Through the Looking-Glass Lesson Plans

Grammardog Guide to Through the Looking Glass

Grammar, Style, and Proofreading Exercises designed to teach grammar in context. These reproducible exercises use sentences from the literature. Each literary work is analyzed for 12 of the following 14 elements: parts of speech; proofreading... More »

The Walrus and the Carpenter (A poem)

A poem from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass' that describes a strange situation with the sun and the moon and what the walrus and the carpenter see and say. Useful in building fluency, developing vocabulary, creative thinking, and... More »

Opening Lines Project

OPENING LINE PROJECT The following opening lines are from stories in British Literature and our Literature book. Using the information I gave to you (Young Goodman Brown {YGB} & the predictions made based upon the opening line), follow the... More »

Through the Looking-Glass Teaching Unit

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Through the Looking-Glass Response Journal

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

Lewis & Clark (Gr. 4/Week 8)

This daily practice unit about the two explorers contains four related paragraphs that have errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and language use. Monday through Thursday, students correct the errors and check answers. On Friday, they... More »

Looking at things from a different perspective

Allows students to take a step back from The Catcher in the Rye, and explore how others might react to Holden. Goes through Chapter 7. More »

The American Frontier

The American Frontier provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the westward expansion of colonial and post-colonial America through diplomacy, war, wanderlust, and grit. The frontier is defined and demythologized as Hollywood's... More »

The Force Moves Through (Light, Heat, Electricity, & Magnetism)

This physical science experiment for grades K-2 is based on the concept that 'Magnets attract and repel each other and other materials.' Students experiment to find out if magnets can attract objects through various kinds of materials (glass,... More »

The American Frontier (Enhanced eBook)

The American Frontier provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the westward expansion of colonial and post-colonial America through diplomacy, war, wanderlust, and grit. The frontier is defined and demythologized as Hollywood's... More »

"A Perfect Day for a Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger symbolism

A worksheet to guide students through the symbolism in "A Perfect Day for a Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger. Used at the beginning of class to get them used to looking for symbols in literature. More »

Cells Are the Fundamental Unit of Life

A unit about the human body in which students investigate cells through three experiments/investigations: Building a Cell (cell models), Looking at Plant Cells (using a microscope), and Looking at Animal Cells (using a microscope). Includes... More »