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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Arthurian Legend
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson from EDSITEment, students examine the historical origins of the Arthurian legend. Students gain insight into the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEdgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this EDSITEment lesson, students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. They also be...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"The Red Badge of Courage": A New Kind of Courage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the values of courage and patriotism in Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Cou...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCritical Ways of Seeing "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in Context
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from EDSITEment, asks students to combine Internet historical research with critical reading. They then produce sev...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCritical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink lesson encourages students to read and respond critically to two different pieces of literature with the sam...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBecome a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Grammar, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other charact...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students create a resume for a character in a play. This activity allows students to focus on one...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVarying Views of America
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink lesson provides students the opportunity, working in a collaborative setting, to examine the ways that persp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCultural Creation Myths
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore different cultures' supernatural explanations for human existence in three societies. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThose Fundamental Things
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesThis ARTSEDGE lesson focuses on specific formative steps contributed by Rodgers and Hammerstein to the development of American m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Icon and Iconoclast
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Theatre and 3 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, asks students to examine samples of Twain's work in the context of pre- and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Geography, Music, Writing Strategies and 5 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students examine the mystique of rivers as inspiration for creative expr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: An American Humorist
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Theatre and 3 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, examines the diversity and intricacy of Mark Twain's humor, focusing partic...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Tom Sawyer--Mythic Adventurer
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Geography, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science and 4 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, focuses on the content and style of development in Twain's "The Adventures ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharacterization in Literature
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing StrategiesIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore various methods authors use to create effective characters. Students consider what mak...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUtopian Visions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Music, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science and 3 additional..In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students are introduced to the idea of a "utopia"--an idealized society. Students read Sir Thomas More'...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUncivil Civilization in "The Hairy Ape"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Theatre and 3 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, explores the ways Eugene O'Neill's play "The Hairy Ape" portrays a world in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFaulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Form of a Funeral
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Geography, Humanities, History-Social Science and 2 additional..This unit of five lessons, from EDSITEment, features lessons exploring the narrative voices and social concerns in William Faulk...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, invites students to explore the things relevant to a character from Lorraine Hansberry's play ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeaving the Multigenre Web
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students read a novel as a class, in literature circles, with a partner, or individually. U...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0