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Subtopic: Literary Elements

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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Character Development - Nanavi, A Girl from Benin, West Africa Students use a chart to track character development and write a statement to express the ways in which a particular character from West Africa has changed.	5-8	Lesson Plan
Character Development - Flora Students create and present a timeline of important events and changes in a character’s development over time.	6-12	Lesson Plan
Character Motivation - Duke Students complete a chart describing Duke Ellington’s motivations for playing the piano and describe how these motivations changed his attitude toward playing the piano.	1-6	Lesson Plan
Cloud - Age Four In this video segment from Nature, experience the environment of Cloud, a four-year old horse living in the wild.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Cloud - Age Two In this video segment from Nature, Cloud, a two-year-old horse, interacts with his family in the wild.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Cloud - Foal In this video segment from Nature, experience life in the wild for Cloud, a newborn colt.	3-12	QuickTime Video
A Decision is Made In this video segment from Africa, Flora explains why she is content to return to the bush.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Describing Characters - Cloud Grows Students learn about characterization by studying and taking notes on the growth of a white stallion.	5-12	Lesson Plan
Flora's Background and Motivation Learn about what motivated Flora, a woman from the city, to move to the African bush in this video segment from Africa.	6-12	QuickTime Video
A Hard and Lonely Life In this video segment from Africa, Flora describes her life in the African bush of Tanzania.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, and Theme - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster Students will watch a video segment chronicling the tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Using a story elements graphic organizer, students will determine the various elements of the story and arrange them in the correct order on the organizer.	6-8	Lesson Plan
The Invasion of the Modern World Loggers steal trees from the rainforest of Cameroon, one of Earth’s oldest living ecosystems, in this video segment from Africa.	4-12	QuickTime Video
John Henry This Weston Woods segment is about John Henry, a larger-than-life hero in folklore, who demonstrates extraordinary strength in a race against a machine.	1-5	QuickTime Video
A Look at a Japanese Classroom In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about education in Japan by watching Ken, a first-grader, attend school.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Nanavi In this video segment from Wide Angle, learn about Nanavi's home and school in Benin, Africa.	4-12	QuickTime Video
Nanavi 2003 In this video segment from Wide Angle, meet Nanavi, a young girl in Benin who has a rare opportunity to go to school.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Pesky Critters In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about how urban development has affected the habitats of alligators.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Point of View - Rhinoceros Students write a journal entry in which they imagine themselves as the rhinoceros and describe its journey to a new preserve.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Sapelo Island Culture In this video segment from EGG: the arts show, learn about the Gullah/Geechee culture of Sapelo Island.	6-12	QuickTime Video
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster In this segment from The Jewish Americans learn how the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire lead to labor reform and workers' rights.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Use of Symbolism to Convey the Author's Message - The Negro Speaks of Rivers Students identify and interpret literary devices, symbolism and first-person narration as well as answer critical thinking questions and write a paragraph about a Langston Hughes poem.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Using Descriptive Language - Inventing Your Own Bug! Students use descriptive language to describe a bug they have invented.	3-5	Lesson Plan
Using Literary Devices Students learn about literary devices by identifying examples of personification and hyperbole.	4-6	Lesson Plan
Using Story Elements to Write a Rap Students use story elements (who, what, and where) to write and then perform their own raps.	1-4	Lesson Plan
Who, What, Where In this video segment from Jakers!, a storyteller tells a story in the form of a rap. He incorporates the story elements of who, what and where.	1-4	QuickTime Video
Who, What, Where A storyteller tells a story in the form of a rap and incorporates the story elements of who, what and where in this video segment from Jakers!	1-4	QuickTime Video
Who Are the Baka? This video segment from Africa features the Baka, people who live in the rainforest in southeast Cameroon.	4-12	QuickTime Video