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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Themes in Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on common themes in literature, beginning with a slide show discussing 11 different, common themes and literary examples. This is followed by a 11-minute YouTube video with students acting out common themes in...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These animated shorts introduce or review literary elements and techniques like theme, setting, figurative language, characterization, and conflict. They can be used when students are just learning how to identify the most commonly used...
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Quia

Quia: Elements of Literature: Rags to Riches

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Answer the 15 questions in this game about literary elements for the prize of fame and fortune. Java is required.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Analyzing a Story's Theme [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short set of questions designed to help students consider and analyze the element of theme within a piece of literature. RL.9-10.2 and RL. 11-12.2 Analyzing Theme.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This introduction to contemporary drama focuses on the elements or characteristics of drama and the theme of the American Dream. It features the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, which is set in the 1950s.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to the modern short story including defining the short story, how the modern short story differs from the classic short story, the elements of a short story, and what is to be expected in this unit.
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Other

America Dept. Of State: Outline of American Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Interpreting Literature Terms

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Selecting Topics for Literary Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of three PDF documents providing definitions of commonly used terms when preparing to write a literary analysis, explaining how to comment on a literary text, and demonstrating the process of analyzing the literary text "Hills...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Short Story [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short group of exercises for students concerning the elements of a short story. Allows students to examine the major story elements, then apply those elements to a given piece of literature.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare. It features a list of essential questions for the unit.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze literature through the study of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Made specifically for students preparing to take the GCSE test, this site is beneficial to all students learning about Stevenson or the elements...
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Other

Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"

For Students 6th - 8th
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Short Story Elements Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site shares a short story elements trivia game. Examples of short story elements are applied to high school classic literature.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: Sounder

For Students 9th - 10th
Newbery Award Winner, "Sounder", by William H. Armstrong, is about a sharecropping family and their hunting dog, Sounder. Overarching themes of this novel are courage, family, racial injustice, the importance of education, and hope. Make...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: The Giver

For Students 9th - 10th
Lois Lowry's, "The Giver", is an Newbery Award novel. Themes of "The Giver" are diversity, freedom, connections, choice, individuality, honesty, and family. Make the smart choice by reading the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Educational Insights: The Headless Horseman

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive demonstration that reveals the literary content of John Quidor's painting The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane. Roll over elements in Quidor's painting to find connections to Washington Irving's tale of the...
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ender's Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Shmoop's study guide for Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel, Ender's Game, includes chapter summaries, character descriptions, explanation of themes, and analysis of various elements in the novel. It also offers study questions and...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Fairy Tale Printouts: Abc teach.com

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fairy tale resource features activities, bar graphs, word searches, crossword puzzles and more. Teachers can print out many of these materials quickly and easily.

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