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Lesson Plans - Language Arts

Scripting the Past: Exploring Women’s History Through Film

In this lesson, students employ the screenwriter’s craft to gain a fresh perspective on historical research, learning how filmmakers combine scholarship and imagination to bring historical figures to life and how the demands of cinematic storytelling can shape our view of the past.

Assessing Women’s Past Through Art

One way to access women’s past is to examine art (paintings, drawings, carvings) from the period. There are a variety of ways to do this. For example, an interesting picture could be shown to introduce students to a period. They might conjecture about what it tells them about the period, or they might do additional research on it, using images from their textbook or other sources.

Chinese New Year Lesson Plan

We are going to learn about the most important holiday for people in the Chinese culture. Then, let’s practice one of the favorite events of the Chinese New Year

Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year

This Lesson incorporates a series of activities that explain the animals of the Chinese New Year.

Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

After completing this lesson, students will:

* know what a symbol is
* understand that the Chinese calendar is divided into cycles of 12-years, in which each year is represented by an animal
* be familiar with the story explaining the choice of the 12 zodiac animals
* understand that each animal of the calendar symbolizes certain character traits
* know that the Chinese associate the traits of each zodiac animal with people born in that year
* know their own signs within the Chinese zodiac