Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark Story Ideas ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Found notes and photographs can provide inspiration for pieces of creative writing. back to top Online Photograph and Document Resources: Use these resources to search for interesting found images and notes. Literary Elements Mapping Tool: Use this online tool to map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Further Reading Albers, Peggy. NCTE Executive Committee. 2005.
English 9 Quest: Lord of the Flies Challenge Projects 1. Write a 2-3-page paper exploring the concept of “pig” in several cultures. Compare/contrast those concepts with the use of “pig” in Lord of the Flies. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Students begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. back to top War of the Worlds Travelogue: Students can use this online tool to explore background information about the 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Plot Diagram Tool: This online tool allows students to graphically map the events in a story. Further Reading
Texting a Response to Lord of the Flies ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, videos, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Student Objectives Session One Session Two Session Three Extensions Student Assessment/Reflections Students will: back to top Session One After reading Lord of the Flies, have students look back at Chapter One. Session Two Begin the session by having students briefly share their Graphic Map printouts. Session Three Have students choose two characters in the book.
Teaching With Podcasts Home › Professional Development › Strategy Guides Strategy Guide Podcasts are serial recordings, posted regularly online. Robert Rozema describes a podcast as "a blog in audio form" (31). Basically, producing podcasts is the technology-based equivalent of oral storytelling. Much as oral stories and news have been shared with listeners by medieval bards, Native American storytellers, and others, podcasters share news and stories with their listeners, who download the files online. Podcasts can be used for any purpose a text might serve-they can tell fictional stories, share and comment on recent events, inform listeners about a topic, and persuade listeners to take an action or adopt a stance. Students can produce podcasts that fit any genre, including audio diary entries, analytical commentary on readings or current events, informational recordings that explain concepts, and persuasive and argumentative statements.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Back to Samples Menu The Lord of the Flies by William Golding created by: Brian Rappe Days: One Quarter, to be used throughout the quarter as the book is read. Topics -Setting, what is setting and the specific setting of the book -Plot, what is plot? C Level: 31-50 pt. -Draw a poster of the climax of the story. -Complete the worksheets for book report. -Character sketch, what would you do if you where Jack, Ralph and Piggy. -To do before you finish chpt. 3 what would you do if you were stranded on an island. -Create a vocabulary word bank of 20 words and define them in your own words -Rewrite this story if it would have happened today, must be written in another language. B Level 51-80pt -Find out how to butcher a wild boar and draw a diagram. -How would you make a shelter to live in if you were stranded? -Watch the Movie and compare and contrast it to the book. -Find out what would kill you if you ate on a tropical island. A Level 81-100 pts and what else has he wrote. C Level rubric:
National Day on Writing: A Celebration Figment.com Update | Oct. 21: The National Day on Writing was a great success. Thanks to the thousands who participated; we did our best to chronicle the remarkable response throughout. Why do you write? Because I am a spider and words are my silk. to think, to converse, to express, to solve, to explain, to persuade, to motivate, to … because I’m in love 2 get 10 years worth of stories out of my head. Because I sound smarter when I write than when I speak. because saying words is nice, but writing them down lasts longer I write because writing is crack, and I’m an addict. We fished the answers above out of the Twitter stream of contributors to the hashtag #whyIwrite, and on Thursday, Oct. 20, the National Day on Writing, we’re inviting you to post your answers there as well. So please: spread the word, start thinking about what you would like to say and encourage your students to join in. In addition… From the National Writing Project: And From Us, The New York Times Learning Network: 2. 3.
Lord of the Flies Travel Brochure: Short Lesson Plan Idea written by: Trent Lorcher • edited by: SForsyth • updated: 2/8/2012 Create a travel brochure and help students deceive travelers into vacationing on an inhabitable island in the middle of nowhere with this lesson plan. This travel brochure can be used with any novel, here we're using 'Lord of the Flies' as an example. Lesson Instructions Assignment: create a travel brochure for the deserted island inhabited by the boys in Lord of The Flies with the purpose of encouraging people to visit. This assignment works best as a group project. Prewriting - Review Golding's description of the setting. Creative Writing Exercises This is a series of articles that can be used for creative writing exercises and lesson plans in any English class.
Using Opening Lines From the Magazine's 'Lives' Column as Writing Prompts Illustration by Will Bryant. Sticker illustration by Dan Cassaro.A recent edition of The New York Times Magazine. This student writing challenge was inspired by the “Lives” column found there weekly.Go to the Lives index » We’re celebrating Oct. 20, the National Day on Writing, in all kinds of ways, and this is the first. Along with Figment, an online community where teenagers and young adults come together to discover, create and share new reading and writing, we’re inviting students to use the first lines we’ve collected below — all taken from the “Lives” column, the long-running essay series that appears in the back of The New York Times Magazine each week — and use them as jumping-off points for their own stories, essays, plays, memoirs or poetry. Then, through Nov. 10, we’re inviting young writers to post their original pieces on a specially dedicated page on Figment that will become a public library of “Lives”-inspired stories. Happy writing! First Lines from Selected “Lives” Columns
Lord of the Flies Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates Lord of the Flies Play the Lord of the Flies Game About the game The aim of this game is to introduce some basic analytical aspects of the book and to challenge the reader's memory through play. Read More » The Nobel Prize William Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today" Read More » Share this: 59 To cite this pageMLA style: "Lord of the Flies". Recommended: The Legacy of Alfred Nobel On 27 November 1895 Alfred Nobel signed his last will in Paris. Play the Blood Typing Game Try to save some patients and learn about human blood types! Unlocking the Secrets of Our Cells Discover the 2012 awarded research on stem cells and cell signalling. Contact E-mail us Press Newsroom Sitemap A-Z Index Frequently Asked Questions Terms Follow Contact | Press | Sitemap | FAQ | Terms Follow us: Follow us: Facebook
What We Eat, Where We Sleep: Documenting Daily Life In August, two slide shows were published on NYTimes.com that both seemed so useful for classrooms that we saved them until the school year began to present together in a lesson. On the Well blog, Tara Parker-Pope featured 15 photos from a book called “What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets” that has become an exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. Here’s how she described it: In an unusual project, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio, a photographer and writer, traveled the world collecting photos and stories about what people eat in a day. They documented the meager meals of a Masai goat herder during a drought, the fast-food diet of an American long-haul trucker and a veritable feast of lamb kebabs and other foods set out by an Iranian bread baker. Meanwhile, the Lens blog introduced 20 photos from a book called “Where Children Sleep”: Mr. Before Viewing What do the ordinary details of our daily lives say about who we are, where we’re from and what we care about? Questions
Blogging the National Day on Writing Elizabeth LeitzellA fifth-grade class at the Equity Project Charter School in New York City posted thoughts on #whyIwrite to Twitter on Monday through the class account, TEPTigers. Today is the National Day on Writing (yes, it’s a real thing), and we’ll be celebrating — and updating this post — all day long. Backstory: A couple of weeks ago, along with our wonderful collaborators, the National Writing Project, Figment and Edutopia, we started asking the world to post messages to Twitter today with the hashtag #whyIwrite. And post they have — even before today officially began. One of the most exciting moments for us so far was when author Neil Gaiman wrote just after midnight, “Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence, & let people escape from inside their own heads & see through other eyes. Of course, many, many schools and teachers have told us they’ll be there, posting, reading and writing back. Ms. At the College of St. 1:19 p.m. | Updated Wow! More later.