CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: Teaching Units
Complete teaching units (12) by grade level. CommonLit units are crafted to be both engaging and rigorous, featuring a variety of literary and informational texts from diverse sources. Reading, writing, and discussion are prioritized in...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Steve Jobs
Sixth graders will explore the role of failure in finding success. In this set, 6th graders learn that success takes hard work, deliberate practice, and the ability to learn from failures and persevere. Students explore how an author's...
Other
U Mass: The Bluestocking Archive
Well-organized archive of primary texts on 18th-century English high culture, including the "cult of sensibility." Almost exclusively women authors, with the notable exception of Byron.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing a Roundabout Story
In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated. Story...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: City & Town
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Sweet Briar College: Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
This site is the homepage of a speech data base sponsored by Swee Briar College. It includes links to speeches by influential women, mostly contemporary, but with a growing inclusion of speeches from as early as 1848. "Almost all of...