Texas Gateway: Contrast Media's Message With Traditional Text English I Reading

In the first few sections, you are going to learn about monologues and soliloquies before you get to that last possibility, dramatic irony. You already know how dialogue works, but you will learn to recognize these additional dramatic...

You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.

This practice activity focuses on identifying figurative language, determining literal from figurative language, and connecting figurative language to settings. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances

You will learn how to synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will sharpen your skill in reading figurative language and in connecting it with the historical and cultural settings in the text.

Become acquainted with the origins and meanings of foreign words and phrases frequently used in English texts.

Read a text and understand how the figurative language of a literary work contributes to its historical and cultural setting.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on allusions to mythological, classical, and traditional texts and understanding what allusion is, its importance and use as a literary device, and how to...

In this lesson, you will practice making connections between ideas on the same topic. Some of the ideas will differ from each other, so we will learn how to identify and synthesize important details and draw conclusions. W.9-10.7 Research

Recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.