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Additional Folklife Information Lesson Plan

Additional Folklife Information

5th - 12th
Use a packet packed with ideas for how to celebrate the traditions of your country, state, community, and pupils's families. Suggestions for how to draw on oral and material traditions, customs, beliefs, music, and stories all find a...
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Parody Hilarity Lesson Plan

Parody Hilarity

5th - 7th
Upper grade and middle school writers study the art of parody. In this language arts lesson plan, learners study the work of Lewis Carroll, read and discuss parodies from the book, Alice in Wonderland, and construct their own parody...
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Poetic Devices Presentation

Poetic Devices

9th - 12th
Alliteration, allusion, assonance? Need a quick review of poetic devices? The slides in this presentation offer concise definitions of major poetic terms. Because few examples are provided, you could enliven the presentation with tongue...
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Satire: A Matter of Tone Presentation

Satire: A Matter of Tone

11th - Higher Ed
Satire, anyone? After a review of terms associated with satire, viewers are directed to craft a 500-600 word piece of satire about a familiar hypocrisy. 
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Satire Presentation

Satire

11th - 12th
The bite of comedy often rests on use of the literary devices detailed in this presentation. The definitions for terms like sarcasm, zeugma, and invective are followed by examples drawn from literature. Consider extending the lesson by...
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Just the Facts, Ma'am Lesson Plan

Just the Facts, Ma'am

5th - 8th
Where does the comma go? Study the use of dialogue and voice in writing. Learners listen to Margie Palatini's parody The Web Files. To build background knowledge, they listen to an old episode of the show Dragnet before responding to...
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Portrait Parody Lesson Plan

Portrait Parody

8th
Eighth graders use modern materials and technology to create a modern portrait modeled after a Renaissance picture.
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Shakespearean Comedy on Film Lesson Plan

Shakespearean Comedy on Film

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
This lesson will focus on the aspects of Shakespeare's comedy that become more evident in performance. By viewing clips of the same Shakespeare scene in different film versions, high schoolers have the opportunity to engage in a close...
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Visual Puns - Paper Mache Sculpture Lesson Plan

Visual Puns - Paper Mache Sculpture

9th - 12th
Explore the pop art movement and create a sculpture in the pop art style based on a visual pun, or play on words. The scholar's work may use humor, allegory, metaphor, or be in the form of a parody. Visual examples are provided, and some...
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Song Parodies about School Lesson Plan

Song Parodies about School

5th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Weird Al Yankovic might have made the parody popular but his name will probably not be familiar to your pupils; however, the songs and illustrations in Alan Katz’s Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs will certainly...
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Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads Lesson Plan

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

8th - 11th
High schoolers deconstruct advertising messages by analyzing parody ads and exploring the purpose of satire. Then they create their own parodies based on real ads discussed in class. A creative activity to extend any study of media,...
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My Blackberry Isn't Working Graphic Organizer

My Blackberry Isn't Working

11th - Higher Ed
This learning exercise starts out on a strong note by using a humorous video called "My Blackberry Is Not Working" from BBC One to teach parody. While they watch the short video, viewers fill out a chart about the electronic brands,...
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Impersonating Great Poets Using "Science Verse" by Jon Scieszka Lesson Plan

Impersonating Great Poets Using "Science Verse" by Jon Scieszka

5th - 7th
A great way to bring poetry and parody into your language arts classroom, this lesson mimics famous poems based on Jon Scieszka's Science Verse. The activity not only allows the class to see examples of poem parodies, but to create their...
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Poetry Presentation

Poetry

12th - Higher Ed
Explore the semantics of poetry with this higher-level presentation. With examples from Dickinson, Frost, and Dr. Seuss, the slides clearly explain the details of poetic structure, license, and schemes. You could use this in a language...
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Parody Presentation

Parody

5th - 8th
Expand your students' literary likings with this quick PowerPoint about parodies. A detailed definition of a parody on the second slide precedes different examples of parodies in pop culture. Tip: Show videos of famous parodies your...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: A Parody of Broken Promises Worksheet

Cartoons for the Classroom: A Parody of Broken Promises

8th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Parodies of political figures are the lifeblood of the editorial cartoons in a free press. North Korea's nuclear threat provides young political scientists an opportunity to hone their critical thinking skills as they analyze a cartoon...
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The Night Before Christmas Parody Lesson Plan

The Night Before Christmas Parody

10th - Higher Ed
Students create a parody for The Night Before Christmas. In this parody lesson, students read the story by Clement Clarke Moore and then alter it to become a parody. Students present their parody and may dress in costume.
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Satire in Fiction Lesson Plan

Satire in Fiction

12th
Twelfth graders identify satire in various fictional texts.  For this language arts lesson, 12th graders will learn to define satire, parody, and caricature. Students will identify different forms of satire in historical and modern-day...
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Same but Different- Parody Reading Excerpt Lesson Plan

Same but Different- Parody Reading Excerpt

6th - 8th
In this language arts worksheet, student read a selection that is a parody of Cinderella before writing an original parody of their own.
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Parodies of Shakespeare Lesson Plan

Parodies of Shakespeare

9th - 12th
Students view a video clip about parodies. They identify the characteristics of a parody in Mark Twain's work as well. They practice writing Shakepeare like verses.
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Funny Business Lesson Plan

Funny Business

6th - 12th
Learners discuss how much they understand of satire and parody. They read an article about an Iraq news parody show. They create and act out their own parody skit. They write an essay about using humor in grave situations.
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Elemental Sequences In Music Lesson Plan

Elemental Sequences In Music

6th
Sixth graders distinguish several sequences of sound as they explore the basic elements in musical compositions in this seven activity unit. Spoken sequences lead to the use of the major musical scale to create songs.
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Tee-Hee T.V. Lesson Plan

Tee-Hee T.V.

6th - 12th
Students examine the concept of satire by reading lyrics to a song and reading "Soap and the Campus: A Web-Site Spoof Succeeds." They create treatments for parodies based on current television shows.
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Deciphering the Mechanics of Poetry Lesson Plan

Deciphering the Mechanics of Poetry

8th
Eighth graders analyze a variety of poems to develop the ability to recognize and explain a variety pf poetic devises.
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