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English Literature: Victorians and Moderns

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English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Aldous Huxley Annual with the permission of the authors and editors. Designed to supplement the annotated complete texts of three famous short novels: Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, each casebook offers cross-disciplinary guided research topics which will encourage majors in fields other than English to undertake topics in diverse areas, including History, Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Biology, and Psychology. Selections have also been included to encourage topical, thematic, and generic cross-referencing. Students will also be exposed to a wide-range of approaches, including new-critical, psychoanalytic, historical, and feminist.

Material Type: Reading, Textbook

Authors: Camosun College, Dr. James Sexton

FDR's "Four Freedoms" Speech

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One of the most famous political speeches on freedom in the twentieth century was delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union message to Congress. This lesson examines the rhetorical use of "freedom" with the objective of encouraging students to glimpse the broad range of hopes and aspirations that are expressed in the call of and for freedom.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine

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Through their interpretation of primary documents that reflect Victorian ideals, students can learn the cultural expectations for and limitations placed on Victorian women and then contemplate the writer Charlotte Brontes position in that context. Then, through an examination of the opening chapters of Jane Eyre, students will evaluate Jane's status as an unconventional Victorian heroine.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Medieval Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Spring 2005

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Examines cultural developments within European literature from different societies at different time-periods throughout the Middle Ages (500-1500). Considers--from a variety of political, historical, and anthropological perspectives--the growth of institutions (civic, religious, educational, and economic) which shaped the personal experiences of individuals in ways that remain quite distinct from those of modern Western societies. Texts mostly taught in translation. Topics vary and include: Courtly Literature of the High and Late Middle Ages, Medieval Women Writers, Chaucer and the 14th Century, and the Crusades.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Cain, James

Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World

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The purpose of this project is two-fold: first, to encourage students to make the reading of poetry a creative act; and, second, to help students appreciate particular literary devices in their functions as semaphores or interpretive signals. Those devices that are about the imagery of a poem (metaphor, simile, personification, description) can be thought of as magnifying glasses: we see most clearly that upon which the poet focuses our gaze. Similarly, those poetic devices that are about the sound of the poem (alliteration, consonance, enjambment, onomatopoeia, and repetition) can be thought of as volume buttons or amplifiers: we hear most clearly what the poet makes us listen to most attentively.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Individual Authors

ELA G2:S1:C1:L1 SETTING PURPOSE: VOWEL SOUNDS IN PRINT

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Opening A: I can identify the vowel sounds in spoken words. (RF.1.2) I can listen to several one-syllable words and identify the short or long vowel sound they contain. Work Time A: I can examine the spelling of vowel sounds in a printed word and determine the syllable type (closed, open, or magic "e"). (RF.1.3) I can explain that single-vowel letters in one-syllable words usually have short vowel sounds. I can explain that in CVCe (consonant, vowel, consonant, silent "e"), one-syllable words ending in final "e," the V (vowel) letter usually has a long vowel sound. I can decode a word with a vowel in the middle and a silent "e"at the end. I can identify the five or six types of syllables in written words. Work Time B: I can examine the spelling of vowel sounds in a printed syllable, determine the syllable type, and use that information to combine it with another syllable to make and read a word (real or nonsense). (RF.1.3) I can decode a two-syllable word that contains the CVCe vowel pattern. I can decode (read) two-syllable words by thinking about the syllable type.

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ELA G2:S1:C1:L2 SETTING PURPOSE: COMMUNICATING IN PRINT

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Opening A: I can identify the syllables and vowel sounds in words. (RF.1.3, RF.2.3) I can decode a word with a vowel in the middle and a silent "e" at the end. I can decode (regularly spelled) two-syllable words with long vowels. I can identify the five or six types of syllables in written words. Work Time A: I can use what I know about the closed, open, and magic "e" syllable types to read the poem "A Moment in Time." (RF.1.3) I can decode a word with a vowel in the middle and a silent "e" at the end. I can decode (regularly spelled) two-syllable words with long vowels. Work Time B: I can read and spell words with the closed, open, and magic "e" syllable types. (RF.1.3, RF.2.3, L.2.2) I can identify spelling patterns based on syllable type.

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Dollars and Dentists (Informational Writing for the Resource English Classroom)

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This is a writing assignment designed specifically for the special education setting.  It involves having the students watch a high-interest video with teacher supported discussion.  Students will use the information from the video along with three informational articles that they read.  One article is provided for them.  They need to find two articles on their own and read them.  There are no citation requirements for this paper, however, that could easily be added. This could easily be modified for the general education classroom adding the following Standards:  RI5, RI6, RI7, W4, W7, and W8.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Judy Griffin

Understanding Data

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Data is all around us. Everything from the fitness tracker on your wrist to researchers at your local university are creating mountains of data — big data. What does all this data mean? And how can it help us answer important questions such as: What are the leading causes of heart disease? Or what patterns are related to higher pay at your job? Looking at data can help us answer fun questions too — who’s likely to win the next Super Bowl? Leave the boring lectures behind and intuitively learn data analysis through interactive exercises that allow you to play with fascinating real-world datasets. By the end of this course, you’ll be comfortable applying the basics of statistical analysis and econometrics. There are no prerequisites and we encourage you to repeat the interactive lessons as often as you need.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Thomas Stratmann

Pearl S. Buck: "On Discovering America"

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American author Pearl S. Buck spent most of her life in China. She returned to America in 1934, "an immigrant among immigrants"¦in my native land." In this lesson, students will explore American attitudes toward immigration in the 1930s through Pearl S. Buck's essay, "On Discovering America." They will explore the meaning of the term "American" in this context and look at how the media portrayed immigrants.

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Lesson 3: Repetition in the Visual Arts

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When we view paintings and other works of art our eyes usually move across the surface of the canvas, hitting on various points, objects, and figures in the picture. In this lesson students will learn about repetition, one of the techniques artists often use to highlight important elements within a painting's composition, and to move a viewer's eye around the canvas, from highpoint to highpoint.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

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