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The following websites offer many lesson plans to help you in your specific content area.  The sites have been split into two categories: general lesson plan sites and language arts sites. 

If you know of a great lesson plan site that isn't listed here, please email me.

Ask Eric Lesson Plans 
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/ 
Lesson plans for K-12, higher learning, adult learning, and more. Subjects include: art, computer science, foreign language, health, information literacy, interdisciplinary, language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and vocational education. 

Career Education 
http://www.highland.madison.k12.il.us/teacher/gcortner/career_resources.htm 

Educ8r.net 
http://www.educ8r.net/ 

Lesson Plans and Classroom Ideas 
http://gilligan.esu7.k12.ne.us/~esu7web/resources/lp.html
Offers lesson plans for art, foreign language, internet, language arts, math, music, science, social studies, and more. 

Lesson Plans 4 Teachers 
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/lessons/step4.htm 
Lesson plan categorized by subject. Subjects include dance, drama, geography, grammar, health, history, language arts, literature, mathematics, music, physical education, science, social studies, special education, technology, visual arts, vocational and more. 

Lesson Plans Page
http://lessonplanspage.com/ 
Offers lesson plans for K-12 and multi-grade art, computers, language arts, math, music, multi-disciplinary, physical education and health, science, social studies and more. 

Microsoft Lesson Connection 
http://www.k12.msn.com/lessonconnection/teacher.asp 
Search for specific lesson plans to use in content area. 

NWREL's Library in the Sky 
http://www.nwrel.org/sky/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Lesson_Plans.html 
Offers lesson plans for arts, distance education, health, language arts, languages, math, multidisciplinary, physical education, science, social studies, technology, vocational education and more. 

S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuides 
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html 
This site for educators is based on California standards. Has English/Literature units and lesson plans for grades K-12, foreign language; it also contains a variety of standards, student and teacher evaluations and more. 

Teachers Helping Teachers 
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/ 
Offers lesson plans for book reviews, classroom management, language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, the arts, special education, and more. 

Teachnet.com 
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/ 
Offers lesson plans for art, language arts, math, parents, physical education and health, science, seasonal lessons, social studies, technology and more. 

Teacher Talk Forum: Lesson Plans 
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/ttforum/lesson.html 
Offers lesson plans for art, computers/internet, conflict resolution, ESL, foreign language, health, home ec., icebreakers, interdisciplinary and thematic units, language arts, logic and reasoning, mathematics, music, physical education, science, social studies, students with disabilities and more. 

Yahoo! Educator's Guide to Lesson Plans 
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Resources/ 
Offers links to lesson plans for the following content areas: art, history, literature, math, news and current events, reading, science, social studies, television, curriculum, theater, writing and more. 

Creative Writing for Teens 
http://teenwriting.about.com/teens/teenwriting/mbody.htm 
About.com directory to over 20 different Language Art topics. 

Creative Writing for Teens: Poetry 
http://teenwriting.about.com/teens/teenwriting/cs/poetry2/index.htm 
Offers two pages of types, styles, parts and forms of poetry. 

Creative Writing for Teens: Poetry Composition 
http://teenwriting.about.com/teens/teenwriting/cs/poetrywriting/index.htm 
Offers two pages full of suggestions for teaching poetry writing. 

Culture Shock 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/sitemap.html 
Lesson guidelines and information for various subjects of literature, drama, art, and music. 

Education World: Literature and Poetry, Gr. 9-12 
http://www.education-world.com/lang_lit/9_12_poetry.shtml 

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/ 
Teams with PBS to produce movies from classical books. Offers lesson planning information for teachers. 

GUMBO: Teaching Ideas for English Teachers 
http://www.oocities.org/SoHo/Workshop/8405/ 
Offers a variety of lesson plans for teaching language arts. 

High School English Lesson Plans 
http://members.aol.com/mezim/index.html 
Offers literature lesson plans for Huck Finn, MacBeth, Lord of the Flies, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Pearl, The Crucible, drama ideas, writing film reviews, poetry, editorials, fables and more. Also has a page for general ideas to use for the starting the year. 

High School and College Literature Resources 
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/index.shtml#Home 

Ideas for the English Classroom 
http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/A-H.html 

Improv Games 
http://www.improvcomedy.org/games.html 

Language Arts and Journalism 
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/subjects/languagearts_index.html 
Offers daily lesson plans as well as a lesson plan archive and other resouces. 

Lesson Plans and Resources for English Teachers 
http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/4586/ 

Mr. Reynolds' Home Page 
http://teachers.woodward.k12.ok.us/reynolds/ 
Offers units and lesson plans for poetry and film study. 

NWREL's Library in the Sky: Language Arts 
http://www.nwrel.org/sky/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Language_Arts.html 

Outta Ray's Head 
http://www.cgocable.net/~rayser/ 
Offers lesson plans, handouts and ideas for teaching library, literature, poetry, writing and more. 

Plays/Skits Organized by Theme 
http://www.carey.ac.nz/drama/Linkpages/Themes.html 

Poetry Lessons 
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/spotlight.htm 
Poetry unit including the following topics: figurative language, famous poets, the art of poetry and more. 

Poetry Resources for grade 8-12 
http://www.sd68.bc.ca/bars/poetry.htm 
Offers general poetry resources, poetry lesson, poetry units, music and poetry, presenting poetry, famous poets, and more. 

S.C.O.R.E. Teacher CyperGuide: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/roll/rolltg.htm 
Offers a teacher's guide and links for teaching the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Teachers Helping Teachers 
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/#anchor573042 
Ideas for teaching language arts to grades K-12. 

Teachnet.com: Language Arts 
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/general/index.html 
A few lesson plans, most are for elementary grades. 

Teacher Talk Forum: Lesson Plans 
http://educ.indiana.edu/cas/ttforum/lesson.html#language 

Brock University Lesson Plan Links 
http://dewey.ed.brocku.ca/~jkerr/lsnpln.html 
Offers links to 56 different lesson plan sites. 

Write Environment Lesson Plan Links 
http://www.writeenvironment.com/linksto.html#lesson 
Offers links to 21 lesson plan sites for Language Arts, English, Literature.