Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lia Cook: Textile Painter
The artwork of Lia Cook, textile painter is profiled. Cook has a unique way of "weaving paintings" by dying silk cords, painting linen threads, and weaving them together to create figures and motifs.
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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,...
TES Global
Tes: Henry v Royal Shakespeare Company Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher reference page for themes in Shakespeare's Henry V from the Royal Shakespeare Company. It includes a list of themes and motifs and locations in the play where they are used.
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...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Common Visions, Common Voices
This lesson plan gives students a chance to explore the art and literature of Indians, Africans, Mayans, and Native Americans. Provides plenty of links to photo examples, and lesson extension ideas.
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.
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Rochester: The Camelot Project: Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone
This webpage focuses on Arthur's sword Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone. It provides a short background essay by Alan Lupack, which is followed by links to a list of essays about Excalibur and/or the Sword in the Stone.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Hans Memling (1440 1494)
This website provides a biography of Flemish painter (born in Germany) Hans Memling (1440-1494). He was known for his religious works and portraits and influenced by Rogier van der Weyden. The site discusses Memling's "delicate detail...
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....
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Late Medieval Period: Art
Fostered by the Mongol invasions of the mid-thirteenth century, and inculcated with a new taste, especially for Chinese designs and motifs, a new style of art was disseminated throughout Islamic lands. This was a time of brilliant...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Late Islamic Period: Art
Perhaps even more so than in preceding periods, art was an instrument of dynastic expression in this great age of empires. Spurred by royal patronage, the arts flourished under the Ottomans and Safavids. Ottoman military incursions into...
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.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company: Education Resources: Themes in Hamlet [Pdf]
This resource from the Royal Shakespeare Company lists a number of important themes and motifs in Shakespeare's Hamlet, with quoted examples from the play.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Word Roots Lesson 4: Grad Mot Cad: Word Roots #4 Advanced
This lesson plan features the Latin roots GRAD = step, walk, degree; MOT = move; CAS/CID = fall, sink. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue and a vocabulary...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ring Around the Rosie
Students learn the concept of angular momentum and its correlation to mass, velocity and radius. They experiment with rotation and an object's mass distribution. In an associated literacy activity, students use basic methods of...
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Julius Caesar: Themes
A discussion of the themes in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, including fate vs. free will, public self vs. private self, misinterpretations and misreadings, inflexibility vs. compromise, and rhetoric and power. Also has link to a quiz on...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire
Cezanne returns to the motif of Mont Sainte-Victoire throughout his career, resulting in an incredibly varied series of works. View examples of his artwork and read descriptions of his style in this essay.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Matisse, Goldfish
From around 1912, goldfish became a recurring subject in the work of Henri Matisse. They appear in no less than nine of his paintings, as well as in his drawings and prints. View examples and read why he chose this particular motif.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Jade Ornament for the Top of an Axe Shaft (Neolithic China)
Graves of the Hongshan culture (about 3800-2700 B.C.E.) might have held as many as 20 jade artifacts while those of the Liangzhu culture (about 3000--2000 B.C.E.) had as many as 300. These included bead necklaces and other decorative...
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