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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Poetry Lesson: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students will choose a color and write a poem. Students will use personification and speak from the point of view of the color. Then students will use watercolor paints to exemplify their poem about a color.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: The Giver

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This blendspace includes thirty-two spaces with content connected to Lois Lowry's dystopia novel, The Giver. Links include novel discussion questions, author interviews, and video tutorials to review literary topics.
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Article
Other

Hindu Website: An Essay on the Hindu Way of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the reasons that Hinduism as a religion cannot be separated from Hinduism as a way of life. Understand Hindu belief and practice.
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover a world beyond "The Glass Menagerie," when you visit this site featuring links to lesson plans for this work. This site also features links to information on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.
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Activity
TES Global

Tes: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students' understanding of literary concepts related to William Golding's Lord of the Flies is reinforced with this card sort activity.
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Handout
Cool Fire Technology

Brain Bank: Art Movements and Periods

For Students 9th - 10th
This website alphabetizes and briefly describes all the major movements in the history of visual arts. Good for use as a general reference for Art History studies and the study of historically based painting and art.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Not So Loony Toons

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how political cartoonists use symbolism, exaggeration, humor, and caricature to comment on current events. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Not So Loony Toons

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about editorial cartoons and how they use symbolism, exaggeration, humor, and caricature. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Forms of Art Symbolism

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text on symbolism in art. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Statue of Liberty Cyber Hunt

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore the Statue of Liberty through this informative resource.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Symbolism

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on symbolism in literature and how it reveals a deeper meaning. It provides a slide show that discusses what symbolism is, why and how it is used, how to identify it, common symbols, and classic symbols.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Symbolic Character

For Students 9th - 10th
Five slides that introduce symbolic characters and provide examples from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Allegory

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on allegory by defining characteristics and providing examples.
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Article
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Symbolism

For Students 3rd - 8th
This websites provides a detailed article about symbolism in art.
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Article
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Look for the Symbol in the Sculpture

For Students 3rd - 8th
This websites answers the question, "What is a Symbol?" Click on the sculptures for a description of the symbols in each work.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive exhibit takes learners on a literary journey through the classic short story.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: I Have a Metaphor

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson plan in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism and to evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Symbolism/allegory (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a text.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 10th Standards
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Symbolism and Allegory (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a text.
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Website
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Julius Caesar Analysis: Literary Devices in Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the literary devices used by Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Each device is linked to additional pages with more detailed information and examples.
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Handout
Other

Julius Caesar: Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides examples of how literary devices are used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Looks at irony, motifs, themes, symbols, and how language is used.
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Website
Other

Hinduwebsite: What Is the Correct Way of Life?

For Students 9th - 10th
A long article addressed to Hindus as a guide to how they are to live according to the teachings of Hinduism.