World Book Day is a yearly event on 23 April. It is organised by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing, and copyright. The date is also symbolic for world literature because: Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died on 23 April 1616. 23 April is also taken as Shakespeare’s birthday (he was baptised on 26 April 1564, […]
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I am definitely one or more of these! HT: Joel Watts.
It’s going on 400 years since Shakespeare died, but his impact is still felt in modern English. The following chart details close to 40 different sayings that are credited to Shakespeare, including "bated breath", "out of the jaws of death", and "in a pickle". Some of the credits are probably erroneous, and others are corrupted versions of Shakespeare’s…
The team from The Literature Network, an online community of literature lovers, created a nice infographic that visualizes a timeline of literary periods and movements. Click on the image to see it…
Short Notes (The Good-Morrow- John Donne)
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This is a great freebie: 7 free study guides, about 40 pages each, on the Shakespeare plays of MacBeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, MidSummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello,&…
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The random number generator has hit upon another major character for this week's Shakespearean Character Spotlight ! Today we take a look at Desdemona.
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“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”
What is the difference between Prose and Poetry? Prose does not pay attention to rhyme and rhythm whereas poetry pays special attention to rhythm and rhyme.
Writing Worksheet – Endings (PDF) In honour of NaNoWriMo, this month’s worksheets will have one purpose: to increase your word count by hook or by book. The final writing worksheet in this marvellous month of November is inspired by the last virtual NaNoWriMo write-in. Imagining the best endings for each of your characters is a…
“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.” Artist Wendy MacNaughton captures Sontag’s most private meditations on love.
You might have heard the term epiphany and wondered what it means. In this piece, we are going to be taking a look at the meaning of an epiphany as well as
Literary Devices on Incidental Comics
I've written about Teaching Channel before, and I'll be writing from time to time about a particular great idea I've found there. If you haven't already joined, remember that it's FREE, and signing up takes less than a minute! One of the many great Tch video clips shows middle school teacher Meagan Berkowitz teaching a poetry lesson using the SIFT Method - Symbol, Imagery, Figurative Language, and Tone or Theme. It's less than 5 minutes long, and well worth watching to see her interaction with her students, and the focus they have on the poems they are reading while using bookmark cue cards. Close analytic reading is an important feature of the Common Core; here's a tool for you to try out to see if it fits your needs! Besides the bookmark, you are given the lesson plan, a copy of the two poems used, and a transcript of the lesson. If you're a language arts teacher, you're all set to try this lesson yourself, or to adapt it to your grade level! And don't forget to "pin" the lesson by clicking "Save this in my Lesson Planner." (A note: there is a typo on the SIFT bookmark that you'll want to change before printing - "attitude and author" should be "attitude an author." I changed it in the image above. Since it's an open Word document, it's no problem!)
Your students are bright, but they don't always sound like it. Help improve student vocabulary with these 600 ways to say common things.
