Holmes? A role model? Lesson

Caring, trustworthiness, and responsibility—these are only a few character traits in focus of a lesson 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...

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...

Students present information on a Native American role model in the community to the class. They gain an understanding of what a role model is. They discuss role models and choose one to interview for their presentation to the class.

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 instructional activity, 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.

To review for a short story unit exam, class members engage in a talk show activity where individuals adopt the persona of characters from the unit's stories, sit for an interview, and answer questions posed by the class. Ask actors to...

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...

Learners 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...