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Johns, Jerry L.; Davis, Susan J. – 1990
One way that success in integrating literature into middle school classrooms has been achieved is by the systematic study of different genres of literature. Through a variety of activities, students can be engaged in comparisons, contrasts, and other higher-level thinking skills. Response journals, in which students react to their reading by…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Journal Writing, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Davis, Susan J.; Johns, Jerry L. – 1990
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans focuses on language arts activities for gifted middle school students. The 40 lesson plans in this book cover history, literature, mass media, reading, theater arts, thinking skills, and writing. The book includes an activities…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Activities, History Instruction