Mr. and Mrs. Twit do not treat each other very nicely. The sixth lesson plan in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl explores the way the characters talk to and treat one another. Role play and writing...

Are your beginning Spanish speakers learning Spanish nouns and their genders? Use this simple resource as a quiz at the end of the unit!

Students study the speeches of Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Joseph. Students write a story set during the Nineteenth Century Era. Students present their story to the class. Handouts and worksheets are included in the...

Readers answer 8 multiple choice questions by selecting the correct revisions to the paragraph provided. The focus is on prepositions, syntax, and parts of speech. A good, quick exercise for ELL classes or review for middle schoolers.

How well do your readers know As You Like It? Find out with this quick multiple-choice quiz. Most questions focus on characters and who did what.

Five quick questions ask about quotes and characters from Shakespeare's Henry V. Give this quiz to your learners as a warm-up or diagnostic test.

Students examine and discuss government-imposed censorship of art and artists' methods for counteracting censorship. They view censored artwork, write a persuasive essay, and create an art piece.

Students read a work of fiction and investigate literary values and structure of the work. They demonstrate understanding of the family values, cultural and historical context of the novel;

In this frequency histograms worksheet, students examine bar graphs, histograms and tables.  They identify the model of information that best matches the statistics.  This three-page worksheet cotnains two multiple-choice...

Twelfth graders examine all the descriptions of costumes, props, movement, lighting and music in the stage directions of A Streetcar Named Desire. They begin to imagine this drama as a production, not simply a script. Students perform...

Learners develop critical thinking skills so that they may produce their own written plays or music from their thoughts and feelings. They express their thoughts based on what has been presented to them over the duration of the course.

Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate their...

Students revise and provide spoken and written practice of modal verbs in the past for criticism.

Relate literary works and authors to the major themes of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 20th century. Working in groups, high schoolers will evaluate period philosophy, religion, and politics that influenced...

Students explore the prepositions across, around, over, past, through, and under using the book "Rosie's Walk." They listen to the book, role-play the different actions of Rosie the hen, create a class book, generate a list of words...

In this grammar worksheet, students read and correct ten faulty parallel sentences. Students construct each of the ten sentences where they read grammatically correct.

Because of its interesting subject matter, this reading passage about one person's experience during a hurricane is compelling. In the 14 question activity students are exposed to rich vocabulary and thought-provoking material. It could...

Fifth graders discuss interjections reviewing them to be words or phrases that express excitement or strong emotion. In this language arts lesson plan, 5th graders understand that commas or exclamation marks are used to separate...

Students discover the two main ingredients of a play: speech and actions. They then listen to a shortened version of "Macbeth" and write down one sentence to describe what is happening in each of the comic-strip cells.

In this ESL Martin Luther King Jr. worksheet, students watch a video, then fill in blanks to complete the "I Have a Dream" speech and answer comprehension questions.

Students identify the American language, how it has changed and effected culture, and become familiar with idioms. In this American language lesson, students study the eight parts of speech, identify literal and figurative speech, study...

Challenge your class with this comprehensive list of literary vocabulary words. Learners take a pre-test, look up definitions, come up with an example, and then take a post-test. You might use this prior to a unit about poetic devices in...

Students read the opening scene of the play, The Merchant of Venice without receiving any background information. They analyze and discuss the relationships between the six characters, and determine the social status of the characters.