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Curriculum Resources

We all know the feeling... we have an upcoming unit to plan and we are stuck.  We know that we want the lessons to reach all of our students and of course we need to juggle all of the issues surrounding lesson plans.  Then, of course, there is the whole issue of incorporating technology!  

That is when it is helpful to check the Internet to see if someone has some ideas that we can use in our own classroom.  I envisioned this section of the site as a place where I could share some of the materials I created in the hopes of helping other teachers and educators.

And if you have any lesson plans or materials that you would like to share, send me an email at lhillclasses@prodigy.net.

Enjoy!

Evaluating Web Resources - http://www.geocities.com/lhillclasses/evalwebmain.htm
This web site is an activity that asks students to look at different sites and determine whether or not a site is credible.  Also, the students would determine what the criteria should be for any web resource.  The lesson plan for this activity can be found at https://lhillclasses.tripod.com/blindedbythelight.htm.  Bill Connolly, Rancocas Valley Regional High School, and I worked on this project for the National Writing Project at Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Grammar Review  PowerPoint Presentation using Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
https://lhillclasses.tripod.com/grammarreview.ppt
My sophomore honors English class was having some serious difficulties with grammar.  I created this PowerPoint presentation to help them to see how the grammar details fit into the whole.  

Holocaust and Technology:  Bridging the Old with the New
https://lhillclasses.tripod.com/holocaust.htm
The Holocaust is often a unit of study within the curriculum.  When anyone delves into the issues regarding the Holocaust, students need to be able to understand the emotions that arise.  This lesson plan uses the primary resources from the Internet as a starting point for students to create a poem in response.  The full lesson plans for my unit on the Holocaust can be found at https://lhillclasses.tripod.com/holocaustcurriculum.htm

Creating a Class Website about a novel:  The House on Mango Street
http://rvhouseonmangostreet.tripod.com
After reading and responding to Sandra Cisneros' novel, The House on Mango Street,
my students broke into small groups with each group focusing on a particular aspect of the novel.  They collected and created the content for that section of our class website.  We then put it all together and created this website.  On the "Teacher's Comments" page, you will find the complete lesson plans and my reflections about unit.  You can find a summary at http://rvhouseonmangostreet.tripod.com/weblesson.htm.

Review of Literary Devices using The House on Mango Street
https://lhillclasses.tripod.com/mangoreview.ppt
As part of our unit on The House on Mango Street, my freshman English classes learned about some new literary devices.  I created this interactive PowerPoint presentation / game to help the class understand those literary devices.  

Class Website for Senior Project
https://lhillclasses.tripod.com/seniorproject.htm
This is a website that I used to provide resources and notes to my senior English classes regarding their Senior Project.

Creating a WebQuest
https://lhillclasses.tripod.com/webquests.htm
I was asked to teach a workshop on creating webquests at the Burlington County ETTC.  Feel free to use it as you see fit.

WebQuest for use with To Kill A Mockingbird -
http://www.geocities.com/lhillclasses/webquests/justicemustbeserved.htm
This webquest is a twist of another webquest.  The students are asked to put Boo Radley on trial and to determine the outcome.  I was amazed at what the students were able to create.

WebQuest for an introduction to the idea of Justice
http://rvhouseonmangostreet.tripod.com/webquests/definingjustice.htm
Defining justice is a monumental task.  This webquest asks the students to create their own mission statement regarding the topic.  I used this as an entry to my unit on Justice and Injustice.

These are just a few of the lessons and materials I have used in my classroom.  If you would like some other ideas, feel free to email me at lhillclasses@prodigy.net.

 


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