The Big Book Sale

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Language Arts

Grade Level(s):

• 7th-8th Grade

Description:

This lesson was designed to review students' understanding of literary elements, develop their public speaking/presentation skills, and extend their interest in young adult literature. As a result of this lesson, students will be creating a promotional poster to encourage their peers to read a novel they've chosen to market.

Goals & Objectives:

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Materials:

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Procedures:

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Assessment:

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Supporting Files:

• 504grade8lesson.doc
  
• literaryelements504.ppt
  

Standards:

National Information Literacy Standards (K-12)

Evaluates information critically and competently.

• Selects information appropriate to the problem or question at hand.

Uses information accurately and creatively

• Organizes information for practical application.
• Produces and communicates information and ideas in appropriate formats

Appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.

• Develops creative products in a variety of formats.

Strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.

• Assesses the quality of the process and products of personal information seeking.

Participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate information.

• Shares knowledge and information with others.
• Subject: K-12: Language Arts

National Content Standards (K-12)

Writing

• Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

Reading

• Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts

Listening and Speaking

• Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

Viewing

• Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media