Below are some lesson plans I feel will can help your students think and think critically with each other. Something fun that can hopefully get them interested in the many facets of English.
This link will take you to a lesson plan dealing with the "memory" play, which is a very successful non-linear structural pattern in modern American drama. The following activity is designed to help students understand the use of and appreciate the power of memory to build structure in drama.
This link will lead you to a lesson focused on Students expressing their complaints in articulate and constructive ways by mimicking a section of the New York Times