The Giver Lesson Plans and Activities

June 21, 2021 By

Mr. Jonas reached the opposite side of the school courtyard, stopped briefly, and looked back. The classroom where his entire career had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined lesson plans he had always known would continue again, without him. The lesson plans where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. […]

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Most Dangerous Game Short Story Lesson Plan: How to Introduce a Short Story

June 14, 2021 By

Every painstaking movement of the second hand on the round 1970s style clock in the front of the classroom deepened the soul-destroying angst in Mr. Nocontext’s being. Mr. Jobkiller, the school’s new principal, had come to observe. And the short story lesson plan for the “Most Dangerous Game” wasn’t going well. The lesson itself wasn’t […]

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Short Stories of O’Henry Lesson Plans: “Cop and the Anthem,” “After Twenty Years,” and “Hearts and Hands”

June 7, 2021 By

ON HIS BENCH in Madison Square Middle School, Mr. Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when teachers without seal-skin coats grow kind to their principals, and when Mr. Soapy moves uneasily on his wheeled chair in the classroom, you may know that formal evaluation time is near at hand. Luckily, […]

Filed Under: Lessons, O' Henry, Short Stories