This collection of resources looks at the contexts for English Fiction and writing during the First World War.
This collection of resources looks at English poetry from the First World War.
From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chaucer to Kipling and from Austen to Blake, this significant collection contains inspirational short talks freely available to the public and the education community worldwide. This series is aimed primarily at first year undergraduates but will be of interest to school students preparing for university and anyone who would like to know more about the world's great writers. The talks were produced as part of the Great Writers Inspire Project which makes a significant body of material freely available on the subject of great works of literature and their authors.
This book has been developed by Erik Wilbur at Mohave Community College to support Introduction to Literature courses at rural Arizona community colleges. A PDF version and a Microsoft Doc. version of the book are available for download.
Mythology is a powerful vehicle for teaching students about symbols and the ways people have sought to explain their relationships to nature and to each other. Teachers can use these lessons and works of art to introduce or examine the role of myths in explaining human customs, mysteries about nature, or the reasons why things exist in the world. Lessons include: Pandora's Box; Apollo Pursuing Daphne; Diana and Endymion; The Fall of Phaeton; and The Corinthian Maid.
Descriptors by the Colombian ICT framework for teachers. Competencia tecnológica.Identifico las características, usos y oportunidades que ofrecen herramientas tecnológicas y medios audiovisuales, en los procesos educativos.Elaboro actividades de aprendizaje utilizando aplicativos, contenidos, herramientas informáticas y medios audiovisuales.Combino una amplia variedad de herramientas tecnológicas para mejorar la planeación e implementación de mis prácticas educativas.Diseño y publico contenidos digitales u objetos virtuales de aprendizaje mediante el uso adecuado de herramientas tecnológicas.Competencia PedagógicaIncentivo en mis estudiantes el aprendizaje autónomo y el aprendizaje colaborativo apoyados por TIC.Competencia comunicativaSistematizo y hago seguimiento a experiencias significativas de uso de TIC.Utilizo variedad de textos e interfaces para transmitir información y expresar ideas propias combinando texto, audio, imágenes estáticas o dinámicas, videos y gestos. LESSON PLAN Time & length of the class: 120min4:00 p.m - 6:00 p.mClass/grade: Bachelor degree in LiteratureStudents: 30Achievement: To learn about the Greek Mythological culture through a foreign language using different ressources to make the process meaningful enough.National StandardsI Identify keywords within the text that allow me to understand their general meaning.I identify the values of other cultures and that allows me to create my interpretation of their identity. I use my previous knowledge to participate in a conversation.I use the pictures and information from the speech context to better understand what I hear.Skill focus: Listening-Reading-SpeakingLanguage focus: Vocabulary about Greek Mythologhy.
Release of the film Green Book (2018) inspired renewed interest in the experiences of African Americans when traveling in the United States during the 20th century. This inquiry-based lesson combines individual investigations with whole or small group analysis of primary sources and visual media to investigate the compelling question: How have the intersections of race and place impacted U.S. history and culture?
Students apply knowledge of genres to identify different genres from "reading-alouds of excerpts" from selected books representing different genres.
This is a general template to pair with any piece of fiction you have your students read. The year I created this I saw that my 8th grade studetns at the time were struggling with engaging with any text, most were reading below grade level. They beleived reading to be boring and were missing a lot of background knowledge concerning literary elements. I created this template and paired it with their favorite novel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) I found that they were engaged when filling out these "Guided notes". It helped bridge some gaps and gave them a renewed confidence in the classroom.
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Lesson plan and activities on Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's poem "Rima LIII"
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise from its component parts? Can computers think? Can brains compute? Douglas Hofstadter probes very cleverly at these questions and more in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Gödel, Escher, Bach”. In this seminar, we will read and discuss the book in depth, taking the time to solve its puzzles, appreciate the Bach pieces that inspired its dialogues, and discover its hidden tricks along the way.
The folktale ŕHalf-ChickenĚŇ is about a chicken hatched with only half a body, one leg, one wing, one eye, and only half as many feathers as the other chicks.
This lesson sensitizes students to the similarities and differences between cultures by comparing Shakespearean and Bunraku/Kabuki dramas. The focus of this comparison is the complex nature of revenge explored in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Chushingura, or the Treasury of the Loyal Retainers.
This assignment asks students to translate a monologue from Hamlet within its context in the play and understanding the motivations of the character speaking the lines.
In which John Green teaches you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction novel, The Handmaid's Tale. John looks at some of the themes in this classic dystopian novel, many of which are kind of a downer. The world of Gilead that Atwood created looks at a lot of the issues that we deal with today, and the very human impulse to return to an imagined golden era, thereby solving all of our modern world's problems. Yeah, it doesn't work like that.
This week, John Green continues to teach you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction, The Handmaid's Tale. In this installment, we're looking at Atwood's desire to tell a story from a female point of view, and what exactly it means to tell a story in that way, and if in fact there is an inherently male or female way to tell a story. We'll also look at why Atwood presents the story's final chapter from the perspective of a male scholar.
This resource intends to help students understand how parallelism is about more than mechanics and actually central to building thematic concepts.
In this video from ThinkTV Dayton, learn about Harriet Beecher Stowe and the basis of her famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that documented racial injustice before the Civil War.