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Neh: Edsit Ement: Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
In this lesson plan, students will consider Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire". Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 3: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 3: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: L2: "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris
In this lesson plan, learners will consider Lesson 2: "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
In this lesson plan, learners will consider Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. They will learn to support their analyses with detailed...
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Neh: Edsit Ement:sor Juana:la Monja Y La Escritora:las Redondillas Y La Respuesta
For this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana, la monja y la escritora: Las Redondillas y La Respuesta. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the first great...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Sor Juana, La Poetisa: Los Sonetos
In this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will analyze two sonnets of Sor Juana Ines de la...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and the Reply
In this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. This lesson plan will help students study both Las...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
In this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will analyze two of Sor Juana's sonnets: "A su retrato"...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Steinbeck's Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"
In this lesson plan, students will consider Steinbeck's Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath". Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will compare nonfiction...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
For this lesson plan, students will consider Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. This lesson plan explores symmetry in the structure and themes...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Three Shots: Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams
In this lesson plan, students will consider Three Shots: Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare's Hamlet
In this lesson plan, students will consider Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson, students will learn to distinguish generic verbs from...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. The activities in...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: A Wrinkle in Time: The Board Game
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider A Wrinkle in Time: The Board Game. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: American Literary Humor: Twain, Harris, and Hawthorne
In this curriculum unit, students will consider American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Faulkner's Sound and the Fury:narrating Compson Family Decline
In this curriculum unit, students will consider William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab....
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Morality "Tails" East and West
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Voice of Nationalism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater
The emphasis is on the beginnings of the Abbey Theater. The selection discusses Yeats' contributions to the establishment of the theater, some of the movements and more current writers under what is called the "Celtic Revival."
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Neh: Edsit Ement: The u.s. In Ww Ii: The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "The United States in World War II:"The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force"" in 4 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the...