881 Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are guided to use the strategies of "close reading" in order to understand Edith Wharton's novel about an unhappy marriage set in rural New England. As they read, students keep a journal of annotated quotes that will help them provide evidence for a response to the lesson's guiding question, "Is Ethan’s story a personal... 882 Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students closely read and attempt to interpret some of the same sources playwright Arthur Miller used for The Crucible. After learning about Puritan religious beliefs, students do research on a historical figure from the Salem community . Links are provided to biographies of key characters (the accused and the accusers) and to transcripts of the Salem Witch... 883 A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Singing and songwriting can support early literacy instruction. This lesson makes use of the song "A-Hunting We Will Go" to teach rhyming. The lesson first uses the original verses of the song and students are asked to identify the two words in each verse that rhyme. Students then brainstorm and create their own rhyming words and additional verses to the song. In the... 884 Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–6 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students will explore the genre of memoir and discover how writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives. Each lesson centers on one topic (e.g., a treasured object, photographs) and engages students with rich examples from poetry, picture books, novels, and memoirs. Lists of recommended texts are included. "Exploring activities" follow, providing opportunities for oral communication, reading, and writing in a variety of modes.... 885 Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Being able to effectively read informational texts is a fundamental skill for young readers. In this lesson, students learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy to support comprehension of informational texts. After teacher modeling, students read a magazine article independently and use the 3-2-1 strategy to document what their understandings. In applying the strategy, students read an article and... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This interdisciplinary instructional resource contains five extended lessons that can be used separately or as part of a larger curriculum unit available at the website. Although the lessons reference Spike Lee's documentary HBO film When the Levees Broke, there are ample additional resources for exploring the issues surrounding Hurricane Katrina.... 887 Unlocking Soliloquies and Unleashing the "Dogs of War" Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: To help students feel confident about breaking down and interpreting soliloquies, this lesson uses Mark Anthony's soliloquy over Caesar's dead body. Active participation and movement is required as students join in a sequence of oral reading experiences to examine the soliloquy's pattern of lines, meter, and emotional impact. Small discussion groups then search for patterns of imagery.... 888 M.C. Bard: Hip Hop and Shakespeare Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Shakespeare's works and today’s hip hop songs use a variety of literary devices to explore universal themes. Both art forms use the language of their times and are meant to be enjoyed in performance.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–10 Professional Commentary: The materials at this site explain the design and construction of a truss bridge, the Brent Spence Bridge, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The bridge is divided into 8 different sections, and students are responsible for computing lengths and angles in one section of the bridge.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson provides a real-life, engineering activity that should hold students’ interest. It gives students hands-on experience with materials research and data collection and analysis.... |