Resources for Teachers and Librarians
This Goodly Land brochure (PDF format)
This Goodly Land bookmarks (PDF format)
This Goodly Land Teacher’s Guide (PDF format)
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 MarcoPolo Browsable Lesson Plan Index page, and the McREL Lesson Plans page.
Last updated on 2007-04-30