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Writing-expository Common Core RL.11-12.5 resources
New Year 2023 | Close Reading and Poetry Analysis | Print and Google Slides
Redesigned to make your life easier! Now with Google SlidesTM! Use this activity for a new calendar year or a new school year. Ideal for Back to School or welcoming the new year. The poem “Burning the Old Year” hooks students by first asking them to think of their own lives—and what they would burn from the past year if they could—before they begin closely reading the poem stanza-by-stanza and analyzing it as they annotate. Hits Common Core standards and engages students at the same time. Great
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8th - 11th
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MENDING WALL by Robert Frost - Close Reading & Text
For Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" this Close Reading lesson gives students the opportunity to read, react, read again, and reflect on the deeper meanings. Included are -- First Impression graphic response page- Close Focus Questions, side-by-side with the text of the poem- Instructions for students to mark as they reread- Analysis page for the structure of the poem- Analysis page for underlying messages and theme- Essential Question, with room for student responses- Teacher Suggestions-
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8th - 11th
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The Crucible Engaging Activities - 12 Pre-Reading & Post-Reading Tasks
Looking for some fun, unique, and engaging activities to supplement The Crucible? These activities are perfect for learning background information before reading the play and assessing students' understanding after studying the play.Pre-reading activities include:❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history
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9th - 12th
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Antigone Common Core Unit Learning Tasks - 15 Rigorous Activities!!
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sophocles’s "Antigone." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informationa
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9th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
The Crucible FIVE Culminating Activities with Independent and Group Projects
Are you looking for effective and engaging ways to assess your high school ELA students' understanding of The Crucible? Give students choices with these FIVE differentiated culminating activities: researched speech, collaborative research presentation, creative writing Puritan tabloid, movie guide for Good night and Good Luck, and a one-pager activity. Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity ✺PROJECT #1 DANGEROUS IDEOLOGY THROUGHOUT HISTORY--GROUP RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION PROJECTStudents re
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9th - 12th
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Critical Literary Theory: Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, New Historicism etc
Critical Literary Theory: lessons and assessments & key terms - Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Queer, Death of the Author and New Historicism Literary Theory, for AP English and adult learners. Examples of application in media and short stories as far ranging as anime, detective stories, video games, and fairy tales.The Nathaniel Hawthorne story "The Birthmark" is included for a reading upon which all critical lenses can be applied.==============Check out our other lessonsRace horror as
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Of Mice and Men Constructed Responses and Higher Order Thinking Questions
These 10 Constructed Response writing assignments ask your students to engage in Higher Order Thinking and respond in writing to a standards-based prompt. Included are 10 printable handouts that you can use TODAY!
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Chapters 1 and 2: Three prompts on lined handouts based on these standards: CCSS RL11-12.6 (Point of View, Literal vs. Figurative Meanings), RL11-12.3 (Elements of a Story), and RL 11-12.1 (Inference/Explicit Textual Evidence)
Chapters 3 and 4: Three prompts on line
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Activities Bundle
The Story of an Hour Constructed Response, Close Reading, & Inference Statements
The Story of an Hour Constructed Response, Close Reading, & Inference Statements
This 3-part lesson engages students and meets Common Core standards with the close reading of the classic tale “The Story of an Hour.” While reading the story, students will complete a graphic organizer as they identify Explicit Information and Implied Meanings. After reading, they will create Inference Statements, give and receive feedback on those statements, and write a Constructed Response.
This lesson
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8th - 11th
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The Great Gatsby Literature Circle with CCSS
The Great Gatsby – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over The Great Gatsby i s included in this lesson. The unit will require 9 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 3 days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required to do du
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10th - 12th
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The Iliad Books 22 & 24: Comprehension and Analysis Lesson
**Links to Google Drive files now available in PDF!Finish the greatest epic of all time with this comprehensive package of lecture notes, pre and post-reading discussion activities, comprehension questions and formative assessments for both Books 22 and 24 (with rubrics included). Guide your students through the final sections of this complicated and rewarding classic with a focus on Achilles' rage and his encounters with both Hektor and King Priam. This ready-to-print package gives you the flex
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Iliad Resource Bundle
Othello Motif Analysis
Students have difficulty understanding how patterned motifs become themes. This assignment breaks down important quotes in all five acts that reveal these patterns. This 34 page document includes a DETAILED answer key. Each act builds off the previous and students begin to see the purpose behind Shakespeare's connections. I use this activity with my college prep seniors after each act. The students work in pairs or groups to examine the quotes and how they connect to each other. Then I use t
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9th - 12th
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Looking for Alibrandi - Study Guide and Workbook
This 24 page Study Guide and Workbook examines and explores the themes of Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. It has various activities to engage and motivate students with challenging issues to debate, discuss and explore the cultural differences, evident through dialogue and the various themes, such as identity, rules, pressure, destiny, leadership, respect, school social life etc. Opportunities for character studies, and various journal writing activities and assessment tasks. Fully ed
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10th - 12th
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11th & 12th Grade Writing Prompts
Using these writing prompts in a high school class can provide students with valuable opportunities to develop critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills across a variety of genres. By incorporating prompts that align with Common Core State Standards, educators can ensure that students are meeting academic benchmarks while engaging in meaningful writing tasks. These prompts encourage students to explore complex issues, conduct research, and express their ideas effectively through ar
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11th - 12th
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The Importance of Being Earnest Satire Study
This two page activity includes a detailed answer key. Working with a partner or as a homework assignment, students will work through the play to analyze the satirical targets of Wilde's play. Skills include: citing textual evidence, relating author's purpose to comedic devices and making a larger connection to Aestheticism and to Victorian society as a whole. Though a challenging activity, students begin to recognize how comedy can question societal norms as much as tragedy can.Related Reso
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Importance of Being Earnest Resource Bundle
The Great Gatsby Passage Analysis and Expository Writing Assignment
This assignment takes a two-page passage from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which can be used to lead students through a complete analysis of the passage examining diction, detail, syntax, imagery and figurative language. A handout for students is included that defines terms they need for their analysis. Once the analysis piece is complete, there is a guided expository writing assignment making use of the information they garner from their close reading of the text.
A complete anal
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9th - 12th
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Hamlet Final Essay Prompts - Editable with Scoring Rubric - Three Choices
Concluding discussion of Shakespeare's Hamlet with your high school English lit students? Check out these engaging final essay prompts. The resource is editable and includes a scoring rubric. No prep.There are three prompts to be assigned after completion of Hamlet. Topics: Hamlet's preoccupation with death Hamlet's procrastination Hamlet's mental stabilityDirections call for students to ---choose one prompt, ---develop discussion with illustrative text, ---provide three quotes from each act (o
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9th - 12th
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Black History Month Poetry | Poem Analysis | Inaugural Poetry | No Prep!
While the poem "Praise Song for the Day" by Elizabeth Alexander is perfect for Black History Month, it's also ideal to read and study every month. The poem itself is not too long and not too complex, and making it ideal for middle school and younger high school students. Using higher order thinking skills, students will engage in close reading stanza by stanza to analyze the poem’s themes, images, ideas, and tone. When President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, he made history by b
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8th - 11th
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ON THE WATERFRONT: A Classic Film Unit
THREE WEEK 26-PAGE UNITClassic Film Unit. This 1954 giant rewrote the motion picture template of how films should be produced. Featuring Marlon Brando in what some consider his finest hour, On the Waterfront roped in twelve Academy Award nominations with eight Oscars being awarded. The film focuses on union violence and corruption among longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey. The unit allows for you to show the f
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: BUNDLE: TEN AMERICAN FILMS
Confederacy of Dunces Quiz and Activities
Toole's masterly crafted piece of satire is a STRONG piece for any AP Language or Literature class to study. I have also used it with honors students and college freshmen. If you teach satire, narrative structure or just like a crazy character, Dunces is for you to embrace! This resource includes a quiz, cooperative learning activity and close reading analysis WITH ANSWER KEYS!!! I also pair this with Modest Proposal and Onion articles as a means of creating a cohesive unit on satire. Pleas
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Book Review Assignment | Summative Assessment and Process Writing
Have your students just finished reading a book or short story? Rather than have them write a report, which only focuses on summarizing, have them write a book review! This gets them writing an authentic type of piece used in the real world and requires them to move beyond summary into analysis.This assignment includes directions, an example, and a rubric. Furthermore, it guides the students through familiarizing themselves with a new genre of writing to learn its conventions and through prewrit
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Streetcar and The Real World Essay Assignment - CC Aligned
Though Tennessee Williams wrote this play in the 1940’s, his commentary on societal issues is timeless. For this project, students will make connections between social issues found in the play (rape, homosexuality, mental health, domestic violence, etc.) and an outside source that defends, challenges or qualifies Williams’ message. Students may use song lyrics, video clips, articles, poetry, etc to argue the connection between Williams' view of the issue and their own based on their chosen med
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9th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis and Close Reading: A Display of Mackerel by Mark Doty
Poetry : Poem : Mark Doty : A Display of Mackerel
Poem Analysis Close Reading
Teaching poetry is an enjoyable experience when you are teaching a poem that students want to dig into and you have all of the support material you need at your disposal. Mark Doty’s, “A Display of Mackerel” is a poem that students love for the language, the images they visualize, and—for some—the content: fish. “A Display of Mackerel” is just the right length for a class period*, is challenging enough to elicit highe
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Analyzing Poetry Through the Rhetorical Appeals
The push for critical thinking and rhetorical analysis in high school has driven me to turn almost all of my 11-12 grade English literary analysis assignments into a lesson on rhetorical appeals. That said, analyzing poetry through the lens of rhetoric isn't a typical poetic response, but I have found that the students understand it and do well when it is broken down through this process. I have added a loom video explanation on how I use this packet. Here is an excerpt from the instruction on R
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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