English Teacher's Month-By-Month Activities Kit Ready-To-Use Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12

Here is an exciting year-round collection of ready-to-use lessons and activities that connect people, places and events of the past with the present-day English curriculum in a meaningful way. Included are over 800 practical and interesting learning activities that appeal to all learning styles and ability levels and are easily adapted to any program or text. You2ll find these lessons and activities offer an ideal way to introduce authors, organized units of study, promote multicultural awareness, and celebrate historical achievements. They will help you expand existing lesson plans, create new lesson plans, and correlate English with history and social studies and other content areas. For easy use, materials are organized into ten monthly sections, September through June, and printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of any student activity sheet as many times as needed. Each month includes six sections: Etymology: Origin, holidays, gemstone, flower and poem of the month Birthdays: Birthdates of writers and other celebrities students can relate to Memorable Events: Listing of events, from historical to zany, such as Dec. 28- Chewing gum patented by Ohio dentist William F. Semple in 1869; Mar. 14- Save a Spider Day; Jun: 18- Sally Ride became first woman in space, 1983 Learning Activities: Five types of activities- nearly 100 per month- in the areas of reading, debating, writing, discussion and audio-visual- that can be used in sequence as part of thematic units or as individual lessons on any subject Reproducibles: Full-page reproducibles related to specific learning activities that can be photocopied as many times as needed for your class Answer Key: Answers for all of the student activity sheets that month Following is just a sampling of the reproducible activities you2ll find each month: SEPTEMBER: Classmate Interview...Comparing Agatha Christie and Stephen King... What Do You Know About Fiction? OCTOBER: Ezra Pound: A Traitor'...What would you do if you were President'... Emily Post: The Etiquette Test...The words of Mahatma Gandi NOVEMBER: Dialogue in The Red Badge of Courage...Roy Campanella vs. Joe DiMaggio...Violence on TV...Novel Study Project DECEMBER: Austen vs. Dickinson vs. Cather...Poetry...True/False Survey...Evaluating the Personal Narrative...Benjamin Franklin & Poor Richard2s Almanac JANUARY: The History of Fantasy Writing..."I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr....Nonfiction Book Study...New Year2s Resolutions FEBRUARY: Letter Writing Survey...Toni Morrison vs. Judy Blume vs. Alice Walker ...John Grisham- A History of Best-Sellers MARCH: People Magazine and Celebrities...Motifs in Nathaniel Hawthorne2s The Scarlet Letter...Robert Frost and His Wisdom...Literary Terms and "Jeopardy" APRIL: Overcoming Gobbledygook...William Shakespeare Preview Questions... Caricatures and Washington Irving...April Fool2s Day- The History MAY: Limericks...The Novels of Robert Ludlum...A Preview of Paul Zindel...The Words of Malcolm X JUNE: Letter for Summer Reading...Lou Gehrig2s speech- Yankee Stadium- 1939...When it2s time to get a job!...Preparing for an Interview And to help you with your lesson planning, each monthly section begins with a "Quick Locator"- a complete listing of each lesson and activity cross-referenced to important areas of the English curriculum!Manos, Keith T. is the author of 'English Teacher's Month-By-Month Activities Kit Ready-To-Use Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12' with ISBN 9780130894854 and ISBN 0130894850.