English Lesson Plan Examples & Ideas

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and select lessons based on criteria you select.

ReadWriteThink.org
(http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/) has a wide selection of in-depth lesson and unit plans.  NCTE/IRA National Standards for the English Language Arts are clearly articulated, as are the resources and preparation needed, the instructional plan, and related resources.  You can search for keywords using the search box and refine your results based on:
  • grade level(s)
  • lesson plan types
  • learning objectives 
  • themes

The Library of Congress has lesson plans on a variety of topics, including Poetry and Literature (http://www.loc.gov/teachers/), and are geared toward grades ranging from 6-12. Within the Poetry and Literature the following lesson plans are available:

  • 1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry (Grades 9-12)
  • Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression (Grades 6-12)
  • The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts (Grades 6-12)
  • The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties (Grades 9-12)
  • Mark Twain's Hannibal (Grades 6-12)
  • Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved (Grades 6-8)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective (Grades 6-12)
     

From the National Endowment for the Humanities, EDSITEment! provides a wide range of lesson plans that can be narrowed by grades, subtopics, or you can use the advanced search to find lesson or unit plans based on your keywords.  http://edsitement.neh.gov/subject/literature-language-arts

English/Language Arts lesson plans from Discovery Education, geared toward grades 6-8: http://bit.ly/uqSDiG Topics include:

  • The Art of War
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Archaeology and Storytelling 
  • Cowboys


English/Language Arts lesson plans from Discovery Education, geared toward grades 9-12: http://bit.ly/t4DLfv Topics include:
  • Children of War
  • Great Books, Great Art
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Alice in Wonderland 
  • The War of the Worlds
  • Dracula
  • Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Don Quixote
  • Frankenstein
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Salem Witch Trials
  • Creating Dramatic Monologues from The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Odyssey
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Great Expectations
  • War Literature
  • Heart of Darkness
  • "Split" Character Studies in Crime and Punishment
  • The Power of Fiction
  • From Fact to Fiction: Moby Dick
  • The Legend of King Arthur
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Champions of the Land
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Moby-Dick
  • Kafka's Metamorphosis
  • 1984: How Much Fact in Fiction?
  • American Frontiers
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Machiavellis' The Prince
  • Walden
  • Catch-22
  • Madame Bovary: Illusion and Reality
  • Dante's Inferno
  • Split Character Studies in Crime and Punishment 


Education World offers a wide range of lesson plans.  This website is a little more difficult to search and sort than some of the others listed above. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/lang.shtml#top