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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe 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: 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: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkWilliam Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn this unit of four lessons, from EDSITEment, students examine narrative structure and time, narrative voice/point of view, and...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: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, Foreign Languages, Visual Arts 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Literature, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn 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 / HyperLinkAnalyzing Character in <em>Hamlet</em> through Epitaphs
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsStudents create epitaphs for characters from a tragedy, such as Hamlet.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"You Kiss by the Book": Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Literature, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkFlannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Literature, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn 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 / HyperLinkDeveloping Characterization in Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / 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 / HyperLinkBecome a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLink1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts1900 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 / HyperLinkSerious 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeaving the Old into the New: Pairing "The Odyssey" with Contemporary Works
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWritethink lesson, students read both "The Odyssey" and the contemporary epic "Running Out of Summer" and compare an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDecoding "The Matrix": Exploring Dystopian Characteristics Through Film
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkYou're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Music, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkUncivil Civilization in "The Hairy Ape"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Literature 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 / HyperLinkA Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Literature 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 / HyperLinkStar-Crossed Lovers Online: "Romeo and Juliet" for a Digital Age
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Technology, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use their understanding of modern experiences with technology to make active meaning of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore fiction and nonfiction texts, including Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue," and write lit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0