American Lit. semester 1: The American Dream 18 weeks
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Save time and 50% of individual pricing ($26) with this American Literature semester 1 bundle. It contains reader’s theater scripts, 5 choral readings (poems), lesson plans, projects, Power Points, rubrics, printables and instructions on how to use the resources within. Several activities and assignments combine two or more authors or pieces for comparison and analysis.
While not strictly in chronological order, the units focus on a themes around the American Dream: Puritan and Colonial influences, justice and injustice, what makes writing powerful, how have events influenced writers and writings, etc.
These resources have been gathered over several years of teaching American Literature with alternative ed students (SPED, ESL, residential treatment centers, GT and drama students and clubs. These help provide differentiation and choice for teacher and students.
Reader's theater is an excellent way to increase comprehension and character analysis as reader's use their voices to become the characters and immerse themselves into a plot and setting. Choral readings provide authentic ways for everyone to enjoy poetry aloud.
Bundle contains:
Jonathon Edward’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Phillis Wheatley
5 scene script presenting the life and poetry of Phillis Wheatley
Lesson plan containing assessments
Review game
Connotation exercises
A writing assignment to create a 6th scene
Founding documents
5 reader’s theaters (Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Constitution including preamble and Bill of Rights)
Projects and Prompts, graphic organizers, assessment and answer key
Patrick Henry and Tecumseh
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death reader’s theater
Sell a Country reader’s theater
Longfellow’s Midnight Ride of Paul choral reading and extension activities
Persuasive speeches and writings projects and prompts
3 Civil Rights Trial scripts with projects
Washington Irving
2 scripts (reader’s theater and choral reading of poetic version) for Rip Van Winkle with 14 activities, writing and discussion prompts
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister’s Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown reader’s theater scripts and sanity trial project
The Scarlet Letter script, projects and prompts
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address Eyewitness reader’s theater and extension activities
A 3 week optional American Horror unit featuring H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Howard, Longfellow’s Haunted Houses and Poe
Reader’s theater versions of The Cask of Amontillado (presented as a reader’s theater trial pre reading activity with a prediction exercise between the two scenes)
Masque of Red Death
Projects and writing prompts
A visual dictionary for The Cask of Amontillado
Martin Luther King
2 scripts (12 pages) Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream.
2 page assessment (including listing, comprehension, matching and analysis questions plus a prompt for a written response) and answer key.
Plagiarism
3 different reader’s theaters that define plagiarism and its consequences
Flow chart to determine when to cite and how to
Lesson plan with Common Core standards and VA SOLs
Rubric
Review games and online quiz
Lessons on connotation/denotation, satire and reading political cartoons
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