Standard W.MCC.3.1

W.MCC.3.1 Gather ideas from texts, multimedia, and personal experience to write narratives that:

Grade(s): 8

Year: 2015

“The Past is Present” or “Respective Perspectives”

Lesson

Students will examine multiple perspectives of different groups of people on the notion of freedom during the American Revolution. The class forms into 5 groups: Patriots, Loyalists/British, Enslaved...

Professional Careers in Theater [Part 1: Management, Directing, Planning]

Lesson

Within this unit, students will see excellent PBS interviews with theatre professionals employed in these positions: Senior Vice President of Theatre Operations, Theatre Director, Playwright, Producer...

Diary of a Grain of Rice OR an Indigo Plant

Lesson

The mid-1700s saw the rise of plantations across the South and the move from sustenance to cash crops saw a greater dependence on slave labor. The labor-intensive, back-breaking work of planting and...

Restoring the Union

Lesson

The students will be able to create either a free verse poem or journal entry as if they were a freed man during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in order to explain life in SC based on political...