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Prism: The Road Not Taken

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and highlight details of sight in blue, time in red, and agency in green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
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Prism: On Self Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Kahlil Gibran's "On Self-Knowledge" and highlight details that are sacred in blue and details that are secular in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
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Prism: Gettysburg Address

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and highlight details that show logos in blue, ethos in red, and pathos green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
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Prism: Notes on the State of Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" and highlight rhetoric in blue, orientalism in red, and social Darwinism in green. When finished, click save to see how...
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Prism: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Text highlighted in red represents modernism while blue text represents realism. Click on any word to...
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Prism: The Sneetches

For Students 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches" and highlight things you understand in blue and things you do not understand in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as...
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Prism: My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' "My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On" and highlight internal references in blue, external references in red, and references to grace in green. When finished, click...
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Prism: "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Text highlighted in blue represents insightful details, red represents things that are difficult to understand,...
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Prism: "The March of the Flag" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Albert J. Beveridge's "The March of the Flag (1898)." Text highlighted in blue shows benevolence while red shows economic interest in red, and...
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Prism: "Mine Is a Wide Estate" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Still's "Mine is a Wide Estate." Text details that are neutral are blue, non-Appalachian are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see...
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Prism: "Affrilachia" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Frank X. Walker's "Affrilachia." Text details that are neutral are blue, African-American are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see the percentage of...
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Prism: "Kentucke" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Frank X. Walker's "Kentucke" and highlight details that are neutral in blue, African-American in red, and Appalachian in green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
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Prism: "The Road Not Taken" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Text details related to sight are blue, time are red, and agency are green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...
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Prism: "What Mitosis Has to Do With Families" Visualization

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have ReadWorks' "What Mitosis Has to Do with Families." Text details related to descriptions are blue, definitions/examples are red, and comparisons/contrasts are green....
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Prism: "Adho Establishes Working Group on Inclusivity" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Bethany Nowviskie's "Adho Establishes Working Group on Inclusivity." Ideological details are blue and pragmatic details are red. Click on any word to see...
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Prism: "What I Learned From the Incredible Hulk" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Aimee Nezhukumatathil's "What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk." allusions are blue, questions or pauses are red, and details that are liked or important...
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Prism: "Tom Sawyer Chapter 2 Opening" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted the opening of chapter 2 of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer. Emotional details are blue, sensory details are red, and nature details are green. Click on any word to...
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Prism: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue [Excerpt]" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue." Diction is blue while tone is red and imagery is green. Click on any word to see the...
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Prism: "Maples" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Judith Pordon's "Maples." Imagery is blue while personification is red and archetype is green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: "On Self Knowledge" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Kahlil Gibran's "On Self-Knowledge." Blue details are sacred and red details are secular. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that highlighted...
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Prism: "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Mark Twain's "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It." Neutral phrases are blue while non southern phrases are red and southern phrases are...
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Prism: "Douglas Prism" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Frederick Douglas' description of slave overseer Mr. Gore and highlight catalog in blue, anadiplosis in red, and chiasmus in green.
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Prism: Frederick Douglass: Chapter 6

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Chapter 6 of Frederick Douglass' narrative and highlight details that show the power of education in blue, the effect of slavery in red, and gender in green.
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Prism: Douglass Prism

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative and highlight details that show pathos in blue, antithesis in red, and catalog in green.