ALEX Lesson Plan Resources

ALEX Lesson Plans  
Subject: English Language Arts (4), or Social Studies (4)
Title: Alabama Fever!
Description: In this lesson, students will work in small groups to examine a letter describing the environment of Alabama and identify reasons which might have encouraged settlers to move to Alabama in the early nineteenth century.   Students will choose an interesting attraction of Alabama mentioned in the letter and design a postage stamp around that attraction.  This lesson was created in partnership with the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Subject: English Language Arts (4)
Title: True Identity
Description: After reading a chapter book together as a class, small groups will each be given a different story character to analyze in more detail.  Student groups will choose from a given list of choices how they want to present their character to the rest of the class.  The other groups must guess the character being presented and base their guess upon text evidence. The table group that everyone guesses accurately wins.