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A Critical Role: Learning How to Write Museum Reviews
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, History & Culture and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read a New York Times review of the Museum of the African Dia...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the nature of the "secret society" implied in "The Great Gatsby" through a clo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students closely analyze line breaks and the effect of enjambment in Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "We Real...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle int
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students study poems about death, including A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Tho...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Crossing the River
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social Science, GeographyThis lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, introduces students to William Faulkner's novel "As I Lay Dying." Student...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use Walt Whitman's list poem "I Hear America Singing" as the inspiration to critically r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's W
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students study the content and form of two poems about father-son relationships: Robert Hayden's "Tho...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine the situational irony at the end of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Wes...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Literary AnalysisIn this unit of four lessons, from EDSITEment, students examine narrative structure and time, narrative voice/point of view, and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this EDSITEment unit of three lessons, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, "Narrative of the Life of Fre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Analyzing Character in <em>Hamlet</em> through Epitaphs
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Reading ComprehensionStudents create epitaphs for characters from a tragedy, such as Hamlet.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in "Death and the Miser"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students apply analytical skills to an exploration of the early Renaissance painting "Death and t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0"You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Theatre, Visual ArtsThis lesson, from EDSITEment, complements study of plot and characterization in "Romeo and Juliet" by focusing on Shakespeare's ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this EDSITEment lesson, students explore and challenge dichotomies (such as black and white, good and evil, faith and doubt) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, high school students learn to evaluate political cartoons for their meaning, message, and p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use a literary graphic organizer to analyze the three major characters in Raymond Carver...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Shakespeare's "Othello" and the Power of Language
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social Science, Theatre, Visual ArtsThis lesson, from EDSITEment, contains seven activities for students to explore the linguistic ingenuity of Iago's rhetoric in S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing "The Odyssey" with Contemporary Works
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWritethink lesson, students read both "The Odyssey" and the contemporary epic "Running Out of Summer" and compare an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0A Class(Room) of One's Own: Assessing the Trend of Gender-Segregated Classrooms and Its Effects on Women in Technical Fields
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Sociology, Electives, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students assess the educational and social issues underlying the separ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore the genre of ballads by first reading several medieval ballads to deduce t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0