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Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini-Lesson
Grades
6 - 8
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Standard Lesson
Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini-Lesson

Students learn that the plot structure described by Freytag's Pyramid is actually quite familiar as they diagram the plots of a familiar story, a television show, and a narrative poem.

A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.

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