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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBringing Facts into Science Fiction: Creating Science Fiction Narratives Based on Current News Themes
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, American Democracy, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students develop setting, plot, and characters for a science fiction s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBoosting Rap's Rep: Examining the Positive Side of Rap and Hip-Hop Music Through Original CD Compilations
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, MusicIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students consider the negative image that some have of rap and hip-hop...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Smarts: A Lesson in Representing Literature Through the Visual Arts
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students identify the ideas and themes that are most significant in a ...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 / HyperLinkBeyond "What I Did on Vacation": Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are introduced to the genre of travel writing. After reading some short examples an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBecome a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literature, GrammarIn 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 / HyperLinkAnalyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkAnalyzing Character in <em>Hamlet</em> through Epitaphs
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisStudents create epitaphs for characters from a tragedy, such as Hamlet.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkAllen Ginsberg: Poetry and Politics
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkAlice Walker
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis 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 / HyperLinkA Way With Words: Examining How Literary Devices Create Vivid Images
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the power of literary devices in journalistic and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..This lesson from EDSITEment highlights one episode in the "Divine Comedy" to provide students with an introduction to Dante's gr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Question of Style
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Literature, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkA High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson helps students understand the problems of bullying and violence in depth. Using a realistic, high-int...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn 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 / HyperLink1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions is a lesson plan in which students create their own multi-media epic poems abou...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History & Culture, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Foreign Languages 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