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Write Ahead Resources

Write Ahead Resources

These Web lesson plans are the property of Santa Clara University and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Adapted from Write Ahead, these lesson plans lead students in writing exercises that teach California State Standards for Writing.

Cycle 1

Responsibility Requires Action

Adventures of Ulysses

Weeks 5-10 Write Aheads

Change Requires Effort

Quarter 2 Write Aheads

Justice Requires Restraint

Quarter 3 Write Aheads

Courage Requires Fortitude

Quarter 4 Write Aheads

Integrity Requires Wholeness

Quarter 5 Write Aheads

 

Cycle 2

Responsibility Requires Action

The Circuit

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

The Long Valley

Change Requires Effort

East Side Dreams

To Kill a Mockingbird

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Justice Requires Restraint

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963

A Raisin in the Sun

The Good Earth

Courage Requires Fortitude 

The Hobbit

Parrot in the Oven

Under the Blood Red Sun

Integrity Requires Wholeness

Dragonwings

An Island Like You

Animal Farm

Leadership Requires Engagement 

Bread Givers

The Art of Keeping Cool

The Jungle

 

Cycle 3

Responsibility Requires Action

Buried Onions

The Pigman

Kindred

Change Requires Effort

The Afterlife

A Lesson Before Dying

Cannery Row

Justice Requires Restraint

Friedrich

Tunes for Bears to Dance To

Cry, the Beloved Country

Courage Requires Fortitude

Whirligig

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Children of the River

Integrity Requires Wholeness

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

The First Part Last

Somewhere in the Darkness

Leadership Requires Engagement 

Falling Leaves

The Golden Compass

 

Cycle 4

Responsibility Requires Action

The Outsiders

Breaking Through

Lord of the Flies

Change Requires Effort

Bud, Not Buddy

Of Mice and Men

All Quiet on the Western Front

Justice Requires Restraint

Romeo and Juliet

Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis

Red Scarf Girl

Courage Requires Fortitude

Hatchet

The Pearl

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vi

Integrity Requires Wholeness

Child of the Owl

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

A Child Called "It"

Leadership Requires Engagement 

Dead Man Walking

Death Be Not Proud

The Hunger Games