Category: <span>Lesson Plans</span>

Cassie and Oppression

This poem is a response to the oppression that Cassie feels in the third chapter of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.I tremble and shake.I am huddled and awake. I want to blow past these feelings.Go deeper, unfurrow my brow beatings. I push them deep into my head.The fear of …

10.29.07

Core 1: Write-on: What is revision? Why are revisions made? Choose two revisions made in the Declaration of Independence and write out your theory on why these particular revisions were made from the viewpoint of one of the founding fathers. Speak as if in the continental congress and try to …

10.26.07

Core 1: Extended Write-on: Head over to the computer lab and continue your essay work. Please ask yourself the following questions as you write: Am I proving my thesis? Are my examples and quotations as relevant as they need to be? Have I explained my quotations so that my words …

10.25.07

Core 1: Act-on: Grab a laptop. Go onto morguefile.com and grab an image url for an image that represents your thesis. Start by searching for things to do with your book. Put that image at the top of your essay for inspiration. Work on writing your essay in any order …