In this TED Ed lesson focused on the evolution of the word "x ray," students will explore its roots, connotations, usage, and meaning. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.
In this TED Ed lesson focused on the evolution of the word "yankee," students will explore its roots, connotations, usage, and meaning. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.
In this TED Ed lesson focused on the evolution of the word "zero," students will explore its roots, connotations, usage, and meaning. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.
Students will learn a new vocabulary word each day, along with reinforced definitions, video resources, and articles from the New York Times the word has appeared in.
Improve student vocabulary with this large collection of student NYT crossword puzzles with answer keys. Search by topics including Black History Month, The Declaration of Independence, The Great Depression,
The Cold War, The Great Recession, American Labor History, Hispanic Heritage, The Pilgrims and much, much more.
This lesson will provide students with the background information needed to correctly identify the eight parts of speech. It will also help provide them with the information needed to use them correctly.
This lesson is designed to assist students with improving their use of punctuation to include: commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points. The lesson is designed to encourage students to focus on emotions and their connections with given forms of punctuation. By examining emotions, students gain the ability to better understand the different uses of various punctuation marks. The lesson includes multiple student handouts and examples. There are also pertinent extension activities attached.
In this lesson, students identify and explain the effect of metaphors, similes, and personification in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
In this lesson, students find and explicate literary terms exemplified in lyrics of songs.
Possible Sentences is a pre-reading vocabulary strategy that activates students' prior knowledge about content area vocabulary and concepts. Before reading, students are provided a short list of vocabulary words from their reading, which they group and eventually use to create meaningful sentences. After reading, students check to see if their "possible sentences" were accurate or need revising.
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.
Students will spend time learning and using common prefixes. Students will use prefixes and create words that they will share. Students will attempt to use prefixes properly in order to better understand their meanings.
This lesson is designed to assist students through multiple sessions with identifying relevant propaganda techniques in literature, discussing persuasive elements found in print and non-print media and composing a persuasive essay. Lesson is appropriate for use with a provided list of novels to include Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
This resource is an interactive SAT matching activity which helps students practice vocabulary skills.
The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This technique uses a matrix to help students discover how one set of things is related to one another. Use this strategy to help students: understand the meaning of selected vocabulary words; group vocabulary words into logical categories; analyze the completed matrix.
In this lesson, students work cooperatively to develop effective study aides and review for tests in a whole-group setting.
This lesson focuses on the author's use of language; moreover, how it is used to convey mood, images, and meaning. Students are tasked here with examining a selection identifying examples of stylistic devices within the passages. Next, students discuss possible reasons for author's selected style choices. The lesson is detailed with examples from Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, yet the lesson may be altered to be used with other instructor selected text.
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.
Students engage in a character study of the numerous figures created by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Students first compare and contrast several forms of communication: email, text message, and telephone. They then complete a character study chart that breaks down physical background, character traits, social status/background, unanswered questions about the character, and a final judgment about the character. Next, students will create text messages between numerous characters that show the relationship between the characters, their background, and plot points that they are involved in. The lesson concludes with students sharing their text messages and a discussion of the rationales behind their choices.
In this lesson, students will explore meaning and nuance in words in order to deepen their analysis of the poem, "Breaking News."