This resource asks students to look closely at textual evidence. There are two handouts included. I use the first handout (page 1) for my regular classes. The second handout (pages 2 and 3) are used for my honors. There is a chart which asks
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Writing, Informational Text
In this activity students create their own poem, using Forest Fenn's poem as a model, to provide clues to a hidden treasure. Students will then give the poem to a family member, friend, or peer to try and find their treasure.After the "hunt,"
This handout presents an example of four quotes used from Elie Wiesel's Night and provides an example paragraph of how to write a paragraph which shows the use of that rhetoric and its purpose. Students are also given a guide as to how to organize
This handout identifies key scenes in both the movie and the novel, Cry the Beloved Country and asks students to identify the differences and how those differences effect the theme, tone, and characterization of the story.
10 task cards which help students identify and analyze rhetoric within a character. Each card asks specific questions on each of the 10 topics (pacing, dicition, repetition, ethos, pathos, logos, sentence structure, conditions, and dialogue).
The handout works through the three parts of the book and outlines the heroic journey of its characters. The handouts asks students to characterize, to identify how characters understand their journey, and the character's return (as they contribute
The chart identifies similes in The Iliad and asks students to determine what is compared and the simile's significance. The last few boxes offer the students line numbers, but then they must identify the simile.
Students work in pairs to identify a motif in Oedipus Rex. As a group, they write a thesis which involves that motif. They then identify quotations from the play to support their motif. They then create a mask for a character. The mask requires
Students identify a motif from the text, identify textual quotations which use the motif, then they determine a pattern in the use of the motif to create a meaning or thesis for the motif.
This graphic organizer asks students to choose a motif from Oedipus Rex and asks them to identify its meaning, how it relates to theme, how it provides greater understanding of the text, and how it relates to real life.
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