Literature
Lesson Plans
Those of us who love and respect the research, collecting, and reading
tasks that accompany teaching English appreciate the obvious benefits
of the worldwide web as a gigantic teaching tool in general.
We can also benefit from the wonderful specific resources and tools:
literature lesson plans. Usually designed, written, and
submitted by fellow instructors, these literature lesson plans,
comprehensive, delightful in interactive possibilities, and thorough in
cross-referencing studies and sites, offer fresh approaches, lend
themselves to professional development, and (again obviously)
contribute to the enhancement of classroom (or virtual classroom)
learning of concepts, strategies, methodologies, and skills.
As an instructor of college English (composition, lit, creative
writing, et. al. courses) and as an online course developer, I have
found so many valuable teacher resources for linguistic, literary, and
rhetorical disciplines in particular and for education and teaching in
general. Some of these I would like to share with you, maybe saving you
the time I spent collecting materials, or maybe just introducing you to
a site, a database, or a teaching strategy or idea that you had yet to
discover, but hopefully not creating a redundancy—by listing
a site you know well.
NOTE: I stuck an asterisk* next to my favorites.
ONLINE TEACHER COMMUNITIES
Pro-teacher Community (K-3; 4-8; Math, Science, & Technology;
Gifted Students
http://www.proteacher.net/
Teachers.net (Lesson exchange, live chat, job and classifieds boards,
and more…)
http://www.teachers.net/
Tolerance.org (Activities, Kits and Handbooks, Web Exclusives, Grants,
and more…for teaching tolerance.)
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/getpublished.jsp
ONLINE TEACHER DATABASES
Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History (Tracey Osborn’s
WWII database)
http://www.teacheroz.com/
*Web English Teacher (Carla Beard’s exhaustive
site—includes multiple and various
subcategories—including Shakespeare, Media and Literacy,
Poetry, Study Guides, exquisite ideas or actual literature lesson
plans, and much, much more….)
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html
*ESL Resources at OWL (Purdue University’s Online Writing
Lab—handouts, resources, and exercises)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html
Just for Teachers (Sheboygan Falls teacher Dawn Hogue offers advice,
syllabi, book lists, and links for AP English teachers.)
http://www.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us/staff/dehogue/AP/teachers/main.htm
ReadWriteThink (Lesson Plans, Web Resources, Student Materials, and
Standards)
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/
TeachersFirst.com (Classroom, professional, and site resources for k-12
teachers.)
http://www.teachersfirst.com/
COLLECTIONS/LESSONS/HANDOUTS (PRINTABLE)
Awesome Library: K-12 Lesson Plans (Dr. R. Jerry Adams’
multiple disciplines collection)
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/lesson.html
*Helpful Handouts for Students and Teachers (Erica Cassel’s
writing, reading, and writing about reading materials)
http://www.mrscassel.com/helpful_handouts.htm
*Lesson Plans at Teachnet.com (General and Specific Literature Lesson
Plans, Many Level Lesson Plans, and those for Multiple
Disciplines)
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/index.html
Microsoft Education Lesson Plans
http://www.microsoft.com/education/LessonPlans.mspx
*S.C.O.R.E. Language Arts CyberGuides (Comprehensive, interactive
lesson plan units for k-12.)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Teachers.net Lesson Bank (lesson exchange for k-12, advanced, senior,
and other level and range teachers)
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
Using English.com ESL Teacher Handouts, Grammar Worksheets, and
Printables http://www.usingenglish.com/handouts/
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature (by the University of Oxford)
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/
There are, of course hundreds more wonderful sites for teacher
resources. I have yet to explore and employ them. I
have much ground to cover, but in the efforts and explorations, I hope
to see you online one day, maybe in one of the community chat rooms.
We learn by teaching, and we teach by learning—so say the
wise ones. May all your lessons, then, be wonderful.
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