This writing activity integrates mathematical graphing with writing and can be used to generate a number of different kinds of writing activities, but lends itself well to biographical and narrative writing. Students interview other students, choose significant life events, rate…
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ReadWriteThink: Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry Picking”
This ReadWriteThink lesson eases students’ fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them an inductive strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning. Although the lesson uses Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry-Picking,” this…
ReadWriteThink: Fair Use Lesson Plan
In a moment of inspiration, I wrote a new lesson for the site today. I was searching for resources for Copyright Awareness Week for Inbox, and coming up empty. I hate that copyright is so frequently defined as in terms…
ReadWriteThink: Three Lessons!
A content report was due today, so I made a last-minute push to get things online. Finished up the lesson I have been writing for several days now, and edited and posted two others: From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift:…
ReadWriteThink: Figuring Out Swift and Seuss
Forgive me as I freewrite a splat. You see I’m a little stuck on a lesson plan, and I can’t figure out where I want it to go (other than to end up as a perfect piece that I can…
ReadWriteThink: Gender Issues and Comics
The Calvin and Hobbes from 02/23/95 would be a great discussion starter for talk of media and gender. I may revise Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media, or perhaps I could write up a 6&8211;8…
ReadWriteThink: It Doesn’t Have to End That Way
Finished revising and published a fancy new version of It Doesn’t Have to End That Way: Using Prediction Strategies with Literature, a K-2 lesson plan that now uses one of my computers in children’s literature and technology books, Arthur’s Computer…
ReadWriteThink: Mapping Locations from a Novel
Can’t Remember Who Whacked Whom? Just Check the Map on the Web Site – New York Times—Potential lesson plan idea here. Obviously not about The Sopranos. Would be useful though to create a map of a community or whatever in…
ReadWriteThink: Macintosh Commercial Interactive
I managed to hide in the office from the influx of flowers and candy and such today. It’s depressing really. Even without going out there, I ended up sitting at the desk crying a little. I am so stupid and…
ReadWriteThink: Giving a Hoot
Book Report Alternative: A Character’s Letter to the Editor is now live! The fun part about this lesson for me was working up the examples. Carl Hiaasen’s novel Hoot is coming out as a movie; so I used the situations…