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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing S
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureIn 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 / HyperLinkBringing Facts into Science Fiction: Creating Science Fiction Narratives Based on Current News Themes
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, American Democracy, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkCritical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis 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 / HyperLinkEdgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, 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 / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkWilliam Shakespeare's Birth
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Theatre, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the birth of Shakespeare in 1564. A classroom activity is featured in which students at ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFreedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: U.S. Constitution, English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading Comprehension 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Papers of Literary Analysis
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from Seamus Cooney of Western Michigan University, contains tips for writing papers of literary analysis. While a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Satire with "The Simpsons"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, has students explore satire through the television show "The Simpsons." They identify the tech...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkWritings on a River: Creating Composite Characters, Like Those of Mark Twain
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read the first chapter in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." The...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"The Red Badge of Courage": A New Kind of Courage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, LiteratureIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the values of courage and patriotism in Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Cou...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Theatre, Music 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 / HyperLinkLetters 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharacterization in Literature
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Theatre, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn 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: 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 / HyperLink"World enough, and time" -- Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this EDSITEment lesson, students focus on how Andrew Marvell's use of tone and imagery serves to promote his theme of fleetin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Arthurian Legend
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, 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 / 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 / HyperLinkVoices in Verse: Exploring Middle Eastern Interpretations of Palestinian Poetry
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, World History, Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine Arabic poetry and how it is interpreted by people of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0