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ELA.6.R.1.1: | Analyze how the interaction between characters contributes to the development of a plot in a literary text. | |
ELA.6.R.1.2: | Analyze the development of stated or implied theme(s) throughout a literary text.
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ELA.6.R.1.3: | Explain the influence of multiple narrators and/or shifts in point of view in a literary text.
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ELA.6.R.1.4: | Describe the impact of various poetic forms on meaning and style.
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Access Point Number | Access Point Title |
ELA.6.R.1.AP.1: | Explain how the interactions of characters contribute to the plot in a literary text. |
ELA.6.R.1.AP.2: | Explain how events contribute to the theme(s) throughout a literary text. |
ELA.6.R.1.AP.3: | Identify the different points of view of the narrators in a literary text. |
ELA.6.R.1.AP.4: | Describe the poetic forms and styles of a sonnet and a villanelle. |
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In the Driver's Seat: Character Interactions in Little Women: | Study excerpts from the classic American novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott in this interactive English Language Arts tutorial. Using excerpts from chapter eight of Little Women, you'll identify key characters and their actions. You'll also explain how interactions between characters contributes to the development of the plot. |
The Mystery of the Past: How the Form of a Villanelle Contributes to Meaning in "The House on the Hill": | Explore the mysterious poem “The House on the Hill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson in this interactive tutorial. As you explore the poem's message about the past, you’ll identify the features of a villanelle in the poem. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to explain how the form of a villanelle contributes to the poem's meaning. |
Analyzing Events and Characters in the Beginning of Stargirl: | Learn how characters' actions and responses develop the main characters and advance the plot during key events in the beginning of the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli with this interactive tutorial.
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Views on Freedom: Part 1 of 3: | This lesson is the first in a series of three focusing on the importance of freedom. In this lesson, students begin with a journal entry about freedom. Students then read the poem - "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar - analyzing the poem according to literary and poetic elements. Text questions, a poetry chart, sample answer keys, and a PowerPoint are included. |
Conflict and Characters Drive the Plot: | The objective of this lesson is to review and reinforce the elements of a short story. The importance of the conflict is emphasized to show how it fuels the action of the story to keep it moving toward the resolution. The setting and characters are also important elements that affect the plot. The students will use a variety of illustrations, sentence descriptions, and quotes from the story to portray the action chronologically in a plot diagram. The students will also write a paragraph explaining how the conflict drives the plot toward the resolution using support from the text. |
A Poignant Passage about the Middle Passage: | In this lesson, students will explore what makes a passage poignant by analyzing an important chapter from the historical fiction novel, The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox. In cooperative groups, they will use their prior knowledge of figurative language, conflict, theme, and characterization to identify a passage that has high emotional impact, relating to the journey along the Middle Passage during the slave trade. As culminating assessments, students will present their group's textual analysis to the class. |
The Rise of the Mongoose: Analyzing Character Confrontations in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": | In this lesson, students will study the short story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. Students will analyze the confrontations that drive the story's plot, noting what happens and who is involved, how Rikki's character is developed through each confrontation, and how each confrontation helps develop the plot. A copy of the story is included with the lesson, as well as a text discussion guide for teachers, comprehension questions, a vocabulary key, a graphic organizer and key, and an optional rubric for the summative assessment. |
Views on Freedom: Part 2 of 3: | In this second part of a three-part unit, students will read and analyze the folktale "The People Could Fly" for its use of figurative language and literary elements using a chart similar to the poetry chart from Lesson #1 (resource ID 43909). Short answer questions have also been included. In the closure activity students will compare and contrast the folktale with a poem they read in the first lesson in the unit as to how each text approaches the topic of freedom. |
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In the Driver's Seat: Character Interactions in Little Women: | Study excerpts from the classic American novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott in this interactive English Language Arts tutorial. Using excerpts from chapter eight of Little Women, you'll identify key characters and their actions. You'll also explain how interactions between characters contributes to the development of the plot. |
The Mystery of the Past: How the Form of a Villanelle Contributes to Meaning in "The House on the Hill": | Explore the mysterious poem “The House on the Hill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson in this interactive tutorial. As you explore the poem's message about the past, you’ll identify the features of a villanelle in the poem. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to explain how the form of a villanelle contributes to the poem's meaning. |
Analyzing Events and Characters in the Beginning of Stargirl: | Learn how characters' actions and responses develop the main characters and advance the plot during key events in the beginning of the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli with this interactive tutorial.
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