In this activity, students will both read and view a video of the poet reading "Valentine for Earnest Mann." Student discussion will focus on the poet's use of structure and imagery and comparing the impact of the poem when read silently versus hearing it read with the poet's own voice and emphasis. Additionally, a supporting photograph accompanies the acitivity and provides extension into the images and ideas presented in the poem.

In this activity, students will both read and listen to a recording of the poet reading "When Giving is All We Have." Student discussion will focus on the poet's use of structure and imagery and comparing the impact of the poem when read silently versus hearing it with the poet's own voice and emphasis.

In this activity, students will both listen and read aloud the Lucille Clifton's poem, "sisters." Student discussion will focus on the poet's use of structure, repetition, and imagery and comparing the impact of the poem when read silently versus hearing it read with the poet's own voice and emphasis.

In this lesson on Oedipus the King, students will analyze textual details relating to both literal and figurative blindness.

To get students thinking about the events in "The Tell-Tale Heart" utilize the anticipation guide and then come back to it after reading while addressing the author's attitude toward the subject(s).

This resource provides stems that align with all the RI and RL standards for grades 9 and 10.

*This remix combines a primary source set on "American Indian Boarding Schools" from the DPLA with an open-source 9th grade literature unit plan on Identity and Culture from Match Fish Tank. In this remix, students are first engaged in inquiry-based examination of a set of primary sources before more closely examining the relationship between identity, society, and schooling in the literary texts links below.For this remix, I have combined two open educational resources to create a text set that enables students to explore the concepts of identity, assimilation, and acclimation in the context of schooling.

Lessons, activities and quizzes on identifying varying text structures including cause and effect, narrative, chronological, cause and effect, sequence, and process structures.

Worksheets with answer keys for a variety of levels to help students identify and/or reveal text structures in seleceted passages.

Students are presented with a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article "˜History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names"™ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

In this resource from the New York Times, a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article ‘History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names’ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

This resource provides a lesson designed to provide students the opportunity to read, analyze, reflect through writing using the text There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury.

This resource provides teachers with background information, discussion questions, literary analysis, and extension literature to help guide students in exploring Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart." It also provides questions that help with exploring plot, character development, imagery, and the placement of this book in the literary tradition.

In this set of three mini lessons, students make judgements on situations and characters from literary works. Students establish criteria for judgement, make graphic organizers to help their thoughts flow, then judge characters from the novel Frankenstein (or another work).

In this lesson, students explore Romeo and Juliet casually en route to a conversation about the relevance of such an old story to today's youth. Students learn some of the plot details of the play before writing their own creative dialogue about tragic romance.

In this lesson, students choose and adapt a myth from the culture of their choice into a short play, which they then perform for the class. Students also write a prologue and make creative decisions, such as whether to modernize the play or not.

This page details two lessons centered around projects based on The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe. Students create masks and discuss the symbolic significance of the seven rooms of Prospero's palace.

In this activity, students view a video of Cuban poet, Omar Perez, reading his original poem "The Concept" and then reflect on the poem and how it speaks to revolution.

This extensive unit plan centered around Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Eqsuivel explores Magical Realism and different critical viewpoints. It includes an overview of the subject matter, strategies for teaching, detailed daily lesson plans with assignments and activities for each day, assessment and discussion questions for each method of criticism, notes on the cultural and historical background, and suggestions for further reading.

This unit plan centered around "Like Water for Chocolate" by explores Magical Realism and different critical viewpoints. It includes an overview of the subject matter, strategies for teaching, detailed daily lesson plans with assignments and activities for each day, assessment and discussion questions for each method of criticism, notes on the cultural and historical background, and suggestions for further reading.