Middle School English

Poetry Out Loud

Poetry Out Loud--Poetry Unit

Poetry Unit

Poetry Unit

Poetry Unit

Commentary Unit

"Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring Monday mornings. To put some beautiful story in a short 2-5 minutes sequence isn't easy, but even in this case designers and artists are quite creative and manage to come up with very surprising and unusual results. The selection below is supposed to make you cry, laugh, feel bizarre or even shocked - in every case being absolutely smashed. Let's take a look at the collection of 25 brilliant animated short movies. Among them you'll find funny cartoons, typography-related movies as well as artistic masterpieces - hopefully everybody will find something interesting and unusual for his/her personal taste."

Short Story Unit

Writing Benchmark 1.2 Developing Ideas

"Where Do You Get Your Ideas?: Favorite Authors Reveal Their Writing Secrets"

Writing benchmark 1.2: Developing Ideas

"What Should I Write About?" Ralph Fletcher's blog about how to generate ideas in writing.

Writing benchmark 1.3: Generating Ideas

Unit Plan on Inferring as Readers

Poetry Unit

Poetry Unit

"Totally Like Whatever" Audio clip of Taylor Mali reciting his poem "Totally Like Whatever"

Resources for the Writing Workshop

"This web site provides an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and improving student writing based on the Six Traits Writing model. The links below provide an overview of the model along with the scoring rubrics for each trait. Exercises provided here will give students and teachers a chance to read sample writings, rate them, and compare their ratings with ratings made by English teachers. This will provide a valuable opportunity for both students and teachers to improve their understanding of the Six Traits and, in the end, improve their own writing."

Write me a story: Kids read (and vote on their favorite) and write short stories on this kid-friendly site

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