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Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons

It is important for students to know how to evaluate messages conveyed by the news media. Exploration of the artistic techniques used in political cartoons leads to critical questioning.

 

Student Interactives

 

Character Trading Cards

Character Trading Cards

This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a character in a book or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories.

 

 

Latino Poetry Blog: Blogging as a Forum for Open Discussion

In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.

 

 

Hero’s Journey

Hero’s Journey

Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.

 
 

 

Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism.

 

 

Alphabet Organizer

Alphabet Organizer

Students can use this online tool to print an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.

 
 

 

Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project

Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.

 

 

Essay Map

Essay Map

The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.

 
 

 

Professional Development  

Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the English Language Arts Classroom

Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the English Language Arts Classroom

Discover ways to integrate visual arts and technology in your English language arts classroom.

 

Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English

Literature & Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English

Telling stories from lively secondary and college English classrooms, Literature and Lives explores the new possibilities for teaching and learning generated by bringing together reader-response and cultural-studies approaches.

 

 

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