Listen to Me Tell You the Story

Students will listen to a familiar story with repetitive lines that the children can remember. They will make puppets and retell the story in small groups with an adult volunteer or an older child. Main Curriculum Tie: English Language Arts Kindergarten Reading: Literature Standard 2, With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. All children will participate in retelling a familiar story using puppets. This will help develop oral language and comprehension.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Author: Linda Miner, Michelle Roderick, Robyn Johnson

Literary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis

After reading a work of literature as a class, students will brainstorm "crimes" committed by characters from that text. Groups of students will work together to act as the prosecution or defense for the selected characters, while also acting as the jury for other groups. Students will use several sources to research for their case, including the novel and internet resources. All the while, students will be writing a persuasive piece to complement their trial work. While this lesson uses Shakespeare's The Tempest, there are several other text options. Handouts (except for the model case handout) are generic so that they can be used with any text.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Unit of Study

Literary Devices

This lesson was designed for English 9 students as an introduction to literary devices at the beginning of a short stories unit. The ultimate goal will be that students can analyze a story, explaining how an author uses these devices to create literature, but this lesson specifically focuses on domain-specific vocabulary.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Reading

A Literary Glossary for Literature and Language Arts

Our literary glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms and concepts along with lesson plans for teaching these topics in K-12 classrooms. Whether you are starting with a specific author, concept, or text, or teaching a specific literary term, but do not have a lesson or activity for students to work with, teachers and students will find what they're looking for here.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Problem Based Module: Human Rights

In this project, you will explore a real-world problem, and then work through a series of steps to analyze that problem, research ways the problem could be solved, then propose a possible solution to that problem. Often, there is no specific right or wrong solutions, but sometimes one particular solution may be better than others. The key is making sure you fully understand the problem, have researched some possible solutions, and have proposed the solution that you can support with information / evidence.Begin by reading the problem statement in Step 1. Take the time to review all of the information provided in the statement, including exploring the websites, videos and / or and articles that are linked. Then work on steps 2 through 8 to complete this problem-based learning experience.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Tracy Rains

Process Chart for Writing Assignments

Mark A. Tambone, Passaic County Community CollegeI created this process chart to aid students through the entire writing and editing process. Additionally, this chart helps students remain mindful of proper time management and scheduling which is needed in order to utilize our tutoring services.   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License 

Material Type: Module

Author: Mark Tambone

Public Speaking Sample PLP

From the Vermont Agency of Education, this sample PLP focuses on increasing public speaking skills participation in Poetry Out Loud. Educators can use this resource to help students become more engaged in the personalized learning planning process and to connect PLP development to curriculum.

Material Type: Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VT Agency of Education

RA Discussion Assignment for Online English 101 Class

This is a discussion assignment for my English 101 class using a Reading Apprenticeship strategy to help students engage more in their reading and with each others' ideas about what they read.

Material Type: Module

Author: Adrienne Peek

Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth

Taught by William Flesch at Brandeis University, this course offers a survey of poetry that’s out of favor. But it turns out to be among the most skillful, brilliant, witty, invigorating, funny, sometimes dirty poetry ever written. (The dirty poetry is definitely NSFW. It may not even be safe for consenting adults.) Coverage goes from the urbane civic poetry of Dryden and his contemporaries to the beginnings of the intense subjectivity of Romanticism, with attention to the continuities between these wildly different schools. It’s helpful to have a complete Pope and the Penguin Dryden. We also use the Oxford Anthology of English Literature, ed. Martin Price.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: William Flesch

S.T.E.A.L for Charater Analysis

Using the acronym STEAL, students will practice analyzing a character. This lesson includes an explanation of the STEAL strategy, a video demonstration, and two options for student practice or assessment.

Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lesson

Author: Stephanie Washington

Seminar on Digital Libraries

SI 615 - This is a special topics seminar focusing on the current state of Ňdigital librariesÓ broadly defined. The seminar is multi-disciplinary in focus and in method, covering the history of the idea, its manifestation as projects and programs in academic, non-profit, and research settings, and the suite of policy issues that influence their development and growth. The concept of the digital library will serve as an intellectual construct within which to explore the related concepts of scholarly communication, digital preservation, cyberinfrastructure, representation, and information technology standards. Given the seminar format, students will be expected to master a diverse literature, to participate actively in the discussion of issues, and to take steps, collectively and individually, to advance our understanding of future directions of digital libraries.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Paul Conway

Teaching Film Analysis in the Humanities

What are we teaching and learning when we analyze films? Who's missing from the story? This resource is offered for teachers across the humanities who use film and incorporate opportunities for students to develop media analysis skills.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy