LANGUAGE ARTS Mini-Lessons
High School (9-12)

  1. Creative writing - writing for fun (9-12)
  2. Increase listening skill activity (9-12)
  3. Literature Review; using knowledge, interpretation & judgement questions (10-12)
  4. Writing, Creating a 'Class Directory' (9-12)
  5. 'MacBeth' made easy (6-12)
  6. 'Junk Mail Explosion' - activity to increase student awareness of persuasion tactics (7-10)
  7. 'Symbols of Language', understanding written communication (6-11)
  8. Introduction to American Literature, creative freewriting activity (11)
  9. Using prominent personalities with identifiable social causes to stimulate writing (8-12)
  10. Story Starters, introduction to story telling (all grades)
  11. 'Map of Ship Trap Island', reading for detail (9)
  12. 'Inventions', understanding the relationships between things and words (7-12)
  13. 'Write? No Way!', "re-newed" writing activity (7-12)
  14. 'Olympic Shadow Boxes', learning to use reference materials (9-12)

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