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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPractical Criticism
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureThe goals of this lesson, from EDSITEment, are to analyze the verbal devices through which poems make meaning, to compare one's ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Literature, Visual ArtsThis lesson, from EDSITEment, complements study of plot and characterization in "Romeo and Juliet" by focusing on Shakespeare's ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCritical Ways of Seeing "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in Context
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureThis lesson, from EDSITEment, asks students to combine Internet historical research with critical reading. They then produce sev...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Icon and Iconoclast
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Theatre, History-Social Science 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: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Theatre, History-Social Science 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: Tom Sawyer--Mythic Adventurer
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Theatre, 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 / HyperLinkUtopian Visions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Theatre 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: English-Language Arts, World History, Writing Strategies, 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 / HyperLinkWeaving the Multigenre Web
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLetters from Emily Dickinson: "Will You Be My Preceptor?"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students explore Emily Dickinson's poetry as well as her letters to Thomas Wentw...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment unit of three lessons, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, "Narrative of the Life of Fre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Satire with "The Simpsons"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, Visual ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, has students explore satire through the television show "The Simpsons." They identify the tech...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCarl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, LiteratureIn 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 / HyperLinkAllen Ginsberg: Poetry and Politics
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States History, Literary AnalysisThis lesson plan, from the PBS American Masters Web site, consists of three thematic components: the link between art and poli...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink'Twasn't the Night Before Christmas: A Lesson in Authorship and Style
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students first describe and identify the elements that make up par...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Foreign Languages, History & Culture, Oral Presentations and 4 additional..The classic American drama Twelve Angry Men serves as the starting point for a discussion of the constitutional right and civic ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0