Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tillbury Town Tales: A Butcher's Story

For Students 9th - 10th
A Writer's Workshop lesson in which students read E. A. Robinson's poem "Reuben Bright" and record five different interpretations in their notebooks. Any of these interpretations can be used later as an interesting piece of writing to...
Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In Workshop 3, we see two master teachers - Vivian Johnson, who teaches eighth grade in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Jack Wilde, a fifth-grade teacher from Hanover, New Hampshire - help their students develop as readers and writers of...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Guilty or Innocent

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A writing instructional activity using the R.A.F.T. model and the short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. Learners take on the role of attorneys and write persuasive speeches for the jury proclaiming the narrator's guilt or...