This lesson helps students become more familiar with poetry concepts by using photography to jumpstart the critical thinking process. Students compare photographs to poetry after recording their reactions to each.

This activity introduces the novel The Book Thief by having students explore the text features of the novel before reading it. There are two versions to support varying levels.

With this digital collection, students will examine documents that develop the context for Shakespeare’s Roman plays. They include excerpts from his primary source on classical Rome, representations of Rome by other Renaissance writers, and, finally, interpretations of Shakespeare’s characters by artists from later centuries. Students will consider the following questions as they review the documents: 1. How did Shakespeare’s contemporaries represent classical Rome? What relationships do they suggest between ancient Rome and Renaissance England? Which issues does Rome seem to raise for Renaissance writers or allow them to explore? 2. In what ways do Shakespeare’s plays reinforce or differ from other Renaissance representations of Rome? Which issues does he call attention to, revise, or adapt in his retelling of Roman history? 3. How did artists portray Shakespeare’s characters in the centuries that followed the original staging of Julius Caesar and Coriolanus? What about these plays seems to have mattered most to subsequent audiences?

This lesson plan is designed to introduce students to the rhythms of poetry. The lesson focuses on two poetic forms: the Ballad stanza and the Blues stanza. Lesson includes notations to incorporate poetry analysis and recitation. The lesson also involves practice skills to recognize and understand poetic structures such as: iambs, measures and rhythm. It includes a link to applicable music files.

In this lesson, students construct their own carousel to go along with the one in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Students work in groups of four or five to create their carousel, including features designed to represent the fears and desires of the students creating it.

In this lesson, students compare Ray Bradbury's novel Something Wicked This Way Comes to the movie adaptation from the 1980s. Students complete a chart comparing the two versions of the story before moving on to a sheet of questions and an assessment of the teacher's choice.

This is a link that is very helpful! It will allow you to split a PDF if you need to pull individual pages from it or break it apart. For me, this was useful to save the PDF without saving the attached answer key.

Exploring the use of style in literature helps students understand how language conveys mood, images, and meaning. After exploring the styles of two authors, students will translate passages from one author into the style of another. Then they will translate fables into style of one of the authors.

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In this lesson, students will compare and analyze a portrait of the poet Amy Lowell and her poem, "A Fixed Idea."

In this lesson, students will examine a painting and a poem in order to better understand the theme.

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast a photograph with the poem, "A Small Needful Fact."

In this lesson plan, students will explore a cover from Harper's Bazaar and the poem "America" by Richard Blanco.

In this lesson, students will compare and analyze a news article with the poem, "American Pharoah."

In this lesson, students will have paired discussion, analyze a painting by John Singer Sargent, and use these explorations to further delve in to the poem, "Arabs in Finland."

In this lesson, students will use both the painting "Sunrise on the Matterhorn" by Albert Bierstadt and the poem, "Before a Painting" in order to help them create their own tableau and explore the meaning in the poem.

In this lesson, students will explore the connections between their own experience, a song, and a poem, all detailing aspects of winter.

In this lesson, students will use a drawing by Anne Goldthwaite, Night Series: The Cat, in order to delve more deeply into the theme and meaning of the poem, "Black Cat" by Rainer Maria Rilke.

In this lesson, students will explore a film excerpt with the poem, "Business" by Naomi Shihab Nye in order to deepen their understanding of the themes.

In this lesson, students will delve into the imagery and symbolism of the ocean through both a painting and a poem, "Carrying Our Words."