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Caro Clarke

A, B, and C Characters

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This is the ninth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article focuses on what the author calls "A, B, and C Characters," used to describe the different levels of characters.
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Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the seventh installment of a series giving advice to the author who is new to writing novels. This article focuses on how to take your characters and use them and their conflicts to develop the plot of your story. W.9-10.3b...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For this lesson middle schoolers create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Hiroshima by John Hersey

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the non-fiction book Hiroshima by John Hersey including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The book tells the stories of six...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: My Side of the Mountain

For Students 9th - 10th
"My Side of the Mountain", is a Newbery Honor, by Jean Craighead George. This book is about Sam Gribley's adventure in the Catskill Mountains. The novel's themes are nature, independence, survival, and adventure. Make the smart choice by...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Train [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"The Train" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child's first train trip to Grandma's for the summer. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes:...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Traveling With Lewis and Clark [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Traveling with Lewis and Clark" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about traveling with Lewis and Clark on their expedition and the hardships of winter and food shortages they endured. It is followed by constructed-response...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the futuristic novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Alas Babylon by Pat Frank

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the apocalyptic novel Alas Babylon by Pat Frank including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Other

Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"

For Students 6th - 8th
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
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Professional Doc
Other

K 3 Learning pages.com: Fairy Tales

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site provides links to elementary information about Fairy Tales. You will find lesson plans, poems, songs, activities and more when you delve into these resources. Some links are no longer available.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Falling Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces falling action in fiction writing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Climax

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the climax in fiction writing.
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Other

Chulalongkorn University: Elements of Fiction Irony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains four different definitions of irony.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ender's Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Shmoop's study guide for Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel, Ender's Game, includes chapter summaries, character descriptions, explanation of themes, and analysis of various elements in the novel. It also offers study questions and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Analyzing a book takes the form of creating their own when students complete this activity. The stated goal is to help students "Read like writers." Includes link to a template for student use.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rising Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson explains rising action in fiction.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Setting and Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains the relationship between setting and conflict in fiction writing.
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Other

Official Site of Gary Soto

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief biography of author, Gary Soto, and includes links to his current works.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "Washington Square" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Washington Square" 36-page teacher guide features in-depth background materials, genre studies, suggested themes, and elements of fiction. Also includes discussion questions, vocabulary studies, post-reading activities, and group and...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze literature through the study of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Made specifically for students preparing to take the GCSE test, this site is beneficial to all students learning about Stevenson or the elements...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Explain Influence of Setting on Plot Development in Literary Text

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will review two elements of fiction, setting and plot, and learn how the setting influences the plot in stories.

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