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Common Core RL.11-12.4 internet activities
Song Titles | Main Idea and Symbolism | Language Arts Worksheets
Songs and song lyrics are so important to teens, and this is one of my students' favorite lessons all year. Teenagers - actual teenagers - have complimented me on this lesson plan. That was a wow-factor for me, because I really didn't expect quite that much love when I developed the lesson. Every time I teach it, I hear comments such as: "We should do this kind of thing more often," "Of all your classes, this one is my favorite so far," etc. Quite a few get so involved, they ask to work on it at
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8th - 11th
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Elements of Poetry Unit High School: Poetry Terms & Elements, Literary Analysis
Need your students to understand how poetic elements create meaning in a text? So often, students are able to identify and define, but they don’t fully understand why literary elements are important or why they are such an essential part of literature. The kind of instruction that focuses on memorizing definitions kills the joy in literature and only serves to make students see English class as a boring waste of time.But when students understand that literary devices are a wonderful way to add
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9th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Escape Room (Digital!)
Engage students to explore Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" like never before, with this immersive and fun digital escape room. This breakout box is 100% paperless, completely interactive, and ready to play straight away with zero prep!Suitable for Homeschool and Distance LearningAre you looking for a fun and challenging lesson that requires zero prep? Look no further! This escape room lesson is for you.In this interactive revision game, students take on the role of a timecop who travels
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Harlem Renaissance Activities: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Art & Music
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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The Crucible: Act 1, 2, 3, 4 Quizzes, Questions, Activities | Salem Witch Trials
Is your unit on The Crucible disempowering your students and creating passive learners?If your students’ experience of Miller’s classic play involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the play to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves. In fact, by giving your classes the message that their ideas don't matter, you're helpi
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9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance | Zora Neale Hurston "Sweat" | High School Short Story Unit
This widely-anthologized story of a hardworking washerwoman and her abusive husband is a deceptively simple tale of good and evil, suffering and redemption, and reaping what you sow. However, when read in the context of the many biblical allusions in the story as well as the African American Spiritual, the seemingly-straightforward story becomes much more nuanced and complex. This fascinating mini unit will take your students through recordings of Zora Neale Hurston singing songs she learned th
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9th - 12th
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THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVELWhat teachers are saying:My students LOVED doing the project ideas that were in this resource. I also really appreciated the tests as they were all around engaging and asked questions that had a variety of Bloom's Taxonomy associated with them. One of the best resources I have found for these novels. Thank you so much!PRINT AND DIGITAL!❤️❤️THIS BUNDLED PRODUCT ON MAUS I AND II IS DISCOUNTED BY OVER 20%! ❤️❤️I teach Ma
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Close Reading | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The American Dream
Tired of superficial resources on The Great Gatsby that just go through the motions when it comes to truly examining the important questions? Why do we lie to ourselves and others? Should we do everything for love? What is the American Dream? How do factors such as race, class, or gender help or hinder people from achieving their dreams? Fitzgerald’s classic novel is classic for a reason—in this short, lovely text, he asks some of the biggest questions of our times. But you need to make sure
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9th - 12th
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American Literature Full Year ELA Curriculum for High School English | Secondary
Looking for a full-year American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? Spanning American literature from Puritans to young authors writing today, this truly diverse curriculum has differentiated plans for honors and standard level classes. From the Puritan worldview to YOLO culture, from love and lies to the Iraq war, and from the everyday pains of growing up to the unique experience of the contemporary immigran
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9th - 12th
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Study Unit to be used with Anthem by Ayn Rand
If you're looking for a fun way to teach Ayn Rand's Anthem, then you've stumbled upon the right unit. This package includes multiple projects, many in-class activities, and a few quizzes are thrown in there too to check for comprehension. Most importantly, by purchasing this package, you'll be one step closer to fulfilling state standards because I've thrown in two SLO quizzes.Mindy Killgrove
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle to be used with Ayn Rand's Anthem and The Island (Movie)
Native American Literature | Sherman Alexie | Indigenous Poetry | Stereotypes
Why are stereotypes dangerous? What is our role in breaking down stereotypes? Students might know some of the stereotypes surrounding Indigenous people, but they likely don’t fully understand where they come from, why they are harmful, or why positive stereotypes can be equally painful as negative ones. This 90-minute lesson will get them examining some of those assumptions when they explore videos featuring teens talking about stereotypes, a powerful slam poem performance, an accessible and
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9th - 12th
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Salem Witch Trials Unit Bundle | Puritan Primary Source | Colonial America
Want to teach a Puritan literature unit that will get your students engaging independently with texts, making connections to contemporary issues, and excited to discuss essential questions that really matter? From their world view to their religious beliefs to their daily life, the people of the early colonial period lived lives very different from those of contemporary Americans. The texts included in this unit will give students a glimpse into those lives. Three of the pieces included in this
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9th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol ELA Animated Short Film Middle School Language Arts Activities
FULL LITERARY UNIT! Teach literary elements and devices and plot with this digital short film literary analysis of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The Animated short film is divided into 6 scenes and linked on the slides for a step-by-step, interactive analysis. ❤CAN BE USED WITH ANY VERSION OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL❤ LITERARY ELEMENTS INCLUDE:THEME, PLOT, CONFLICT, SETTING, CHARACTER TRAITSDIALOGUE, SYMBOLISM, FORESHADOWING, FLASHBACK, INFERENCE, AND COMPARE/CONTRAST, MOODStudents will explore
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7th - 12th
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Dystopian Short Story: The Lottery Shirley Jackson | Lesson Plans | Bullying
Looking for a complete unit on “The Lottery” that will challenge and inspire your students to make a difference in today's troubled times? By making connections among bullying, genocide, the Nuremberg trials, Stanley Milgrim’s obedience study, and a classic poem about the Holocaust, your students will be inspired to take their study of Jackson’s powerful story past the pages of the text.When you teach “The Lottery” with this unit you will:be sure that your students won’t miss any of the importa
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9th - 12th
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Introduction to Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 & Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Looking for engaging lessons that will give your students the confidence and skills they need to read Shakespeare independently? So often, teachers think that the only way they can introduce their classes to the Bard is by working through the same old boring power point lectures on when Shakespeare was born, when he died, and where he lived.But Shakespeare’s work is popular 500 years after he died for a reason. The universal themes and questions of his poetry and plays are still very much relev
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9th - 12th
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Langston Hughes "I Too Sing America" and Walt Whitman Paired Texts Poetry Lesson
Looking for poems to explore the American experience on a deeper level? While Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" is joyful and celebratory, Langston Hughes' poem is more questioning of America's history--though it too is not without hope. Exploring themes of class, race, privilege, and point of view, these two poems are well worth examination.When you teach these timeless and important poems with this unit you will:Start your class period with bellringer freewrite prompts that will h
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11th - 12th
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"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston | Figurative Language Lesson
Looking for a unit on this classic essay that will get your students engaging independently with the text, discussing big ideas, and sharpening their close reading and critical thinking skills?“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great choice for engaging your classes in discussions around race, identity, gender, and artistic expression. It’s also a wonderful essay for exploring figurative language and how writers create meaning through comparisons. When you teach “How it F
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9th - 12th
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"The Most Dangerous Game" Short Story Digital Escape Room
Use this digital escape as an engaging way to review short story terms with your students. This “The Most Dangerous Game” themed escape room will challenge students to use their knowledge of the short story and short story terms to solve three puzzles and escape General Zaroff and Ship Trap Island! In addition to the story (full text can be found here), this escape room also requires students to have an understanding of the following literary terms:IronyForeshadowingMetaphorProtagonistPlot Diagr
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9th - 12th
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Print & Digital Of Mice and Men Chapter 5 Character Analysis for Curley's Wife
Great Of Mice and Men chapter 5 activity helping students analyze Curley's Wife through a variety of critical thinking questions focusing on her actions, personality, and how she is treated in the novel. Students are able to use that analysis to then create their own claim statement about how they view Curley's Wife.Students will:Respond to an initial claim about Curley's Wife and if they feel she is a mean and selfish woman. Answer critical thinking questions to analyze how Curley's Wife is cha
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Also included in: Of Mice and Men Unit Plan Bundle Of Mice and Men Chapter Activities
10th & 11th Grade English: American Dream Poems | High School Poetry | Vol 1
Want to immerse your students in the diversity of this country by studying engaging poetry together? Your students will learn so much when they explore the essential questions of American Literature with these ready-to-go lessons.A collection of questions on 27 poems, spanning from Puritan poetry to the 20th century, this bundle will provide you with over a month of rigorous, engaging, and ready-to-go lessons. The themes explored in these units--materialism, love, race, family dynamics, class,
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9th - 12th
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53 High School Poems: Literary Analysis, Poetry Close Reading, ELA Lesson Plans
Want to be done planning your high school poetry lessons for the rest of your career? A collection of close reading and discussion questions, activities, and writing prompts on 53 poems that I have taught multiple times over the years, this bundle will provide you with over three months of rigorous, engaging and ready-to-go lessons to teach your students to analyze poetry on their own. The worksheets included here are great choices for supplementing a thematic unit, for adding more voices and p
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9th - 12th
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Reading Response Handouts for High School | Reading Logs | Reading Journals
Do you want you students to learn how to read, analyze, and write about literature independently?Do your students have a tough time when they are faced with a blank page or have to write without being told what to write about? This guide to reading response journals based on quote analysis and close reading will get your students reading, analyzing, and writing about literature on their own. I have been teaching with reading responses for eleven years, and this guide includes what you need to
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9th - 12th
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The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost | Poetry Analysis & Close Reading High School
The close reading questions on Robert Frost’s iconic poem “The Road Not Taken” will get your students thinking about big ideas and questions that matter, as well as noticing how the smallest details of a poem contribute to meaning.This poem is one that everyone thinks they know, but they don’t really. It is likely that your students know the title of the poem and the last three lines—which have been quoted in everything from graduation speeches to needlepointed pillows. In fact, the title of t
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9th - 12th
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Shakespeare's The Tempest Complete Unit: Race, Gender, Class, & Colonialism
With themes ranging from colonial oppression to romantic love, from art to slavery, and from family betrayal to the beauty of nature—this play offers so much to explore. But if you want your classes to get excited about reading this challenging text, your students will need to be excited to delve into the book and feel empowered to tackle the difficult language on their own. You’ll also need to help your classes to make connections between their own lives and those of these fictional characters
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9th - 12th
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