Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century and Modern Poetry: World War I
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on World War I and war poetry that resulted from the disillusionment and cynicism due to the high casualties and devastation. It features links to the Causes of World War...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Animal Farm: George Orwell and Literary Terms
This lesson in the Animal Farm unit focuses on George Orwell, literary terms, and the Russian Revolution. It provides links to biographies of Orwell including text and video, links to literary terms fitting to Animal Farm, and links to...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston is featured in this biography highlighting her literary contributions which focused on African Americans as whole people, celebrating their heritage, in an era when black authors tended to write about their...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation
This unit examines poetry of the postmodernism period, focusing on the Beat Movement, Black Arts Movement, feminism, and other related movements and periods in recent literary history. An extensive list of authors, time line, video, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Introduction
This is an introduction to the English Renaissance, a rebirth of the arts including the literary arts from 1485 to 1660. The essential questions for the unit focus on how the events of the period influence the writing of the carpe diem...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: The Lightning Thief
Fourth graders learn about traditional stories, focusing on common patterns in literature, specifically the quest. Students come to understand how literature helps us make sense of the world, and how literature from the past influences...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry: Ww Ii: Sir Winston Churchill
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Sir Winston Churchill and his award-winning speeches during WW II. It features links to a brief history "England in World War II," a Winston Churchill biography, a list...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: William Butler Yeats
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism, focuses on the poet William Butler Yeats. It provides links to hit biography, a virtual tour of Yeats' life and works, and two poems. Students are asked to respond to two questions...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: t.s. Eliot
This is a lesson in a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism and focuses on the poety of T.S. Eliot including "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Links to each of these poems and a biography of Eliot are provided. It...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Dylan Thomas
This lesson from a 20th Century Postmodernism unit focuses on Dylan Thomas and his poetry. It provides links to his biography, two of his poems, and a literary analysis assignment pertaining the literary devices and voice in Thomas's...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century Postmodernism: Short Stories: Virginia Woolf
This lesson is from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism and focuses on Virginia Woolf and her short stories. It includes links to her biography, a timeline of her life, and two short stories: "Death of the Moth" and "Three Pictures."...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: Postmodernism: Short Stories: James Joyce
This is a lesson from a unit on Postmodernism; it focuses on James Joyce, his life and works including the short story "Araby," which is offered in a PDF link for students to read. A link is also provided to a more in-depth biography of...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Sudden Impact Teaching Guide [Pdf]
When her friend is hospitalized after a soccer game, Tina helps find a donor match for his rare blood type. But then the donor himself is in an accident. This teacher's guide for Sudden Impact by Lesley Choyce includes a book summary,...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Harper Lee
Learn more about the life and work of Harper Lee when you visit this informative site. This site provides links to activities, vocabulary lessons, newspaper articles and more focused on the book "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Lesson Exchange for Corduroy
This site is an online lesson plan exchange on "Corduroy" by Don Freeman.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:the Middle Ages:the Beginning and an End:the Norman Invasion
This lesson from a Middle Ages Literature unit focuses on the Norman Invasion of 1066 and the impact it had on the English language. It discusses the events leading up to the changes from the Anglo-Saxon Old English to Middle English...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Introduction
This is an introduction to a Restoration and Eighteenth Century, which ranges from the Restoration of King Charles II to the turn of the 19th century. The essential questions for the unit focuses on how the events of the period...
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