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Shakespeare, the 900-pound Guerilla: or Performing Scenes for Unsuspecting Audiences
High schoolers perform a scene from Shakespeare for an unsuspecting audience in a public setting. In this Shakespeare activity, students create a Shakespearean "flash mob" or "guerilla theater" event. High schoolers choose a scene to...
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A Separate Peace Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about John Knowles's a Separate Peace. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse: Study Guide - Mini Essays
For this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. Students may check some of their answers online.
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The Stranger Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Albert Camus's The Stranger. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein: Study Guide - Mini Essays
For this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Three Cups of Tea Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to twenty-five multiple choice questions about Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Wide Sargasso Sea Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Animal Farm Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about George Orwell's Animal Farm. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature activity, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Students may check some of their answers online.
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to eight short answer and essay questions about Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Light in August Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Faulkner's Light in August. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Review of Magnetic Forces and Fields
In this physics worksheet, students answer 50 multiple choice questions on properties of and behavior of magnetic fields and forces.
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Mistaken Identities, Misrepresentations, and Changes of Mind
Learners study a play and then discuss the mistaken identities, misrepresentations, and changes of mind that occur. In this discussion of plays lesson plan, students learn new vocabulary words and discuss and differentiate between these...
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Mardi Gras
Students explain why carnivals and Mardi Gras became a famous celebration. They reproduce some of the traditions and customs related to Mardi Gras. They write a persuasive paper on why or why not we should continue to celebrate Mardi Gras.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Quiz
In this Uncle Tom's Cabin worksheet, students determine answers to questions pertaining to characterization, plot, and setting in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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The Interwar Years (1919-1938): Study Questions
In this online interactive history worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about years between World Wars I and II.
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Conspiracy after the Storm: Editing Dual Murder Plots in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
Students edit scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest in documentary fashion and perform their edited scripts. In this play analysis activity, students read through Act 2 and 3 and discuss how and why to cut lines in a play. Students...
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The Play's the Thing
Students study the life and works of William Shakespeare. They investigate the art of playwriting and write a play of their own.
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Vocabulary Review #89 - Christmas
In this vocabulary review #89 - Christmas instructional activity, students interactively complete 10 sentences about the Christmas holidays in America and Britain, with immediate online feedback.
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Lose the Lute!
Students use Shakespeare's plays to add modern music to match the mood in the play. They assign adjectives to the original songs of the play and find a song with the same mood. They work together to role-play the play with new music.
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Prospero: Turkey or Tyrant?
Students study characterization and the difference between subjective and objective points of view by creating tableaux to depict three interpretations of the story of Prospero's overthrow, each with a very different point of view. They...
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The Great Chicago Fire: Did Mrs. O'Leary's Cow Really Cause It?
Students research the Great Chicago Fire and its myths on how it started. They use their critical thinking skills to determine what really happened. They write an essay supporting their opinion on the fire.
