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This lesson can be easily tailored to a teacher's specific students. It's also easy to see, then, that the activities can be extended into a piece of literary analysis, or even the writing of a sonnet, that can be taken from outlines to first draft throug Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students identify at least two themes in, People Everyday by Arrested Development. They identify five terms/expressions in the song with which they are unfamiliar and brainstorm on possible meanings from context. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students prepare for the literary analysis. They locate, interpret, evaluate and analyze the relationship between a character and the theme. After a lecture/demo, students write topic and detail sentences, then correctly put them in paragraph form. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students read the play "The Oxcart" in its English form. After examining the author's life and works, they are given a part as one of the characters to act out the play. They dress in full costumes and acquire the correct props in order to put the play on in front of an audience. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students read, understand, and enjoy Les Mis'rables,. They improve their skills in literary analysis, writing, and listening. Through study of biblical and historical allusions, symbols, metaphors, and other figurative language, they trace the theme of salvation from below. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students work independently, collaboratively and as a whole class to refine their comprehension of the interwoven nature of the elements of fiction. They read self-selected and teacher selected fiction and use the vocabulary of literary analysis to communicate with their peers. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students use one short story to analyze conflict, irony and symbolism. They formulate a chart to show the differences between a character's actions, desires and choice of words. After the story is divided into scenes, students work in teams to role play for the whole class. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate their literary vocabulary and to broaden their knowledge about the art of writing. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore descriptive writing and its effect on the reading experience. They consider an author's sensory experiences with frog sounds in springtime by reading and discussing the article "The Sweet Song of Spring: 'Ribbit;'" then Create a poster highlighting the meaning of a particular literary device learned about in class. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students consider not only the texts when analyzing an adaptation and its source text, but also the context within which each was created. Completing this more comprehensive analysis is important to understanding the complexity of adaptations. Full Review »
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