Favorite Poem Project *Now Accepting Applications for our annual Summer Poetry Institute for Educators, July 14-18, 2014! Revitalizing Poetry in the Classroom One of the Favorite Poem Project's significant goals is to enhance and improve the teaching of poetry in the nation's elementary, middle and high school classrooms. The study of poetry, Robert Pinsky believes, is crucial in the modern world. "Poetry connects us with our deep roots," says Pinsky, "our evolution as an animal that created rhythmic language as a means of transmitting vital information across the generations. Summer Poetry Institutes Call for Applications The poetry institute was a reaffirmation of why I love poetry as well as a reminder of why I became a teacher. The Favorite Poem Project, in cooperation with the Boston University School of Education, is accepting applications for the eleventh annual Poetry Institute for Educators at Boston University, July 14-18, 2014. FPP Materials A Unique Opportunity Tuition Housing Parking Facilities
Online Grammar Tools I was recently looking through my Tools for Teacher & Learners site and searching through the accumulated resources there - More than a thousand links. I tend to feel that very few people go beyond what's newest on the front page, so I decided to start grouping the links together and posting them here. This first post features some of the best links to grammar orientated sites. You can find more tools like these in Digital Tools for Teachers Deep Grammar Deep Grammar is a grammar checker based on artificial intelligence. Compute the likelihood that someone would have intended to write the text. You can use this to get students checking, correcting and improving their own written work before they submit it. Sentence Tree This is a great site that analyses the grammar of any sentence you type in and tells you the parts of speech of each word within the sentence. Students or trainee teachers can use this to analyse sentences and identify structures. GrammarFlip Grammar Gamble Verb conjugation tool
Eighth Grade Eighth grade students examine the roles of people, events, and issues in North Carolina history that have contributed to the unique character of the state today. Building on the fourth grade introduction, the time frame for this course emphasizes revolutionary to contemporary times. The organization is primarily chronological and reference is made to the key national phenomena that impacted North Carolina throughout these periods. Although the value and methods of historical study as a way of learning about people are stressed, key concepts of geography, civics, and economics are incorporated throughout the course for a fuller understanding of the significance of the people, events, and issues. Inherent to the study of North Carolina history is a continuing examination of local, state, and national government structures. << Back | Table of Content | Next >>
Frankenstein Despite what Hollywood wants you to think, there was no flash of lightning, no bolt through the head, no scientist crying "It's alive!," and no flat-top haircut. (Oh, and the monster wasn't named Frankenstein.) But if you ask us, the real story of Frankenstein is way, way cooler: During the summer of 1816, eighteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was hanging out in a Swiss lake house with her lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley; famous English poet, Lord Byron; and Byron's doctor John Polidori. So, you're bored out of your skull in a lakeside villa with two of the most famous writers in all of English literature. You have a ghost story contest. Lord Byron challenged everyone to write the scariest, freakiest, spookiest story they could come up with. Let's back up for a second: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wasn't just any eighteen-year-old. Our point is, Mary Godwin wasn't some girl writing gothic fan fiction in her LiveJournal. Should there be limits to scientific inquiry?
Spotlight Table of Contents to this Poetry Unit Poetry Lessons for Teachers and Students I have tried to preview all links; however, time constraints and constantly changing links create some uncertainly about all links being absolutely safe links at all times. Hint: Good introduction to poetry - Show the CD, "The New Kid on the Block." OBJECTIVES for this unit: .............. Here are some links that will help (several links are for locating images and sounds) introduce your poetry unit: Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Joseph Roux (1834-86), French priest, writer. Introductory to Poetry *Please notice that many of these poetry lessons includes a lesson for students and a teacher lesson plan for help in delivery of the lesson. If time permits, as a culminating project, allow the students to write their own poem(s) and use PowerPoint or Hyperstudio to make it or them interactive like the CD, "The New Kid on the Block." Lesson 1........Figurative Language for the student Lesson 3........
Mary Shelley Biography Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley August 30, 1797-February 1, 1851 Nationality: British; English Birth Date: August 30, 1797 Death Date: February 1, 1851 Genre(s): NOVELS; ESSAYS; TRAVEL; NOVELLAS Table of Contents: Biographical and Critical EssayHistory of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, with Letters descriptive of a Sail round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of ChamouniFrankensteinMathildaValpergaThe Last ManThe Fortunes of Perkin WarbeckLodoreFalknerWritings by the AuthorFurther Readings about the AuthorAbout This Essay Jump to Additional DLB Essay(s) on This Author: British Short-Fiction Writers, 1800-1880British Romantic Prose Writers, 1789-1832British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I Books: Mounseer Nongtongpaw; or, The Discoveries of John Bull in a Trip to Paris (London: Printed for the Proprietors of the Juvenile Library, 1808). Editions: The Last Man, edited by Hugh J. Other: Letters: W.
Shake Up Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with this Creative Unit Plan! A Quick Synopsis of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Contains Plot Spoilers) The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families, who take their own lives. Through a series of unfortunate events, fate and chance turn against the lovers. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, meet at a party thrown by Juliet’s family. Romeo only attends because his friend says it will help Romeo get over a girl, Rosaline. Using Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse as intermediaries, wedding plans commence. Juliet finds out that Romeo has killed her cousin and is devastated, not by the loss of life, but over the banishment of her lover. The plan is for Romeo to wake her in her tomb, and take her away with him. Moments later, Juliet awakes and finds Romeo dead. Essential Questions For Romeo and Juliet What is love?
Resources for Shakespeare's Macbeth - Macbeth explanatory notes, study quiz, character analysis and more Quote in Context Wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Macbeth (2.1), Macbeth The Roman king, Tarquin (Sextus Tarquinius), rapes Lucrece, the act upon which Shakespeare's long poem of the same name is based. Now stole upon the time the dead of night, When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes: No comfortable star did lend his light, No noise but owls' and wolves' death-boding cries; Now serves the season that they may surprise The silly lambs: pure thoughts are dead and still, While lust and murder wake to stain and kill.And now this lustful lord leap'd from his bed, Throwing his mantle rudely o'er his arm; Is madly toss'd between desire and dread; Th' one sweetly flatters, th' other feareth harm; But honest fear, bewitch'd with lust's foul charm, Doth too too oft betake him to retire, Beaten away by brain-sick rude desire.
Foreshadowing - Examples and Definition of Foreshadowing Definition of Foreshadowing Foreshadowing is a literary device that writers utilize as a means to indicate or hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story. Foreshadowing, when done properly, is an excellent device in terms of creating suspense and dramatic tension for readers. It can set up emotional expectations of character behaviors and/or plot outcomes. nathaniel hawthorne utilizes foreshadowing effectively in his short story “Young Goodman Brown.” Common Examples of Foreshadowing Writers and storytellers utilize recurring symbols, motifs, and other elements as foreshadowing. Examples of Titles with Foreshadowing The title of a literary work can be used to foreshadow its plot events. The Fall of the House of UsherMurder on the Orient ExpressLove in the Time of CholeraThe Story of an HourRoger Malvin’s BurialThe Crying of Lot 49A Telephone CallAs I Lay DyingA Romantic WeekendThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Famous Examples of Foreshadowing Poetry
How to Understand Shakespeare's Words For many, language is the biggest barrier to understanding Shakespeare. Perfectly competent performers can be paralyzed with fear when they see bizarre words like “Methinks” and “Peradventure” – something we call Shakespearaphobia. As a way of trying to counter this natural anxiety, we often begin by telling new students or performers that speaking Shakespeare aloud isn’t like learning a new language –it’s more like listening to a strong accent and your ear soon adjusts to the new dialect. Very soon you are able to understand most of what is said. Even if you are confused about some words and phrases, you should still be able to pick up meaning from the context and the visual signals you receive from the speaker. Watch how quickly children pick up accents and new language when on holiday. Here are modern translations of the top 10 most common Shakespearian words and phrases.