OK, so maybe not a launch party, but today I was *terrifically* inspired while doing field experience at Gainesville Middle School. I was overcome with unit plan ideas and took copious notes as thoughts whizzed through my brain!
Until today, I had thought designing a usable unit plan sounded cool; after seeing kids in action, I could see it taking on life.
I have decided to do a 9th grade English unit plan for Black Awareness Month, centering on Huckleberry Finn. I also had the following ideas:
- How word use, and general acceptability, changes over time
- Read about the Underground Railroad, and have students write a short story about what it must have been like to escape using it
- Bring in other authors from that time: Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), and so on
- Do a character conflict exercise of Huck Finn: right vs. wrong (based on the ideals of the time, and of today)
- Do a "Whats in the Box" of an artifact from that timeframe
- Read something aloud and have kids write a reaction to it in their WNB
- Idioms
- Grammar lesson - how things have changed since the 1860s
- Poetry: read some slavery- or Lincoln-related poetry, and write a poem about it
- Review the words in The Gettysburg Address - talk about the setting, how many people were there, etc.
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