1 Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: After reading or viewing a text, students are introduced to propaganda techniques and then practice identifying examples in the text. After examining these examples, students explore the use of propaganda in popular culture by looking at examples in the media.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 2 Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Devote time during your last weeks of school to promote summer reading by inviting students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books and genres for others to explore during the summer months. Rather than a teacher-centered requirement, summer reading becomes a student-driven exploration with brochures such as "Beach Books" and "I Know What You Read Last Summer: Great Suspense Novels." The lesson can be customized, if desired, to promote independent reading at any time of the year.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 3 The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this autobiography with a twist, students conduct interviews and do research using web and print materials to find details about what was going on internationally, nationally, locally during the year that they were born. After they've gathered their research, students weave the details into a paper that they publish as a newspaper or booklet.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 4 Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students choose four quotations to inspire their personal responses to a novel that they have read. Students write a narrative of place, complete a character sketch, create an extended metaphor poem and write a persuasive essay.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 5 Evaluating Eyewitness Reports Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This resource provides a detailed lesson focused on using eyewitness accounts, representing a range of different perspectives, to write reliable accounts of historical events. Students begin by examining alternative reports of a single event: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 6 Web Writer's Block: Investigating Internet Censorship Around the World Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This interdisciplinary lesson promotes critical thinking through thoughtful research and discussions about the legitimacy of banning access to certain types of information on the Internet. Working in cooperative groups, students review websites banned in various countries, and investigate the reasons why particular countries would want to block information.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Government & Public Administration, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 7 Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution, and Setting Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students prepare original news programs based on the events from a novel. After reading a novel, independently or as a class, students explore the literary elements of character, conflict, resolution, and setting.... Projects: Writing 6-12 8 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: Writing 6-12 9 Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson helps students to understand the ways in which bias and stereotyping are used by the media to influence popular opinion. Students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, researching the reasons these books have been censored.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Law & Public Safety, Marketing, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 10 Sell Phones: Exploring the Future of Cellphone Markets Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read about changes in the cellular phone market and then work in small groups to prepare and present a comprehensive marketing plan to the board of a fictitious cellphone company. Each group, acting as a marketing team, competes against the others.... Career Fields: Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |