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Patricia Schulze
| Name | Patricia Schulze |
| Location | Yankton, South Dakota |
| Role | High School Teacher |
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"Writing lesson plans for ReadWriteThink has helped me to break down my lessons into understandable steps. I now find myself accessing my own lessons on the site to use with my students. ReadWriteThink is an incredible resource for teachers."
Pat spent twenty-five years at Yankton High School where she taught 10th - 12th graders in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, creative writing, and 10th grade cyber-composition. She concentrated on integrating web technology into English classrooms, presented on the topic at NCTE conventions in Baltimore and Atlanta, and helped facilitate the ACE technology workshop in Atlanta and San Francisco.
Pat was a member of NCTE, the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English (SDCTE), Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). She had also served as the Secretary of the Assembly of Computers in English (ACE). In addition to writing lesson plans for ReadWriteThink, Pat wrote and published mystery short stories.
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Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher in Your Life
In this project, students write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Students research the effects of the Vietnam war on a specific group of people who were involved. They then create Internet scavenger hunts to share with the class.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Doodle Splash: Using Graphics to Discuss Literature
Students keep a doodle journal while reading short stories by a common author. In small groups, students then combine their doodles into a graphic representation of the text.
Grades 5 – 9 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Students read and analyze fairy tales from several cultures, identifying common elements. Choosing common situations, students write original fairy tales, using picture books as models and a peer review process.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
Tap students' desires to doodle and draw by having them create a Graffiti Wall, using graphics to discuss a piece of literature that has been read by the whole class.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
In this autobiographical prewriting activity, students brainstorm important memories, choose graphics to represent these memories, and then rank the events as low or high points in their lives.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
Following the model of N. Scott Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain, students write three-voice narratives based on Kiowa folktales, an interview with an Elder, and personal connections to theme.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature
Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and Genres
In this activity, students read short stories and create presentations in multiple media to share in a Short Story Fair. At the fair, students explore and respond to the displays.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Students analyze personal homepages, as well as a character in a book they have read, and then create a homepage for the character.
Grades 9 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching Plot Structure through Short Stories
Students use an online graphic organizer to analyze the plot structure of "Jack and the Beanstalk" and three short stories.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
Students explore the year they were born through interviews and research, and then weave the details into a newspaper or booklet, written from another person's point of view.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.
