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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (7), or English Language Arts (7), or Technology Education (6 - 8)
Title: Constructing Narratives: A Unit Plan for Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories
Description: This lesson is designed as a project-based unit plan that will take students through the narrative process from deconstruction to construction. After initial discussion, students will use the Interactive Story Map feature at Read Write Think to deconstruct a short story. Students will use pictures to put together a PowerPoint-based storyboard that other students will use to construct a story.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini-Lesson
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Description: Students learn that the plot structure described by Freytag's Pyramid is actually quite familiar as they diagram the plots of a familiar story, a television show, and a narrative poem.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Ursula K. LeGuin was born on this day in 1929.
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Description: Students examine realistic and non-realistic elements of a familiar fantasy story of their choice.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 5,6,7,8,9,10
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
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Description: Students track the elements of mystery stories through Directed Learning - Thinking Activities, story maps, and puzzles. Then they offer clues for other readers as they plan and write original mystery stories.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: ' Black Beauty'' author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
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Description: Through Sewell's novel, students explore the cruelty to animals and extend the discussion to current events, eventually presenting the information.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Tales of King Arthur
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Description: In this EDSITEment lesson, students discover how historical events gradually merged with fantasy to create Arthurian legend. They read some of the more familiar stories, learn about the code of chivalry of the Round Table, ponder the symbolism of the Holy Grail, and then choose a favorite Arthurian character for a bit of role-playing.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
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Description: Students identify genre characteristics for short stories and newspaper articles then practice both genres by turning a short story into a news article and an article into a short story.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover
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Description: Students select a book to read based only on its cover art. After reading the book, they use an interactive tool to create a new cover for it.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
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Description: Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Finding the Science Behind Science Fiction through Paired Readings
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Description: Students read science fiction texts and then use nonfiction texts to extrapolate the scientific principles presented as they discuss the what ifs within the context of scientific principles.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Writing Alternative Plots for Robert C. O Brien's Z for Zachariah
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Description: Students write new endings for the science fiction novel, Z for Zachariah by exploring alternative plotlines created by making different moral choices than those made by the main character.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 6,7,8
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