CCSS ELA Standard: 2.L.5

What are examples of unseen Power? And can invisible power be more powerful than visible power?

Let’s help William Shakespeare with his use of repetition.

Let’s write a holiday song about order and chaos!

Let’s write the cleverest Mother’s Day cards you’ve ever seen!

An old photograph. A holiday scene. Pick one object in the picture and write from its point of view.

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Power? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

Can you think of times when power is unseen, but we can clearly see its effects?

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?

How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!

Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!