1 Unlocking Soliloquies and Unleashing the "Dogs of War" Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: To help students feel confident about breaking down and interpreting soliloquies, this lesson uses Mark Anthony's soliloquy over Caesar's dead body. Active participation and movement is required as students join in a sequence of oral reading experiences to examine the soliloquy's pattern of lines, meter, and emotional impact.... 2 Language Arts: Shakespeare's Sonnets Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: One of the difficulties teachers face when they teach Shakespeare is language accessibility. Twenty-first century students often have difficulty understanding the words, and so they miss the meaning of his plays and sonnets.... 3 Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read and analyze sonnets to discover their traditional forms. In groups students chart the characteristics of the poems then review the details for similarities, deducing traditional sonnet forms that the poems have in common.... 4 Exploring Satire with Shrek Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use the familiar characteristics of fairy tales to analyze the movie Shrek, which satirizes fairy tale traditions, as an introduction to the satirical techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. Students brainstorm fairy tale characteristics and identify the satirical techniques used to present them in the movie.... 5 Using Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in Night Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson for middle and high school students explores the use of symbolism in Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel Night. After learning about symbolism and discussing its use in the book, students create visual representations using an online Literary Graffiti tool.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students write poetry that captures their feelings about their city or town. After reading and discussing the poem "Mannahatta" about New York City, students brainstorm words and ideas for original poems.... 7 In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses poetry to build students' understanding of poetry and the poet's voice. Further, students analyze the elements a poet uses to develop meaning.... 8 The "Secret Society" and FitzGerald's The Great Gatsby Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: The high school social scene is rife with drama. Who's out?... 9 Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 7–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson invites students to explore the things relevant to a character from Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, to unlock the drama's underlying symbolism and themes. After reading the play, students choose one character from the play, explore that character in detail, and then write a character-idea poem about an object associated with... 10 Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students read and examine the novel, As I Lay Dying. Students explore the social and historical context in which the novel was written and draw parallels between the author's experiences and the way life is depicted in the text.... |