In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on Donne's poem "The Flea."

Learners examine the impact of sound devices in poetry, prose, and non-fiction. In this figurative language instructional activity, students read instructor-selected literature and identify uses of alliteration, repetition, consonance,...

For this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Break, Break, Break."

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "The Hollow Man."

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "I wandered lonely as a Cloud."

In this reading comprehension activity, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Kubla Khan."

For this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," by Wordsworth.

In this reading comprehension activity, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," by Walt Whitman.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Birches," by Robert Frost.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."

Twelfth graders read lyrics for "My Hometown" and complete a worksheet to identify setting and tone in the song. In this Romanticism lesson, 12th graders read Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth and discuss...

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on the "Batter My Heart," by John Donne.  

Second graders collect data from their families about their reading habits and graph them. In this graphing family reading habits lesson, 2nd graders interview family members about their reading habits. They then use a graphing computer...

Introduce your class to epic heroes with these activities for Beowulf. After watching a video clip, taking notes on heroes, and tracking characteristics of heroism throughout Beowulf, class members retell an episode of Beowulf using a...

Students analyze the cause and effects of fading traditions and explore the parent teen relationships through poetry. In this past analysis activity, students complete a cause and effect worksheet about a related movie. Students free...

Explore the characters in My Antonia by Willa Cather with a biopoem assignment. Pupils use the provided format to write their poems about any character from the book.

Focus on plot and the impact-specific events in The Cay. Class members use their double-entry journals, created in a previous lesson in this series, to record their thinking about the guiding question as they read chapters 15 through 17....

What better way to prepare learners for academic success than to administer practice tests? With the Comprehensive Examination in English, scholars read informational and literary texts and answer listening and reading comprehension...

Readers apply Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious mind and the psychological approach to literary criticism to analyze and evaluate the relationship between two characters in A Separate Peace.

The United States Civil War resulted in the highest mortality rate for Americans since the nation's inception. Delve deeper into the causes for the drastic separation of states with a history lesson plan that features analysis charts,...

Poetry and prose often have more in common than it initially appears. A sample comprehensive English exam has test-takers compare and contrast two passages to answer short response questions. The exam, which is part of a larger set of...

Fourth graders explore language arts by analyzing poetry styles. In this writing analysis instructional activity, 4th graders read several sample poems in class and identify similes, metaphors and other figurative language within them....