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Curated OER

The Metamorphosis: Request Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Round out your unit on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis with a series of reading comprehension questions. As kids read, they challenge each other to answer specific connection questions from the text.
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Curated OER

The Metamorphosis: List-Group-Label Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is one of the most prominent and influential books to come out of the existential movement. Host a group discussion in which learners list different characteristics of existent art, group these tenets, and...
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Curated OER

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Reader's Theatre

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Plays are meant to be performed! After reading the entire play, invite your learners to choose a scene from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that relates to earlier class discussion about characters, motifs, and themes to interpret...
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Curated OER

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: "Teach Each Other" Discussion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Challenge your class to hold a discussion about the theme of death in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead without direct teacher guidance. After going over the discussion protocols and quotes from the text, learners move in a circle...
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Brigham Young University

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Body Biography

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pause in your reading of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to take an in-depth look at the characters. Learners examine a chosen character by drawing a body and assigning quotes and traits to specific areas of the body, thinking...
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Lesson Plan
Brigham Young University

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Fishbowl Discussion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
After reading through Act II of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, take some time to discuss the references to death in the play. For this fishbowl discussion, learners prepare questions, practice answering individually and with...
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Lesson Plan
Brigham Young University

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Word Squares

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Encourage your class to use a variety of strategies to learn and retain vocabulary words. The plan suggests that near the beginning of your reading of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead pupils should find words in the text that are...
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Curated OER

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: DR-TA Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Making predictions is an excellent reading strategy. Work on building this into your pupils' toolkit of strategies by trying out the process outlined here for reading the very beginning of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The...
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Curated OER

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Concept Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Make sure you are well-informed before embarking on a study of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. This resource includes an analysis of the text that a teacher can use to prepare a unit of study. It covers plot elements, themes,...
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Curated OER

Man's Search For Meaning: Writing Assessment (Final Multi-Genre Project)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Conclude a study of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning with a research project that asks readers to investigate what various religions and philosophies believe is the meaning of life. The resource packet includes a list of...
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Curated OER

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Pre-Reading Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Get your class ready to read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard with an anticipation guide. This document describes exactly how to create and implement an anticipation guide.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Hannah Arendt

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent and thoroughly detailed biography of Arendt's life. Includes philosophical ideas, her relationship with Heidegger, and the establishment of her own important work and career.
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Marxists Internet Archive

Encyclopedia of Marxism: Jean Paul Sartre (1905 1980)

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the life and works of French novelist, playwright, and exponent of Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre. The biography discusses his early life, his years of teaching in Le Havre, his various publications he wrote and...
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Handout
Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Nietzsche

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent and extensive biography. Covers main ideas, as well as career accomplishments and publications. Proceeds work by work, dividing Nietzsche's works into Early, Middle, Late, and Final. Contains bibliography, biography, and...
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Handout
Stanford University

Soren Kierkegaard, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough and complete biography. Includes sections on Kierkegaard's life, rhetoric, ethics, politics, and religion, just to name a few. Also contains a time-line and bibliography of works.
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Other

The Case of Martin Heidegger, Part Two

For Students 9th - 10th
Second of three. An excellent and thorough treatment of Heidegger's involvement with German National Socialism.
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Other

The Case of Martin Heidegger, Part Three

For Students 9th - 10th
The third and final part of this excellent series on Heidegger's Nazi involvement.
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Other

The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi

For Students 9th - 10th
Part One of an outstanding three-part series on Heidegger's involvement with the Nazi party. Seems a level-headed and impartial treatment of a potential explosive topic.
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Other

Existentialism Primer: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhaustive site dedicated to the existentialist movement in Philosophy and Literature. Features definitions, presentation of major existentialist figures, and links.
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Handout
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Nihilism

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent discussion from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy of the history of nihilism in western philosophy and the main ideas associated with it. Although centering around Nietzsche's formulation, author does admirable job of...
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National Library of France

National Library of France: Jean Paul Satre

For Students 9th - 10th
Jean-Paul Satre, French philosopher, literary critic, and journalist, is presented in this exhibition from the National Library of France. Follow Satre's evolution of thought as seen through examples of his writings, quotes, and pictures...
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Philosophy Pages

Philosophy Pages: Martin Heidegger (1889 1976)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief biography and intro into the life of existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger. Provided are numerous links to text documents of his works and philosophies.
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Other

The Existential Humanism of Jean Paul Sartre

For Students 9th - 10th
A great site to get into some of the "deeper" philosophy of Sartre. The text is lengthy and sometimes complicated, but some background research should make it readable and helpful.
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Other

Existential Primer: Introduction to Existentialism

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource when first beginning to research Existentialism. Includes links to other sites on Existentialism.