ŕHottest, Coldest, Highest, DeepestĚŇ takes the reader on a journey around the world to various continents found on Earth that contain unique natural features.
When Ruth and her sister Lucille are abandoned in the isolated Idaho town of Fingerbone, their lives become intertwined with the legacy of loss that haunts the Foster family. The Big Read Reader's Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, timelines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.
ŕHow Animals TalkĚŇ is an informational, nonfiction selection describing how various animals communicate or send messages. Animals communicate with each other to warn of danger, to share feelings, to attract a mate, and even prove dominance.
An introduction to the literary form of comics - as a comic! Introducing and defining key concepts in comic studies, as well as debunking common myths about comics, this booklet is an introduction to the discipline. Covers topics such as comic terminology, grammar, layout, styles, transitions, and closure, with a self-quiz to take at the end.
Students compare and contrast genres with a civil rights theme. Full details are in the Google Doc.
A presentation for writers struggling creativity as they follow along with the effect that Hamilton: An American Musical had on my own creative writing journey.
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How I Did It: Successful Indie Authors Share How They Create Books compiles the stories of self-publishing indie authors, publishers and other organizations who publish that have successfully created their books and streamlined the costly, difficult parts of book production by using the simple rapid publishing system Pressbooks.com.
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How I Did It: Successful Indie Authors Share How They Create Books compiles the stories of self-publishing indie authors, publishers and other organizations who publish that have successfully created their books and streamlined the costly, difficult parts of book production by using the simple rapid publishing system Pressbooks.com.
In addition to file conversion and book design, these authors share their secrets to successful self-publishing and marketing for books as well as insights on the writing, editing and other parts of the process of book publishing.
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5 Villains meet at the luxurious Kingdom Hotel and talk about their best plan and how each failed, they criticise each other but who is this mystery person watching them in the background?
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This lesson was created from a variety of online resources and questions related to Thomas Foster's book How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Although this lesson was created for a semester-long dual credit literature course for 11th and 12th graders, it could also be used for any advanced language arts class.This lesson was created by Janelle Coady as part of the 2020 OER English Language Arts Workshop by NDE. It is expected that this plan will take approximately two weeks to complete, including the presentations. Students are expected to follow the guidelines and cite all sources used and adhere to the time constraints as well. "Book Cover" by Mariam Sargsyan 17, Wikimedia Commons is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
What is this resource?
This resource contains a 50-minute podcast and accompanying materials to support students and academics with reading academic journal articles, with a focus on Open Science tools in publishing. The podcast outlines a 6 stage process that can be used with any journal article from any discipline. The podcast can be downloaded as an MP4. A PDF of the podcast, which includes active links to relevant sources on the web, is also available. In addition, there is a blank journal scrapbook which can be used to record reading.
Who will find this resource helpful?
If you find it difficult to read journal articles because you get lost, or forget your purpose, or if you have no reading purpose (for example, you've been told to read it for your studies), this guide will help you take a structured approach.
Podcast Topics Covered
Part1: Background Introduction (~20 minutes duration)
• What is a journal article
• The publication process
• Different types of journal article
• (Open Science) Badges
• CrossMark
• Journal Metrics
Part 2: Preparing to read a journal article (from ~19 minutes in)
• Tool kit
• Reading goals
Direct links:
Podcast: https://osf.io/gfj9q/
Accompanying slides: https://osf.io/7r3kn/
Journal Scrapbook (for users to complete): https://osf.io/eqjfh/
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This resource provides references, writing aids and guides for students writing essays in a literature-based composition course. These materials were culled from several different sites; the individual pages link back to the original resource and indicate the Creative Commons license under which the page is adapted and/or reused. Except where otherwise noted, this resource is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.
Rudyard Kipling was an English poet who lived from 1865-1936. He also wrote many children's stories. The poem's line, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same," is written on the wall of the players' entrance at Wimbledon.
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I was doing research in the library during my junior year ('75) in high school for an English paper when I first saw the poem "If" in a book of poems. It immediately struck me as a perfect...
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction.
It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring this story. It was reprinted by the Library of America, collected in volume two (Terror and the Uncanny, from the 1940s to Now) of American Fantastic Tales (2009).
Students will learn and utilize list poems, understand and appreciate multiple perspectives while analyzing figures, memories and events in their educational community. They will also apply what they have learned to create a new product.
"I Hear America" is a Creative Commons Licensed Children's Book that was created by Pikes Peak Community College's LIT 255 (Children's Literature) Spring 2019 class. The book was hand-lettered, while the illustrations are ink, colored pencil, and watercolor.
The book is modeled after Walt Whitman's famous "I Hear America Singing", and involves children imagining what it would be like when they grow up, and the symphony created by the sounds of their dreams.
This title follows a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
It is part of Pikes Peak Community College's efforts to create OER content and courses, as part of an initiative to reduce student costs, promote student success, and increase retention.
If you have any questions concerning this title or other projects in the works at PPCC, please contact Marc Nash (OER Coordinator) at marc.nash@ppcc.edu
This lesson introduces Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for Storm Lake High School's Diverse Literature course. It gives background on the author, setting, and the book itself as well as introducing students to the window-mirror concept in making connections with literature.
Storyies always have a message that the author is trying to share.
Are you looking for an enticing way to introduce identifying the theme of a story to your students? This lesson on identifying the theme of a text was created by Jennifer Bauer as an introductory lesson to understanding and analyzing a text to identify a common theme within the text. This lesson engages students by using the read aloud "Salt in His Shoes", a storybook on Michael Jordan's struggles as an adolescent, as a way to gain an understanding of the literary element of theme. This English Language Arts lesson is designed for Grades 3-5, but could also be adapted for middle school students as well. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standards: LA 3.1.6.d Summarize a literary text and/or media, using key details to identify the theme. LA 4.1.6.d Summarize a literary text and/or media, using key details to identify the theme. LA 5.1.6.d Summarize and analyze a literary text and/or media, using key details to explain the theme.It is expected that this lesson will take students 60 minutes to complete.
In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a ‘spatial turn’ in humanities which was perhaps partly due to the globalisation of our modern world. Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities, this volume presents a number of essays on the ideological role of space in literary texts. The individual articles analyse ancient and modern literary texts from the angle of the most recent theoretical conceptualisations of space. The focus throughout is on how the experience of space is determined by dominant political, philosophical or religious ideologies and how, in turn, the description of spaces in literature is employed to express, broadcast or deconstruct this experience. By bringing together ancient and modern, mostly postcolonial texts, this volume hopes to stimulate discussion among disciplines and across continents. Among the authors discussed are: Homer, Nonnus, Alcaeus of Lesbos, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Herodotus, Panagiotis Soutsos, Assia Djebar, Tahar Djaout, Olive Senior, Jamaica Kincaid, Stefan Heym, Benoit Dutuertre, Henrik Stangerup and David Malouf.