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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources addresses the themes of violence, friendship, and family obligation in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a tragic story of star-crossed lovers and the feud between their...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Differences in Characters' Moral Dilemmas

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson and practice focuses on characters' moral dilemmas. A moral dilemma occurs when a character has to choose between right and wrong actions, often in the face of...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Writing a Movie Summary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Isolation

For Teachers 9th Standards
Students will examine how the theme of isolation is developed in chapters 8-17 of A Lesson Before Dying, as well as the song "I Am a Rock," "No Man is an Island," and an excerpt from Invisible Man. Students will also examine the internal...
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Fiction: Short Story & Novel Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a short story or novel fact sheet offered as a Word document or a PDF. It includes places for title; author; URL; list of important nouns, verbs, phrases, and clauses; setting (includes definition); characterization (including...
Article
TES Global

Tes: Romeo & Juliet 2006 Article: "Civil Blood"

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article "Civil Blood: Why Are the Capulets and Montagues at War?" by Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of English Literature at Warwick University, discusses the themes of violence and love in...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: "The Private," the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Hamlin Garland's short story, "The Return of a Private", that describes the post-Civil War conflicts for western farmers with nature and with other settlers.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Red Light, Green Light

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Building upon their understanding of forces and Newton's laws of motion, young scholars learn about the force of friction, specifically with respect to cars. They explore the friction between tires and the road to learn how it affects...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the ideas of ambition and failure. They learn that conflicts serve as the basis of a text's meaning and that identifying the internal and external conflicts of a story reveals the motivations of complex characters. They...
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TES Global

Tes: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students' understanding of literary concepts related to William Golding's Lord of the Flies is reinforced with this card sort activity.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 5.1 Writing About Literature: The Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn the basics of how to write about literature by asking subjective and objective questions; use tone, diction, and syntax; identify plot elements, and...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to Night [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A useful guide to Wiesel's harrowing narrative, this four page .pdf offers literary conflict identification, chapter summaries, post-reading activity suggestions and other features.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Story Elements

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines the elements of a story: character, setting, theme, and conflict.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Short Story [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short group of exercises for students concerning the elements of a short story. Allows students to examine the major story elements, then apply those elements to a given piece of literature.
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Short Story Elements Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site shares a short story elements trivia game. Examples of short story elements are applied to high school classic literature.
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ProProfs

Pro Profs Quiz Maker: Story Elements Test

For Students 9th - 10th
This test is a 35-question, self-scoring, multiple choice test covering story elements. Java is required.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Divisions

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of primary resources includes historical documents, film, literary texts, and works of art with notes and discussion questions on the conflict and divisions characterizing the 1920s.
Website
A&E Television

History.com: Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
Link directly to the browse-and-search video home for the History Channel, where you can find hundreds of video clips from the channel's programs on historical events, people, themes, and conflicts.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Creative Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Channel your creativity with these writing activities.
Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Drama Films

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about drama films.
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TES Global

Tes: Henry Iv: Part I: 2014 Teacher Pack

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Royal Shakespeare Company guide to teaching Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, a sequel to Richard II. It includes an introduction to King Henry IV's court, the social and historical background...
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TES Global

Tes: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: Approaches to the Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete seve-week lesson plan to teach Coriolanus by William Shakespeare including an introduction to the social, historical, cultural background of the play, character studies of Coriolanus...
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module focuses on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew including why it is considered a "problem play." It includes information about the abuse of women in the 1500-1600's, a chart of how...
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TES Global

Tes: Reel to Real: Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource, created for the Reel to Real education project with the Victoria and Albert Museum, provides film-focused activities based on the 2013 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. These include...

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