Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Collaborative Booktalk: Sharing and Writing Development
Are dark themes in young adult novels harmful or helpful to teens? Students will explore this question and will create an argumentative writing piece based on textual evidence. Videos of the lesson in action, examples of student work,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A Web Quest on Iran
This lesson focuses on students researching and learning about Iran's culture, society, and leadership before and after the 1979 Revolution in preparation for reading the graphic novel Persepolis. Students work in small groups to...
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Read Write Think: Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games
Contains plans for a game that helps teach technical reading and writing while reviewing a novel that students have read. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Read Write Think: Bright Morning
Use this lesson to delve into the exploration of character development in fiction through the novel "Bright Morning," by Scott O'Dell.
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Read Write Think: Focusing Reader Response Through Vocabulary Analysis
This lesson plan enables young scholars to compile a list of vocabulary words in association with a recently read novel. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, downloadable resources, an interactive tool, and...
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Read Write Think: Writing Alternative Plots for Robert O'brien's Z for Zachariah
Lesson in which students are required to write an alternative plot to O'Brien's science fiction novel. Includes an interactive graphic organizer, handouts, and a rubric.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher's Guide
This is a complete study guide for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee including chapter-by-chapter guided reading questions (aligned to specific Common Core Standards), discussion questions, various writing prompts, and...
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Creating a New Book Cover
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to create new book covers as an alternative to the traditional book report. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Read Write Think: Exploring Friendship With Bridge to Terabithia
Contains plans for six lessons that explore the value of friendship using Katherine Paterson?s novel "Bridge to Terabithia." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...
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Read Write Think: Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel
Contains plans for four lessons that use the book "The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis to teach about plot by asking student to graph events in the story. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Read Write Think: The Scarlet Letter Classroom Activity
A classroom activity/lesson plan for beginning the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Includes web links, a bibliography, and other lessons on the novel. From March 16, 2007.
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Read Write Think: Alice Walker Activity
A classroom activity designed around the author Alice Walker and her novel "The Color Purple." Includes questions, discussion techniques, web links, and a bibliography.
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Read Write Think: Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language
Contains plans for four lessons that use the "Pledge of Allegiance" to discuss the concepts of freedom of speech and automatic language. Ties in well with novels that deal with First Amendment rights such as Laurie Halse Anderson's...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Books and Writing: Joseph Heller
This site from the Australian Broadcasting Company provides the transcript of an interview with author Joseph Heller, who wrote Catch 22. He answers questions about his books Catch 22 and Now and Then and about his view on life. Excerpts...
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares
Contains plans for two lessons that provide an alternative to the traditional book report: using comic strips and cartoon squares to respond to a written text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Jane Austen Mansfield Park
At this website, read the full textr of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park." Novel's chapters are preceded by a brief paragraph introcuding the novel, its characters, and its major events.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Here, read all 31 chapters of Jane Austen's novel, "Northanger Abbey." This website includes a brief paragraph introducing the novel, its characters, and plot.
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Bibliomania: Our Mutual Friend (Full Text)
This Bibliomania website provides the full text of Dickens's last complete novel Our Mutual Friend. A brief summary of the novel is also included.
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Bibliomania: Full Text of the Dynamiter
This Bibliomania website features the full text to Robert Louis Stevenson's crime novel "The Dynamiter."
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Bibliomania: Full Text of Kidnapped
This Bibliomania website provides access to the full text of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped." A summary note is included.
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Bibliomania: Full Text of Prince Otto
This Bibliomania website accesses the full text of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Prince Otto." It includes a note on the text and its place in Stevenson's ouevre.
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Bibliomania: Jane Austen Lady Susan
Here, read the full text of Jane Austen's epistolary novel, "Lady Susan." Included is a brief paragraph introducing the text and its major characters.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
The full text of the Louisa May Alcott novel, Jack and Jill, is available here, formatted for online reading.
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: Jane Austen (1775 1817)
Provides more than 50 links to Jane Austen sites and online texts of Austen's writings. Some links no longer work but many still do.