Inspired English: Raising Test Scores and Writing Effectiveness Through Poetry and FictionCorwin Press, 2005 - 140 pages LaCroix shows teachers how they can use poetry and fiction to generate student interest and promote higher-level thinking skills through analysis and interpretation of great works. Arming teachers with all the necessary tools to plan and prepare effective lessons, this user-friendly guide ensures that even the most reluctant students can share in the joy of literature while becoming better readers, writers, and test-takers. |
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Contents
The Design 777N | 7 |
The Preparation | 25 |
The Lessons | 37 |
Conflict and the Heroic Journey | 44 |
Finding Themes in Literature Through Art | 50 |
The Important Questions | 56 |
Key Resources | 64 |
The Power of WordsInterpreting Poetry | 70 |
Im Nobody Who are you?The Poetry of Emily Dickinson | 78 |
A SelfPortraitThe Bio Poem | 86 |
All the worlds a stageShakespeare | 97 |
Once Upon a Midnight DrearyEdgar | 107 |
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_______ be complete 4-point rubric 4.3 from Lesson Annabel Lee answer Assessment Author Unknown BooBoo Carl Sandburg Chapter checking for understanding classroom contain death Dramatic Reading Rubric dream Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson ENGLISH KEY RESOURCE Essay Scoring Guide examples excerpt father feel figurative language Gary Soto grade Hamlet handout Henry Wadsworth Longfellow heroic journey Independent Practice Input Jests at Scars Key Resource 4.3 Lesson Plan literature Lorraine LaCroix Materials Provided metaphor Nez Perces Notebook Requirement Objective offer students Optional Materials personification poet poetry book Poetry Circle poetry notebook Practice/Check for Understanding present prom questions recital Reteach Ruth Forman Setup Purpose short fiction short story simile stanza stop for Death students an understanding Students are given syllabus Teacher asks Teaching Poems theme Tomorrow Never Comes Versus William Shakespeare William Wordsworth words worksheet Wrap-Up Closure writing will _______