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The art of the short story is an elusive skill for several reasons, the least of which is not The Twist. An essential yet simple way to learn short story structure and how to develop the twist [...]
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Standards: 14.5, 15.7
Objective: Students identify, analyze, and use sensory imagery and figurative language.
Instructional Block
Activator: : List each of the five senses and write five phrases – adjective(s) + noun – that evoke vivid images, i.e., royal purple pashmina (seeing), screeching gears (hearing), sharp pins (touching), salty corn chips (tasting), musty cellar (smelling).
SENSE
PHRASE
Then complete the Hershey [...]
The latest incarnation of the Law Of Attraction is within the best selling book, The Secret, and the Movie of the same name. Enjoy the video and learn how to manifest your life’s intentions.
THE SECRET
Welcome to the February 15, 2008 edition of a teacher’s life blog carnival. This is the third edition of the carnival and boasts some great submissions from educators from around the blogosphere!
Gedaly Guberek presents Finishing The Thought posted at The Bard Blog, saying, “About reading Shakespeare’s verse, and making sense of it”
GrrlScientist presents New [...]
I just finished reading a great post at Change Your Thoughts called The Secret? - There is no Secret. In essence, the article resolved the power of the Law of Attraction as discussed in the book The Secret as actually being derived from the power of Positive Thought.
As a firm believer in the Law [...]
Trying to get the content of your blog out to the eagerly anticipating masses is and will be a primary topic of interest to bloggers of all experience levels. With the variety of ways to publicize a blog, participating in Blog Carnivals can be the most satisfying!
If you think about it, the potential [...]
Written in a style more conversational and readable than most texts about education, this book explores the most basic, and most crucial, skill that teachers strive to teach – reading. The authors stress that “learning to read depends on two critical factors: the teacher’s thorough understanding of the reading process itself, and his or [...]
Objective: Students will know and be able to respond to and analyze the effects of, form and figurative language, in order to uncover meaning in poetry.
Instructional Block
Activator: The highwaymen were often depicted as “bad” people. From the information you gathered yesterday, why do you think they were thought of in a negative way?
Mini lesson: Teach [...]
This lesson is designed as an introduction for the analysis of the poem, The Highwayman.
Objective: Students will know and be able to relate a literary work to artifacts, artistic creations, or historical sites of the period of its setting.
Instructional Block
Activator: Create a T-chart: Based on your past experience with poetry of any type, give three [...]
