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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A Web Quest on Iran

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on students researching and learning about Iran's culture, society, and leadership before and after the 1979 Revolution in preparation for reading the graphic novel Persepolis. Students work in small groups to...
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Five Little Monkeys: Comparing and Contrasting

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Five little monkeys sitting on a bed or sitting in a tree? For this close reading lesson, students will compare and contrast the actions of the characters in two of Eileen Christelow's beloved books,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to find the tone in a passage using a close reading strategy. They will also look at diction and discover that examining a writer's...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: "First Day Folly"

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The passage "First Day Folly" focuses on a pre-teen who is nervous about the first day of middle school. It is followed by a comprehension question set and answer key and a vocabulary worksheet for the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students practice reading closely so that you can identify the choices that help create tone, diction, and irony.
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Through this practice lesson, students will learn how to interpret poetry. They will learn how to spot a metaphor, to identify imagery, and be introduced to the terms...
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Doing the exercises in this lesson will help students comprehend the poet's meaning by giving them practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.
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Other

Carson Newman College: Close Reading of a Literary Passage [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a number of questions that students can ask themselves about a literary passage when doing a "Close Reading" and following this with an organized piece of writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Complex Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
During this lesson, students will use close reading strategies to analyze aspects of the setting in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. [7:57] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10, RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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CPALMS

Cpalms: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, students will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text....
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CPALMS

Cpalms: A Chilly Feeling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this close reading lesson, the learners will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses,...
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Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Getting an a on an English Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Written by a college professor, this site discusses five areas for students to work on to improve their writing. The areas are Thesis, Research, Close Reading, Style, and Mechanics. The author is clear and concise in his advice, and...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This a Strategy for Close Reading of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn and practice close reading strategies to help increase your understanding of how to approach challenging and complex texts.
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library:dickens's Oliver Twist:the Criminal World of 19th Century London

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity encourages students to explore the real-life context of Oliver Twist, using a range of sources to find information about crime in 19th-century London. Students will work in groups to discover: the types of crimes that...
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British Library

British Library: Coleridge's Kubla Khan: Composition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity, which aims to develop students' understanding of 'Kubla Khan' after completing an initial study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, will encourage students to make links between the poem and a number of historical sources.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Critical analysis of both the historical documents and the literary texts connected with the Salem trials is key to this lesson, which includes a number of activities and some wonderful resources.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 4: The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and Us

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider Lesson 4: The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and Us. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 3: The Roman Alphabet Is Our Alphabet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 3: The Roman Alphabet is our Alphabet. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Faulkner's Sound and the Fury:narrating Compson Family Decline

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this curriculum unit, students will consider William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab....
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Better Community [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
"A Better Community" is a one page, fictional reading passage that focuses on recycling. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes skills such as sequencing,...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Our Street [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Changing Our Street" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about how the problem of people driving too fast in a neighborhood was solved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Transportation Routes [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Changing Transportation Routes" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about how the problem of public transportation could be solved through the process of surveying the community, developing a workable solution, and presenting it...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Meeting [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
"Community Meeting" is a one page, fictional reading passage about the needs of a community and how they need to work together to meet those needs. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Progress [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
"Community Progress" is a one page, realistic fiction passage about how students created a mural for their school, which generated lots of attention from the press, parents, and other schools. It is followed by constructed-response...