Students research Rudy Autio. In this research lesson students maneuver through the Internet to better understand the artist Rudy Autio. They examine his background, educational experiences, art production, influences, and style.

In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 11 multiple choice questions about Bradbury's Farenheit 451. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 14 multiple choice questions based on various Shakespearean sonnets. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Middle schoolers explore the concept of a community. They identify and group various kinds of communities. Students create a concept map exemplifying their membership in different communities. They write a narrative describing their...

For this literary terms worksheet, students define and discuss ten literary terms associated with literature and complete a word search puzzle.

First graders examine how to identify the different elements of a story and how they fit in a definite sequence. The use of comprehension skills is essential to retell the story as desired within the lesson plan.

Students initiate and sustain a conversation of three or more exchanges on a topic while exploring a collection of large photographs pertaining to that topic. The teacher creates a comfortable setting and provide a variety of books...

Learners explore how disease and epidemics have the potential to shape communities. They examine their impact on culture and specifically the literature of the time. Students investigate how trade routes accelerated the movement of...

The University of Victoria's English department gives a comprehensive definition of the "ode" poetic form. Short examples included.

This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...

[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats.

Online text to nine of his odes. Links are provided at the top of the page for access to each ode.

A learning module that begins with Thomas Gray's poem "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...

A learning module that begins with the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...

This single-stanza poem tells a story from the poet's imagined news story.

This lesson includes a poem in two voices and is adapted from the poem by Eric Ode in Rolling in the Aisles, published by Meadowbrook Press. Students will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem about a boy who learns a...

In "We're Going Skiing", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from I Hope I Don't Strike Out!'s poem by Eric Ode, students will dramatize a poem about a child who gets a surprise when she goes skiing.

Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with notes.

This site contains 22 poems written by John Keats and some biographical information about him. The titles of the poems link to their full text.

This site contains the poem, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," by John Keats. Also contains notes on the poem.

A brief explanation of what a lyric poem is and the different types based on structure. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects

Read this four-stanza poem about a mouse that helps you work your computer.

In "Bad Baxter Barton," students will participate in a dramatization of a poem. Adapted from the poem "Bad Baxter Barton" originally published in Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones) by Eric Ode, students will assume roles...

A brief overview of John Keats life and poetry in the English Romantic movement. Uses several lines from Keats' poem "To Autumn" as an example of the writing of the early 1800s.