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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate how Emily Dickinson's poem, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers," was developed through correspondence with her sister-in-law. Students determine who Dickinson developed her voice and sought criticism of her writing. Students analyze how her sister-in-law's editing changed the poem. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students develop their questioning techniques for analysis of literature while researching the 1800's and create a class quilt to illustrate their research. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore "fractured fairy tales" in order to compare and contrast these tales with the original fairy tales. They create a personal narrative that takes the point of view of the pig in the fractured tale of "The Three Wolves and the Big Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students define folklore, folk groups, tradition, and oral narrative, identify traditional elements in Their Eyes Were Watching God, and analyze and explain the role of traditional folkways and folk speech in the overall literary impact of the novel. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore poetry. They visit poetry websites and select examples to analyze. In groups they discuss their analysis. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." They study it's literary elements and discuss the purposes and significance of literary humor. They write a news report of the events of the story. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students read the novels "Hoot," and "Wringer," and the book "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" to examine character motivation. They create a brochure, explore a website, and develop a PowerPoint presentation on burrowing owls using pictures and information from the Internet. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students define folklore, folk groups, tradition and oral narrative. Analyze the role of traditional folkways and folk speech in the overall literary impact of the novel. Transcribe orally given narrative into eye dialect. Critical thinking enveloped within the lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students use technology to explore poetry and its related elements, such as theme, figures of speech, or literary devices. They complete four poetry projects including poetic devices and Powerpoint presentation. They create an interactive poem companion that explains devices used in the poem, or links to images created by the poem. They storyboard, script and perform a two minute film of a recitation of a poem. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students apply historical/experiential, psychological, literary, and spiritual/religious screens when interpreting Samuel Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan". They analyze and interpret poetic and lyrical symbols and apply a specific screen to finishing a lyrical or poetic interpretation. Students connect personal and/or screened interpretations to canonical ones. Full Review »
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