Just in time for the start of school, NNT is excited to present our first Twilight themed unit plan. I completed the plan myself and have saved and uploaded it as a PDF file, so all my fellow Twilight teachers can share. As all good teachers know, the best teachers borrow ideas and strategies from others. There are missing pages in the plan (unit test for example) that I will post on our Twi-school section as soon as they are completed. We also ask that you share with us any Twilight lessons your students complete in your classroom. Simply click on the link below to download the PDF file.
EDIT: I have been told the formatting was making some of the words go off of the page, I re-formatted and hopefully this has fixed the problem. I am still working on extension projects and rubrics for the unit plan and will post once they are complete. I plan on teaching this to my students during the second nine weeks.
If you have any unit plans to share or pictures of your students enjoying Twilight, please e-mail them to us at novelnovicetwilight@gmail.com
Borders has a book of essays on Twilight. There are some really interesting ones in there, and I intend on implementing them into my unit on Twilight.
The title is “A New Dawn” and it is edited by Ellen Hopkins
I adore this website! I’m a college student- aspiring teacher- and I LOVE LOVE this website so much! I cannot wait to see your lesson plans
When will the Twilight Unit Plan be posted?
I can’t wait to see the lessons! Would you email me when they’re up? I’m considering teaching this as a whole class novel, and I want to know what ideas you have.
the unit plan will be posting the week of sept 8 for our Twilight themed back to school week.
Grrreat!!!! I’m currently teaching twilight and I’m dying for ideas!!! I can’t wait!!!!!!!!
Where will the unit plan be posted? I don’t see it?!?!!? Thanks!
they will be posted wednesday afternoon
I stumbled across your lesson plans and they are great. Noticed your last name and I had to post to you. Two Ms. Truitt English teachers, who needs vampires and werewolves—we alone can raise fear in students:)
Mrs. Truitt
LOL. Thats awesome! I can’t wait to go raise fear today…giving a quiz on prefixes and suffixes…that should helpQ
This is an awesome unit! Wow! There are so many great things in this. I can’t wait to put some of these to use. Thanks for sharing!
On Stephanie Meyers website, you can find a draft of the first 7 chapters of Twilight from Edwards point of view. I know it is just a draft so it has mistakes, but it would be great to have students view the book written from Edward’s perspective. You can find it under Midnight Sun. Close to the bottom of the page it say midnight sun partial draft.
Ms. Truitt any idea of when you will be posting the Twilight exam for the unit?
Also, do you have any suggestions for Twilight Essay Topics?
Thanks
You rock!! This is so awesome. All the Twihard teachers here at Gibbs High in St. Petersburg FL are goign crazy over this. When will you post the Twilight exam. Also, as stated before, any suggestions on essay topic?
Thanks bunches..
I’m teaching this book to my Sophomore English class. Some claim that this is watered down literature, however, you can do a lot with the concept of vampire folklore. My students will be looking at how monsters tend to evolve from generation to generation along vaious cultures. The slavic vampire is much different from the vampires of Italy and England. As a unit, most of my students will be given daily prompts from which to respond. The great thing about this book is that it relates to the students’ lives! For instance, should Bella like her truck? How important is a vehicle for a sixteen year old?
One of the best debate questions is this:
Is Edward a pedophile? Why or Why not? Students should discuss mental age versus physical age. There are also many conflicts:
Bella versus family
Forks versus Phoenix
Edward versus experiencing high school
Bella versus temptation
I have all kinds of ideas. Were starting the unit on Oct. 5th. If anyone would like to keep the lines of communication going feel free to brainstorm with me. (msneed@ridgefield.org)
Hi,
I’m starting Twilight this week with my intensive reading and English classes. My classes are comprised of struggling readers who have not yet passed our state exam for graduation. So, as you can infer, finding reading material that interests them can be daunting. One post mentioned using Midnight Sun. The Literacy Coach and I had decided that using parts of the full draft, can be very useful, especially to draw in the male readers. I’ve found that books narrated by a female lead can often chase the boys away. I hope by offering Edward’s point of view we will not only hook the boys, but open interesting discussion. I’ve yet to look at your plans, the Literacy Coach and I have started our own, if I have something you don’t I’ll send it your way in case you are interested. I appreciate that you are sharing all of your hard work. I find too many teachers guard lessons with their lives which I have never understood. I enjoy others telling me how great my lessons are!
I’m a pre-service teacher and chose Twilight to make a unit for my methods class. I have to incorporate 20 lesson plans, bulletin board ideas, rubrics, and assessments. I don’t even know where to begin teaching Twilight but think it is a great way to teach elements of fictional writing. Does anyone have any lesson ideas? I really need a brainstorming session with someone who loves the book. (jenna.krambeck@doane.edu)
Hi all!
I am so excited to have found this unit. I am a Jr. High teacher in Northern Canada, at an Aboriginal Charter School. Our grade 7 & 8 class is made up of struggling readers and I had yet to find anything that interested them…until I brought out Twilight! They are hooked. I use the novel as a read-aloud, whereby I read to them and they read along. (Yes, I suspect some of them are not actually reading. At this point, as long as they are not sleeping, talking or wandering out of the room, I’m happy)
They are actually begging me to read more! Some of them have asked if they can read ahead! (of course!) and still others are talking about the kind of final project they want to do. (everything from websites to costumes, to love letters between Edward and Bella) It is amazing! I love the ideas I’ve come across here, and will no doubt use some of them. If anyone has any other ideas, or chapter quizzes, etc. I’d be happy to share what I have!
Love it!
Erin
I have just read Twilight with my Learning Strategies class. We read it all together (I have 10 boys and 3 girls) and everyone liked it…the girls more, obviously, but so did the boys. The class is comprised of struggling readers and at-risk learners.
We did chapter summaries after every chapter and we read 1 chapter a class, 3 times a week (Mon/Wed/Fri).
We just did a class trip to see the movie too.
We actually did a response to the movie review in our local newspaper, discussing bias and opinion writing versus a 5WH news article and right now, we are working on “how to write supported opinion paragraphs” on whether the book was better than the movie (or vice versa). They could pick. They have to write 3 paragraphs total, detailing 3 reasons why they thought one was better than the other and explain each reason in that paragraph.
It’s going really well!
We have also had some really great discussions in class.
Hi!
I just want to thank everyone who has contributed to this site for the fantastic ideas you have given me! I am a student teacher in Scotland, where Twilight fever is only just starting to take off! but I’m already obsessed! I wasn’t too sure that it would be suitable enough for boys, but from reading the comments I feel reassured about making up my unit of work on Twilight
I’ll post anything I come up with on my blog, so feel free to check it out and get in touch!
Laura
http://goingtobeateacher.blogspot.com/
website totally rocks. love rading the comments. did a great job & worked really hard. t2ul8r
website totally rocks. love rading the comments. did a great job & worked really hard. t2ul8r
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Thank you so much for posting this unit! It is amazing! I am a student teacher for grades 6-8, getting ready to teach my 8th graders Twilight! I was SO nervous to do so without any help…and you definately helped me!! Your ideas are awesome! Thanks so much again!
love..,,i love reading twilight,,.
i always repeat it…
Hi,
I’m a student teacher, and I’m just starting to write lesson plans. My first lesson plan is on Twilight, and I have had a lot of negative feedback upon sharing this information. How do you, as professional teachers, deal with the naysayers? I am planning on using Frankenstein as a basis to talk about monsters and villains in literature and how they are portrayed, and then teach a unit on Twilight to sum up how monsters and villains are pictured and how they can change over time through literature. Then, I want to tie Twilight to Romeo and Juliet (for the obvious reasons). I really love all three of these works, and I think that the addition to Twilight in a high school curriculum is an appropriate way to encourage recreational reading. I also want to stress the importance of cross-referencing through literature, and the usefulness of being able to link stories through themes and writing styles. As you started incorporating Twilight into your curriculum, did any of you experience this sort of thing? I get a lot of “that book isn’t culturally/academically relevant” and “that is not appropriate material” and “that’s just a fad!”
How can I deal with this?
Excellent work! Thanks so much for sharing.
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Thaaaanks, whoever made the Unit Lessons.. It helps alot, especially when your teacher tells you, you can read the Twilight Saga and get credits for it.. I love it!
That is way awesome- er than other subjects in school! If only teachers would teach Twilight subject, I’d get all a’s!
I’m in some adapted program.. so i went from doing Romeo and Juliet.. to reading the Twilight Saga!
If you want to read a reader’s feedback
, I rate this article for 4/5. Detailed info, but I have to go to that damn google to find the missed pieces. Thanks, anyway!
I am a middle school administsrator, former 8th grade ELA teacher. I would be thriled if my teachers chose to use Twilight to teach the skills and strategies needed for English/Language Arts. How fabulous if students were actually learning through the use of a book that they love and enjoy reading!! We can’t keep the books in the library. They are constantly checked out! I constantly visit with the kids in the hall about the Twilight Saga books and you know, their eyes light up every time!! It’s so cool that they are loving books again!!! We need to encourage our teachers to teach those books they love and be creative and awesome in their teaching!! YAY TEACHERS!!!!! We’re so proud to have you on our faculties!I love it when my teachers take risks for the good of our students! That is a GREAT teacher!
I’m going to try this in my ESL class!! Good work. Thanks
Hi! I linked to this site in an article that I wrote on whether or not the Twilight series is classroom appropriate.
See it here:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-15855-Huntsville-Education-Activities-Examiner~y2009m7d31-Twilight-series-is-it-classroom-appropriate
I think that assigning Twilight in a mixed-gender classroom is very questionable. No matter how many problems you’ve had getting male students to do the reading in the past, it could only be worse with Twilight. In a typical classroom with 15 guys and 15 girls, I think a teacher could coax/coerce/convince at least 5 of the guys to make a serious effort at a difficult work like Romeo & Juliet. With Twilight, maybe one?
My take is that Twilight plays much better among female readers because it reads like wish-fulfillment for girls sort of like The Incredible Hulk does for boys. I suspect that half of your class would really appreciate if you swapped out Twilight in place of something with more crossover appeal.
Brian,
Very valid points, but the same can be said of many novels that are taught in the classroom that are certainly very male-centered (lord of the flies, the outsiders, etc). That being said, I did not make my whole class read it. We did lit circles where they chose from Twilight, The Uglies, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I did have boys who have read it and enjoyed it. Stereotyping novels based on plot and the gender of the protagonist is always dangerous. I had girls who dug super-heroes.
I am just about to begin a unit on twilight… If anybody has any ideas please let me know!
Please the Twilight Lesson unit plan Pdf file-link is not working !!
When you click the link it displays an error message telling you the file is corrupted.
I think it’s a disgrace the Twilight is being implemented into school curriculum throughout the country. As a student I understand that it’s difficult for teachers to enthrall their students with the material so to speak, but i don’t see how Twilight and (to use a previous example) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or Romeo and Juliet can compare in the slightest, not only are they different feels and represent different time periods, but Twilight is not much more than a glorified and poorly written fan fiction as compared to some of the brilliant authors who should be taught.
Please note that this is not meant to be offensive to people who implement this book, merely a different opinion from a student.
i think twilght rocks and ya noe jaspers so hot i cood even rite hottie alert.i wish i cood see that little hottie. i dont really like jacob that much only wen his hair is long.alice rocks her style is awsome i wish that she cood come over too my house.so yeah that is my story about twilght.well that isnt it i just didnt wont too rite too much acshully i did sort of well hoo cares.so bi for now.toodles.
Hi, I love this website. I am doing a one-on-one instruction with an 11th grader using Twilight. I was wondering if you had made an answer sheet for the Chapter Questions. I read Twilight twice when it first came out and I would love to have the answers at hand withough having to reread it again and again everytime I forget a little detail. Thanks!
I love your site it is WONDERFUL!!!! I teach sixth grade advanced students and we just finished reading The Giver and I asked them what they wanted to read next and they said Twilight. Well I of course have NO material for this so I came across your site and am so grateful to you. Do you have the test/quizzes? I do not see them and anything else that you can help me with would be great! Thanks!
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This. Is. Amazing. Thank you for the classroom section. Now let’s A) hope I can finally find a teaching job with them just having laid off 1000+ teachers in my county and B) I land an upper grades position and not first graders. =) (Though I will not complain even if I am in Pre-K!)
The Twilight Saga and Religion is a course being offered at the University of South Carolina. Google Twilight Saga + Religion and you can see the syllabus.