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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
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Description: Students '' become'' one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
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Description: By exploring myths and truths surrounding Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, students think critically about commonly believed stories regarding this famous speech from the Civil War era.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
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Description: Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Critical Ways of Seeing ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' in Context
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Description: This lesson, from EDSITEment, asks students to combine Internet historical research with critical reading. They then produce several writing assignments exploring what readers see in Huckleberry Finn and why they see it that way.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: 9,10,11,12
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