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Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Games for Secondary ELA

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This bundle of argument and rhetoric games for secondary ELA contains SEVEN unique games that target the skills of argumentation in a fun and high-interest format.The games included in this bundle are:Rhetorical Devices BINGO GameIn this game,

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English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Games

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W.9-10.1, W.9-10.1a, W.9-10.1b, W.9-10.1c, W.9-10.1d, W.9-10.1e, W.9-10.2, W.9-10.2a, W.9-10.2b, W.9-10.2c, W.9-10.2d...

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Famous Love Letters: A Close Reading & Creative Lesson for Valentine's Day

By Bespoke ELA

This lesson by Bespoke ELA is a great lesson to use in February to celebrate Valentine's Day in a unique and creative way that is sure to engage students!Task:To analyze how famous love letters use language, literary and rhetorical devices, and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Activities, Task Cards

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CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.1...

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Lizzie Borden: Infamous Murder Case Nonfiction Unit, Tone, Bias, Persuasion

By Bespoke ELA

Lizzie Borden was tried and ultimately acquitted for the MURDER of her PARENTS in the 1890s. The trial was controversial. How could a WOMAN possibly hack her parents to death and why? How could this have happened while she was HOME if she didn't

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Informational Text

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

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Lesson

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RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.7, RI.9-10.8, RI.9-10.10, RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.2...

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Jack the Ripper: Tone & Bias in the Media Coverage of this Infamous Murder Case

By Bespoke ELA

Jack the Ripper. One of the most notorious serial killers of all time. And he was never caught. There are over 100 theories about his identity. If you're looking for a high-interest nonfiction topic to get your students interested in analyzing

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English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff

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Activities, Lesson

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RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.6, RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.8, RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10, RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2...

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The Zombie Apocalypse-- Persuasive Speech Activity

By Bespoke ELA

In this activity, students will role play that they are trapped in their school by the zombie apocalypse. They have to decide whether to stay at the school... or whether to leave the school for an alternate location. In order to make this

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

W.9-10.1, W.9-10.1a, W.9-10.1b, W.9-10.1c, W.9-10.1d, W.9-10.1e, W.9-10.2c, W.9-10.2d, W.9-10.2e, W.9-10.2f, W.9-10.4...

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Infamous Criminals: A High-Interest Nonfiction Research Project

By Bespoke ELA

In this project, students will research the life of a famous criminal and compile a bibliographic research project to share with the class. The criminals included in this project range from fraudsters to gangsters and from pirates to drug lords.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Informational Text

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Assessment

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.7, RI.9-10.8, RI.9-10.10, RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.2...

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THE Ultimate High-interest Halloween Bundle for Secondary ELA

By Bespoke ELA

This huge bundle of resources is the ultimate Halloween bundle of high-interest activities that are sure to spark the interest of your secondary students! There is a wide variety of activities included in this bundle!Here's what's included:PRODUCT

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Activities, Assessment

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Nonfiction Resource Bundle- Graphic Organizers, Question Stems, Charts, & MORE

By Bespoke ELA

This product contains 26 pages of items to support a unit on nonfiction, or informational texts. You will find graphic organizers to assess the three more common text structures: descriptive, cause/effect, and compare/contrast. These graphic

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Graphic Organizers

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RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.7, RI.9-10.8, RI.9-10.9, RI.9-10.10, CCRA.L.1...

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Macbeth Scavenger Hunt: Making Real World Thematic Connections

By Bespoke ELA

This activity has students making connections between Shakespeare's play Macbeth and the real world through the topic of corruption. In this scavenger hunt activity, students are to locate three Real World Macbeth figures who became corrupt as a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3, RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.7, RI.9-10.8, RI.9-10.10, RI.11-12.4, RI.11-12.5...

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TedTalk Choice Board with Reflective Writing via Google Slides

By Bespoke ELA

In this Google Slides activity, students will select three TedTalks from the choice board to view. They will then complete the prompts attached to each TedTalk and type their responses directly onto the slides in order to respond and reflect upon

Subjects:

Writing, Informational Text

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Cultural Activities

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Online Resource
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The Donner Party Tragedy-- A Nonfiction Research Synthesis Project

By Bespoke ELA

This nonfiction project is constructed much like the synthesis essay from the AP Language and Composition exam. Students are to get into groups and review each artifact, one-by-one, and compile facts about the Donner Party tragedy on their evidence

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Informational Text

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.R.10, CCRA.SL.1, CCRA.SL.2, CCRA.SL.3, CCRA.SL.4...

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address COMMON CORE Nonfiction Practice

By Bespoke ELA

Nonfiction is increasingly becoming more and more represented on standardized tests, and these questions can be tricky. So, I sought out to create STANDARDIZED TEST prep “close reading” questions in MULTIPLE CHOICE format in order to model

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.R.10

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Assassination of President Lincoln: Detecting Tone & Bias in Newspaper Sources

By Bespoke ELA

This activity takes students through an exercise of looking at ten different newspaper sources that depict reactions to the assassination of President Lincoln. Students are to highlight/ annotate/ close read each newspaper source for bias and tone

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.R.10, CCRA.L.1...

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Nonfiction Close Reading Practice of the "Declaration of Independence"

By Bespoke ELA

This product includes an 18-question close reading of the "Declaration of Independence" using standardized test question stems in multiple-choice format. Nonfiction is increasingly becoming more and more represented on standardized tests, and these

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.R.10

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Fraudsters: A High-interest Topical Unit for Teens in ELA

By Bespoke ELA

For this unit, students will learn about fraud and complete close readings about three infamous fraudsters: Bernie Madoff, Anna Delvey, and Frank Abagnale, Jr. Then, students will select a fraudster to research as part of a bigger project that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Informational Text

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.6, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.W.8...

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Nonfiction Close Reading Practice with Alexander Hamilton-- COMMON CORE

By Bespoke ELA

This product contains excerpts from Alexander Hamilton's "Famous Report on Manufactures" from 1790. The text comes from the public domain. This close reading activity will target comprehension and analytical skills while exposing students to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$1.00

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Reading List and Website Sources for Texts About Diversity

By Bespoke ELA

If you like this freebie, click the green star to follow Bespoke ELA and receive product alerts, more freebies, and exclusive giveaways. Given all of the tragic events that have happened in our world and continue to happen in our world, I have

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Guided Reading Books

FREE

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Anglo-Saxon History Notes and Quiz-- Answer Key Included!

By Bespoke ELA

No study of Beowulf is complete without also studying the life and times of the Anglo-Saxons. This listing includes Anglo-Saxon history notes and a quiz with the answer key included! Anglo-Saxon History NotesThis handout contains an outline of key

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Cultural Activities

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

---15+ years of high school teaching on every level, including A.P. Literature and Dual Credit Composition and World Literature ---5+ years experience teaching Creative Writing--- ---Taught in three states in the US: Texas, Illinois, and New York in public, private, and magnet schools--- ---Bespoke ELA blogs at: BespokeClassroom.com & TeachWriting.org

MY TEACHING STYLE

My teaching style is all about discovery and finding ways to enable students to uncover knowledge themselves. Therefore, many of my lesson plans are student-centered. I am also known as "the writing teacher" because I believe that writing is the cornerstone of the English class and that every piece of literature should be selected for the sake of teaching skills and not simply because it's a "classic."

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

New Teacher of the Year- 2003

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

M.A. Literature- Northwestern University/ B.A. Literature- University of North Texas

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Meredith is the founder and creator of TeachWriting.org and BespokeClassroom.com. She has taught high school English for 14+ years in Dallas, Chicago, and New York City and holds a M.A. in Literature from Northwestern University. She has always had a connection to the written word-- through songwriting, screenplay writing, and essay writing-- and she enjoys the process of teaching students how to express their ideas. Meredith enjoys life with her sweet daughter and crazy Yorkie named Teddy. Visit the Bespoke ELA blog at: BespokeClassroom.com.