Group Membership and Administration

What is a Group on the Oregon Open Learning Hub and what are the roles of the Group Members and  Group Administrators?

Material Type: Primary Source

Authors: Jamie Rumage, Susan Payne

Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue

Reading Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," students will explore the use of dramatic monologue as a poetic form, where the speaker often reveals far more than intended.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper": Writing Women

Using the landmark feminist short story "The Yellow Wall-paper," students will employ close reading concepts to analyze setting, narrative style, symbol, and characterization.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" & the "New Woman"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wall-paper" was written during atime of change. This lesson plan, the first part of a two-part lesson, helps to set the historical, social, cultural, and economic context of Gilman's story.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Chinua Achebe's "New English" in Things Fall Apart

This lesson provides a Common Core application for high school students for Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. Students will undertake close reading of passages in Things Fall Apart to evaluate the impact of Achebe's literary techniques, the cultural significance of the work, and how this international text serves as a lens to discover the experiences of others.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Nigerian born Chinua Achebe is one of the world's most well-known and influential contemporary writers. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is an early narrative about the European colonization of Africa told from the point of view of the colonized people.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies

Students learn the linguistic strategies Achebe uses to convey the Igbo and British missionary cultures presented in the novel and how the text combines European linguistic and literary forms with African oral traditions.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers

We are naturally curious about the lives (and deaths) of authors, especially those, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce, who have left us with so many intriguing mysteries. But does biographical knowledge add to our understanding of their works? And if so, how do we distinguish between the accurate detail and the rumor; between truth and exaggeration? In this lesson, students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. They also become careful critics, taking a stand on whether extra-literary materials such as biographies and letters should influence the way readers understand a writer's texts.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Kate Chopin's The Awakening

In this curriculum unit, students will explore how Chopin stages the possible roles for women in Edna's time and culture through the examples of other characters in the novella.

Material Type: Lesson

English Language Arts, Grade 12

The 12th grade learning experience consists of 7 mostly month-long units aligned to the Common Core State Standards, with available course material for teachers and students easily accessible online. Over the course of the year there is a steady progression in text complexity levels, sophistication of writing tasks, speaking and listening activities, and increased opportunities for independent and collaborative work. Rubrics and student models accompany many writing assignments.Throughout the 12th grade year, in addition to the Common Read texts that the whole class reads together, students each select an Independent Reading book and engage with peers in group Book Talks. Language study is embedded in every 12th grade unit as students use annotation to closely review aspects of each text. Teacher resources provide additional materials to support each unit.

Material Type: Full Course

Dramatic Play - Restaurant

This is an overview of a dramatic play restaurant center. It includes description, purpose, suggested materials, questioning examples, considerations, photo examples, literature connections and downloadable resources.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: MSDE Admin, Cheri Helmstetter, Amy Toms, Kristen Johnson, Bob Wagner

Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs

Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from "attack" to "zap", reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Citizenship PBL For 1st-2nd Grade

A Project Based Learning Outline for Citizenship and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. To be used with 1st or 2nd Grade, as fitted with standards.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Halle McMillen

Word Lists by Syllable Type (Orton-Gillingham)

Phonics word lists: introduction and lists of closed syllable words with different vowels and patterns.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Susan Jones

Phonics-oriented Word Lists

A collection of word lists by syllable type and phonics pattern based on Orton-Gillingham organization of six syllable types.

Material Type: Reading

Advanced Phonics Activities

This page contains sequential and supplemental activities that help teachers teach students to read word families, compound words, contractions, double-letter words, silent-letter words, -ed words and 's words.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Irregular Word Activities

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Irregular Word Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Game, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Holt, Laurence, et. al.

Prefix/ Suffix Bingo

Given a Bingo Board, students will expand their knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and root words by playing bingo.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan

Reading Connected Text Fluency

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Reading Connect Text Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to decode their first sentences in print.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Game, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Holt, Laurence, et. al.

Sounding Out Activities

In Sounding Out activities, students take a regular word, such as sat, produce the letter-sound pattern "sssaaat," and blend to produce the word sat. This is a crucial development in learning to read, bringing together skills that students have spent many weeks working on and providing the first excitement of reading unaided. Being able to sound out regular words also provides students with a self-teaching capability: they can decode unaided words they do not yet recognize on sight.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Game, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Holt, Laurence, et. al.