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Summary of little girls are wiser than men
- Subject:
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Student Guide
- Author:
- N. S. Lavanya Sasi
- Date Added:
- 08/01/2020
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This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- English Language Arts
- Literature
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- PBS LearningMedia
- Provider Set:
- Teachers' Domain
- Date Added:
- 02/16/2011
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Students will examine artworks, research literature, and create study drawings and a 3-D model for a monument to a literary figure.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Provider Set:
- Getty Education
- Date Added:
- 05/27/2013
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Lesson plan and activities on Federico García Lorca's poem "Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla"
- Subject:
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Author:
- Juan Herrero-Senes
- Susanna Pamies
- Date Added:
- 02/11/2021
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In this interactive lesson, discover how literary techniques like setting, characterization, and conflict contribute to the overarching theme of a text. Through analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play A Raisin in the Sun, explore the importance of these different elements individually, then learn how each piece comes together to establish theme.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- English Language Arts
- History
- Literature
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Interactive
- Lesson
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- American Masters
- PBS Learning Media
- Date Added:
- 01/31/2023
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A bilingual anthology of detective writing in Spain and the UK/US, with a preliminary study by Enrique Torner.
This work was originally first available online through the World Association of International Studies at https://waisworld.org/en/wais/publications/books
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Education
- Higher Education
- Languages
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Author:
- Minnesota State University Mankato
- Enrique Torner
- Date Added:
- 09/08/2021
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Two students hide in the bathroom in order to avoid taking the math test, eventually telling their teacher they were trapped yb a giant squid. While waiting to speak to the principal, they go in to the lost and found, where they enter an imaginary world hidden in the lost and found bin.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Basal Alignment Project
- Provider Set:
- Fresno District
- Author:
- Mark Teague
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2013
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An eclectic range of comic and tragic voices narrate this powerful book about the enduring power of love. Erdrich leads the reader through the interwoven lives of generations of Kashpaws and Lamartines in North Dakota. The Big Read Readers 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.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Provider Set:
- The Big Read
- Date Added:
- 08/05/2013
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ePub version of text Loues Labour's lost by William Shakepeare, 1564-1616.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- University of Oxford
- Provider Set:
- University of Oxford Podcasts
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Date Added:
- 10/24/2010
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California Poet Laureate Al Young has created a profound and enduring body of work that represents our time. Young's numerous publications in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and for the stage and screen explore the American, human condition through the lens of the individual voice. Tune in as he reads a selection of his Poems before a live audience at UC Berkeley. (28 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 01/17/2010
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Revolutionary poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka is recognized as the founder of the Black Arts Movement, a literary period that began in Harlem in the 1960s and forever changed the look, sound, and feel of American poetry. 26 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 04/15/2012
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Arthur Sze is an internationally known writer and celebrated translator. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sze teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and is the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, where he resides. (29 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 04/26/2012
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Barbara Guest has published over ten volumes of poetry. One of the original members of the New York School of Poets, Guest reinvents herself with every book. Her recent titles include Miniatures and Other Poems, Rocks on a Platter, and Selected Poems. Charles Bernstein writes that Guest's works "have become an integral part of the fabric of contemporary American poetry." A graduate of UC Berkeley, Guest has been honored with the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America. She resides in Berkeley. (28 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 03/14/2009
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Poet Brenda Hillman writes of the realms where the division between the sensual and spiritual dissolve. In her passionate reading, Hillman uses language to explore the edges of human consciousness. (28 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 09/09/2007
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Camille Dungy is the author of two poetry collections and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. (27 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 04/05/2012
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Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator, and editor, reads from his recently released translation "Solar Throat Slashed," by Aim Csaire, co-translated with A. James Arnold. Csaire, a strong anticolonialist, was born in the Caribbean and wrote his Poems and plays in French. (57 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 02/21/2002
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Charismatic poet Cornelius Eady uses deft paradoxes to meet the world's absurdities head-on. In a powerful reading of his own work, Eady recites like a jazz singer croons, emphasizing his poetry's hard-hitting content. (28 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 10/07/2007
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Dan Bellm has published three books of poetry, including Practice, winner of a 2009 California Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2008 by the Virginia Quarterly Review. His first collection, One Hand on the Wheel, launched the California Poetry Series and his second, Buried Treasure, won the Poetry Society of AmericaŐs Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award. (29 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 04/20/2010
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David St. John was widely praised and was a National Book Award finalist for Study for the World's Body. Recent books are The Red Leaves of Night from HarperPerennial and Prism from Arctos Press, and his newest, The Face , a book-length Poems. His image-rich work muses on both ecstasy and loss. (51 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 04/13/2008
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World-renowned poet Diane di Prima, one of the preeminent writers to emerge from the Beat generation, wrote in Manhattan for many years before relocating to San Francisco, where she has been for nearly four decades. Her 43 books of poetry and prose have been translated into over twenty languages. (29 minutes)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- UCTV Teacher's Pet
- Date Added:
- 05/06/2012