Language Arts Lesson Plans
Title	Subject Area
A View from Me—Civil War Stories	Language Arts
Students will view and research historical sources for information about people who lived during the Civil War. They will glean as many details as possible about life during this time and construct a historically accurate story. - Booneville Middle School
Across Five Aprils—A Novel Study	Language Arts
The students will read and respond to the Newbery Honor novel Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt. The cooperative novel study is done in conjunction with the American history emphasis on the Civil War. Each student will be involved in reading the novel and responding to the text daily in his or her personal Reader’s Response Journal. This unit is taught in the eighth grade in conjunction with the Civil War unit of study in American history. This lesson may be used to accompany the C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi lesson plan, Across Five Aprils—Civil War Virtual Field Trip. The novel study also may be used as an independent unit in the language arts class. - Tupelo Middle School
Adjectives Color Our World	Language Arts
Students will use four types of adjectives in original sentences and identify each adjective used through appropriate color-coding. - Hunter Middle School
An Ambush of Tigers and a Rhumba of Rattlesnakes	Language Arts
The students will play online games that reinforce collective nouns in the form of animal group names. The teacher will construct these games through a free Internet site, Quia / http://www.quia.com - Winona Jr. High School
Book Chatter	Language Arts
Students will use the Internet to locate a book that is appealing to them and correspond via e-mail with other students reading the same book. - Winona Jr. High School
Celebrity Stew	Language Arts
Students will research information about a chosen celebrity from book and multimedia sources. Students will use this information and incorporate what they have learned about the various kinds of nouns and pronouns by writing an informative paragraph about the celebrity using word-processing software. - Booneville Middle School
Children Around the World	Language Arts
Students will choose and research a country to find interesting information to present to the class. This activity is designed to introduce students to the research process, proper note taking, using the writing process, and using technology to facilitate their research. - West Lauderdale Middle School
Color-Coded Comments—Creating a Basic Business Letter in Microsoft Word	Language Arts
The student will compose a business letter using word-processing skills, independent, practice and color coding. - Hunter Middle School
Concern for Community	Language Arts
After reading selected vignettes from the young-adult book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the students will discuss the types of social injustice presented in the vignettes that include, “The House on Mango Street,” “Those Who Don’t,” “There Was an Old Woman She Had so Many Children She Didn’t Know What to Do,” and “Bums in the Attic.” After identifying the social injustices they see in the lives of the characters in this book, the students will discuss ways in which they could help combat such injustices in their local community. Students will divide into groups to discover the various community-service projects available in their area. They will use this information to create a class Web site that highlights the available community resources. Students will design and create flyers to post in the community advertising the Web page. Students will use the World Wide Web, the telephone book, and the local newspaper(s) to locate the community-service projects for inclusion on the Web page. - New Hope Middle School
Cookbooks for Cancer	Language Arts
The students will obtain a recipe and use that recipe to create a page for a cookbook with proceeds of the sales donated to Relay for Life or other charity. - Winona Jr. High School
Courage in Chaos	Language Arts
Students will study the quality of courage found among both survivors and rescuers during the Holocaust of World War II. Students will reflect on their own courage as they decide if they would make a stand to protect persecuted people with different beliefs than themselves. This study will be based on the novel Number the Stars by Lois Lowery. - New Hope Middle School
Creating a Class Newsletter	Language Arts
The students will use Microsoft Publisher or other publishing software and a digital camera to make a class newsletter that includes events that happened during the school year. - Houlka Attendance Center
Dictionary Skills—What’s the Meaning of This!	Language Arts
The students will review the parts of dictionary definitions and compare the information found in one dictionary with the information found in a thesaurus. In cooperative groups of two to three, students will create, save, and print mini-dictionaries using dictionary-related terms provided by the teacher and word-processing software. Clip art objects, graphics downloaded from the World Wide Web, or student-created illustrations created using traditional media and scanned into digital format will be used to illustrate the mini-dictionaries. Students will include all appropriate definitions, part(s) of speech, syllabication and pronunciation, etymology, synonyms, and antonyms for each word in their mini-dictionaries. - South Delta Middle School
English Teacher for a Day	Language Arts
Students will plan and develop a lesson on one of the eight parts of speech. After the lessons are complete, students will present (teach) the lessons to the class using PowerPoint or other presentation software. - Booneville Middle School
Favorite Authors	Language Arts
The students will be grouped to research an author using pre-determined URL's and create PowerPoint presentations about each author. - Houlka Attendance Center

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