SPEAK Classroom Guides and Resources SPEAK is taught in schools around the United States and Canada, from eighth grade through college. Below you'll find links to teacher resources, online classroom guides, and links relating to the subject of the book. We would love to post or link to more SPEAK lesson plans. Email us here at writerlady with the text or your curriculum unit or the link to your classroom project. Be sure to include your name and your school so we can put in the appropriate copyright notice. Thank you! |
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Classroom Guides "Deceit, Despair and Dejection: Connecting Speak and The Scarlet Letter," by Judith A. Hayn and Brigid Patrizi Schultz, Teacher Preparation Program, Loyola University Chicago.
“Speak Out! Reach Out!” A Thematic Unit Using Laurie Halse Anderson's Novel Speak and the Arizona English Language Arts Standards, by Dr. Lee Brown, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education, Arizona State University West College of Teacher Education and Leadership, and Amanda Logan.
Classroom Guides - offsite Three quick booktalks about SPEAK. SPEAK Webquest for middle school students. “Silence is Not Always Golden: Finding Your Voice” This curriculum unit, written by Patti-Brown Milstead, combines SPEAK, MONSTER (Walter Dean Myers) and YOU DON'T KNOW ME (David Klass). Written for the Houston Teachers Institute, a partnership between the Houston Independent School District and the University of Houston, TX. A
detailed SPEAK unit from Dawn Hogue in Sheboygan Falls, WI. Among other
things, this unit has a great vocab list and Interdisciplinary Connections. “Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance” From the site's Overview: "...This lesson plan asks students to explore this rote learning and their own right to freedom of speech by examining the Pledge of Allegiance from a historical and personal perspective and in relationship to fictional situations in novels they have read. Using a novel such as Speak by Laurie Halse Andersen or Nothing But the Truth by Avi, students learn how the novelÕs protagonist and other characters in the story deal with free speech issues in varying ways and are invited to think about pledges that they are willing to make and how they express their freedom of speech." This plan is found on the ReadWriteThink site maintained by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the International Reading Association (IRA) and Marcopolo. This lesson meets NCTE/IRA Standards 1, 3, 8, and 12. College
level lesson written by Grant T. Smith, Ph.D., of Viterbo University, LaCrosse,
WI. Children's Literature Study Web guide, from the English 230 - Literature for Younger Readers class of Dr. Wally Hastings, Nothern State University, Aberdeen, SD. Other SPEAK links “Speaking Out” by Laurie Halse Anderson, an article about the writing of SPEAK, published in The Alan Review, Volume 27, Number 3. Know someone who is struggling with depression? RAINN - the best organization in the country educating people about sexual assault. Lots of statistics, prevention tips, and resources for survivors. A guide to sexual assault prevention in middle schools, from the National Rape and Sexual Assault Prevention Project. Facts about sexual violence for teens, from the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Picasso can change the way you look at the world. Who were the suffragettes? Looking up the main character's last name will usually teach you a thing or two. Great Things About Central New York (we have more than snow and basketball).
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