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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Satire with "The Simpsons"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, has students explore satire through the television show "The Simpsons." They identify the tech...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Satire with <em>Shrek</em>
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, Theatre, Film & Video, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 2 additional..The movie Shrek introduces the satirical techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. Students brainstorm fair...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, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn 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 / HyperLinkExploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkExploring Arthurian Legend
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Literature, World HistoryIn this lesson from EDSITEment, students examine the historical origins of the Arthurian legend. Students gain insight into the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExamining Tone in Parody and Tragedy
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Theatre, LiteratureIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students entertain the idea that the scene in "Romeo and Juliet" in which Juliet is discovered by the N...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEdgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. They also be...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDrawing on Terror: Exploring How Editorial Cartoons Express Opinions About the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks on the United States
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Arts, Media, & Entertainment, Career & Technical Ed, American Democracy, United States History and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students assess the ways in which editorial cartoons offer insight int...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Characterization in Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use a literary graphic organizer to analyze the three major characters in Raymond Carver...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDecoding "The Matrix": Exploring Dystopian Characteristics Through Film
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn 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 / 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 / HyperLinkDal’ & Desnos: Surrealism in Poetry and Art
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, 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 / HyperLinkCultural Creation Myths
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore different cultures' supernatural explanations for human existence in three societies. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCritical Ways of Seeing "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in Context
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkCritical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink lesson encourages students to read and respond critically to two different pieces of literature with the sam...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 / HyperLinkCorridos About The Mexican Revolution
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science 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 / HyperLinkCharlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" -- Writing Women
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students study the setting, narrative style, symbolism, and characteri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharacterization in Literature
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Theatre, LiteratureIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore various methods authors use to create effective characters. Students consider what mak...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCarl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students look at Carl Sandburg's poem, "Chicago," in a literary, historical and biographical context....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0