Holmes? A role model? Lesson

Caring, trustworthiness, and responsibility—these are only a few character traits in focus of a lesson plan based on stories from the Civil War era. Class members explore several influential lives while reading biographies that highlight...

What do the fashions of an era say about the values and gender roles of that era? Expert groups examine primary source documents and fashion visuals of the 1900s, 1920s, 1940s, and 1950s and consider how these fashions reflect economic...

Teenagers may not immediately name Benjamin Franklin as one of their role models, but after completing a writing assignment on his virtues and aphorisms, they may not be able to deny how influential the founding father really is. Given...

Following the model on book jackets, young writers draft their own author bio. After a discussion of the kinds of information they used in their blurbs that would prove interesting to readers, pupils work in groups to develop similar...

Mr. and Mrs. Twit do not treat each other very nicely. The sixth lesson 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 activities...

Most of us have heard of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King, Jr. But what about Claudette Colvin, Virginia Durr, Freedom Summer, or the Birmingham Children's Crusade? A five-lesson unit prompts class members...

Students discuss how to manage anger. In this anger management lesson, students discuss techniques that help people deal with anger. Students role play to get a better sense of how to deal with various situations.

Seventh graders explore Shakespearean drama as they act out selected scenes. In this drama lesson, 7th graders read Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, summarize the readings, and then act our selected scenes.

Middle schoolers will use the RAFT strategy (looking at role, audience, format, and topic) to discuss the characters in the story "Bargain," by A.B. Guthrie. Exit slips are also provided! What did your learners deduce from the...

Students analyze people's choices from different points of view. They read different scenarios and explain how they would react personally in that situation. Then they analyze what they would do in another character's position and...