Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Literary Text: Archetypes, Motifs, & Plot in Drama
A learning module that teaches students about archetypes, motifs, and plot in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Character Archetypes, Archetypal Plot Patterns, Other Archetypal Patterns, Archetypal Motifs, and Your Turn.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Archetypes, Motifs, and Plot in Drama (English Ii Reading)
In this lesson, students will learn more about archetypes and motifs, and they will write a scene from a play, incorporating what you have learned into your scene.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: The Journey Motif
This unit focuses on the "Journey Motif" using the following works: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, "Shooting An Elephant" by George Orwell, "Journey" by Edna St. Vincent Millay,"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats, "The...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Theme and Motif in Music
Explore a set of activities covering motif, opera motif, and melodic themes and movies. Several ideas and procedures are listed to help you teach this musical concept to your students.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Archetypes, Motifs, and Plot in Drama (English Ii Reading)
Understand and analyze how archetypes and motifs in drama affect the plot of plays.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Motif
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides a brief description of the literary term "motif."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure, Reg Harris[pdf]
This is the three-page PDF article "The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure" by Reg Harris which outlines the characteristics of the journey motif in literature including the basic eight-step journey pattern.
SparkNotes
Sparknotes: Study Guide: Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
This is a comprehensive study guide for Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. It includes a plot summary, character list, analysis of major characters, summary and analysis of each scene and act, themes, motifs, symbols, explanation...
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Mythology by Edith Hamilton
This site offers all you need to read and study Mythology by Edith Hamilton. It includes an overview, a character list, an introduction to classical mythology, the themes, motifs, and symbols, a summary and analysis, the full text, a...
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University of Rochester: The Camelot Project
This is a website dedicated to Arthurian resources including links to authors and texts, artists and images, characters, symbols and motifs, places, and creatures. With the exception of the authors and texts, all are accompanied by images.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum: Style Guide: Renaissance
An examination of Renaissance style, as it was practiced in England. See examples of Renaissance architecture, furniture, and designs and learn about the motifs that characterize this style of ornamentation. Also learn about the role...
TES Global
Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Rsc Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company teacher reference page provides a list of the themes and motifs in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream along with specific locations of where they are used.
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth Rsc Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a reference guide for teachers of Shakespeare's Macbeth which includes a list of the major themes and motifs within Macbeth and examples of scenes of where to find them.
TES Global
Tes: Rsc: Themes in the Merchant of Venice
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company teaching resource provides a list of themes and motifs in The Merchant of Venice and references where they are used in the play.
TES Global
Tes: Romeo & Juliet Rsc Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a printable reference guide for teachers listing the major themes and motifs in Romeo and Juliet and providing examples of scenes and quotes where you can find them. W.9-10.9a Analysis
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Propaganda Postcards of the Great War: Allies: Celebrating Alliances (3)
Examples of propaganda promoting the Allies with images of animals, flowers, and naval motifs. Captioned thumbnails can be enlarged for viewing purposes by clicking on them.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Spin Me a Story
In a spin-off to studying about angular momentum, students use basic methods of comparative mythology to consider why spinning and weaving are common motifs in creation myths and folktales. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Melody
Learn about one of the basic elements in music, melody. Discover the ideas of melodic shapes and phrases as well as motifs and themes, and how to present these topics to children.
Other
Julius Caesar: Literary Devices
Provides examples of how literary devices are used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Looks at irony, motifs, themes, symbols, and how language is used.
Other
Learn Pysanky: Symbols
A collection of design motifs used in the art of pysanky, or Ukrainian egg decoration. Each symbol is accompanied by its meaning. A color wheel is also shown, with the meanings for each color when used in pysanky.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Capriccio With Venetian Motifs
An image of "Capriccio with Venetian Motifs", created by Canaletto from 1740-45 (Oil on canvas, 51,2 x 68,6 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Capriccio With Venetian Motifs
An image of "Capriccio with Venetian Motifs", created by Francesco Guardi during the 1760's (Oil on canvas, 33 x 51 cm).
Purdue University
Motif of the Collector/ Historical Appropriation in Ondaatje's Novels
The author of this article discusses Michael Ondaatje's "activity of collecting and transforming particular seeds and scraps of the past in a fragmented and fictional form," and how this is reflected in "Coming Through Slaughter" and...
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Motif Plays Backgammon: A Game of Strategy
A very challenging game of strategy and skill from Backgammon Galore. The student plays backgammon against a computer program. Included is a page on instructions so the student can learn the game.
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