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Jabberwocky Lesson Plan
Learners complete a review of the parts of speech using a jabberwocky poem format. In this parts of speech and poetry lesson plan, students read a jabberwocky poem and identify parts of speech in the poem. Learners list adjectives,...
Houston Teachers Institute
Alice in Wonderland: Nonsense and Logic in Literature
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is known for its fantastical imagery and nonsense verse. This unit plan offers a basic exploration into nonsense verse through poetry and teacher read-alouds. It incorporates activities involving...
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BASIC GRAMMAR REVIEW Using "Jabberwocky"
Students use the poem Jabberwocky to discover where they are weak in grammar. They rewrite the poem using standard dialect words instead of nonsense words.
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Six Trait Writing with Kenneth Grahame and Ogden Nash
Third graders complete a unit of lessons on the process of six trait writing. They identify good writing traits, read and evaluate poems, literature, and myths, utilize a rubric to evaluate their own writing, and evaluate classmates...
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Listening for Tone
Students read and listen to various poems as they are read by different readers using different tones. They read "Jabberwocky" and in groups, determine what they think the nonsense words in the poem mean. The groups compare thier ideas...
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Six Trait Writing with Twain and Doyle
Students explore the traits of writing in this six lessons unit. Poems, fiction, and drama are evaluated to identify writing strategies. Utilization of vocabulary and writing rubrics help students judge the effectiveness of their own...
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Exploring Animals in Literature
Celebrate Be Kind to Animals Week while teaching empathy and allegory with creature-related texts
Gwinnett County Public Schools
Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...
Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
Victorian Historians
Take the class back in time to the Victorian Era! The resource provides a plethora of activities that create experiences for scholars in class. Some activities include a fun fair, viewing the starry-night painting, and even experiencing...
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Personification Stories
Students create a clay object in which they are to personify. They use their own personal experiences to help the viewer imagine what it would be like to be that particular object. They also watch videos of fables to help them with...
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Topic: English -'let's Talk' -communication
In this communication worksheet, 4th graders read about the rules of conversations and complete three different activities to improve conversation and listening skills.
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Writing Through Art
Examine the works of visual and performing artists with upper graders. Using the works, they identify the comparisons among the techniques used. They will also review the six traits of effective writing and keep a writing journal...
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Adventures in Wonderland: A Genre Study
Students explore the concepts of fantasy writing through this nine lessons unit. The unit presents semantic mapping, discussions, comparisons of various works of fantasy, and the opportunity to create their own fantasies.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: "Jabberwocky," by Lewis Carroll
This site provides the text for Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky." Also available here is a good biography of the author. Click on 'Lewis Carroll' to find the biography.
English Club
English Club: Reading: "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll
The complete text of the narrative poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll followed by vocabulary words for the poem.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Lewis Carroll
This site provides a very nice biography of the author of the "Alice" stories, Lewis Carroll. Also contains a selected bibliography of many of his works.
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Lewis Carroll
Texts of several poems, two novels, and a book on mathematics, by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The poems include favorites such as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter." The texts can be read online or downloaded...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Three Sunsets and Other Poems
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll, a book of poetry for children.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of "Phantasmagoria and Other.."
This site provides the complete etext for Lewis Carroll's "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems."
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Walrus and the Carpenter
A learning module that begins with "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carrol, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Crocodile
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Crocodile" by Lewis Carroll, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was also a poet who specialized in light verse. His life is profiled here and links are provided to examples of his poetry.
National Geographic
National Geographic: The Walrus and the Carpenter
This GeoStory walks learners through the poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" with an image and map accompanying each stanza, and in many cases individual lines. The images are either literal representations or metaphors of a line in the...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Jabberwocky
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...