HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH OPTIONS
~A personalized approach~
How to begin
Download the lesson plan template - choose materials - plug them into the year-long lesson plan
Intended audience
This site was designed for teachers who work in an alternative setting, those who plan to personalize their English class or parents who homeschool high school. It is meant to provide a wealth of well-organized resources and a framework in which to use them. There are many more resources available, and more becoming available each day. This site should not be considered exhaustive. Feel free to substitute any tool or resource you find that better meets the needs of your student.
Flexibility
Feel free to adapt. We are teaching students, not programs. If your student has an impressive vocabulary but needs more work on grammar, readjust the points and assignments to meet that need. If you and your student have other novels in mind which don't appear on our list, substitute at will. This is a support and a framework...not a set of hard and fast rules.
Primary goal
The primary goal of this site is to help instructors and students personalize their learning so that it is engaging and relevant to the student and leads towards a life-time love of learning. For example, if a student is a reluctant reader who is passionate about sports, find as many sport themed novels as possible for him to read: The Power of One (historical fiction); Jackie Robinson (biography); The Boys in the Boat (non-fiction); The Contender (fiction); Shoeless Joe (fantasy); My Losing Season (memoir); Cinderella Man (Historical Fiction) Winterdance: the Fine Madness for Running the Iditarod. We can touch different genres and themes and access a range of Lexile levels while meeting the student where he is. This site is designed to make that process a bit easier and a bit less time consuming.
Official Goals and Objectives
This site was built to address the traditional breadth of learning for high school English courses while including all the targets of the Common Core Standards. The standards are included throughout the site.
1. All of the analysis skills required are included in:
Download the lesson plan template - choose materials - plug them into the year-long lesson plan
- It makes the most sense to start at the "Lesson Plan" page and download the sample completed lesson plan to see what the finished product should look like. After working through this site, you should have a page similar to the sample lesson plan for your student.
- Next, visit each page to select for your student resources for each component of English instruction: Literature; Analysis; Short Stories; Poetry; Grammar and Vocabulary.
- Please, please, please....adapt the assignments and points for your particular student. Consider this a smorgasbord of resources.
- Students can take a significant role in this process, or may complete the process themselves with the oversight of an instructor.
- Fill in the the lesson plan page template for each area of English instruction to create an easy-to-follow year-long plan
Intended audience
This site was designed for teachers who work in an alternative setting, those who plan to personalize their English class or parents who homeschool high school. It is meant to provide a wealth of well-organized resources and a framework in which to use them. There are many more resources available, and more becoming available each day. This site should not be considered exhaustive. Feel free to substitute any tool or resource you find that better meets the needs of your student.
Flexibility
Feel free to adapt. We are teaching students, not programs. If your student has an impressive vocabulary but needs more work on grammar, readjust the points and assignments to meet that need. If you and your student have other novels in mind which don't appear on our list, substitute at will. This is a support and a framework...not a set of hard and fast rules.
Primary goal
The primary goal of this site is to help instructors and students personalize their learning so that it is engaging and relevant to the student and leads towards a life-time love of learning. For example, if a student is a reluctant reader who is passionate about sports, find as many sport themed novels as possible for him to read: The Power of One (historical fiction); Jackie Robinson (biography); The Boys in the Boat (non-fiction); The Contender (fiction); Shoeless Joe (fantasy); My Losing Season (memoir); Cinderella Man (Historical Fiction) Winterdance: the Fine Madness for Running the Iditarod. We can touch different genres and themes and access a range of Lexile levels while meeting the student where he is. This site is designed to make that process a bit easier and a bit less time consuming.
Official Goals and Objectives
This site was built to address the traditional breadth of learning for high school English courses while including all the targets of the Common Core Standards. The standards are included throughout the site.
1. All of the analysis skills required are included in:
- the short story and poetry analysis sections;
- the analysis questions used for each of the literature novels the students read, and
- the composition assignments