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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...
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Bright Hub Education: Important Quotes From Antigone With Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a series of important quotes from Antigone by Sophocles with analysis of each quote. This analysis helps to improve understanding of the play.
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Poetry Analysis Tpcastt

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
11 slides demonstrating poetry analysis using the TPCASTT format: Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, Theme.
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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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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Looking Critically at Picture Books

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This site describes several ideas and activities to use with picture books and intermediate/middle school age students. Specific title to use are also given.
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Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University (Dr. Mc Clennen): How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This guide is written for college students, but should be very useful for upper level high school students as well. The writer first describes fourteen steps to take in doing a close reading, then provides six pieces of advice on how to...
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SparkNotes

Spark Notes: Mythology by Edith Hamilton

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers all you need to read and study Mythology by Edith Hamilton. It includes an overview, a character list, an introduction to classical mythology, the themes, motifs, and symbols, a summary and analysis, the full text, a...
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Wired for Books: "Their Eyes Were Watching God"`

For Students 9th - 10th
Professors discuss the book by Zora Neale Hurston. Gives insight into the style and character analysis.
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Teaching Channel

Teaching Channel: Exploring Poetic Elements

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a teacher demonstrating and discussing teaching students poetic elements: learning the literary terms, their definitions, and how to apply the information when analyzing poetry.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
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Other

Homework Online: Lord of the Flies

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a short interpretation of William Golding's novel, "Lord of the Flies." Content includes concise chapter summaries, character analysis, explanation of themes and symbolism, and more.
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Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: Studying Relationships in Jane Eyre

For Students 9th - 10th
A very good site from the UK. Gives in-depth analysis on the various relationships in the novel, all centering around the novel's main character.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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Other

Homework Online: Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides an in-depth look at Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Includes a detailed plot summary, plus character analyses, a theme discussion, a Miller biography, and more.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
From a clear introduction which includes "Why Should I Care," to the text and then an analysis of the poem, I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain, this site contains fascinating insights into the writings of the poet. Broken into clearly...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Apples a Peel to Me

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan helps children understand how to graph data by using both real objects, apples, and pictures of apples. Great activity for a variety of themes.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: A Raisin in the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features discussion questions to go along with each scene of the play "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry. Students will gain a broader perspective of Hansberry's work when they visit this site.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street

For Students 9th - 10th
Get important details and analysis about the plot, characters, and themes of Sandra Cisneros's first novel, The House on Mango Street.

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