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Spelling City: Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on figurative language: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and idioms. It provides lists of examples for each based on three educational levels: elementary, middle school, and high school.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Cuban Crab Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, crabs face numerous obstacles in their migration from their forest home to the Caribbean Sea. [4:09]
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Pbs Learning Media: The World of Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from Nature, Scientists travel to the top of Mount Kilauea to collect molten lava samples for testing.
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Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
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Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.

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