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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Pros and Cons of Discussion
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use a Discussion Web, in groups, to answer the question "Are people equal?," analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFlannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, United States History, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDal’ & Desnos: Surrealism in Poetry and Art
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, Music, Writing StrategiesIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about the history of the Surrealism movement, including major players like AndrŽ Breton,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Poetics of Hip Hop
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, MusicIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets, works of American poets, and hip hop music to determine...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFocus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension Through Prediction Strategies
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine opening sentences from texts they read completely in later sessions of a course ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"World enough, and time" -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students focus on how Andrew Marvell's use of tone and imagery serves to promote his theme of fleetin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Question of Style
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Visual Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the nature of comedy by informally staging the opening scenes in Shakespeare's "As You...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Music, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students write about present-day pop culture and learn about pop culture of the past. They explor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlice Walker
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on author Alice Walker, best known for her novel "The Color Purple." A classroom activity i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing S
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this unit of four lessons, from EDSITEment, students examine narrative structure and time, narrative voice/point of view, and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore fiction and nonfiction texts, including Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue," and write lit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCrane, London, and Literary Naturalism
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students learn the key characteristics that comprise American literary naturalism as they explore the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDecoding "The Matrix": Exploring Dystopian Characteristics Through Film
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching vid...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the rhetorical concept of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and then as a class catalog...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCarl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this EDSITEment lesson, students look at Carl Sandburg's poem, "Chicago," in a literary, historical and biographical context....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeath 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students examine structure and characterization in several short stories and con...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFinding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read several poems that expand the definition of love poetry. They then compose found po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0