Walter Dean Myers
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Fallen Angels Hoops Monster Scorpions Slam! Teaching Unit A purchase of any one or more of the recommended lesson plans on these pages includes access to the quickNotes for each novel. |
Biography and Background
A Video Interview with Walter Dean Myers
Biography, bibliography, video clips, and transcripts.
Walter Dean Myers' Second Chance Initiative
This page is rich with resources. Scroll down to find podcasts on prewriting, on magical realism, and more.
Dope Sick
Walter Dean Myers' Second Chance Initiative
Scroll down for "Reading Guide and Extension Activities." Scroll farther down for a video interview with the author and a generous collection of related links.
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels
Anticipation guide, vocabulary mapping, and other activities, including support for the video Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.
Fallen Angels Anticipation Guide
Students respond to statements before and after reading. Access requires MS-Word or compatible application.
Fallen Angels: Multimedia Project on the Vietnam War
Students use a combination of music, images, carefully chosen quotations from the novel Fallen Angels and excerpts from research to make readers care about the Vietnam War from a particular perspective. An excellent project. Rubric included.
Fallen Angels Teaching Guide
This site offers theme openers, crosscurricular activities, research assignments, and suggestions for related reading.
The Glory Field
The Glory Field Teaching Guide
Theme openers, crosscurricular activities, research assignments.
The Glory Field Lesson Plan
The focus of this lesson is on conflict, characterization, and the journey motif. Follow links to handouts. This lesson plan includes ideas for assessment, a list of related works, and interdisciplinary links.
Study Guide for The Glory Field
Background information, prereading, vocabulary, graphic organizers, and writing prompts. This guide requires Adobe Reader for access.
"Voicing" a Believable Account
After discussing a light-hearted story about prejudice by Dr. Seuss (The Sneetches), student writers will read and discuss a more serious narrative about a boy being brought to early America by slave ship. The voice in Walter Dean Myers' first chapter of The Glory Field makes his story a much more believable account than Seuss' charming story. Inspired by Myers' writing techniques, student writers will then attempt to create believable accounts of characters and situations they will create. This lesson focuses on voice and word choice.
Harlem
Harlem Connections: Teaching Walter Dean Myers's Scorpions in conjunction with Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods
A classroom teacher reports on this pairing of works.
The Legend of Tarik
The Legend of Tarik
Chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary words, and enrichment. Note the statement at the top and bottom of the page.
Monster
Monster
A collection of reading strategies to support this book, including an anticipation guide, a guided imagery activity, a list of vocabulary words, and others.
Monster
Students assume the role of a juror, journal their perceptions as they read, and write their assessment of the verdict. Two rubrics are available, one for the essay and one for a role-playing activity. Requires Adobe Reader for access.
Monster
This digital booktalk, a short video, can serve as a prereading activity.
Monster Anticipation Guide
This printable handout requires MS-Word or compatible application for access.
A Question of Truth
Students compare and contrast Monster with Avi's Nothing But the Truth.
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
Summary, vocabulary, journal writing, and chapter projects. An excellent set of activities. This page is a PDF file; it requires Adobe Reader or compatible software for access.
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
Resources as part of a unit entitled "The Human Spirit."
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
Access to this document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application. The first 2 pages support the story.
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
Click on the title to the left to find 6 printable pages of activities for this story. This extensive document contains materials for several other stories, as well. Be careful not to print the entire document unless you want all 116 pages. Requires Adobe Reader for access.
