Shakespeare's preeminence as a dramatist rests in part on his capacity to create vivid metaphors and images that embody simple and powerful human emotions. This lesson is designed to help students understand how Shakespeare's language dramatizes one such emotion: fear.

Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.

By means of group performances, writing exercises, and online search activities, students learn about the sometimes dangerous and destructive powers of language, particularly when wielded by such an eloquent and unscrupulous character as Shakespeare's Iago.

Power up your use of PressbooksEDU with interactive elements and integrations. Presenter: John McLeod (Pressbooks)

This is a recorded session from the 2023 Teach and Learn with Open Education Resources virtual symposium for Utah higher education. See uen.org/oer23 for more information.

Learn from SLCC faculty, staff and administrators about lessons learned through the college's 10-year journey to build its OER program, Open SLCC. Presenters: Andrea Scott, Brenda Gardner, Jen Hughes, Jason Pickavance (SLCC) and Justin Kani (WSU) This is a recorded session from the 2023 Teach and Learn with Open Education Resources virtual symposium for Utah higher education. See uen.org/oer23 for more information.

Get empowered to start your journey with open education resources (OER). Presenters: Emma Lanners (UT) and Andrew Stapley (WSU)

This is a recorded session from the 2023 Teach and Learn with Open Education Resources virtual symposium for Utah higher education. See uen.org/oer23 for more information.

Discover how the DOERS3 consortium is working to improve institutional recognition of the value of OER in higher education faculty promotion and recruitment. Presenter: Andrew McKinney (DOERS3 and CUNY)

This is a recorded session from the 2023 Teach and Learn with Open Education Resources virtual symposium for Utah higher education. See uen.org/oer23 for more information.

Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this animated film explores the complex and multifaceted beauty that can be overlooked by unobservant eyes. Jamaal May, “There Are Birds Here” from The Big Book of Exit Strategies. Copyright © 2016 by Jamaal May. Reprinted by permission of Alice James Books. Produced by USC Film School.

A selection of poems, arranged by theme, with a list of poetic terms.

Here is a slidedeck with pictures and links to hands-on activities for the library.

UEN has created mini lessons for students. These lesson will teach students how to use the resources in Utah's Online Library. These are all self-paced lessons that are less than 60 minutes in length. These are great for teachers who want to import them into their Canvas course. They can also be used as a substitute teacher lesson plan.

These lessons are available in Canvas Commons under the UEN-K12 consortium. You will find this consortium under Canvas Commons using the Filter UEN-K12. Once you have selected the UEN-K12 consortium search for "uen library lesson". These resources include: CultureGrams High School, CultureGrams Middle School, CultureGrams Elementary, World Book Online, Gale Research in Context, Gale, Reference Collection Secondary, LearningExpress Library, Soundzabound, eMedia, EBSCO.

These lessons are only available for Utah teachers with a district/charter school Canvas account.
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Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the angle of the ghost story and launch into the subject of verbs. In this lesson, they learn how Shakespeare uses verbs to move the action of the play. Students then distinguish generic verbs from vivid verbs by working with selected lines in Hamlet's Ghost scene. Finally they test their knowledge of verbs through a crossword interactive puzzle.

Clues to Walt Whitman's effort to create a new and distinctly American form of verse may be found in his Notebooks, now available online from the American Memory Collection.  In an entry to be examined in this lesson, Whitman indicated that he wanted his poetry to explore important ideas of a universal scope (as in the European tradition), but in authentic American situations and settings using specific details with direct appeal to the senses.

A brief overview of the tools available in WorldBook Kids offered through Utah's Online Library.

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, in partnership with the Poynter Institute's MediaWise, hosted “Face the Facts: Election 2020 Youth Town Hall.” The virtual event engaged students and first-time voters to be prepared and better informed ahead of the November elections. In this resource, Hari Sreenivasan presents highlights from this town hall meeting. This resource includes a video and teaching resources.