In this project-based learning assessment, students create music playlists to go along with the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Students choose six songs that align with various aspects of the book, and create a poster with images that go along with each song.
Mythweb is a reference site which may be used in conjunction with studying Greek mythology and Greek Heroes. The resource contains full versions of heroic myths such as Hercules. There are is also a fully searchable encyclopedia, which may be used as a method of assistance during study of Greek literature.
In this video resource from PBS Learning Media, students will consider Mark Twain as the enormous "noticer" and explore the humor that Twain found in the ordinary details of life.
In this lesson, students read he novel "Out of the Dust" and respond to FCAT-like questions about the novel and write a free-verse poem modeled after the author's.
This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes discussion questions designed to enhance student understanding of Nella Larson's book, Passing--an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York.
In this activity, students look closely at persuasive imagery in Nadine Gordimer's "A Chip of Glass Ruby." There are three versions with varying levels of support for students.
In this lesson on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students will explore paragraph 3 and the narrator's detailed plan to murder the old an. Students will focus on Poe's structural choices, particularly the manipulation of time, and the effects this has on the reader.
In this lesson, students will explore Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by listening to a version of it and then analyzing the first paragraph in order to ascertain the narrator's purpose.
In this extensive unit, students will work together to research and explore translated poems and their authors.
In this Penguin Reader's guide to Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.
Worksheets, actvities and quizzes to reinforce identifying narrator's point of view.
Lessons and activities on identifying narrator's point of view.
In this video resource from PBS Learning Media, students will identify and describe the influence slavery had on Mark Twain's writing and then determine the status of race relations and ethnic differences in their lives.
In this second activity based on Ken Burn's Mark Twain, students will consider examples of Twain's vernacular storytelling through his pictures of race relations and the lives of African Americans in his time.
This material can be used with students in Middle School and High School students either in Eglish or English Language Learner class. You can follow the steps that I am suggesting with your students
Students read a poem and draft a response focusing on author's point of view. This activity may be used as a means to review constructed response writing or as a means to help teach the correct methods.
In this lesson, students will analyze an excerpt from Mary Rowlandson's The Captive: The True Story Of The Captivity Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Among The Indians. They then compare an excerpt of Shakespeare's The Tempest with Aimé Césaire's A Tempest in order to facilitate a postcolonial reading of Shakespeare. Students will arrive at an understanding of "the other" and will consider how canonical literature may position white characters in relation to those of different ethnicities.
In this activity, students create a storyboard that highlights the important symbolic people and places throughout Dante's journey.
In this lesson, students will discuss what myths are, identify how modern-day writers reinterpret myths to reflect contemporary themes and points of view, and rewrite a myth in a modern version from the point of view of another character in the story.
In this lesson plan, students rewrite part of The Odyssey from the perspective of a minor character. Students choose one of Odysseus' adventures from the text, then consider how the characters on the other side of his conquests might perceive what happened.