21 The All-Purpose Multimedia Poetry Beast Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This resource is an instructional unit in which students record poetry readings to express and demonstrate their understanding of the poet's purpose. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunties for students to publish and share a portfolio of their poetic writings.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: COR, Writing 6-12, Standards First 22 Swinging with the Times: Giving A Modern Slant to Favorite Children's Stories Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students examine the many changes in the Tarzan character from Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel to Disney's newest movie version to understand how children's movies are often used to mirror and promote cultural attitudes and beliefs. Students then adapt a favorite children's story to a modern setting, updating the characters and plot to better reflect the times.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology, Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 23 Showing Good Taste: Writing Thoughtful Restaurant Reviews in the Language Arts Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice, students distinguish the important elements of well-written restaurant reviews by analyzing and evaluating reviews from The New York Times and by writing their own reviews of favorite dining locations. Students are encouraged to evaluate critical and persuasive texts as well as writing their own.... Career Fields: Hospitality & Tourism, Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 24 Newsworthy Intentions: Exploring the Risky and Edifying Dimensions of Satire Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the legal distinction between satire and libel. Students begin by discussing their ideas about humor, then work in small groups to research a libel case.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 25 Exploring Satire with Shrek Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use the familiar characteristics of fairy tales, the movie Shrek, which satirizes fairy tale traditions, as an introduction to the satirical techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. Students brainstorm fairy tale characteristics and identify the satirical techniques used to present them in the movie.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: The aim of this lesson is to help students develop their persuasive writing and information gathering skills using various forms of information and communication technology. Using the context of issues common to teenagers, this lesson provides an authentic and personally relevant purpose.... Career Fields: Education & Training, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 27 Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In the lesson, students read fictional works, use software resources, read and interpret classified ads, and write original resumes for a character they are exploring. Students focus on one character in a Shakespearean drama or other play, paying close attention to the descriptions of that character to determine the character's education, skills, extracurricular interests, previous employment,... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 28 Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In The Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday links the survival of his people to their ability to remember, preserve, and pass on stories.... Projects: Writing 6-12 29 William Golding/Lord of the Flies Trial Simulation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This resource, created by a group of high school teachers, details a simulation based on Lord of the Flies. Developed as a common project between social studies and English classes, students satisfy curricular requirements for both subjects as they role play a trial involving characters from the novel.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Created and reviewed by teams of educators, this writing activity describes a lesson in which students use historical information from a museum exhibit to write a fictional story from the point of view of someone who lived in the past. Drawn from the curriculum guide, Collecting Their Thoughts: Using Museums as Resources for Student Writing, which was developed by the Smithsonian Institute, this resource encourages the use of museum artwork, exhibits, and artifacts as a basis for student writing.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |