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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Satire with <em>Shrek</em>
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Film & Video, Literary Analysis 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 / HyperLinkA Question of Style
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, TheatreIn 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 / HyperLinkThirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeaving the Multigenre Web
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students read a novel as a class, in literature circles, with a partner, or individually. U...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Way With Words: Examining How Literary Devices Create Vivid Images
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkFocus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension Through Prediction Strategies
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine opening sentences from texts they read completely in later sessions of a course ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCultural Creation Myths
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore different cultures' supernatural explanations for human existence in three societies. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlice Walker
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis 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 / HyperLinkUtopian Visions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Music, History-Social Science and 3 additional..In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students are introduced to the idea of a "utopia"--an idealized society. Students read Sir Thomas More'...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Tom Sawyer--Mythic Adventurer
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Geography, Literature and 4 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, focuses on the content and style of development in Twain's "The Adventures ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" -- Writing Women
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkUnlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, invites students to explore the things relevant to a character from Lorraine Hansberry's play ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Pros and Cons of Discussion
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use a Discussion Web, in groups, to answer the question "Are people equal?," analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to Modernist Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students examine literary modernism. Specifically, students read and analyze mod...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Poetics of Hip Hop
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Music, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets, works of American poets, and hip hop music to determine...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFinding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read several poems that expand the definition of love poetry. They then compose found po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDal’ & Desnos: Surrealism in Poetry and Art
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Music, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkBook Smarts: A Lesson in Representing Literature Through the Visual Arts
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Literary Analysis, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkCorridos About The Mexican Revolution
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, World History, Visual Arts, Music 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