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: 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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: The Journey Motif
This unit focuses on the "Journey Motif" using the following works: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, "Shooting An Elephant" by George Orwell, "Journey" by Edna St. Vincent Millay,"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats, "The...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Theme and Motif in Music
Explore a set of activities covering motif, opera motif, and melodic themes and movies. Several ideas and procedures are listed to help you teach this musical concept to your students.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Archetypes, Motifs, and Plot in Drama (English Ii Reading)
Understand and analyze how archetypes and motifs in drama affect the plot of plays.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Motif
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides a brief description of the literary term "motif."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure, Reg Harris[pdf]
This is the three-page PDF article "The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure" by Reg Harris which outlines the characteristics of the journey motif in literature including the basic eight-step journey pattern.
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University of Rochester: The Camelot Project
This is a website dedicated to Arthurian resources including links to authors and texts, artists and images, characters, symbols and motifs, places, and creatures. With the exception of the authors and texts, all are accompanied by images.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum: Style Guide: Renaissance
An examination of Renaissance style, as it was practiced in England. See examples of Renaissance architecture, furniture, and designs and learn about the motifs that characterize this style of ornamentation. Also learn about the role...
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Propaganda Postcards of the Great War: Allies: Celebrating Alliances (3)
Examples of propaganda promoting the Allies with images of animals, flowers, and naval motifs. Captioned thumbnails can be enlarged for viewing purposes by clicking on them.
Other
Learn Pysanky: Symbols
A collection of design motifs used in the art of pysanky, or Ukrainian egg decoration. Each symbol is accompanied by its meaning. A color wheel is also shown, with the meanings for each color when used in pysanky.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Capriccio With Venetian Motifs
An image of "Capriccio with Venetian Motifs", created by Canaletto from 1740-45 (Oil on canvas, 51,2 x 68,6 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Capriccio With Venetian Motifs
An image of "Capriccio with Venetian Motifs", created by Francesco Guardi during the 1760's (Oil on canvas, 33 x 51 cm).
Brown University
Brown University: The Plague
Comprehensive coverage of the Plague includes discussion on its origins, causes, effects, and the Plague as Literary Motif. Of particular interest are the contemporary perspectives from writers during the time of the Plague.
Other
Louvre Museum: Discover the Collection: Islamic Art
Pieces from the Louvre's extraordinary collection of Islamic art are grouped together in this thematic overview that lets viewers explore the decorative characteristics and motifs of Islamic art. Wonderful photographs of carvings,...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Anonymous
This is the complete text of the late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written by an unknown author. It is one of the best known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts
Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing a Book Review
The Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) resource provides directions for how to write a book review.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "Raisin in the Sun" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
"Raisin in the Sun" (screenplay) teacher guide includes in-depth introduction and synopsis. Also featured are tips for reading a screenplay. Masterfully explores themes, symbolism, and film techniques. Consists of 16 pages. This is a...
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Royal Armouries: Web Quest: Creative Textiles: Create a Wall Hanging
After virtually exploring galleries at the Royal Armouries Museum, students design and create a wall hanging for the museum entrance using textile techniques.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet
Young scholars explore how patterns and contrasts in language (diction, imagery, figurative language) reveal central ideas in texts and develop various motifs (light vs. dark, dreams vs. reality, high vs. low, etc.) in Romeo and Juliet....
SparkNotes
Spark Notes Study Guide: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The SparkNotes study guide for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" includes a context, plot overview, character list, analysis of major characters, themes, motifs, symbols, and more. Each section is accessed from a hyperlinked list on the main page...
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Ender's Game
SparkNotes provides a literature guide for Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel, Ender's Game. It includes a summary of the novel, analysis of the characters, and discussions of major themes, motifs and symbols.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: The Sublime
This site provides an excellent variety of essays divides the topic of the sublime into four categories: objective sublime, subjective sublime, characteristic literary motifs, and cultural relations.
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