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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Night of the Blizzard One Teacher's Story [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script of blizzard story co-written by Mary Evans Andrews, a free-lance writer, and a former early 1900's teacher, "Miss Lydia", is provided on these pages. Ten character roles are needed in this activity. Reading...
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Other

Cummings Study Guides: Much Ado About Nothing, a Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a study guide for William Shakespeare's Comedy Much Ado about Nothing.
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Other

William Shakespeare Info: "The Tempest Play by William Shakepeare"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on The Tempest by William Shakespeare including information about the play, setting, theme, famous quotes, a summary, facts about the play, a list of characters, and a link to the full script.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: Chapters 1 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on reading The Great Gatsby: Chapters 1-3. It features links to a study guide over the novel, a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Discovery Education video about Fitzgerald, and a quiz over chapters 1-3.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Ray Bradbury

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Ray Bradbury, a prominent science fiction author; it stresses the importance of setting in science fiction and provides a link to a setting activity. The lesson features links to a Bradbury biography, the short...
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Crayola

Crayola: Big as Life Book Report (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a fun idea to display your students' book reports, and encourage reading at the same time! In this online lesson, children use special markers to actually draw their book report on the windows of the library or classroom. Also...
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TES Global

Tes: Scheme of Work: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During these multi-day lessons, students will closely read William Shakespeare's work, The Tempest. Students will analyze characters, plot, and themes. Students will culminate their understanding...
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TES Global

Tes: Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] These PowerPoint slides are designed to provide essential information about the setting of the book, Jekyll and Hyde. Background information of the author Robert Louis Stevenson is included. Students...
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story

For Students K - 1st Standards
Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Describing Setting

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Short explanation of setting as a literary term. Written in the context of "What makes a good short story?" A link at the bottom of the page leads to additional information about setting.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Wrinkle in Time 6th Grade Unit

For Teachers 4th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks Unit engages students in a deep study of Madeleine L'Engle's science fiction work, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will investigate the following topics: the book's theme, the science fiction...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Lesson 1: Visualizing a Setting

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the course of this lesson plan, 3rd graders will learn to determine the setting of what they read by using context clues and visualization.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Story Elements Using Cinderella

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Listen to an explanation of the story elements in Cinderella including exposition, characters, setting, sequence, conflict, climax, and resolution.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Explain Influence of Setting on Plot Development in Literary Text

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will review two elements of fiction, setting and plot, and learn how the setting influences the plot in stories.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Explain Influence of Setting on Plot Development in Literary Text

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson is about the relationship between setting and plot. The setting enhances the story by folding the plot into a place and time that fits perfectly with what is going on; in fact, it is often the setting that makes the action...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Story, Identity, Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Delve into the art of storytelling in this self-guided unit. Multiple topics are covered such as literary genres, the 7 elements of fiction, figurative language, theme, characterization, etc. At the end of the unit, write your own flash...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Rl.3.9: Compare and Contrast Themes, Settings, and Plots

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 16 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.9.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lorraine Hansberry: "A Raisin in the Sun": Analyzing Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this interactive lesson, discover how literary techniques like setting, characterization, and conflict contribute to the overarching theme of a text. Through analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play A Raisin in the Sun, explore...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These animated shorts introduce or review literary elements and techniques like theme, setting, figurative language, characterization, and conflict. They can be used when students are just learning how to identify the most commonly used...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Setting in to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students explore the importance of setting in literature and apply their learning to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Students are introduced to the three main components of setting: time, place,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Setting: Eatonville, Florida

For Students 9th - 10th
In this media gallery from the American Masters film Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun, students will learn about Eatonville, Florida-Zora Neale Hurston's hometown and the setting of her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles 2: The Mysterious Moor

For Students 9th - 10th
Students examine the importance of setting in this excerpt about the moors, from Masterpiece's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The legend of the hound that haunts the mysterious landscape of Dartmoor captured Arthur Conan...
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British Library

British Library: Bronte's Wuthering Heights: Walking the Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will explore the landscape of Wuthering Heights from a range of different angles. They will compare the fictional landscape described in Emily Bronte's novel with a number of other sources and consider why a...