This Goodly Land
Resources for Teachers and Librarians
Sample Lesson Plans
Grades K-2
- Creating a Wall Story
- Creating Comic Strips
- Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
- Two Thumbs Up! Get Students Writing and Publishing Book Reviews, substitute books by Alabama authors
- Tell Me a Story
- It’s All Relative
- A Place to Rest
- Mountain Wedding
- Mama and Me and the Model T
- Why Can’t I Do That?
- Seven Brave Women
- My Brave Family
Grades 3-5
- Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover
- Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
- Technical Writing and Reading Using Board Games, substitute a novel by an Alabama author
- Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
- Inventor Research
- Locating Alabama Counties
- Angela Johnson’s Bird
- Count Your Way Through the Writing Process
- Shadow of Greatness
- Full Steam Ahead
- Ghostly Narratives
- Trouble Dolls
- Round and Round Again
- Taking a Stand in the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Grades 6-8
- Book Report Alternative: Creating Careers for Characters
- Literary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis, substitute a book by an Alabama author
- Lights, Character, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
- Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation, substitute Alabama authors for topics, use This Goodly Land as a research tool
- Multiculturalism in the Hands of African-American Authors from Alabama
Grades 9-12
- A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors’ Lives, substitute Alabama authors
- “Old Southwest” Humorists and George Washington Harris, add works by Joseph Glover Baldwin, Johnson Jones Hooper, and John Gorman Barr
- Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narration, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
- Style: Defining and Exploring an Author’s Stylistic Choices, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Profiles in Courage: To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial
- Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Alabama Authors and History
- Exploring To Kill a Mockingbird
- Do We Need Tolerance?
- Narrative Graffiti
Additional lesson plans may be found at the Alabama Learning Exchange lesson plans page, the Thinkfinity Browsable Lesson Plan Index page, and the McREL Lesson Plans page.