Semiotics Teacher Resources

Drama enthusiasts explore the importance of set and action in conveying dramatic tension. They act out a polished dramatic piece using the set as a key component of their story. This should be connected to setting as it is also used in...

Ninth graders explore semiotics and the meanings of stage sets.

Students examine Keith Haring's subway art. Public art vs. graffiti is discussed and students create images that convey self-expression. They chose and load images onto Adobe Photoshop thereby investigating the photoshop program.

Meta-cognition can transform learning. If your syllabus includes linguistics to enhance learners' comprehension and expression in English, here is an interactive online quiz to assess what they have learned. Titled "Basic Linguistics,"...

What's the difference between set dressing and a prop? Between a costume accessory and a personal prop? As part of their study of set and prop design, class members engage in a series of activities that prepare them to design a prop for...

In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the difficult words that all begin with "s."

Students read and write poetry that reflects true self expression. They use the published poetry as a springboard instead of a formula to write from the heart.

Click on Denotation, Connotation, and Myth. A discourse in the use of "denotation" and "connotation" as they refer to semiotics and cultural myths.

A slide show that offers a good study of connotation and how it refers to semiotics. Symbols are not the things they represent. L.11-12.5b Nuance

In this lesson you will learn to define and recognize the use of semiotics, a perceptual communications theory. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Semiotics."

This article reviews research that has been conducted in relation to the five types of play, namely physical play, play with objects, symbolic/semiotic play, pretend play, and games with rules.

A complete undergraduate level online course from MIT, originally taught in 2004. This course and its materials are also available in Chinese and Persian.

A complete undergraduate level online course from MIT, originally taught in 2005. A Chinese version of the course is also available.

A PowerPoint presentation on how to communicate a message using image, video, and sound techniques as described by Herbert Zettl. Includes images and links to video examples.

Explanation of Postmodernism as a theory of study. Rather intellectual.

This site is provided for by the State University of Campinas. Well-chosen list of short quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce explaining his "logic of relatives" concept. Good for gaining a basic definition of the term.

Interesting intro to psychoanalysis and its place in literature. Very accessible to students. Good place to start research on the subject.

This is a brief but interesting site from Creative Quotations that is devoted to Barthes' major quotations dealing with literature and criticism. He was the major structuralist critic of modern times.

Biography of a major proponent of structuralism. Provides life info and brief mention of his various work.