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Teaching Tone and Mood Lesson Plan

Teaching Tone and Mood

6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
New ReviewTone and Mood are not synonymous! Introduce young readers to these literary devices with a series of exercises that not only point out the significant differences between the terms but also shows them how to identify both the tone and...
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Close Reading: Analyzing Mood and Tone Handouts & Reference

Close Reading: Analyzing Mood and Tone

9th - 12th
The AP Literature and Composition exam is all about close reading. Test takers are presented with a passage and asked to analyze how an author uses literary devices to create a desired effect. Prepare your students for the exam with a...
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Language: 11-12th Grade ELA Common Core:
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Language: 11-12th Grade ELA Common Core:

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The Common Core Language Standards address conventions of grammar and usage, spelling and punctuation, syntax and diction, academic vocabulary, and figurative language. Resources that address these standards may be found in this collection. Take a look at the attached notes for each resource to find the aligned Common Core Standards addressed.
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Mood, Voice, Tone and Perspective Handouts & Reference

Mood, Voice, Tone and Perspective

11th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The tools writers use to craft their tales, such as tone, voice, mood, and point of view, are also used by readers as they build an analysis of a work of literature. A reference sheet defines and provides examples of prevalent literary...
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Tone, Mood, Theme, and Motif Presentation

Tone, Mood, Theme, and Motif

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
It's all well and good when you're asked to identify a speaker's tone using his or her body language, facial expression, and pitch and emphasis. Identifying the tone of a written passage is another challenge entirely. Check out an...
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The Role of The Jungle in the Early 20th Century Lesson Plan

The Role of The Jungle in the Early 20th Century

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Study the origins of investigative journalism with a instructional activity on inquiry, audience, and evidence. Class members examine passages from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the Reynolds report on the conditions in Chicago stockyards...
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How to Analyze a Poem Activities & Project

How to Analyze a Poem

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
A poetry analysis handout contains information about literal meanings, tone, title, structure, sound, rhythm, and other poetic devices. Use the handout as a support for assigning a literary analysis and watch learners demonstrate a...
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TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4 Lesson Plan

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth lesson in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the lesson promotes appropriate language choice through close...
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Teaching Emily Dickinson: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar Presentation

Teaching Emily Dickinson: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Three of Emily Dickinson's poems, "I like to see it," "Because I could not stop for Death," and "We grow accustomed to the Dark," provide instructors with an opportunity to model for class members how to use close reading strategies to...
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Connotative vs. Denotative Meanings Lesson Plan

Connotative vs. Denotative Meanings

11th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Besides the dictionary definition, words also carry the added weight of meanings that are inferred or implied, meanings conferred on words, or connotations. To gain an understanding the importance of connotation, class members engage in...
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Introducing Symbols–The Beach Lesson Plan

Introducing Symbols–The Beach

9th - 10th
CCSS: Designed
Looking for a way to introduce class members to the concept of symbolism and multiple levels of meaning? Readers examine two different passages about the beach and consider how the writers use concrete objects, and places to represent...
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The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Activities & Project

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Accompany a reading of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea with a thorough literature packet. Although the materials are meant to prepare readers for a timed essay, the background information and the activities are sure to engage...
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Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 20 Lesson Plan

Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 20

9th
CCSS: Designed
After comparing the working conditions of the slaves to those of the Indian indentured workers on the sugar plantations, class members examine the conditions and the actions of certain historical figures that Marc Aronson and Marina...
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Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 19 Lesson Plan

Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 19

9th
CCSS: Designed
Building on the previous day's discussion of the supplemental reading article "Where Sweatshops Are a Dream," class members use the provided Evaluating Argument and Evidence Tool to identify the claims and evidence Nicholas Kristof's...
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Choose Your Words Wisely (Grades 9-12) Lesson Plan

Choose Your Words Wisely (Grades 9-12)

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Words, words, words. The function of words in persuasive writing is the focus of a group activity that asks members to analyze how words advertisers use are designed to influence targeted audiences.
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Grapes of Wrath Assessment

Grapes of Wrath

9th
CCSS: Designed
To demonstrate their ability to comprehend complex text, individuals analyze the details, syntax, and diction John Steinbeck uses in a passage from The Grapes of Wrath to reveal the develop and evolution of Mae's character.
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"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Day 1 Lesson Plan

"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Day 1

6th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
"Now is the summer of our happiness/Made winter by this sudden, fierce attack!" Luke Skywalker meets Hamlet in a 10-lesson unit based on Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope. Using Star Wars® as source...
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Style and Syntax Lesson Plan

Style and Syntax

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Words make all the difference. Use the samples in a language arts packet to model how the words writers choose (diction), and they way they arrange these words in their sentences (syntax) make all the difference in the tone of a piece...
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Basics of Poetry Presentation

Basics of Poetry

7th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
Poetry is often referred to as compressed speech—compressed because poets choose their words for their sound, as well as their meaning, and carefully arrange these words to create the maximum effect. Introduce class members to...
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Why Are Bad Words Bad? Video

Why Are Bad Words Bad?

11 mins 7th - 12th
Curse words, vulgar words, swear words, bad words. Why are some words labeled as inappropriate? Check out this short history of taboo words and their significance.
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Brexit Worksheet

Brexit

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Brexit. Eurosceptics. Titanorak. Frankenstorm. Check out a neat worksheet and the attached article. It's all about buzzwords and how they are birthed. Whoda thunkit.
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Grade 9 ELA Module 1: Unit 3, Lesson 1 Lesson Plan
1 In 1 Collection

Grade 9 ELA Module 1: Unit 3, Lesson 1

9th
CCSS: Designed
Class members begin their study of Romeo and Juliet by examining the words Shakespeare chooses in the Prologue to Act I to create the tragic tone of his famous play about the star-crossed lovers.
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Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 5 Lesson Plan
1 In 1 Collection

Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 5

9th
CCSS: Designed
How does word choice influence the meaning and tone of a text? To answer this question, class members listen to a masterful reading of a passage from David Mitchell's Black Swan Green, and then work with a partner to conduct a close...
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The Book Thief: The Power and Influence of Words Activities & Project

The Book Thief: The Power and Influence of Words

7th - 12th
To culminate a study of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, individuals craft a persuasive essay in which they assume the voice of a member of one of the political parties during the early 1920s, and advocate that their party offers the best...
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