Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English Ii Reading)
This lesson will focus on summary and critique separately so that you can distinguish between the two. You will learn how to summarize a text and how to distinguish between essential and nonessential information when summarizing. You...
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Unboxed: Collaboration, Critique and Classroom Culture
Create a classroom where students collaborate with others, recognize improvement in their work, and help each other strive to work harder.
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Media Line: Interactive Resource for Television Industry
This is a multimedia information center for journalists working (or hoping to work) in television. Great visuals and reader-friendly copy.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: N. Scott Momaday
Home page for a wealth of resource links on Momaday and criticisms of his work.
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When Love Hurts: Critique of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe"
A critique of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe" by Shirley Galloway.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Attn to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology Lesson Plan
Taking a critical look at our responses to technology and technological advancement is the intent of this ReadWriteThink instructional activity, designed for 3 50-minute classes. Includes student survey, handouts, interactive, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Paying Attention to Technology Reviewing a Technology
Contains plans for five lessons that ask learners to write reviews of pieces of technology (cell phones, webcams, ink pens, satellite dishes, etc.) like they would write reviews of books. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Civil War Book Reviews
This site provides good examples of critical book reviews of Civil War literature.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Critical Analysis
This lesson plan focuses on critical analysis including a definition, a discussion of the three types of structure for critical analysis, and a practice activity.
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California State Univ.: Humanities and Dance Criticism
California State University provides this article by Julie Van Camp. The site discusses the problems with dance criticism and possible solutions.
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Isaac Asimov (1920 1992) Obituary
This obituary offers a critique of Asimov's (1920-1992 CE) writing and career.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Graphic Organizers for Download
These graphic organizers will engage students in planning strategies for writing assignments. Students will participate in planning stories and critiques via story maps and critique planning sheets.
New York University
New York University: r.k. Narayan an Astrologer's Day
This New York University offers a summary of and commentary on "An Astrologer's Day" by R.K. Narayan.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: The Book Review or Article Critique
This site presents a series of questions to ask yourself before writing a book review or article critique. Most appropriate for non-fiction works.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Critiquing a Source
This lesson goes over how to critique a research source for reliability. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite