Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analyzing Poetry for Imagery "Memory"
This video lesson focuses on analyzing imagery using the poem "Memory" by Jen Eiserman. [11:17]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Hey, I Known That Song: Literary Analysis of Popular Music
This PDF lesson plan uses the Lyrics to "I Was a Kaleidoscope" by Ben Gibbard and the song "I Was a Kaleidoscope" by Death Cab for Cutie to analyze the poem and determine its meaning.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits: Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell is featured in this brief biography for her literary contributions as author and playwright focusing on the role of women in American society in the early twentieth century. See "Susan Glaspell Activities" for related...
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Romanticism
Learning game provides 19 questions about the cultural and artistic movement that predominated in Europe during the first half of the XIXth century. See if you can match the correct answer with the correct picture.
TES Global
Tes: Romeo and Juliet: Lovers Gallery
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of images of Romeo and Juliet during the balcony scene of various productions which can be used to compare interpretation and spark discussion. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Two Mediums, One Topic
Comparing the treatment of setting in "The Most Dangerous Game" and a movie clip. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
Other
Compare Two Different Mediums
Student can demonstrate their mastery of this standards by using different assessments, short answer, or graphic organizer.
Read Works
Read Works: "Loveliest of Trees"
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by A. E. Housman about cherry trees and the passage of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparing and Contrasting Texts
Two PowerPoint presentations and a video [2:57] on comparing and contrasting literary and informational texts as well as how to write a literary analysis. Includes links to external resources.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: "i.e." vs. "e.g."
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of "i.e." and "e.g." including similarities and differences between them, the specific meanings of each, and how to use them in writing including the proper punctuation.
Other
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Of Mice and Men: Study Guide and Enrichment
The website contains a series of activities including pre- and post-viewing of a dramatic version of Of Mice and Men. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
Other
Learn Nc: Justice for All?: To Kill a Mockingbird and a Time to Kill
This lesson plan uses the novels To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill; after viewing the courtroom scene in each movie, students will be able to demonstrate comparisons. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
Other
Center for Media Literacy: The Power of Images
Web-article that looks at images and their power to persuade. Several myths are explored and their relationship to the images in popular culture are discussed.
Cyberbee
Cyberbee: Photo Analysis Guide
This site is a guide to help students analyze visual media. Further research questions included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Critiquing Films Using Sight and Sound
This lesson plan examines methods of critiquing and review films based on elements of sight and sound. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (Grade 8)
Make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction
Learn how the central characters' qualities influence theme and resolution of the central conflict.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism and to evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3 (English Ii Reading)
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism, and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Symbolism and Allegory (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a text.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Success Skills: Writing in College
Although this lesson focuses on college writing, it fits perfectly into the high school curriculum without being too difficult to understand. It provides types of essay writing assignments and how to handle each, strategies for writing...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry
This lesson focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is followed by a...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Literature: Introduction to Romantic Literature
This introduction to Romantic literature focuses on the learning outcomes of the study of various pieces of American Romantic literature. These include describe the major historical and cultural developments of the Romantic period,...