Language Arts - Secondary Lesson Plans

English Language Arts Grade 6 (2023)

• 6th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• A Long Walk To Water Connection Experience
• A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• Ancient Egypt
• Argumentative Writing/WWI & WWII Unit
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Book Reports
• Book Review Trailer
• Book Reviews With Digital Photography
• Can Words Lead to War?
• Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem "Echoes"
• Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
• Discovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem “Mnemonic” and the Brain
• Fact-Checker
• How to Paint a Picture with Details in Your Writing
• Jackson Pollock Electric Guitars
• Memoir with El Deafo (Grade 6-8)
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• News Matters Unit Plan
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Evaluating Sources (Day 4 of 5)
• The U.S. House of Representatives and the Gag Rule
• Using a Before-Rdg Organizer with Informational Text
• What Is Your Reading Mood?
• Writers' Favorite Way to Start a Personal Essay

English Language Arts Grades 7-8 (2023)

• 8th grade poetry
• A Christmas Carol Characterization
• A Long Walk To Water Connection Experience
• A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?
• Abolition: The Catalyst for the Women's Rights Movement
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• Add Context to Your Introductions with the "Then-and-Now Intro"
• American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe. Consider changing title to: Library of Congress primary resources and lesson plans
• Analyzing Opinions For and Against Women's Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
• Annotate Text in Google Docs
• BBC My World Media Literacy
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Book Reports
• Can Words Lead to War?
• Character Changes Lesson and iPad Assignment
• Congressional Biography
• Define Important Terms AND Make Your Intro Interesting with the Definition Hinge Structure
• Descriptive Writing Snapshot
• Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
• Easily Discuss Text Evidence with this Simple Structure Trick
• Evaluate Credibility of Online Sources
• Examining History with Maya Angelou's Poetry
• Examining the Struggle for Suffrage & Utah Statehood through Political Cartoons
• How the Sego Lilly Became Utah's State Flower: Examining Primary Sources
• How to Explode Moments in Your Personal or College Essay
• How to Paint a Picture with Details in Your Writing
• How to Paraphrase Text Evidence
• How to Punctuate Titles
• How to Write Complete Sentences & When to Break the Rule
• Imagery and Strategies Used in the Women's Sufferage Movement: Developing a Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign
• Informative Writing
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Present Continuous Tense, Times, Dates & Numbers, Review of Consonants and Vowels, Review of Articles (Lesson 4)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Present Simple Tense Sentence Forms (Positive, Negative, Question), Contractions (Does Not/Doesn't, Is Not/Isn't), Pronunciation (Voiced and Voiceless Sounds, Words Endings (S, CH, IZ) (Lesson 3)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Review of the Present Simple Tense with Irregular Verbs, Present Simple Tense vs. Present Continuous Tense (why are they different?) and Possessive Adjectives (Lesson 1)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Spelling Rules, (Using I after E, dropping the final E, changing a final Y to I, add es, doubling a final consonant Ð ing, ed), Review of Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns, Upper/lower case, Identifiers, Present simple tense, Present continuous tense, Vowels & Consonants, Prepositions of Place, Forming Sentences (Lesson 5)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: The Alphabet, Consonants & Vowels, Capitalization & Punctuation, Personal Pronouns, The Verb 'to be', Articles a/an/the (Lesson 1)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Vocabulary, Nouns (people, places, things) Regular & Irregular Verbs, Identifiers (this/that/these/those), Prepositions (Lesson 2)
• Learn How to Write a Quick, Advanced Summary with the Pivot Synopsis
• Learn New Vocabulary with Flash Cards
• Lesson 3: A Debate Against Slavery
• Let's Get Back to Basics: Structure 101
• Limiting Child Labor: Providing for the General Welfare
• Listening Guide: Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?
• Listening Guide: Flagrant foul: Misinformation and sports
• Listening Guide: Opinion creep: How facts lost ground in the battle for our attention
• Mentor Text Greenlight: Marshfield Dreams
• Mentor Text Greenlight: Why You're Never Too Old to Build Castles in the Air
• New Ways to Incorporate Text Evidence
• News Goggles: Candace Buckner, The Washington Post
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• News Goggles: Kent Porter, The Press Democrat
• News Matters Unit Plan
• One Pager for Novel Response
• One Tin Soldier Rides Away
• Philip Reid and Freedom
• Quick Tips on How to Write Dialogue Correctly
• Research and Develop a Topic
• S is for Shoes Off in the House | ABC's of AAPIs
• Secession and the Senate
• Sentence Structure and Complexity
• Student Storytelling Podcast Episode (GarageBand)
• Swift and Slow on the Internet You Will Go (Grade 6)
• The Clean Water Act
• The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said
• The Easiest Way to Write a Synopsis
• The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
• The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression
• The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
• The U.S. House of Representatives and the Gag Rule
• The World of Haiku
• Three Paragraph Structures Every Writer Needs to Know
• To Quote or Not to Quote (Text Evidence)?
• Two Ways to Summarize an Event
• Utah Women and the Railroad
• Vivid Verbs
• Voices of American Indian Boarding Schools Audio Museum
• Was the Civil War About Slavery?
• What do you do with a problem?
• Write an If-Then Adventure Story
• Writers' Favorite Way to Start a Personal Essay

English Language Arts Grades 9-10 (2023)

• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• American Dream and The Great Gatsby
• An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
• Analyzing Informational Text
• Analyzing Visual Text
• Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
• Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World
• Annotate Text in Google Docs
• Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
• Book Report Alternative: Getting Acquainted with Farcebook
• Book Reports
• Can Words Lead to War?
• Character Analysis and The Crucible
• Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies
• Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
• Classical Appeals Analysis (Churchill/Roosevelt)
• Cornell Notes
• Digital Citizenship Online Communcation
• Digital Storytelling
• Does Science Fiction Predict the Future? Inquiry Based Media Literacy Unit
• Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
• Elizabethan England & Shakespearean Context Lesson Plan
• Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"
• Fact-Checker
• How the Sego Lilly Became Utah's State Flower: Examining Primary Sources
• How to Paint a Picture with Details in Your Writing
• How to Write Complete Sentences & When to Break the Rule
• LESSON PLAN: Pages | Annotate & Create PSA
• Learn New Vocabulary with Flash Cards
• Listening Guide: Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?
• Listening Guide: Flagrant foul: Misinformation and sports
• Listening Guide: Opinion creep: How facts lost ground in the battle for our attention
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• News Matters Unit Plan
• One Tin Soldier Rides Away
• Parallel Structure Quotes
• Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
• Present Your Research with a Google Slide (9-12)
• Research and Develop a Topic
• S is for Shoes Off in the House | ABC's of AAPIs
• Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: ‘You Kiss by the Book’
• Structure and Detail in "A Long Thin Line"
• Team Working Session #2: Interview Prep and Scripting
• The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression
• The Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
• Toulmin Argument Essay
• What is Media trying to tell me?
• Wordless Media Messages
• Write an If-Then Adventure Story
• Writers' Favorite Way to Start a Personal Essay
• iPad Lesson- Fairy Tale Book

English Language Arts Grades 11-12 (2023)

• "Every Day We Get More Illegal" by Juan Felipe Herrera
• "From Citizen, VI [On the train the woman standing]," Claudia Rankine
• "Remember" by Joy Harjo
• "The Great Migration" by Minnie Bruce Pratt
• "Their Eyes Were Watching God": Folk Speech and Figurative Language
• "Translation for Mam" by Richard Blanco
• A Wrinkle in Time: The Board Game
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Book 4, Fragmentation. Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Mainstream Metal, Parental Advisories, and Censorship
• Book Reports
• Boxing and Analysis
• Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue
• Can Words Lead to War?
• Claims in "The Crisis, No. 1"
• Classical Appeals and War Speeches
• Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
• Create a Crossword Puzzle
• Create a Guide to an Area
• Create a Photo Journal in Google Docs
• Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
• Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
• Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
• Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
• Frederick Douglass |Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist
• How to Explode Moments in Your Personal or College Essay
• How to Paint a Picture with Details in Your Writing
• How to Write Complete Sentences & When to Break the Rule
• Lesson 1: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words: Letters and Poems
• Lesson 1: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
• Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis
• Lesson 2: The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
• Lesson 2: The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention
• Lesson 2: The Social Security Act
• Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
• Lesson 3: Creating the Office of the Presidency
• Lesson 3: Emulating Emily Dickinson: Poetry Writing
• Lesson 3: Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
• Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Mentor Text Greenlight: Marshfield Dreams
• Mentor Text Greenlight: The Fourth State of Matter
• Mentor Text Greenlight: Why You're Never Too Old to Build Castles in the Air
• News Goggles: Candace Buckner, The Washington Post
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• One Tin Soldier Rides Away
• Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!: Simulating the Supreme Court
• PBS Soundbreaking, Lesson 10: Recording and Producing the Voice
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Evaluating Sources (Day 4 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Smart Searching (Day 3 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Topic Selection (Day 2 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Using Sources (Day 5 of 5)
• Sojourner Truth |Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Activist
• Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History, Lesson 7. Debating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
• Storm Lake Documentary Discussion Guide on the Importance of Local Journalism
• Summary and "The Fallacy of Success"
• The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
• The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic
• The First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country?
• The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
• The Letters and Poems of Emily Dickinson
• The Music That Shaped America, Lesson 2: The Banjo, Slavery, and the Abolition Debate
• Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
• What Makes a Change-Maker?: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Writers' Favorite Way to Start a Personal Essay

English Language Arts Humanities (2023)

• "Cotton Candy" by Edward Hirsch
• Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
• Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
• Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy

English Language Arts Journalism (2021)

• BBC My World Media Literacy
• News Goggles: Candace Buckner, The Washington Post
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• News Goggles: Kent Porter, The Press Democrat
• News Matters Unit Plan
• Storm Lake Documentary Discussion Guide on the Importance of Local Journalism

English Language Arts Professional & Technical Comm (2023)

• AUDIO: Dos and Don’ts
• AUDIO: Meet the TASCAM
• AUDIO: Mic check 1, 2
• Acquiring Content Legally and Ethically
• Acquiring and Sharing Content Legally and Ethically
• Been there, lit that
• Choosing a pet (writing unbiased queries - Search Coach)
• Creating New Content Using Others’ Work
• Creativity in the Online World — Copyright Basics and Our Roles as Creators and Consumers
• Creativity in the Online World — Our Roles as Creators and Consumers
• Get that b-roll
• How do I navigate information on social media?
• How to debunk science misinformation
• How to properly focus a camera
• How to record a podcast
• How to record a video diary
• How to record b-roll on your phone
• POP - Principles of Photography
• Sharing Content — How Much is OK?
• Using Copyrighted Works in Our Own Creations — Fair Use, Creative Commons, Permissions, and Public Domain
• Write a Business Plan
• Young fact-checkers explain how to discern info online

English Language Arts Speech & Debate (2021)

• Book 4, Fragmentation. Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Mainstream Metal, Parental Advisories, and Censorship
• Civics 101 Podcast
• Frederick Douglass |Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist
• Lesson 1: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
• Lesson 2: The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
• Lesson 2: The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention
• Lesson 2: The Social Security Act
• Lesson 3: A Debate Against Slavery
• Lesson 3: Creating the Office of the Presidency
• Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Opinion Writing- Publishing your views respectfully
• Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!: Simulating the Supreme Court
• PBS Soundbreaking, Lesson 10: Recording and Producing the Voice
• Sojourner Truth |Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Activist
• Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History, Lesson 7. Debating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
• The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said
• The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
• The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
• The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic
• The First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country?
• The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
• Using Gale Reference to Analyze Opposing Claims
• What Makes a Change-Maker?: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper