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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Arts,Language Arts,Social Studies Title: Learning the Blues
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Description: This lesson, from EDSITEment, introduces students to the blues, one of the most distinctive and influential elements of African-American musical tradition. Students take a virtual field trip to Memphis, Tennessee, one of the prominent centers of blues activities, and explore the history of the blues in the work of W. C. Handy and a variety of country blues singers whose music preserves the folk origins of this unique American art form. Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment Grade Span: 9,10,11,12

Subject: Language Arts Title: Tales of the Supernatural
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Description: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the origins and development of gothic literature. The goals of this lesson are to explore the origins and development of a literary genre, to investigate how shared imaginative concerns link the members of a literary period, to examine the evolution of a literary tradition, and to compare works of literature from different eras. Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment Grade Span: 9,10,11,12

Subject: Language Arts Title: Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
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Description: After reading Shakespeare's Hamlet, students identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting Birth of Venus and examples from the play illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink Grade Span: 9,10,11,12

Subject: Language Arts Title: Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
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Description: Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram. Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink Grade Span: 9,10,11,12

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