students integrate language arts with math applications. They write letters to town officials and local businesses asking for favorite dessert recipes. They then tabulate their responses in a spreadsheet and turn their survey results into colorful graphs.

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6th - 12th Grade
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Students study the exchange of artwork between the Louvre in Paris and two American art museums. They create an introductory exhibit on European and American Art, from the Renaissance through the 20th century.

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This lesson can be easily tailored to a teacher's specific students. It's also easy to see, then, that the activities can be extended into a piece of literary analysis, or even the writing of a sonnet, that can be taken from outlines to first draft throug

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6th - 12th Grade
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Students transcribe lyrics to songs that are written in a foreign language and write a cloze activity that classmates will complete. They study authentic cultural music genres and language skills while performing karaoke.

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6th - Higher Ed Grade
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Students explore popular music from the culture of the foreign language they are learning. In this foreign language lesson, students choose a song and create a cloze activity with the lyrics written in the corresponding language. Songs are performed as lip sync while classmates complete the missing words on the lyrics cloze worksheet.

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6th - 12th Grade
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Students act as modern art conservators to assess first-hand the difficulties that many real-life conservators face in the restoration of modern artworks.

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9th - 12th Grade
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Students examine the subject and meaning in visual art. They analyze various paintings on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, answer discussion questions, complete online interactive activities, and write an essay.

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7th - 9th Grade
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Students use descriptive language and precise word choices in writing. They complete a worksheet to describe a favorite song or piece of music. A one-page description of the song using the words and phrases they wrote on the worksheet is written.

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9th - 12th Grade
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Students create a television news report that incorporates information on the Lyme Art Colony in five themes. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's on-line resources to gather information about following themes: the American art colony at Lyme, daily life in a boardinghouse, c. 1910, making the most of limited choices, the life and times of Florence Griswold, and Connecticut and American Impressionism.