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1. English: Lesson Plan Ideas
MULTIPLE VOTE OR
YES/NO FORUM
CHOICE SUGGEST
• Agree/disagree with events • Choose the character you • Best solution to a problem • Icebreakers
in a story or decisions most identify with and in a novel
made by a character explain your connection
• Analysis and synthesis
• Make connections questions
• Predictions about the novel • Choose a theme and between novel and related
analyze its presence in literature
the novel • Compare/contrast
• Debate controversial issues characters
in the text • Analyze themes in text,
• Choose a character and offering strongest
rewrite a scene from his/ examples from the text • Peer editing of writing
• Make a prediction and allow her point of view
class to agree or disagree
• Write an alternative • Reflect on personal
• SAT sample questions ending to the story connection to the text
• Debate the meaning and
purpose of figurative
language • Test students’ knowledge • Best found poem for a • Share “best” example of…
of formatting quotes, chapter (i.e. quote introduction,
citations, etc. hook strategy, conclusion,
etc.)
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2. English: Multimedia Embed Ideas
IMAGE VIDEO DOCUMENT
• Clips of movie version to compare/ • Notes
• Bizarre photo to inspire creative contrast
story • Grammar practice sheets
• Documentaries related to time
• Art inspired by literature for
period or events in a novel • Vocabulary lists/activity sheets
discussion
• Picture of scenery/setting to inspire • Lectures on English topics • Best examples of writing
a creative description with sensory
details • Music related to a novel (time period • Peer editing guide
or theme)
• Photo of a person/portrait to prompt • Related poetry
a fictional biography or • Videos to prompt responses/creative
autobiography writing • Award winning essays to
demonstrate quality writing
• Fictional news story based on a • Recorded readings of novel excerpts
picture of a natural disaster and poetry
• MLA format resources
• Picture of two people - Students • Watch a video and analyze rhetorical
devices • Copy Change poems to be completed
create a dialogue
• Sentence diagramming photos to • Recreate a scene from a • Project guidelines
demonstrate grammatical process Shakespearean play using modern
dialogue then upload • Historical songs/music lyrics for
analysis
• Student-created videos (performing
SLAM poetry) • How-to guides
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