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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkField of Inquiry: Examining the Investigations Into the Events of September 11, 2001
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about German intelligence data used in an independe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShakespeare's "Macbeth": Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis EDSITEment lesson is designed to help students understand how Shakespeare's language dramatizes one such emotion: fear. Stu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart": Oral and Literary Strategies
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Foreign Languages, Vocabulary & Spelling, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts and 3 additional..This lesson, from EDSITEment, introduces students to African novelist Chinua Achebe's first novel, "Things Fall Apart," and to s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFolklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Literature, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the way African-American author Zora Neale Hurston makes use of closely observ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the idea of "democratic poetry" by reading Whitman's words in a variety of med...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to transfer the analytical skills that they commonly use when reading traditional pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAvoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-fair Pronouns
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, GrammarThis ReadWriteThink lesson plan engages students in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gend...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEugene O'Neill on Page and Stage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsThis lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, explores both the genius of Eugene O'Neill's work and the power of dramatiz...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Theatre, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students study setting, plot, and character development in Tennessee Wil...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Rest Is Silence
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, Theatre, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students examine how Shakespeare's use of split lines and shortened lines of iambic pentameter creates ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Did They Say? Dialect in "The Color Purple"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson encourages appreciation of dialects by exploring their meaning and origins. Students are invited to e...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCulture and Society of the Gilded Age
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, United States History and 2 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students learn about the culture of high society during the Gilded Age. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIn Literature, Interpretation Is the Thing
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students examine how classic works of literature often reflect attitudes of a particular ti...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArgument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Analyzing World War II Posters
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, United States History and 2 additional..In this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students analyze World War II posters to explore how argument, persuasion, and propaganda d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCopyright Infringement or Not? The Debate Over Downloading Music
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Technology, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students investigate the controversial topic of downloading music from the Internet as part of a ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAudio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences With Audio Texts
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to radio, music, and other stre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDefining Literacy in a Digital World
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students create an inventory of personal texts, including a range of print, visual and audio text...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the rhetorical concept of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGaining Background for the Graphic Novel "Persepolis": A WebQuest on Iran
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Technology, World History, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students prepare to read the novel "Persepolis" by engaging in a WebQuest that builds their backg...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0