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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStar-Crossed Lovers Online: "Romeo and Juliet" for a Digital Age
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Technology, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use their understanding of modern experiences with technology to make active meaning of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnalyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkA Way With Words: Examining How Literary Devices Create Vivid Images
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLink12 Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political Institution
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Foreign Languages, History & Culture, Visual Arts, English-Language 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 / HyperLinkA Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science 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 / HyperLinkExploring Arthurian Legend
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLink"The Red Badge of Courage": A New Kind of Courage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkCritical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkBecome a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, GrammarIn 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 / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkVarying Views of America
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson provides students the opportunity, working in a collaborative setting, to examine the ways that persp...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 / HyperLinkThose Fundamental Things
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, TheatreThis ARTSEDGE lesson focuses on specific formative steps contributed by Rodgers and Hammerstein to the development of American m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts 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 / HyperLinkTwain: An American Humorist
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwain: Tom Sawyer--Mythic Adventurer
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts 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 / HyperLinkCharacterization in Literature
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore various methods authors use to create effective characters. Students consider what mak...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUtopian Visions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Music 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 / HyperLinkUncivil Civilization in "The Hairy Ape"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts 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 / HyperLinkFaulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Form of a Funeral
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Humanities, English-Language Arts, United States History 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