English Lesson Plans & Resources (Secondary)
BC Curriculum: Instructional Samples
- Injustice (Gr. 9)
- Sense of Place (Gr. 10-12)
- First Peoples Story (Gr. 10)
- From Memoir to Podcast (Gr. 10)
BC Teachers of English Language Arts: English Practice Journal
- Each issue includes a section called “Teaching Ideas” that you can look for. As an example, take a look at Sara Sjerven’s “What’s Your Issue? Poetry Unit of Inquiry” on pg. 34 of the 2020 issue: https://bctela.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-BCTELA-English-Practice.pdf
Book Report Alternative: Creating Reading Excitement with Book Trailers
Challenging the Absolute Truth of Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Gr 9-12)
A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs (Gr 9-12)
English with Mr. McKillop: For Teachers (Gr. 9-12)
Good schools for everyone (Gr. 8-11)
Independent Novel Study - Culminating Activity (Gr. 9)
Open School BC: Speaking Up, Speaking Out - A Unit for English Language Arts 10
Open School BC: Illustrated English - Graphic Narrative Activities and Templates
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans
Shannon Schinkel: My Growth Mindset
Additional Resources
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) - Provides online information to help educators find books to meet their educational and collection management requirements. CLDC can be used for reader’s advisory, curriculum development, and more. Content includes:
- Records for over 3,000,000 children's and young adult titles
- More than 50 professional review sources (650,000+ reviews) and 850+ national and international young adult and children’s book awards
- Thousands of best books lists
- Curriculum tools
NoveList - NoveList is a database of reading recommendations, presenting fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks and includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.
LLED 314 Online Lesson Plans
Composition & Essays
- Grade 8 Creative Writing - Ada Cheung
- Grade 9 Media Education - Amy Patterson
- Grade 10 Language = Power - Grace Hawley
- Grade 11 Essay Composition - Becky Holloway
- Grade 11 Essays - Jessica Young
- Grade 11 Composition - Vicky Wilding
Lord of the Flies
- Grade 10 - Gordana Stanisic
- Grade 11 - Carolyn Chee
- Grade 11 - Christie Russel
- Grade 11 - Marina Simpson and Jennifer Park
- Grade 11 - Sarah Paulsen
Other Studies
- Grade 8 - Killing Mr. Griffin - John Tyler
- Grade 8 - The Giver - Kyla Ayers
- Grade 8 - The Outsiders - Sabrina Block
- Grade 10 - Ishmael - Vicki Schraeder
- Grade 11 - Catcher in the Rye - Charles Cox
- Grade 11 - Joy Luck Club
- Grade 12 - Twelve Angry Men & Media Literacy
- Grade 12 - Short Stories - Dina de Nys Chase & Jonathan McIntosh
Poetry
- Grade 9 - Pam Haugland
- Grade 10 - Chris MacKenzie
- Grade 10 - Frances Lew
- Grade 11 - Sarah Fung, Qually Ho and Sandra Park
- Grade 12 - Jennifer Mah
Shakespeare
- Hamlet
- Macbeth
- Midsummers Night's Dream
- Romeo and Juliet
- Tempest
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Search Power
Because the UBC Library's system for classifying materials is aimed at organizing research and scholarship, searching for curriculum materials can be difficult. We recommend using the following terms for a targeted search within the library catalogue for K-12 teaching and learning resources. These results have been limited to books and e-books in the Education Library:
- "study and teaching"
- "lesson plans" or "lesson planning"
- "activity program" or "activity programs"
- "juvenile literature" - information books for children & young adults
- "juvenile fiction" - novels and picture books
- "pz4.9" - picture books
- "juvenile poetry" - poetry for children & young adults
Add these terms to the subject area, lesson topic, or theme to find books and other materials on your topic.
For example: "study and teaching" AND science
The below handout will provide more guidance for effectively searching for teaching resources in the UBC Library: