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National Humanities Center

Teaching Emily Dickinson: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Three of Emily Dickinson's poems, "I like to see it," "Because I could not stop for Death," and "We grow accustomed to the Dark," provide instructors with an opportunity to model for class members how to use close reading strategies to...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Setting and Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson defines setting and theme, explains the relationship between them and offers strategies to find the theme in fiction writing.