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.
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: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] To be "in the know" in literature, you need to know the terminology used to describe, interpret, and analyze poetry, drama, and fiction. As you proceed through the sections...
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Children's Theatre: Creative Drama
A playwright's website that explores various aspects of children's theatre. Includes definitions, lesson plans, books and plenty of ideas.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on vocabulary. It features links to "A Raisin in the Sun" vocabulary handout, Free Rice: English Vocabulary Game, and the online dictionary Vocabulary.com. It also offers "A Raisin in the Sun" vocabulary interactives.
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Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet
This lesson uses drama games and role playing to enhance the reading and understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes pre-reading role play and information about Shakespeare's life and times, during reading drama games,...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Development of English Drama
When presented with the problem of hoards of illiterate commoners, English clergymen in the 11th century created plays to spread word about the Bible. Eventually, the plays moved out of the church and into the streets. Mindy Ploeckelmann...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Monologues and Soliloquies (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on the dramatic convention called a soliloquy, when the speaker seems to be talking to himself, and monologue in which he is addressing the audience directly.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Thornton Wilder Lesson Plans: Our Town
Discover more about the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder when you visit this educational resource. This site features links to lesson plans for this incredible American drama.
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Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Susan Glaspell
Have you ever read "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell? Young scholars and teachers will have an opportunity to learn more about this author and her work from the links provided by Web English Teacher.
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Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Discover a world beyond "The Glass Menagerie," when you visit this site featuring links to lesson plans for this work. This site also features links to information on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.
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Teachit.co.uk: Library of English Teaching Resources
Teachit.co.uk is a free online resource for English teachers. Content includes classroom materials, schemes of work, lesson plans, and teaching tools. Look at the Top 5s, the English Teaching Online, the Teachit Trails, and the Tweakits....
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Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Arthur Miller Lesson Plans
What do you want to know about the life and work of Arthur Miller? This site features links to lesson plans and information for several of his plays.
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Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Butler Yeats
Explore the work of William Butler Yeats through the links found within this informative site. You will be able to click on links for lesson plans, ideas and activities for his work.
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Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Readers' Theatre
Explore the world of Readers' Theatre with this online resource. This site features guides and scripts.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Powerful Symbols and Words: Abolitionism & Women's Rights
This collection looks at an image and phrase used widely in abolitionist materials, and at how that symbol was adopted and adapted by Sojourner Truth and/or other women's rights activists. Students will examine an abolitionist medallion...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Text: Meter and Rhyme
OnTRACK English II Reading, Module 3, Lessons 1-12, and Practice Lessons 1-3. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry, drama, fiction, and literary non-fiction, and provide...
National Archives (UK)
The Standards Site: History at Key Stage 3: Elizabeth I
This site provides lesson plans and activities designed to engage students in learning about the drama and history of the Elizabethan era.