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- 9th - 12th
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Students define and identify examples of metaphors. They read and analyze the metaphors used in poetry by Langston Hughes, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Shihab Nye, and others. Students create their own metaphors and apply this tool to their own writing projects. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students use songs to investigate images and metaphors. They compare structure, tone, and meaning in a number of songs. They write a song about an important historical event. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students summarize, compare and contrast two poems, ""Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas and "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. They write a 200 word essay which they take through the writing process. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine a series of poems containing metaphors and with each poem, the lesson progresses in difficulty addressing all skill levels. How metaphors are used in literature and what makes it an effective tool is explored in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read and analyze poems about death. They analyze the poems in small groups, listen to an audio clip, define key vocabulary terms, complete a worksheet and Venn diagram, and prepare a presentation of a poem comparison. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to or read aloud selected poems. They discuss the form of the poems as well as compres/contrast poems with similar themes. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are led through and encouraged to interpret artwork in the museum. They voice their own interpretations of the artwork as a class. On their third visit to the museum they take notes on their own and their classmates' observations in the museum. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students analyze and respond to images and metaphors in the song lyrics of "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall." They will compare the songs "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" and "Lord Randall" in terms of structure, tone and meaning. Students write a song about an historical event or period similar in its effects on society to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students research the origin of their names. They search for their own first names and discover "What is the meaning of the name...?". They discover some variation of the spelling of their names Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students define and identify examples of metaphors in literature and discuss what makes a metaphor effective. They read and analyze metaphors used in poetry by Langston Hughes, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Shihab Nye, and others. Individually, students create their own metaphors and apply this tool to their own writing projects. Full Review »

