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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In the first few sections, you are going to learn about monologues and soliloquies before you get to that last possibility, dramatic irony. You already know how dialogue works, but you will learn to recognize these additional dramatic...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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Other

Fu Jen Univ.: Poetic Elements: Denotation and Connotation: Figures of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives short definitions of the terms denotation and connotation. Also gives definitions for many figures of speech. Finally, includes discussion and study questions for a few poems at the bottom of the page. L.11-12.5b Nuance
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Other

Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, by the author of a workbook on the craft of writing, is filled with essays about many elements of dramatic writing, from the principles of storytelling, to plot development, to character development. There are also numerous...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Characteristics of a Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the characteristics of a drama including the four elements of a play: characters, dialogue, action, and gesture. It features a presentation of characterisics of drama, a Wikipedia article "Drama," and Quizlet:...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This introduction to contemporary drama focuses on the elements or characteristics of drama and the theme of the American Dream. It features the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, which is set in the 1950s.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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Other

Writing Effective Leads

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know your news elements? Can you spot the most important one? This site helps you spot different kinds of leads, and which news element they emphasize. Includes an exercise for use in your own classroom.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Discovering Irony [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief PDF worksheet in which students can assess the irony in a given piece of literature. They will document the type of irony, an example from the text, and its effect on the reader as indicated by the boxes.
Handout
Northern Virginia Community College

Introduction to Theatre Six Parts of a Play Character

For Students 9th - 10th
This site tells of Aristotle's six parts of a play. It goes into detail on the Character and the different terms that describe different character types.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Discovering Air

For Students 9th - 10th
Our understanding about the air we breathe has changed dramatically through time. This illustrated timeline from the NOVA Web site tracks the changing thought on air and the creation of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

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