In this lesson, students will continue to analyze point of view and figurative language.
In this lesson, students will work in groups to analyze an excerpt of Flush for point of view, figurative language, tone, and meaning.
In this lesson, students will use a Point of View graphic organizer in order to help identify figurative language and assess the point of view of Noah.
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.
Although Danny is a young adult of only 17, he is fully capable of taking his father’s boat out to sea to fish. While out on a solo trip one foggy morning, Danny encounters “something†mysterious in the water. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.
Poets achieve popular acclaim only when they express clear and widely shared emotions with a forceful, distinctive, and memorable voice. But what is meant by voice in poetry, and what qualities have made the voice of Langston Hughes a favorite for so many people?
Worksheets, actvities and quizzes to reinforce identifying narrator's point of view.
Lessons and activities on identifying narrator's point of view.
Students will learn how point of view can change and in what way point of view can be used in text to influence events.
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 lesson will be completed once students have read the script of the play A Raisin in the Sun and watched the film adaptation. Students will complete a learning menu that includes an appetizer, entree, and dessert. All students will complete the same appetizer and entree but will then have a choice for their dessert.
Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help students to comprehend the main points of the reading and understand the organizational structure of a text.
Refugee by Alan Gratz focuses on the survival of three characters who flee their homelands during a period of war. The novel follows their journies to freedom and safety. While students read they would follow the characters' stories using 3-column notes focused on standard-based comprehension questions.
Refugee by Alan Gratz focuses on the survival of three characters who flee their homelands during a period of war. The novel follows their journies to freedom and safety. While students read they would follow the characters' stories using 3-column notes focused on standard-based comprehension questions.
Refugee by Alan Gratz focuses on the survival of three characters who flee their homelands during a period of war. The novel follows their journies to freedom and safety. While students read they would follow the characters' stories using 3-column notes focused on standard-based comprehension questions.
Refugee by Alan Gratz focuses on the survival of three characters who flee their homelands during a period of war. The novel follows their journies to freedom and safety. While students read they would follow the characters' stories using 3-column notes focused on standard-based comprehension questions.
Refugee by Alan Gratz focuses on the survival of three characters who flee their homelands during a period of war. The novel follows their journies to freedom and safety. While students read they would follow the characters' stories using 3-column notes focused on standard-based comprehension questions.
Refugee by Alan Gratz focuses on the survival of three characters who flee their homelands during a period of war. The novel follows their journies to freedom and safety. While students read they would follow the characters' stories using 3-column notes focused on standard-based comprehension questions.