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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Create Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them. Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Learning Math: Min, Max and the Five Number Summary

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Explore how to interpret a large set of data by dividing it up into smaller portions in order to answer statistical questions.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Box and Whisker Plots Grades 11 12

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept teaches students how to use the five-number summary to make a box-and-whisker plot.
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Other

Homework Online: Lord of the Flies, Chapter Summaries

For Students 9th - 10th
Read chapter summaries of William Golding's novel, "Lord of the Flies." These summaries each include information about the chapter's plot and comments on the meaning behind Golding's writing.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Box and Whisker Plots Grade 8

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make Box-and-Whisker Plots to represent data.
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Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Great Gatsby Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative summary highlights the key points in the novel.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson:using Art to Study Plot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students examine the artwork in Lasceaux Cave in France via Internet and illustrate a chapter summary from Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson in "caveman style."
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "The Merchant of Venice"

For Students 9th - 10th
An independent review/assessment for students of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". This site takes students through the details of context, plot, themes, characters, and dramatic effect in the play. Made for students preparing to...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Madame Bovary : Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide provides information on the plot, themes, author, and context of the novel, "Madame Bovary." Here, refresh your knowledge of the book's major characters and events and study important themes and ideas through "Sample...
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Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Chronological Order

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize the order of events in a selection provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as plot diagrams, probable passages, story mapping, summary...
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Website
Other

Novelguide.com: All's Well That Ends Well

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, where you can get plot summary, character profiles, and theme analysis on the Shakespearean comedy, "All's Well that Ends Well," is a good resource to accompany a reading of the play. Included is a brief biography of...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: A Guide to "The Pigman"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four pages of plot summary, classroom considerations, post-reading activity suggestions and other resources.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
Read all about the Adventures of Huckleberry in this comprehensive site that covers the major points of the plot.
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Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Romeo and Juliet Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
This useful summary highlights the key points in Romeo and Juliet.
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Other

Novel Guide: Measure for Measure

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide for Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," in addition to providing a summary of the text, gives character profiles and theme analyses. Also included is a brief biography of William Shakespeare.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to Slaughterhouse Five [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This four page .pdf offers post-reading suggestions, chapter summaries, background information and a brief bio, among other features.
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Other

Nildram: Plots of Twilight Zone Episodes

For Students 9th - 10th
Season Three of the twilight zone, thirty-seven episodes at this site--with a summary of each.
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Other

Elements of Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Simple discussion of the elements of fiction with a specific section devoted to Freytag's Pyramid (aka "basic plot structure"). A good place to start for gathering information on the structure of narrative.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Quartiles, Boxes, and Whiskers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to construct a simple box-and-whisker plot, and demonstrates the steps. Discusses quartiles and medians, shows how to find them, and explains how they relate to box-and-whisker plots.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Get on the Stick

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use a CBR 2 to measure the reaction time of catching a stick. They also learn how to interpret a box plot, and make a five number summary of a single variable data set.
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Website
Absolute Shakespeare

Absolute Shakespeare: The Tempest Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a complete study guide for William Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest including a plot summary of each act, commentary, a review of the characters, a character analysis, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous essay on The...
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TES Global

Tes: Henry Iv: Part I: 2014 Teacher Pack

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Royal Shakespeare Company guide to teaching Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, a sequel to Richard II. It includes an introduction to King Henry IV's court, the social and historical background...
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Comedy: Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive study guide/lesson for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and also about Shakespeare's comedies in general. It includes an introduction, worksheets, plot summaries of different...

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