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Middle school literature unit plans under $5
Into the Wild - Complete printable unit and novel study - Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild - Complete printable unit and novel study - Jon KrakauerThis printable is meant to accompany students as they read this novel. You can assign this for students to complete individually, in small groups, or as a whole class. What You Get - Essential Questions - Anticipation Guide - Pre-reading articles - Chapter Assignments - Bucket List Activity - Exit Slips - Map Activity - Symbolism Assignment- Character Analysis - Creative Writing Survival Story - Poetry Analysis - Theme analys
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Entire Year of Middle / High School English: Printable Units - Major Bundle!
Eleven by Sandra Cisneros Short Story Unit for Middle Grades for 5th and 6th
This short story unit: "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros is exactly what you need to teach your fifth and sixth grade upper elementary learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with this classic fiction text. This short story unit was created so that teachers could try out the Socratic Seminar and reading response format that I use in all my reading units and short story units. Components Included in Each Lesson:Common Core Standard Alignment Compr
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5th - 6th
Fantasy Literature Genre Unit, Writing Projects, Fantasy Writing Guide, and More
No-Prep, fantasy genre unit! With this resource you will have everything you need to add fun and creativity to your fantasy genre studies. I have included a "Fantasy Writing Project Menu" with nine creative projects, a fantasy element checklist, a writing outline for students to organize and write their own fantasy story and a complete "Fantasy Book Report" for students to fill out after they have read a fantasy novel.Digital Option Available! This will work perfectly for distance learning as w
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Genre Units Bundled, Projects for Every Reading Genre
My Side of the Mountain - Final Test
A thorough, interesting, final test for a literature unit/novel study on "My Side of the Mountain."
Not just a multiple-choice test, this assessment contains questions on vocabulary, characters, plot, motivation, cause and effect, theme, and more.
Answer key is included.
Part of a comprehensive literature study of "My Side of the Mountain" which you can find here:
My Side of the Mountain - Complete Literature Unit
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5th - 8th
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Ender’s Game Complete Unit Plan: 200+ Pages of Activities, Quizzes, and More!
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a great classroom novel that is sure to intrigue students. This large unit plan for Ender’s Game includes several activity packs to help guide your class through the novel. It will make preparing lesson plans simple while teaching the novel. The unit plan includes a reading activity pack; a reading comprehension question pack; a vocabulary pack; a writing journal pack; a multiple-choice quiz pack; and a chapter summary pack. All packs are composed of hando
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6th - 12th
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Digital ELA Pacing Guide Editable for Middle School | 6th 7th 8th | Curriculum
This resource includes an editable digital Google slides ELA pacing guide, curriculum map, and scope and sequence for the entire school year for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. This editable pacing guide, curriculum map, and long-term guide have everything you need to create your own. Use these Google slides to create pacing guides and curriculum maps for your middle school ELA school years. Use my done-for-you version as a guide, or type right over my curriculum plans. For your convenience, the weekly
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6th - 8th
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Making Inferences Mini Unit - Explicit vs. Implicit Activities
This is a differentiated & Common Core aligned mini-unit that reviews making inferences with upper elementary/middle school students! It also introduces the vocabulary terms "explicit" and "implicit" information. Students will analyze body language and setting in texts to make a reasonable inference about the context of the stories. To show their knowledge students will write & draw, making these activities engaging and fun! Partner texts & images are linked the teaching guide &
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4th - 6th
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Native American Literature - 5 Day Unit - Origin Myths, Iroquois Constitution
This is a 5-day unit in which students study early Native American literature (3 origin myths and the Iroquois Constitution). These accounts were passed down through generations as oral tradition and have been written for the modern reader. Students will learn about the Native Americans, read and analyze the texts, make inferences, collaborate to answer discussion questions, and complete their own written analysis of their contributions from a topic on a choice board. The texts include:1. "The E
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8th - 12th
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Halloween Read-Aloud Unit | Use With Book The Spider & the Fly | 5th-6th Grade
This seasonal literary unit is perfect for the month of October and Halloween. This resource focuses on reviewing literature standards and teaching theme/central idea through the use of the picture book The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt. You will need a copy of this book for use throughout the unit. You may be able to find a read-aloud of the book on YouTube.Students will be creating a flip book to complete as they work through the unit. Each flip book is created with three pieces of paper p
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5th - 6th
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Creation Myth Short Unit, Lecture Notes, Myths, Writing Act., Creative Myth
I use the following unit in a world literature course. It is an excellent unit for analyzing myths. First is included the lecture notes I use; I formatted these in outline form. (If you are interested, these are formatted into a PowerPoint lecture which is also available for purchase at my store for a low price.) I have also attached 3 different creation myths that I use for this activity. Finally, I have attached a writing assignment & creative creation myth; this is an original myth that i
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8th - 12th
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Aesop's Fables Mini Unit
Fables are one of my favorite things to teach in the upper grades! The kids have fun learning and figuring out the different morals while reading and building their comprehension skills! This mini unit has EVERYTHING you need to complete the fables unit; you just print & teach!
Check out the {PREVIEW} to see a sneak peak of everything you will get in your digital download.
In this set:
1. Anchor Chart
2. 6 Fables with moral stated at the end
3. 6 Fables with no moral stated at the end
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3rd - 7th
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Fences lesson plans, Unit Plan, August Wilson, 54 pages.
Completely rewritten & expanded July 2011
This is a complete, loosely-structured Drama unit. There is no strict schedule or pacing guide here, though the activities, the concluding essay, the Socratic seminar, and the chapter quizzes and study guides would logically dictate the order of lesson delivery. You may find that you skip some activities, alter some activities and documents, and change the order of delivery year by year,based on your scheduling, teaching style, and type of students.
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8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Entire Store: Full year's curriculum: for Freshman through Senior English.
The Phantom Tollbooth Novel Unit
The American classic by Norton Juster recently celebrate 50 years of publication! The students truly love the quirky characters and comically subtle moral lessons the novel provides. This unit includes a variety of different assessments for reading comprehension. See Table of contents below.
Pg. 1..........Title
Pg. 2..........Map
Pg. 3-9.......Comprehension and Vocabulary
Pg. 10........Create-a-Map Activity
Pg. 11........Character and Plot Study Guide
Pg. 12........Vocabulary Crossword Study G
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4th - 8th
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Middle School The Worst Years of My Life Book Study
This unit includes questions and vocabulary for each chapter, after reading ideas, vocabulary review ideas, and an answer sheet. The book has an AR reading level of 4.5, but the subject matter is more suitable to middle grades (5-8). Many of the questions included could lead to good class discussions, especially about bullying.
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5th - 8th
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The Chaser by John Collier - Short Story Unit - Main Idea & Supporting Details
"The Chaser" by John Collier Unit is a CCSS aligned close read activity that focuses on Main Idea and Supporting Details. Everything needed to complete this unit is included. The following products are included in this unit:1. Sample Presentation that comes in Keynote, Powerpoint, and PDF versions. In addition, a link to a sample free Nearpod presentation that includes the warm-up, first read question, and self reflection. This tool allows students to be active participants in the presentation a
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6th - 8th
Elie Wiesel's Night: Engaging Butterfly Project Final Activity Print & Digital
This is the perfect reflective, engaging, and meaningful activity for the end of your Night unit.The Butterfly Project is an exhibit honoring child victims of the Holocaust, inspired by Pavel Friedmann’s touching poem at Terezin Concentration Camp. It symbolizes hope's resilience during hatred with handmade butterflies from children worldwide dedicated to the 1.5 million Jewish children lost in the Holocaust. In this project, students will explore Holocaust victim children's poems and create the
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Pourquoi Tales Reading and Writing Unit
Introduce Pourquoi tales and advance students' reading and writing skills with this fun, complete resource. Students will learn content, read traditional Pourquoi tales, learn to analyze them, and write their own. This helpful product addresses standards RL.3.2, RL.6.3, and RL.W.6.3. This complete resource includes everything you'll need: ♥ A complete Content page that can be inserted into student interactive notebooks for reference. ♥ 4 complete Pourquoi tales with comprehension questi
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4th - 6th
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Allusions in Literature Unit - Digital and Printable - Distance Learning
These allusion lessons are perfect for personalized, differentiated, flipped, and/or 1:1 technology classrooms! AND This pack also works great in teacher-led and planned traditional classrooms! PDF printable options are included in EVERY activity! I have included lesson plans and a unit plan for both types of instruction! This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. This unit will contain a Google File Link Page that will provide you with a Google Doc/Slid
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7th - 11th
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The Pearl Final Test
Here are 3 different versions of a final test over John Steinbeck's "The Pearl." There are matching, true and false, multiple choice, and "choose the right order" questions. An answer key for each version has been included as well.
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7th - 12th
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The Gift of the Magi Short Story Unit for Middle School for 7th and 8th
This short story unit: "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry is exactly what you need to teach your seventh or eighth grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with this classic fiction text. This free short story unit was created so that teachers could try out the Socratic Seminar and reading response format that I use in all my reading units and short story units. Other Middle School Short Story Units Available: "The Gift o
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7th - 8th
"The White Dress" Spooky Short Story 2 Day Unit: 45 Minute Lesson
"The White Dress" is a super short audio-story based on a Floridan ghost tale offered by themoonlitroad.com. This makes a great listening comprehension activity, while incorporating a little mystery for your students, but the text is available too online. This 2 day unit is designed for 5th-8th graders with roughly 45 minutes each day, and can all be digital to make your life a little easier! Great for distance learning/Google Classroom! Includes an alternative ending writing activity too!HERE'S
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5th - 8th
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Intro to Poetry & Slam Poetry!!
A 33 slide Powerpoint on Poetry & Slam Poetry!My students loved it, and yours will too!!- Lyric, free verse, haiku, rhyme, acrostic, cinquain, limericks, concrete, odes, elegies- Poetic devices- What is Slam Poetry- "How To" write your own- Presentation Guide
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3rd - 8th
A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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ROMEO AND JULIET Introduction to Shakespeare Slideshow
This 19-slide PowerPoint is a great introduction to William Shakespeare and his world. During our travels to England, we took photographs of Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare's home, sculptures of the artist, the Globe Theatre, and more. These photographs, as well as historical background about Shakespeare, will be a compelling opening to your reading of Romeo and Juliet.SUGGESTED ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATIONPhotos we took of Shakespeare’s birthplace and grave in Stratford-upon-Avon. photos an
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8th - 10th
Also included in:Â ROMEO AND JULIET Unit - Plan Fun Activities Prereading Introduction Quizzes
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