Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Poetry and Music Fun With Chris Daughtry
This language arts lesson grabs students' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify similes, metaphors,...
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Rudolph Academy: Figurative Language Quizzes and Practice Exercises
This site offers a multitude of figurative language quizzes (some by grade level), a PowerPoint presentation and links to much more. It features a 30 question quiz asking students to either read or listen to statements and then select...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Larger Than Life
Young scholars will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).
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Free Code Camp: The Absolute Worst Technology Predictions of the Past 150 Years
Technology has proven to be extraordinarily slippery over the past century. Despite the vast information that industry insiders have had at they're fingertips, they've made some pretty terrible forecasts over the years. The predictions...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Wuthering Heights Ch 33" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt from chapter 33 of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Details that show a supernatural or gothic element are blue while details that show strong...