- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Skyler Smyres
- Tamara Crow
- Date Added:
- 01/15/2018
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Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future. This audio recording is part the Interviews on Great Writers series presented by Oxford University Podcasts.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- World Cultures
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- University of Oxford
- Provider Set:
- University of Oxford Podcasts
- Author:
- Jason Allen, Dominic Davies
- Date Added:
- 08/24/2012
The students will be reading The Diary of Anne Frank and using videos and tours to learn more about why she was hiding and what eventually happened to her.
- Subject:
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Author:
- telle lanum
- Date Added:
- 10/22/2023
This lesson provides a Common Core application for high school students for Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. Students will undertake close reading of passages in Things Fall Apart to evaluate the impact of Achebe's literary techniques, the cultural significance of the work, and how this international text serves as a lens to discover the experiences of others.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- History
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEment!
- Date Added:
- 09/06/2019
After reading "The Tempest" or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Performing Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/28/2013
This is a SoftChalk lesson reviewing the figurative language terms simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, and symbolism.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Literature
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Lecture
- Lesson
- Reading
- Author:
- Wendy Ryun Arch
- Date Added:
- 08/19/2018
In Module 10.1, students engage with literature and nonfiction texts and explore how complex characters develop through their interactions with each other, and how these interactions develop central ideas such as parental and communal expectations, self-perception and performance, and competition and learning from mistakes.
Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Module
- Provider:
- New York State Education Department
- Provider Set:
- EngageNY
- Date Added:
- 02/04/2014
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze nonfiction and dramatic texts, focusing on how the authors convey and develop central ideas concerning imbalance, disorder, tragedy, mortality, and fate.
Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Module
- Provider:
- New York State Education Department
- Provider Set:
- EngageNY
- Date Added:
- 07/09/2014
In this lesson students will read and analyze “The Flowers” by Alice Walker. Lesson 2 from the Author’s Craft unit focuses on diction. Students will examine how Walker’s word choice creates tonal shifts in the story that support the theme. The lesson requires student to collect evidence, discuss, and complete a writing assignment in which they continue the story while using diction to maintain the tone. Image source: "Rose" by Kapa65 on Pixabay.com.
- Subject:
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Emily Scherer
- MSDE Admin
- Kathleen Maher-Baker
- Date Added:
- 06/27/2018
In this module, students will read, discuss, and analyze contemporary and classic texts, focusing on how complex characters develop through interactions with one another and how authors structure text to accomplish that development. There will be a strong emphasis on reading closely and responding to text dependent questions, annotating text, and developing academic vocabulary in context.
Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Module
- Provider:
- New York State Education Department
- Provider Set:
- EngageNY
- Date Added:
- 09/02/2013
In this module, students engage with literature and nonfiction texts that develop central ideas of guilt, obsession, and madness, among others. Building on work with evidence-based analysis and debate in Module 1, students will produce evidence-based claims to analyze the development of central ideas and text structure. Students will develop and strengthen their writing by revising and editing, and refine their speaking and listening skills through discussion-based assessments.
Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Module
- Provider:
- New York State Education Department
- Provider Set:
- EngageNY
- Date Added:
- 04/01/2013
Students research, evaluate, and synthesize information about the Harlem Renaissance from varied resources, create an exhibit, and highlight connections across disciplines (i.e., art, music, and poetry) using a Venn diagram.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
This lesson introduces students to the concept of word connotations through specific examples. After an introductory slide show that creates student engagement through think-pair-share activities, students put their new learning into practice by completing a connotation worksheet with a partner.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Author:
- Ellen Douglass
- Date Added:
- 04/21/2024
This mini-unit is an introduction to poetry and can be used in middle school or early high school. Each lesson should take about an hour and covers basic such as: Prose vs. Poetry, Traditional vs. Organic Poetry, poetry structure, figurative language and sound devices, context clues, tone, and meaning. Several examples of poems are provided along with notes, guided practice, and indepent assessments.
- Subject:
- Composition and Rhetoric
- English Language Arts
- Literature
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Assessment
- Homework/Assignment
- Lecture Notes
- Lesson Plan
- Reading
- Author:
- alla shelest
- Date Added:
- 02/14/2023
This is a poetry lesson that centers around Amanda Gorman's poem, New Day's Lyric. She published this poem near the end of 2021 (Covid-19). Filled with hope and gratitude, the poem is ideal for introducing the use of imagery as well as other poetic elements. It's an amazing poetic piece that ushers students into jumpstarting reflections through poetry. Expect writers to creatively ignite positive vibes that will disseminate throughout the classroom and beyond. What a great way to begin the new year!
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Homework/Assignment
- Interactive
- Lesson Plan
- Reading
- Author:
- Bridget Hannah
- Date Added:
- 01/12/2022
Module over W.W. Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw"
- Subject:
- Literature
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Lesson Plan
- Module
- Reading
- Author:
- Katelyn Boocher
- Date Added:
- 01/20/2022
This unit is centered around an anchor text that may be common among content area teachers in a high school setting. Although this unit may be incorporated into any high-school English class, it is aligned with Common Core standards for 9-10. This unit will primarily focus on informational and argumentative texts, and can be used to incorporate more informational texts (as directed by the Common Core) into English classrooms at the high school level. This unit is best suited to a collaborative model of development in which ELA and content area teachers share an anchor text (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and communicate about how to connect diverse skills to common texts and essential questions.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Date Added:
- 04/25/2014
This unit is designed to accompany the study of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Resources encourage students to recognize a variety of propaganda techniques and to connect those techniques to media that they can find in their everyday lives. Resources also help students to understand the historical uses of propaganda by governments and political parties to influence public opinion. Resources can be used independently of the novel.
- Subject:
- Communication
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Graphic Arts
- Graphic Design
- Literature
- Political Science
- World History
- Material Type:
- Homework/Assignment
- Lecture Notes
- Lesson
- Author:
- Shana Ferguson
- Date Added:
- 05/29/2021
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4. All questions but one are multiple choice.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Date Added:
- 12/13/2013
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4, featuring a passage from O. Henry's short story, "The Gift of the Magi". The passage has a Dale-Chall text difficulty level of 5-6, and a Flesch-Kincaid level of 5.0.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Date Added:
- 01/10/2014