Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring the History of Canyon De Chelly: The Navajos

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to the novel Sing Down The Moon written by Scott O'Dell. Throughout the book, after each chapter is read, class discussions and journal writing is incorporated into the unit.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Novel Evaluation Presentations

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students summarize and make predictions about the novel, "Huckleberry Finn". They discuss their opinions with the class. They give a one-minute novel evaluation about another novel and choose a novel based on their classmate's...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read Aloud Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students listen as the novel "On My Honor" is read to them. They identify similes and the characters differences in the novel.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weaving Heritage Through the Strands of Mountain Windsong

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read a novel and then bring in their own artifact with a written description. They also are given a strand to read from certain historical pieces.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover that the cover of printed material holds clues to its content.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading for Righties and Lefties

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students choose novels to read in an open reading forum.
Handout
Vassar College

Vassar College: 1896: Literary Themes in the Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at popular literary themes that are reflected in the political cartoons of 1896, the year in which William Jennings Bryant challenged William McKinley for the presidency.
Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Latin Amer. In Search of Himself

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Summaries and commentaries on five of Garcia Marquez? short stories, ?Death Constant Beyond Love,? ?Tuesday Siesta,? ?One of These Days,? ?Balthazar?s Marvelous Afternoon,? and ?Big Mama?s Funeral? to form this unit. Discusses how these...
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Upton Sinclair

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features a link to a biography of Upton Sinclair and a link to the complete text of his famous work The Jungle.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson; three of his novels including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, and Treasure Island and three of his short stories.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Jonathan Swift

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers links to a biography of Jonathan Swift and to the full text of his novel Gulliver's Travels.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Mark Twain including a link to his biography and links to the full text of six of his novels, three works of nonfiction, and 26 short stories. These include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry...
eBook
Other

Peacock: The Round Table; Or King Arthur's Feast

For Students 9th - 10th
Annotated full text of Peacock's story "The Round Table; or King Arthur's Feast."
Website
Other

University of Dayton: Paul Laurence Dunbar Website

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Paul Laurence Dunbar.
eBook
Other

Selfknowledge: Works of Sir Walter Scott

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the works of Sir Walter Scott.
Activity
Other

The Thomas Love Peacock Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The T. L. Peacock Society serves to popularize the virtues of Peacock's novels and poetry as well as other writings. This index page links to full-text novels and poems by the 19th century Romantic-era writer.
Website
Other

A Complete Collection of Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson

For Students 9th - 10th
Alphabetical listing of the complete Robert Louis Stevenson poems.
Website
Other

An Excerpt From Silverberg's Sorcereres of Majipoor

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an excerpt from Robert Silverberg's novel, SORCERERS OF MAJIPOOR, as well as biographical information. At this site you will also find photos.
Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

U of Toronto: Poetry and Prose of Thomas Love Peacock

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Toronto provides links to poems by Thomas Love Peacock. It also contains biographical information on Peacock.
Primary
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of Sir Walter Scott

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Toronto site contains links to 16 of Sir Walter Scotts poems and provides some biographical information.
Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Mark Twain, the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A critique of a realistic novel of the Gilded Age entitled "The Gilded Age." "The title is a masterly epigraph on the flushed, corrupt period of the Reconstruction."
eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Jules Verne, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to the full text from the University of Virginia of Jules Verne's science fiction work "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
Website
Other

Kate chopin.org: Kate Chopin

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to Kate Chopin including her biography, and links to her short stories including the text, analysis, and questions for each, links to her novels especially The Awakening which includes a link to the text, analysis,...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Novel Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a Contemporary Literature unit introduces the Novel Project in which students select a novel from an extensive list of choices to read and journal about as they read. It offers links to the standards for the novel...