Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: A Midwife's Tale is an innovative dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during the chaotic decades following the American Revolution. The variety of resources used to tell the story of Martha Ballard adds to the richness of this resource.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Health Science, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 2 Elie Wiesel: First Person Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson on Elie Wiesel, and his Holocaust memoir Night may be used with or without Ken Burns' PBS video Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular. It is divided into three activities.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource is a study of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to analyze, interpret, and respond to language, meaning, and ideas in the play.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 4 The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: One early reviewer declared that The Red Badge of Courage "impels the feeling that the actual truth about a battle has never been guessed before." Increase your students' understanding of Crane's influences and how the novel's style helped convey a new realism. In this lesson, students learn about the elements of Stephen Crane's style that contribute to the realistic nature of The Red Badge of Courage.... Projects: AdLIT 5 Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: After examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing evidence of the colloquial speech used by the migrants and the issues affecting their lives. Students select photographs and use the sound recordings of voices of the migrant workers to create captions, letters, and/or songs based on these primary sources.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 6 Held Accountable: Connecting Accounts from Slave Narratives to Historical Research Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read and discuss excerpts from two recently discovered slave narratives that describe their self emancipation prior to the end of the Civil War. Students then work in groups to research six themes addressed in the narratives, relating the personal accounts to history texts and other historical documentation.... 7 Quest for the American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: People of all backgrounds live in America and come to America dreaming of social, educational, economical opportunities as well as political and religious freedoms. In this extended lesson, students read and analyze the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.... Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS 8 Review Redux: Introducing Literary Criticism Through Reception Moments Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Using Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, this lesson introduces high school students to the idea that literary works do not contain fixed meaning, but are open to interpretation. Students are invited to participate in this interpretation using information about the author, her culture and historical period, as well as current context.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Bartleby Nonfiction is an online literary resource providing free access to a wide array of nonfiction works, including many political, social, and historical documents. This Internet publishing site houses anthologies and volumes, representing many genres and periods, that may be downloaded and printed.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 10 Reading Strategies: Scaffolding Students' Interactions with Texts Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: "Reading Strategies," a site linked from the English language arts home page of the Greece Central School District, provides teachers with an extensive list of reading strategies which can be used by students to promote their comprehension and understanding. The reading strategies themselves-- RAFT, Reciprocal Teaching, QAR, Think Aloud, and Writer's Craft Seminar, to name but a few, are set up in columns that show their relationship to before, during, and after reading.... Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS |