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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Shakespeare's Birth
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the birth of Shakespeare in 1564. A classroom activity is featured in which students at ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFreedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Literature, History-Social Science and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink lesson is based on a study of the Pledge of Allegiance. This lesson plan asks students to explore rote learn...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWord Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About Literary Characters
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read the short story "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry and focus on the two main characte...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCorridos About The Mexican Revolution
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, World History, Writing Strategies, Music and 2 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students are introduced to causes of the Mexican Revolution and key revo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to Modernist Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students examine literary modernism. Specifically, students read and analyze mod...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students are prompted to think about a poem's speaker within the large...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons of the Indian Epic: The "Ramayana," Showing Your Dharma
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, English-Language Arts, Literature, Visual Arts and 2 additional..In this EDSITEment lesson, students expand their visual literacy skills while gaining insight on the characters and key events o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnalyzing 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Satire with "The Simpsons"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, has students explore satire through the television show "The Simpsons." They identify the tech...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Pros and Cons of Discussion
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn 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, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureIn 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: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, MusicIn 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: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, 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, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn 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 / HyperLinkStar-Crossed Lovers Online: "Romeo and Juliet" for a Digital Age
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Technology, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use their understanding of modern experiences with technology to make active meaning of ...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, Visual Arts, Theatre, LiteratureIn 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, Writing Strategies, Music, 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