American Literature Full Year Curriculum Plus Writing & More BUNDLE
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American Literature Full Year or Semester Plus Writing & More BUNDLE lessons are designed for 90 minute blocks for a semester but can be divided for 45-50 minute yearlong classes.
See the end of the list of resources for a pacing guide to use with the literature and sprinkle in the writing and other resources as you need.
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This bundle is all you need to teach a full year/semester of American literature. Everything you need is included - you won't have to purchase separate materials from my store to fully teach these lessons.
It comes with step-by-step and day-by-day lesson plans, activities, handouts, games, quizzes, tests, projects, and optional tasks. Many lessons have hands-on activities that even reluctant learners will get into. You will love having everything for the semester at your fingertips. All you have to do is print, gather materials, and enjoy! Many of the activities can be printed and kept for years. Print once and keep until you retire!
These lessons are rigorous, fun, student-centered, and engaging. You should have no problems accomplishing all of your English goals and objectives for the year. There is actually so much included here that you may need to pick and choose because there just isn’t enough time to do everything!
The literature pieces are also in order of the time period in the file, so the plans are easy to follow from one unit to the next. At the end of the literature units, you will find lots of extras such as research paper, descriptive writing, plot pyramid activity, etc. that you can insert wherever you wish during the semester. If you just want American literature and not the extras, see the bottom for a link to that collection.
To see previews and descriptions of what is included here, simply click the links below for each lesson. There, you can see thumbnails, previews, and descriptions of what is included. You can also read through the comments section to see what other teachers are saying about these lessons. If you're still not sure about this purchase, check out my free lessons and see what you think.
In addition, most of the zip files include an editable PowerPoint of the tests and quizzes for that unit in case you wish to change anything.
Don’t forget that Teachers Pay Teachers accepts purchase orders from schools! If more than one teacher at your school would like this semester-long set, then each additional license is discounted! Can't beat that!
American Literature Full Year/Semester Plus Writing & More includes:
► First Day of English Classuses "English is a Crazy Language" by Richard Lederer and idiom fun.
► Native American Literature Unit:
"Walum Olum"
"Calling One's Own"
"Come with Me Now Through Time and Mind"
"Why the Mole Lives Underground"
"An Indian Father's Plea"
Activities and Final Test
► Colonial American Literature Unit:
"A Description of New England" by John Smth
"Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford"
Advertising lessons with project along with reflective writing & rubric
Final Test
"Upon the Burning of Our House" by Anne Bradstreet
"Huswifery" by Edward Taylor
Activities and Final Test
► ”Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”:
"Sinners" sermon with activities
"The Beauty of the World"
Non-fiction piece about Jonathan Edwards by Simon Vibert
Final Test
*One of my favorite units due to all the great activities that students enjoy! Yes, students can have fun during this unit on older literature!
► The Crucible Bundle: This is an 80 page bundle of all my Crucible products.
Pre-reading and Post-reading Activities Bundle - 8 unique activities dealing with character, primary texts, expository writing scaffolding, etc.
Creative Reading Guides to keep students on track.
Quizzes in multiple versions for each act
Review Game
Final test in 2 versions
► The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This unit contains daily lesson plans, bell ringers, vocabulary tasks, real-life connections, editable quizzes, editable final test, and project with rubric. It also contains plenty of activities that require higher order thinking, drawing, discussion, reading non-fiction relative texts, analysis, creativity, application, competitions, close reading, video suggestions, synthesis, and more.
► Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention” includes the speech and final test along with logos, pathos, and ethos hands-on lesson.
► Ben Franklin Bundle: This 62 page bundle includes all of my Ben Franklin products.
Excerpts from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Reading guides, vocabulary, reading quiz, final test
Aphorism Activity
Hands-on Success fun covering lots of info about Franklin's accomplishments
"The Whistle"
Moral Perfection Personal Analysis Application
Final Test
► ”The Devil and Tom Walker” has reading quiz, game, vocabulary, activities, and final test.
► ”The Birthmark”has step-by-step instructions, bell ringers, vocabulary activities for 30 words, vocabulary quiz in 2 versions, final test, answer keys, editable file for quizzes and test.
► ”The Fall of the House of Usher” has reading quiz, abridged version of story, original version of story, reading guide that works with both versions, close reading and drawing fun, vocabulary puzzle, hands-on plot activity, & final test.
Excerpt from Moby Dick with reading guide
Vocabulary with quiz
Cause-effect Essay with rubric for grading
Quiz on Movie
Romanticism analysis
Final test
Hands-on foldie - covers character, narrator, point of view, 3 types of irony, and more!
Vocabulary with memory game
Plot task
Final Test
► "Poe Death Theory Debate" involves research, communication, evaluation, and reflection.
► ”Thanatopsis” and “Psalm of Life”:
"Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant
"Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hands-on Fun Activity
Parody comparison
Final test
► Emily Dickinson Bundle includes 3 resources: Biography Mini Escape, Stations & Style, and Poetry Pennants
► ”Old Ironsides”- USS Constitution is a poem analysis and real-world, poetry writing extension lesson.
► Understanding Transcendentalismis a great way for students to familiarize themselves with this complex term.
Excerpts from "Self-Reliance"
Excerpts from "The American Scholar"
Excerpts from "Nature"
Critical thinking and analysis task card activity
Final test
Excerpt from "Civil Disobedience"
Excerpt from "Walden"
Quote fun activity
Nature poetry writing
Reading/thinking guides
Final test
► Frederick Douglass Unit: This is a 46 page bundle of my Frederick Douglass lessons.
Excerpt from "My Bondage and My Freedom"
Excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"A Parody"
Reading guides/tasks
Douglass Webquest
Nightjohn movie quiz and comparison to Douglass activity - optional
Final test
►"Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth - comprehension/analysis questions and activities.
► "Desiree's Baby" has reading/thinking guide with cause-effect task and a quiz.
► "The Lowest Animal" by Mark Twain
► "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
Covers 25 Vocabulary Words with Hands-On Vocabulary Poster Task with Rubric
Vocabulary Quiz in 2 versions - editable
Station Activity with Analysis and Synthesis Questions
Relative Bell Ringers
Final Test in 2 Versions - editable
► The Great Gatsby Interactive Notebook for Entire Novel:
Chapter quizzes
Vocabulary activities
Bell work that leads into each day's lesson
Reading quides
Notebook grading rubric
Poem project
Final test
► Fahrenheit 451 bundle: This is a 76 page bundle of all my Fahrenheit 451 lessons.
Quizzes on each section and final test on novel
Lapbook project
Review game
► ”A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote comes with vocabulary exploding box activity, reading quiz, parts of speech competitive task, Great Depression analysis task, and final test.
► "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin comes with an emoji close reading activity and quiz.
► "37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police" by Martin Gansberg. This is a nonfiction article from The New York Times. This lesson comes with a Police Incident Report close reading activity, RAFT writing and evaluating task, and options for real-world extension.
►Harlem Renaissance Poetry & Blues - Hughes and Garvey - Print & Digital - This is a well-designed plan that includes learning about blues music, analyzing 2 poems about music from the Harlem Renaissance time period, examining a blues song, and writing a poem related to music.
►"John Redding Goes to Sea" by Zora Neale Hurston - Digital and Print - This is an excellent short story to teach the importance of goal setting. The lesson includes close reading, analyzing dialect, vocabulary, and more.
► Plot Pyramid Activity to use with any short story.
► Sub Plans #1 - includes my End of the Year Engaging Activity, which can be used at any time.
► Sub plans #2(2 of these are included in other units, but they are set up as sub plans in this set.)
► Sub plans #3 (these are included in other units, but they are set up as sub plans in this set.)
► Movie Review to be used with any movie.
► Literary Terms Review - great review for any time during the year.
► Research Paper for Beginners - MLA - resource from start to finish.
► Research Paper for Beginners - APA- resource from start to finish.
► Descriptive Writing Unit - includes scaffolding, my Connotation Versus Denotation lesson, rubric, and more!
► Persuasive Writing/Speaking - Real-World!
► Expository Essay Unit
Plus 4 additional grammar activities and sentence makeovers to improve writing!
❤❤❤GET READY FOR THE BEST SEMESTER EVER! Stress-free lesson planning!
You are also welcomed to email me any time with questions even after purchasing - selenasmith100@gmail.com. Still unsure about purchasing this bundle? Email me to try a lesson for FREE!
This is over 1500 pages of great stuff!!! Don't forget: This collection is a bundle of a lot of bundles and units. Therefore, you are saving on top of saving. These would be much more purchased unbundled.
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