Stephen Crane Lesson Plans

1. Literature of the Gilded Age
...surprisingly, there was a significant change with the growth of realism in the literature?a realistic and sometimes critical portrayal of life. The new approaches to the novel, essays, and poetry that emerged after the Civil War gave rise to Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Catha, and Kate Chopin. As an educated woman, Nellie Taft was certainly familiar with the works of these authors. Objectives: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the great figures in the literary world of the Gilded Age and to their work. Materials Re...

2. Crossroads: Middle School Unit VI In what ways were people affected by the Civil War?
...g, the battle of Gettysburg, and the New York City draft riots. 4. Literature and audio-visuals should be used throughout the unit. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is an excellent novel, providing an introspective view of military leaders at the battle of Gettysburg. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a realistic depiction of what it was like to fight in the war. Ken Burns's video series, The Civil War , speaks for itself. It is broken into short thematic episodes and is an effective teaching tool. The movie Glory is a dramatic portrayal of Massachusetts 54th Regiment that fought in the war. T...

3. War Is...
...lina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K?12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina ? and the world. Lesson Plans War Is... Upon consideration of the perspectives on war from their classmates, the poet Stephen Crane in "War is Kind," and various characters from All Quiet on the Western Front, students will write an editorial for the school newspaper in which they share opinions about war. A lesson plan for Grade 10 English II by Rhonda Dillingham Lesson contents Learning outcomes Teacher planning Pre-activities...

4. Taoism and the Arts of China (Art Institute of Chicago)
...Books and Links Fund cat. no. Middle School: 149 Read the information on Credits Mountains of the Immortals and The Fanghu Isle of the Immortals and have students identify these elements of Evaluation Form a Chinese landscape: mountains, trees, waterfalls, clouds, a Taoist temple, immortals, and a crane. As you locate these details, discuss their possible symbolic significance. Ask students to determine whether these scenes are taking place in an imagined or actual location. Discuss the Taoist concept of an immortals' paradise. Compare the two images to Western art by discussing their composition, perspect...

5. The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
...simple modeling for their verses. Research 5. Direct students to the ARC database to find other photographs that show additional aspects of war life for "Johnny Reb" or "Billy Yank." Ask them to print out these photos and add them to the classroom gallery. Extension Activity 6. For classes reading Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage while studying the Civil War, discuss with students the realism of photography as practiced by Mathew Brady and other photographers with the naturalism of Stephen Crane. The documents included in this project are from Record Group 111, Records of the Office of the Chief Si...

6. Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's
...s it really is ; yet her emphasis on the power and hostility of our physical and social environments also marked her as a naturalist. Students will notice that both of Wharton's literary identities are on full display in Ethan Frome, making the text an ideal segue into the works of naturalists like Stephen Crane and Jack London. To explore the complex relationship between realism and naturalism, this lesson can be taught in conjunction with Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism. Selected EDSITEment Websites Internet Public Library + American Literature o local color [http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/ amlit/lc...

7. The Tongue Twister Database
..., as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood. We surely shall see the sun shine soon. Moose noshing much mush. Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers. Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup. My dame hath a lame tame crane, My dame hath a crane that is lame. Six short slow shepherds. A tree toad loved a she-toad Who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad But a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win The three-toed she-toad's heart, For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground That the three-toed t...

8. Across Five Aprils
...Novel Study Using Literature Circles. Some excellent fiction and non fiction works that will allow students to further explore the theme of Conflict of Individual Loyalties with Loyalties to Community and other themes related to Across Five Aprils are as follows: Fiction The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (for advanced readers) Jubilee, Margaret Walker (for advanced readers) Johnny Shiloh: A Novel of the Civil War by James A. Rhodes Charlie Skeddaddle by Patricia Beatty With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Turn Homeward, Hannahlee by Patricia Beatty The Tamarack T...

9. Black Pioneers of Nova Scotia - Hunting, Farming and Market Gardening
.... They were, in effect, tied to the land of a landowner. Much of the land that was share cropped was not very fertile. Those who did receive the land promised to them, generally received smaller lots with less fertile soil and fewer provisions, tools and seeds than white Loyalists. An exception was Stephen Blucke who received 200 acres of land in Birchtown. Many share crop farmers, indentured servants and slaves worked large Annapolis Valley farms and orchards on the rich farmlands dyked years earlier by French Acadians who had been expelled from Nova Scotia in 1755. Farming Black Pioneers of 1812 The secon...