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This featured list of lesson plans includes plans on popular titles from RFB&D's collection of over 50,000 audiobooks. These titles are the most frequently requested by students and educators alike. Reaquaint yourself with old favorites or get to know some new stand-outs from this list of great literature appearing in classrooms and on reading lists nationwide.
 

Grades: 6 - 8

Subject: English

Title: The Severus Snape Debate
Theme: Persuasion and Debate Using Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Duration: 2 lessons, 60 minutes each

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: A World Without Color
Theme: Descriptive Language and Voice
Duration: 2-3 class periods (2-3 hours)
Title: Analyzing Community Activism in Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Theme: Critiquing the Credibility of Characterization and Plot
Duration: 2 class periods
Title: Gender in Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Theme: Analyzing Characterization: Exploring Gender Stereotypes
Duration: 2 class periods
Title: Resume Writing and The Giver by Lois Lowry
Theme: Career Development/Resume Writing
Duration: 45 minute class session
Title: The Deeper Meaning
Theme: Exploring the Symbolic Subtext in Lord of the Flies
Duration: One 80 minute lesson or two 40 minute lessons

Subject: Other

Title: The Severus Snape Debate
Theme: Persuasion and Debate Using Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Duration: 2 lessons, 60 minutes each

Grades: 9 - 12

Subject: English

Title: “Break a Leg!” and Other Idioms
Theme: Idioms
Duration: 60 minutes
Title: Audio Anthropology
Theme: Using Cultural Context to Create Character Sketches
Duration: 80 minutes
Title: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Theme: Understanding Tone
Duration: 90 minutes
Title: Comparisons in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Theme: Before and After
Duration: 1 class period
Title: Exploitation in Animal Farm by George Orwell
Theme: Making Text to Life Connections
Duration: 2 class periods
Title: Harry Potter’s Escape Plan
Theme: Creative Writing
Duration: 45 minutes
Title: Important Themes in Night by Elie Wiesel
Theme: English Language Arts - Analysis of a Symbol
Duration: 40-50 minutes
Title: One vs. Many
Theme: Language Structure
Duration: 60 minutes
Title: That's Not What I Saw!
Theme: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and Perspective Taking
Duration: 60-70 minutes
Title: The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
Theme: English Language Arts – Analyzing Character
Duration: 2-4 hours
Title: The Tragic Hero and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Theme: The Everyday Hero
Duration: 45 minutes

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: The Tragic Hero and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Theme: The Everyday Hero
Duration: 45 minutes

Subject: Social Studies

Title: 1776 by David McCullough: What Caused the Rebel Victory at the Siege of Boston
Theme: Analyzing the Complexity of Cause and Effect
Duration: 2 class periods
Title: Audio Anthropology
Theme: Using Cultural Context to Create Character Sketches
Duration: 80 minutes
Title: Exploitation in Animal Farm by George Orwell
Theme: Making Text to Life Connections
Duration: 2 class periods