Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Pause, What Did You Say?
Students will analyze ambiguity in Shakespeare's meter using imperfect iambic pentameter lines from Julius Caesar 1.2.1-71. Students will evaluate how the lines reveal character motivation.
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: "Julius Caesar" Characters
This guide examines each character's role and motivation.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement:narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
Using Frost's famous poem, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" as an example of narrative poetry, students explore the artistry and significance of the narrative poem. In addition, this lesson plan provides suggestions for writing...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nature: Cloud Age Four
In this short Nature video, experience the environment of Cloud, a four-year old horse living in the wild. This is one in a series of three videos about Cloud. [2:23]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Decision Is Made
In this video segment from Africa, Flora explains why she is content to return to the bush.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: City Horses Part I
Carolyne DeGrammont of the Cedar Lane Stables in Queens, NY talks about why she enjoys horses in this video segment from Wild TV. [0:51]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Tv: City Horses Part Ii
Wild TV short video in which riders discuss the benefits of coming to the Cedar Lane Stables in New York City. [2:59]
Other
Foundation for a Better Life: Values: Personal and Family Values
A range of media and resources--billboards, televised public service announcements, first-person accounts, quotations--that communicate ideas about the meanings of a wide range of essential values, such as ambition, gratitude, respect,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Prediction and Inference Terms Test
A test with five matching questions and 4 multiple choice questions over the following literary terms: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Prediction and Inference Terms Match
Race against the clock while matching each literary text term with its definition. Terms include: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Prediction and Inference Terms Flashcards
Eight flashcards on literary terms including: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: American Revolutionary?
An interview of Thurgood Marshall's biographer, Juan Williams, from the PBS Newshour. Provides insight into the character, background, and motivation of Thurgood Marshall.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: King of the Bingo Game
Ralph Ellison is one of the most well known African-American writers. This story focuses on a southern black man attempting to win a bingo game to save the woman he has fallen in love with. This site explores the motivations behind the...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Learning Through the Duke
Describe the life of Duke Ellington and his contributions to the field of jazz, write an original poem using a variety of popular vocabulary from the 1920's and respond to Ellington's composition "Mood Indigo" by creating a painting.