Thank You, Ma'am by Langston Hughes - Short Story Task Cards - Middle School ELA
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Description
The "Thank You, Ma'am" short story task cards are the PERFECT reading comprehension activities for middle school and high school students to demonstrate their new learning. These PRINT and DIGITAL reading task cards are designed to break up the monotony of normal short story unit assignments and captivate students’ attention. This short story activity contains 36 rigorous and engaging CCSS aligned tasks that require students to not only think critically when reading this classic Langston Hughes short story, but also allows them to tap into their creativity.
Students will LOVE the variety of ways that they can create products and written responses to demonstrate their understanding of "Thank You, Ma'am". Teachers will LOVE that these task cards contain tasks that address all the Common Core State Standards for Reading Literature (6th-9th) and that each task comes equipped with a list of clear and specific criteria for success. In addition, there are also CUSTOMIZABLE blank criteria slides that allows you to customize the criteria for success to meet the specific needs of your students.
❤️ Why You'll Love This Resource:
✅ Saves You Time with Quick and Easy Prep
✅ Allows students to show their learning in a creative project
✅ Can be used for ELA learning stations, group work, early finishers and more!
✅ Perfect Activity for Substitute Days
✅ Clear Student Directions and Criteria
✅ Easy Way to Scaffold and Differentiate
✋ What Standards and Skills Are Addressed?
• Citing Text Evidence
• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Theme
• Author's Point of View
• Elements of Plot
• Characterization
• Figurative Language
• and MORE!
✍ What's Included:
• 36 "Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes Task Cards
- 16 CCSS Aligned H.O.T. Questions
- 20 Creative Projects
• Short Story Handouts• BONUS: DIGITAL Short Story Task Cards (Google Slides).
✅ The following questions/tasks are included in this product:
→ Question #1- Author’s Purpose
→ Question #2- Central Idea
→ Question #3- Theme
→ Question #4- Characterization
→ Question #5- Point of View
→ Question #6- Time Period
→ Question #7- Real Life Influences
→ Question #8- Figurative Language
→ Question #9- Conflict/Resolution
→ Question#10- Setting
→ Question #11- Theme & Development
→ Question #12- Painting a Picture
→ Question #13- Plot
→ Question #14- Objective Summary
→ Question #15- Mood
→ Question #16- Context Clues
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→ Task #1- Movie Poster
→ Task #2- Be A Critic
→ Task #3- Picture It
→ Task #4- Interview the Author
→ Task #5- Interview a Character
→ Task #6- Comic Book
→ Task #7- Instagram
→ Task #8- Facebook
→ Task #9- Twitter Feed
→ Task #10- Trading Places
→ Task #11- Likes/Dislikes
→ Task #12- Rewrite
→ Task #13- Prequel
→ Task #14-Sequel
→ Task #15- Diary of a Character
→ Task #16- Cover Artist
→ Task #17- Dear Abby
→ Task #18- Music to My Ears
→ Task #19- Morning Announcements
→ Task #20- Word Cloud Collage
✋✋✋ It would be a great idea to laminate these task cards for durability or so that students can use a dry erase marker to check off the criteria while they are self-assessing their work.
What Other Teachers Are Saying About This Resource:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: Cynthia C. says, "I was very impressed with this resource! I used this as "choice activities" for my 7th grade ELA students. It was a great resource to break up our usual routine. This was definitely a well thought out, high quality resource. I would recommend this for 7th graders."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: Sabrina H. says, "Great Resource! The task cards were very engaging and the students loved the activities."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: Meranda E. says, "I was looking for some questions to help me develop text dependent analysis writing prompts. This helped me a lot, and I have been able to construct similar questions for different texts."
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Created by Stephanie M. Icenogle, The Creative Classroom © 2013; updated ©2020
All rights reserved by author.
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Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
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