English/Language Arts Lesson Plans
& Writing Assignments

The Writing Tutor offers a selection of ready-to-use English and language arts lesson plans and writing assignments. Each lesson plan description contains an explanation of how it was used originally and how it could be adapted to different classroom settings. While many of the lesson plans and writing assignments are based upon specific literature, most can be adapted to other genre and/or other literary selections. Most of the lesson plans and writing assignments include handouts that are easy to print, copy, and distribute to students, and many lesson plans and writing assignments even include ready-to-use lecture notes.

English and language arts lesson plans and writing assignments are free to use for educational purposes, but the copyright information in the footnote of each page must remain intact. If you adapt an assignment to your particular classroom setting, please credit The Writing Tutor in your footnote.

The Writing Tutor welcomes English and language arts lesson plans and writing assignments from other teachers. In order to encourage writing across the curriculum, The Writing Tutor is also looking for interdisciplinary lesson plans and writing assignments.

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English/Language Arts Lesson Plans

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare     
Science Fiction Short Stories
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Shakespeare's Language

Writing Assignments & Activities

"Acting" to Understand Literature (short version)
Performance Adaptation Project
The Roaring Twenties Mini Research Project
 The Soldier's Dilemma

Lecture Notes & Handouts

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Elizabethan England (background)
 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
 Performance Adaptation Project
 Science Fiction Short Stories
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
William Shakespeare (background)

Multiple Intelligences Lesson Plans

The following lesson plans target two or more of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences. For more information about the theory, refer to an action research study that looks at the effects of multiple intelligences instruction on students' attitudes and achievement.

"Acting" to Understand Literature (short version)
Performance Adaptation Project
The Roaring Twenties Mini Research Project
The Soldier's Dilemma