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Adult education short stories lectures $5-10
ELEMENTS OF A NOVEL POWER POINT
This is a great power point to use when going over elements of a novel or story. It includes the following:- plot- parts of plot- plot diagram- conflict- types of conflict- what to do while you read- setting- characters- theme- after readingThere are 13 slides and they all include a visual. It is a wonderful review or overview of significant material. I use it at the end of the year for my Book Fair Unit.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”
An eleven-page, text-based, fill-in-the-blank handout in which your students will explore in depth the structure of Faulkner’s brilliant, but somewhat difficult, short story “Barn Burning.” This analysis of structure includes the inciting moment or the major problem of the story, its climax, and its denouement or final resolution where recognition and reversal (or surprise ending) occur. By studying this structural pattern in “Barn Burning,” your students should be able to apply it to other sh
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Hero's Journey: Teaching story writing visually
This is a Prezi presentation that details The Hero's Journey. The Hero's Journey is based on Joseph Campbell's study of literature. In this presentation, your students will look at how stories are told in very similar patterns. I incorporated numerous video clips to highlight each concept (The Hunger Games, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Karate Kid, and Harry Potter). I would like to point out that this presentation does carry a PG rating. There is some violence and minor languag
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Things They Carried_ Lesson 5_Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong
Hi guys! I'm an IB English A/B teacher based in Shanghai at the moment. As an English A examiner, I've been trying to create resources that serve the purpose of both preparing students for exams and fostering their life-long love for the English language and English literature. This PowerPoint is a Lesson 5 class for Tim O’Brien’s war novel The Things They Carried. It covers a 90-120min lesson (17 pages) that contains the story “Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong” in the novel. Here is a summary of the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Creative Writing Screenplays Using Heroes & History (+ Essay Study Guide)
English / Spanish / European History / Film Studies
CREATIVE WRITING for HOLLYWOOD
ESSAY, SCREENPLAY OR FICTION
A Writer's Journey: How to Find Your Heroes
Essay + Author's Study Guide
*****
"Not the Spain of Hemingway or Hollywood"
The Making of a Novel and Its Screenplay Adaptation
Essay by Cynthia Buchanan
Bonus: Study Guides from "The Scarlet Spaniard" screenplay
and the Spanish Civil War
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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"Araby" a short story by James Joyce from Dubliners
This document contains a lecture on James Joyce's "Araby," a short story contained in the larger work Dubliners. This short story takes place in Dublin, Ireland, and is a learning resource that can be used to celebrate Irish history this month. It includes short descriptions of the characters, examples and explanations of literary devices such as personification, symbolism, metaphor, and motif. It also contains definitions for vocabulary terms that students may not be familiar with and sugge
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh” Handout
This detailed analysis of Mason’s most anthologized story consists of two parts: A seven-page handout for your students in which they will study in depth the structure of “Shiloh,” including the inciting moment or the major problem of the story, its climax, recognition, and reversal (or surprise ending), and its denouement or final resolution.
They will further examine the story’s theme (the breakup of a 1970s marriage metaphorically seen in terms of the 1862 Civil War battle at Shiloh), char
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Things They Carried_ Lesson 2_The Things They Carried
Hi guys! I'm an IB English A/B teacher based in Shanghai at the moment. As an English A examiner, I've been trying to create resources that serve the purpose of both preparing students for exams and fostering their life-long love for the English language and English literature. This PowerPoint is a Lesson 2 class for Tim O’Brien’s war novel The Things They Carried. It covers a 90-120min lesson (14 pages) that contains the story “The Things They Carried” (chapter 1) in the novel. Here is a summar
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: The Things They Carried_Bundle_PowerPoint &Annotated extracts (x3)
Graham Greene's "The Destructors," A Presentation
This is a presentation I use with high school juniors on Graham Greene's short story "The Destructors."
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Introduction to Feminist Criticism (Presentation)
This presentation contains a good overview of the use of feminist criticism in literary analysis.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Descriptive Language: Heroes in Fiction & Satire (+ Study Guide)
English / American Literature / Creative Writing / Spanish / Multiculture / European History "Hemingway & Flynn Do Madrid" by Cynthia BuchananA Short Story with Study Guide Essay by the AuthorCopyright © 2017 by Cynthia Buchanan Cowley – All Rights ReservedPART I: SHORT STORY - 1,500 words / headlined by historic photographs"Hemingway & Flynn Do Madrid"PART II: STUDY GUIDE ESSAY by the author - 1,500 words"Creative Writing and Hollywood Heroes at W
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Indians in Fiction: Feminism & Multicultural Cowgirls (+ Study Guide)
Short Story (with Study Guide) In the multicultural and postmodern Spanish Southwest . . .“It’s the one’s that are cracked that the light shines through.”"Federal Cowgirl, Welfare Indian"by Cynthia Buchanan Total unit: 32 manuscript pagesA published author and state-of-the-art literary consultant shares a critical analysis of her own work plus creative writing tips and even an example of submitting short fiction to magazines. A writer with the heart of an educator, her short story shows she paid
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Common literary terms
A handy ppt presentation that includes a teacher master list and student note taking copy. Files are easy to edit if needed.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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