Poetic Douglass is a fun way to read and engage in a text while still respecting the content of the material. It is part note taking, part creative expression, and the end result is a comprehensive class wide interpretation of the text.

This English Language Arts lesson focuses on the understanding of literary devices as related to poetry with poems found via poetryfoundation.org.Students will analyze tone and mood by rephrasing lines of poetry to match the author's intent.Students will explore the poet's message and defend their ideas in paragraph form.This assignment addresses Nebraska state standards: NE.LA 10.1.6.A NE.LA 10.1.6.C  NE.LA 10.1.6.K  NE.LA 10.2.2.E This lesson will take about 40-50 minutes.

This resource provides lecture notes and writing assignments for the study of poetry. While specific poems are presented here, these notes and assignments can be adapted and applied to practically any thematic group of poems.  The unit contains several modules. The first posits the work of African American poet Langston Hughes as poems that establish a legacy of oratorical poems addressing social issues faced not only by African Americans, but by any and all Americans, especially the historically disenfranchised.  The unit explores poems in Hughes' legacy, focusing on three poems by African American poets Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Amanda Gorman, who composed U.S. presidential inaugural poems. The second module explores nature poetry. Students read and analyze poems that explore, ponder and sometimes celebrate the relationship between human beings and nature. Ultimately, students compose poetry explication essays. The third module explores the book-length prose poem "I Remember" (Joe Brainard), teaching students to locate and make use of peer-reviewed articles.  Additionally, students write their own "I Remember" poems. Included are introductory lecture, discussion , short writing, explication , and several other assignments. Unless otherwise noted, the materials in this unit are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

This lesson will focus on the poems of Amanda Gorman and the human condition that binds us as Americans. The poem addresses multiple poetry standards with a concentrated look into the theme, mood, and tone and summarizes the central idea using critical details from the text.  Subject: English Level: Middle and High SchoolMaterial Type: Lesson Plan, Assessment, ReadingDate Added: 03/29/2024

British Columbia and Canada

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This directory is an open educational reference for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and Canada. The first section focuses on colleges, institutes, and universities in British Columbia and the way each: provides support for its community; uses, creates, and evaluates open educational resources; and engages in open education on campus through events, a working group, and student involvement. The second section lays out open education information for the rest of Canada by province and territory.

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One of the challenges of working in a relatively new field, like open education, is finding the community, tools, and support needed–especially at the local level.

This directory is an open educational reference for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and Canada. The first section focuses on B.C. colleges, institutes, and universities and the way in which each: provides support for its community; uses, creates, and evaluates open educational resources; and engages in open education on campus through events, a working group, and student involvement.

The second section is divided into Canada’s remaining nine provinces and three territories, listed alphabetically. Each chapter begins with province- or territory-wide post-secondary information such the names and links to open education projects and collections, post-secondary library associations, and government advanced education departments or ministries. This is followed by post-secondary institutions that have posted their OER/OEP guides and involvement in open education. An overview of Canada’s national open education initiatives can be found in the appendix.

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British Columbia and Canada

Short Description:
This directory is an open educational reference for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and Canada. The first section focuses on colleges, institutes, and universities in British Columbia and the way each: provides support for its community; uses, creates, and evaluates open educational resources; and engages in open education on campus through events, a working group, and student involvement. The second section lays out open education information for the rest of Canada by province and territory.

Long Description:
One of the challenges of working in a relatively new field, like open education, is finding the community, tools, and support needed–especially at the local level.

This directory is an open educational reference for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and Canada. The first section focuses on B.C. colleges, institutes, and universities and the way in which each: provides support for its community; uses, creates, and evaluates open educational resources; and engages in open education on campus through events, a working group, and student involvement.

The second section is divided into Canada’s remaining nine provinces and three territories, listed alphabetically. Each chapter begins with province- or territory-wide post-secondary information such the names and links to open education projects and collections, post-secondary library associations, and government advanced education departments or ministries. This is followed by post-secondary institutions that have posted their OER/OEP guides and involvement in open education. An overview of Canada’s national open education initiatives can be found in the appendix.

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Within this collection you will find lessons, videos, handouts, interactive game, and teacher guides you can use in your classroom.  You will also find a brief summary of each resource with the source sited for further exploration, appropriate grade level, approximate lesson length, and learning standards.

An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative

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Book review publications (Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly) and social cataloguing websites (GoodReads, LibraryThing) categorize the books they review into genres. Fiction and Nonfiction are the broadest categories. The more specialized categories include Mystery, Children's Books, and Poetry. This public domain anthology includes a range of books in these various genres for novice critics to practice the reviewer's craft.

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Well-regarded book review publications (Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly) and popular social cataloguing websites (GoodReads, LibraryThing) categorize the books they review into genres. Fiction and Nonfiction are the broadest categories. Specialized categories include Mysteries, Children’s Books, and Poetry. Of course, even these sub-genres of Fiction and Nonfiction go by different labels. For example, “Mystery” books at Kirkus Reviews are labeled Mystery and Detective. Publishers Weekly and GoodReads uses the label Mystery and Thriller. This public domain anthology, while open to expansion to include additional genres, such as science fiction or biography and memoir, provides a rich and varied collection of works for novice book critics to develop their skills as reviewers.

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Tome 1

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Portraits d'hommes et de femmes issues d'un pays de culture arabe (Algérie, Mauritanie, Syrie, Tunisie) vivant dans la ville de Québec, réalisés par des étudiants et étudiantes de l'Université Laval.

Word Count: 77512

ISBN: 978-2-924661-24-6

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This curriculum unit investigates self-identity, social-identity and the historical conditions that give rise to both. Using Ralph Ellison’s novel, Invisible Man students will examine the relationship between racism, exploitation and identity formation. Throughout the unit, students will use close reading techniques to develop an analysis of the nameless protagonist. Additionally, students will study the political figures and historical moments that are reflected in the Invisible Man’s identity. This unit addresses strategies for providing “non-traditional” AP Literature and Composition students an entry point into AP curriculum. At the culmination of the unit, students will write a literary analysis of the novel.

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A series of five dozen letters written by eight brothers over the course of the nineteenth century, as they spread out across the United States, providing an unfiltered record of their activities, interests, and concerns from the 1830s to the end of the century.

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Title: RapunzelAuthor/Illustrator: Paul O. ZelinskyPublish Date: Reprint October 14, 2002 Puffin BooksISBN# 0142301930Cover:  Show the students the front cover, before reading the title, and ask them what they think the book may be about? Read the title and ask if the kids have heard of Rapunzel, or if they have seen a movie?Summary:  A king and queen must hand over the baby that they had waited years to have, to a sorceress, as a payment for the rupunzel they had stolen from her garden. She spent years trapped alone in a tower, until a price finally found her and married her. Despite being found and married she was still trapped, and the sorceress took her far away when she became pregnant with twins. The sorceress tried to kill the prince but he was able to survive, find Rupunzel, and take them to his kingdom to live happily ever after.

Students will connect with literature as they complete activities in their digital "Reading Adventures Journal." 

This padlet could be used for collaboration among students or even as an informal assessment. It is geared more towards primary grades but can be edited with different questions for upper elementary and even middle/high school.

This unit is designed to prepare teacher candidates to assess and instruct students to improve reading fluency in a K-5th grade classroom. In the unit, participants will learn about the three components of fluency, consider the impact of fluency in relation to comprehension, and investigate strategies leading to reading fluency using a structured literacy approach to teaching reading. The total time to complete this assignment is approximately 6 hours. 

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A collection of poems and a short story written by Rick Steele, author and tech pioneer from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Download this book in PDF Download this book in ePUB (Kobo and other eReaders) Download this book in MOBI (Kindle)

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This is a posthumous collection of poems and a short story written by Rick Steele (1954-2018), author and tech pioneer from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Rick’s conviction that literature could open eyes and affect a world view was the result of personal experience. An avid reader, his interests in Biblical and classical writings shaped his less known self as poet, storyteller, and satirist. In particular, he valued the kinship of form and content, not simply as an armchair scholar but active practitioner. And not only as a writer, but as a person. Integrity and curiosity were his bosom buddies, and Euterpe his lifelong muse.

This collection contains the majority of the poems that Rick wrote in his lifetime (at least the ones that could be found). Of his short stories, only one survived, Lardass. The story is also included here.

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