This is a summary and analysis of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing including a list of characters, a plot summary and analysis, figures of speech, metaphors of fire, Dogberry's Malaporpisms, animal imagery, and study questions and...

This lesson focuses on teaching high school students to write a movie summary that provides a plot summary without sharing too much of the storyline but includes the following: brevity, conflict, theme, tone, and persuades others to want...

This plot summary is useful for those who have read "Johnny Tremain" and want to refresh their knowledge of the characters, and major events.

This is a comprehensive 11-page chart on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. It provides background information on the play, a plot summary, character descriptions, themes, symbol tags, quotes, and a summary and analysis of each scene in the...

This is a comprehensive study guide for Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. It includes a plot summary, character list, analysis of major characters, summary and analysis of each scene and act, themes, motifs, symbols, explanation...

Strategies to help students understand the elements of a story provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as DLTA/DRTA, Plot Diagrams, Story Clock, Story Mapping, Summary...

Teacher's guide for the Masterpiece Theater film version of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." Much of it can be used without the film, though. It includes a short biography of the author, a plot summary, a history of the play, class...

This plot summary highlights the various themes that are presented in the novel as well as giving insightful background information on the main characters.

This is a breakdown of the play Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare. It provides plot summaries of each of the five acts.

For this lesson, learners will learn how to create and intrepret box plots using the 5-number summary.

A summary of the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.

This is a plot summary of the novel A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, the story of a man who fasts for a living.

This is a compreshensive study guide for the novel A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka. It includes publication information, the characters, a plot summary, point of view, symbols, interpretations, major themes, study questions and essay...

This excellent, brief plot summary highlights the major events in the novel as well as labeling the climax, suspense and denouement.

Learn how to represent the Five-Number Summary graphically using a box plot.

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.

Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them. Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.

Explore how to interpret a large set of data by dividing it up into smaller portions in order to answer statistical questions.

Read chapter summaries of William Golding's novel, "Lord of the Flies." These summaries each include information about the chapter's plot and comments on the meaning behind Golding's writing.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept teaches students how to use the five-number summary to make a box-and-whisker plot.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make Box-and-Whisker Plots to represent data.

This informative summary highlights the key points in the novel.

In this interdisciplinary lesson, middle schoolers examine the artwork in Lasceaux Cave in France via Internet and illustrate a chapter summary from Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson in "caveman style."

An independent review/assessment for students of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". This site takes students through the details of context, plot, themes, characters, and dramatic effect in the play. Made for students preparing to...