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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Music, Writing Strategies, 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 / HyperLinkWritings on a River: Creating Composite Characters, Like Those of Mark Twain
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn 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"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 / HyperLinkWord Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About Literary Characters
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read the short story "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry and focus on the two main characte...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Shakespeare's Birth
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, Theatre, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkWilliam Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkWilliam Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing S
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkWeaving the Multigenre Web
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkVoices in Verse: Exploring Middle Eastern Interpretations of Palestinian Poetry
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, World History, History-Social Science 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVarying Views of America
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson provides students the opportunity, working in a collaborative setting, to examine the ways that persp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUtopian Visions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension 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 / HyperLinkUnlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Theatre, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkUncivil Civilization in "The Hairy Ape"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, World History 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 / HyperLinkTwain: Tom Sawyer--Mythic Adventurer
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science 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 / HyperLinkTwain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science 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, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science 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 / HyperLinkThose Fundamental Things
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, Theatre, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkThirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLink"The Red Badge of Courage": A New Kind of Courage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkThe Pros and Cons of Discussion
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use a Discussion Web, in groups, to answer the question "Are people equal?," analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0