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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Article
Other

Unboxed: Collaboration, Critique and Classroom Culture

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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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Website
Other

Media Line: Interactive Resource for Television Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a multimedia information center for journalists working (or hoping to work) in television. Great visuals and reader-friendly copy.
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: N. Scott Momaday

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page for a wealth of resource links on Momaday and criticisms of his work.
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Website
Other

When Love Hurts: Critique of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe"

For Students 9th - 10th
A critique of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe" by Shirley Galloway.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Attn to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Paying Attention to Technology Reviewing a Technology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Activity
Other

Civil War Book Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides good examples of critical book reviews of Civil War literature.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Analysis: Critical Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Article
Other

California State Univ.: Humanities and Dance Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Website
Other

Isaac Asimov (1920 1992) Obituary

For Students 9th - 10th
This obituary offers a critique of Asimov's (1920-1992 CE) writing and career.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Graphic Organizers for Download

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
New York University

New York University: r.k. Narayan an Astrologer's Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This New York University offers a summary of and commentary on "An Astrologer's Day" by R.K. Narayan.
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: The Book Review or Article Critique

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents a series of questions to ask yourself before writing a book review or article critique. Most appropriate for non-fiction works.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Critiquing a Source

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to critique a research source for reliability. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite