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Penguin Books

A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare's King Lear

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
King Lear is a powerful and complex tragedy that looks deeply into political power and family dynamics, loyalty, betrayal, aging, and madness. This teaching guide includes scene-by-scene plot summaries, information about the...
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Lied Center of Kansas

The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Both The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare are great additions to an elementary language arts lesson plan. Young readers focus on the literary elements of each story, including characters and plot development, and...
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Novelinks

The View From Saturday: Concept/Vocabulary Analysis

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Design your unit on The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg with a concept and vocabulary analysis resource. It outlines the plot, literary elements, vocabulary issues, and any possible considerations for planning a differentiated...
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Simon & Schuster

Les Miserables Classroom Activities

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Modern readers apply classic themes to Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables. After they discuss tricky vocabulary and plot elements from the novel, class members compare Hugo's written work to a stage or film adaptation of the...
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EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 4: Unit 2, Lesson 7

For Teachers 10th Standards
One sentence, so much meaning. Scholars analyze a quote from Act 2.3 of Shakespeare's Macbeth and explore the plot in a jigsaw discussion.
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Curated OER

Storytelling and Drawing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students orally retell the Yosemite Miwok legends and design accompanying artistic depictions. They discover the various storytelling elements, such as plot and theme.
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Curated OER

Unit Plan: Short Stories

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders complete a unit of lessons on the story elements of Sherlock Holmes short stories. They analyze the plot elements, complete graphic organizers, read and discuss the plots, observe a person and take notes, and analyze an...
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Curated OER

Five Parts That Contribute to the Whole

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students listen to and read an online story. Then they use a graphic organizer to learn the basic story elements. They select another online story and create a graphic organizer for its story elements.
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Curated OER

Reader's Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create booklets to provide information on elements of a novel, including plot, setting, character, major and minor conflicts and theme.
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Curated OER

Theatre Lesson Plan: Finding Your Way

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify story elements in familiar stories from their lives. In this story elements activity, 2nd graders act out familiar activities  by following directions. Students read a story and discuss the story elements....
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Curated OER

Identify and Analyze Literary Concepts

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore plot structure, conflict, setting, and mood. In this literary elements lesson, students read Rosa Parks, My Story and complete the provided plot outline worksheets. Students discuss the text elements of non-fiction...
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Curated OER

Text Under the Microscope

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore plot, setting, point of view, and theme. In this literary elements lesson plan, students read "The Cask of Amontillado," by Poe and the War of the World script by H.G. Wells. Students identify and define...
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Curated OER

Create a Chart

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create charts for story elements. They read two selections that share a common theme and discuss the story elements. They create a chart for the characters, plot, and setting and complete it while reading the selections.
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Curated OER

Chocolate Chaos

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate the ability to examine the elements of a story (theme, plot, setting, mood) and characters, by discussing and writing about each. They have fun with chocolate related activities and enjoy reading about some...
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Curated OER

Break Down

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders apply their understanding of the elements of plot structure and conflict to cooperatively create storyboards and speak effectively as they present their products. They create storyboards for some of the classic Disney...
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Curated OER

Gift of the Magi Test

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore literary elements, plot structure, and story elements. They read "The Gift of the Magi," and identify its theme and elements of the story. Afterward, students discuss the story and take a test over the material studied.
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Curated OER

Let's Watch a Story

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders watch a silent movie and identify the elements of a story. They complete a worksheet attached to the lesson and discuss their answers.
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Curated OER

And the Moral of the Story is...

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners discover the parts of a story through the retelling of a fable as well as characters, plot, and setting. This activity is completed using the program Pixie to create an online storybook.
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Curated OER

Writing Drama-Trying Your Hand at being a Playwright

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders chart the elements of drama. In this performing arts lesson, 5th graders discuss the role of a playwrite, practice doing some Reader's Theatre scripts, write a paragraph about a problem between two people, and perform...
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Curated OER

The Bones of the Story

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students describe the five elements of a story--setting, characters, problem, events, and resolution. They use the Clifford series of books, and a worksheet imbedded in this lesson to help them explain the five elements of a story.
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Curated OER

Novel Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read the novel, Lord of the Flies, then write an essay analyzing the novel. They analyze, in small groups, characters, plot, setting, style, symbolism, theme, critical responses, and historical influences
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Creative Chemistry

Electron Arrangement First Ionisation Energies in Group II and Period 3

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Students complete two graphic organizers in this ionization worksheet by filling in the proton number for given elements. Then, they create two graphs plotting the first ionization energy against the proton number.
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Curated OER

Statistics

For Students 9th
In this statistics learning exercise, 9th graders solve and complete 8 different problems that include various measures of central tendency. First, they find the mean, median, and mode for each set of data. Then, students find the median...
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Curated OER

Character Traits

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the story elements in stories. In this story element lesson, 1st graders read The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter and they identify the characters, character traits, setting, problem, and solution. They...

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