Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Text: Meter and Rhyme
OnTRACK English II Reading, Module 3, Lessons 1-12, and Practice Lessons 1-3. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry, drama, fiction, and literary non-fiction, and provide...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text Using Strategies to Enhance Style & Tone
A learning module that teaches students about using literary devices to enhance style and tone in four lessons: Introduction, Style in Literature, Tone, and Your Turn.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5
A learning module that teaches students about tone, style, and figurative language in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Identifying Diction Indicating Tone, Identifying Figurative Language, Spotting Jarring Departures from Tone in Diction...
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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Elements of Poetry [Pdf]
This is a 2-page PDF of a chart that lists eight elements of poetry, questions to ask concerning each element, and tips and explanations to aid the understanding of each element. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
University of Pennsylvania
U Penn: Poetic Terms and Types
Click on these terms for an excellent definition of these poetic terms, some from the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes types of poetry as well as terms.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Poetry Analysis Fact Sheet
This is a Poetry Analysis Fact Sheet that includes how to analyze the parts of a poem including the title, connotations, tone, shifts, theme, poetic devices, and writing a paraphrase.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Mood
This is a glossary entry for the term "Mood" including a definition and a discussion of mood from "Talkie List Dec 06."
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Make 'Em Laugh or Cry Or
After sharing chapter 19 of Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls as an example of emotion-evoking writing, the students will write their own detailed and emotional paragraphs. Students can draw from background knowledge of a real...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Summertime Inspired Memoirs
By listening and then responding to multiple versions of the song "Summertime," students will understand how songs can convey various moods. Writing about a personal summertime memory, students will try to mimic a mood from one of the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: The American Dream
Using music, video and readings, students will explore their views of the American Dream, and use this information to create "Animoto" videos that express a personal opinion or take on the dream. Students will develop and support their...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Listen to the Word Choice of Authors: Crafting a Poem
Students will analyze a poem's word choice and then create a poem of their own using word wall vocabulary.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Paulsen Inspired Nature Poems
In this lesson students will write a poem based on the descriptors in one of Gary Paulson's novels.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Death Personified
In this lesson, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.
Vocabulary.com
The New Sat: Words to Capture Tone List #1
This site contains a list of 25 words, associated with the tone of passages, from the New SAT. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
Other
Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Analyzing and Evaluating Literary Works
Lesson plan designed for eleventh graders. Students analyze and evaluate a short story for elements of literary works such as theme, mood, word choice, imagery, tone, and main idea. Includes a student handout and a scoring guide. It...
Other
History, Definitions,& Techniques of Oil Painting
Artist Ron Sanders presents a comprehensive look at oil colors and painting techniques prior to the 20th century. Explanation of mediums, grounds, supports, pigments, techniques and much more. Quotes from and about master artists and...
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University: Sojurn: How to Analyze a Fugue
This page is very helpful in analyzing and understanding fugues. Great site for music theory students and teachers.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Point of View
From the University of Victoria's writing tutorial site, this section provides a multiple-paragraph discussion of point of view.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: General Literary Terms
The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide includes an extensive list of literary and rhetorical terms. List can be displayed alphabetically.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Mob's Voice vs. Hero's Voice
In this instructional activity, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is used to get students to explore point of view and issues related voice in writing and social justice. This instructional activity requires the...
Virtual Salt
Virtual Salt: A Glossary of Literary Terms
This site provides a long list of literary terms complete with full definitions and examples.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Tone Worksheets and Lessons
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying an author's tone. Reinforcement for understanding author's tone is provided through the five different worksheets and a mini-lesson. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connotation: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces connotation and provides examples. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Connotation."
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energetic Musical Instruments
Students will learn to apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. The students must choose from a variety of...