Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Comparison & Contrast Poems
In this lesson, students examine multiple mentor texts to help drive them toward the final persuasive writing assignment: comparison and contrast poems written from a parent and a child's perspective. A short story, two poems, and a song...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Periodic Table of Poetic Elements
Each student will create a poem about an element on the periodic table. The poems will be placed in the appropriate "square" to create a large periodic table wall hanging. This project will require the collaborative work of several...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: u.s. History/literature Lesson Plan: Cowboys
Here is a lesson plan on cowboys and cowboy literature. Middle schoolers are asked to dissect an old cowboy song and point out the elements of old Western dialect. Also, students are asked to get into small groups and point out...