English-+Year+2

__**English- Year 2**__ __**Module 5: Style Analysis**__  __**Websites:Levels of Thinking**__ [|www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/thinking/thinking.htm] (an overview of learning systems including revised Bloom's taxonomy with printable resources) [] (sentence-starters for each Level of Thinking; reviews old and new taxonomies) [|www.apa.org/ed/new_blooms.html] (Cognitive Taxonomy Circle, graphic organizer of projects or products for each level of thinking)

__**Websites: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel/William Carlos Williams **__ [] (site showing the painting itself; can be increased to full screen size for classroom viewing) [] (Web Museum's introduction to Brueghel and his work) [|www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5918] (article on ekphrasis, writing that describes artwork, including Williams' and Auden's poems) [|www.eaglesweb.com/IMAGES/icarus.htm] (collection of poems about the fall of Icarus plus excerpt from Bullfinch's Mythology; includes audio clips) [|www.littlereview.com/gallergy/icarus.htm] (collection of poems about the fall of Icarus plus excerpt from Ovid's Metamorphosis) [|www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/icarus.htm] (short articles on Williams' poem about Brueghel's Icarus; helpful background for discussion) [|www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/titlepage.html] (poems about paintings, including several Williams poems about other Brueghel paintings)

__**Websites: Other Visual Reprsentations of Icarus **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (Landon's Daedalus and Icarus) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.borsheimarts.com/painting/2004/icarus.htm] (modern Triumph of Icarus) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.island-ikaria.com/multimedia/ikarosart.asp] (Island of Ikaria's online collection of artwork related to Icarus; a great chance for comparison although images are small)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphic Organizers for English Activities **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html] (graphic organizers listed by thinking skill, including five-circle bubble map like the one used in training booklet) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/graphic_organizers.htm] (collection of graphic organizers for reading and wrtiing) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm] (another collection) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html] (graphic organizers with variouis printing options)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Websites: N. Scott Momaday and "Riding is an Excercise of the Mind" **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.okhumanitiescouncil.org/momaday-interview] (2007 biography and interview with Momaday) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.nexuslearning.net/books/Holt_ElementsofLit-3/Collection%206/N.%20Scott%20Momaday,%20Riding.htm] (link to entire essay, which helps explain the title) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.jemezpueblo.com] (information about Jemez Pueblo, including links to Culture, Maps, History, and Events Calendar)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Websites:Annotation as part of Literary Analysis **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/annotating%20a%20text.htm] (overview of annotation; links to other strategies) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.fas.harvard.edu/~wrientr/documents/CloseReading.html] (explanation of annotation, using a model passage; includes comments about effects of diction and language) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (sample passage and annotation instructions for diction, imagery, and syntax) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (ideas about how to "mark a book") <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.lakesideschool.org/upperschool/departments/english/ErickChristensen/WRITING%20STRATEGIES/LiteraryStyles.htm] (Elements of Literary Style "checklist)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Module 6: Linking Characterization to Meaning**__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> __**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Grammar and Syntax Resources **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (The Garden of Phrases) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (independent and dependent clauses) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (the Killgallons Sentence composing site) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm] (rhetorical devices, several related to inversion)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Characterization Terminology/Basic Analysis **__ __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.fvdes.com/welch/skills/characters.htm] __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> (British Columbia teacher's list of basic types of characters in fiction and "ten ways a character can be revealed") <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.unm.edu/~hookster/Elements%20of%20Fiction.pdf] (University of New Mexico professor's basic elements of fiction handout; includes characterization) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (literary devices list, with examples from common high school works)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Archetypes **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.readprint.com/article-3] (introduction to archetypal characters and situations) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.tamicowden.com/heroes.htm] (list of eight basic hero archetypes using movie examples)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Characterization Essay Prompts **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (AP literature essay questions, last ten years, many containing character questions)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Direct and Indirect Characterization **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Terms/Character.html] (English teacher's page about how authors reveal characters) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.quia.com/rr/138010.html] (Who Wants to be a Millionaire type game to help students review direct and indirect characterization) __**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Diction, Connotation and Denotation in Characterization **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.grammarandmore.com/product/hoab/denotation.pdf] (basic denotation and connotation handout with examples and exercises) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Terms/Connotation.html] (page on connotation and denotation) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (explanation of connotation and denotation with high school exercises)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Graphic Organizers for Character Analysis **__ __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.readwritethink.org/materials/lit-elements] __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> (printable interactive literacy element "maps" on conflict, character, resolution, setting) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.edhelper.com/teachers/storytelling_graphic_organizers.htm] (character and storytelling graphic organizers) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/GO/character_story.htm] (character and story graphic organizers with word bank)

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Other Characterization Lessons **__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[] (middle school lesson that helps students understand characterization and create characters) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=168] (Become a character, students use adjectives to "become" and describe characters) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=140] (Character Interview; students study and then present a scripted interview of a character)