Secondary
Critical Challenges in English for Secondary Students
This resource is a collection of 21 detailed lesson plans for infusing critical thinking into middle school and high school English. The teaching activities span many genres including novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, songs and fairy tales. The resource features such challenges as:
- assessing which character in Lord of the Flies is the best leader;
- arguing for or against inclusion of a particular novel in the curriculum for a specific grade level;
- judging the extent to which the fate of Romeo and Juliet was beyond their control, and
- assessing the level of students’™ control over their own fates.
This new edition has been greatly expanded to include: a new critical challenge on “concrete” poetry; newly created assessment rubrics for every challenge; many more student activity sheets to scaffold their learning; and an enhanced focus on teaching the “tools” for critical thinking in English. (195 pp.)
Download a sample critical challenge from Critical Challenges in English for Secondary Students
ISBN 978-0-86491-257-2
Price: $31.95
