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Twain: An American Humorist
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Theatre, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts 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: 0Those Fundamental Things
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Theatre, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsThis ARTSEDGE lesson focuses on specific formative steps contributed by Rodgers and Hammerstein to the development of American m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn 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"The Red Badge of Courage": A New Kind of Courage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the values of courage and patriotism in Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Cou...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Pros and Cons of Discussion
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use a Discussion Web, in groups, to answer the question "Are people equal?," analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Poetics of Hip Hop
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Music, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets, works of American poets, and hip hop music to determine...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this EDSITEment lesson, students closely analyze line breaks and the effect of enjambment in Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "We Real...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Star-Crossed Lovers Online: "Romeo and Juliet" for a Digital Age
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Technology, Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use their understanding of modern experiences with technology to make active meaning of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Serious About Literature and Metaphor
Grades: 10 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students use pieces of classic and contemporary literature to develop basic skills in studio video production shoots (including ...Contributor: CTE OnlineViews: 0Favorites: 0Practical Criticism
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsThe goals of this lesson, from EDSITEment, are to analyze the verbal devices through which poems make meaning, to compare one's ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer’s Style through Imitation
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poet’s work then create their own poems based on the original model.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Letters from Emily Dickinson: "Will You Be My Preceptor?"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students explore Emily Dickinson's poetry as well as her letters to Thomas Wentw...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Lessons of the Indian Epic: The "Ramayana," Showing Your Dharma
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Engineering & Design, English-Language Arts, 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: 0Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students examine literary modernism. Specifically, students read and analyze mod...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this EDSITEment unit of three lessons, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, "Narrative of the Life of Fre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, U.S. Constitution 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: 0Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension Through Prediction Strategies
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine opening sentences from texts they read completely in later sessions of a course ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this EDSITEment lesson, students explore and challenge dichotomies (such as black and white, good and evil, faith and doubt) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read several poems that expand the definition of love poetry. They then compose found po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Form of a Funeral
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Humanities, United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts 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