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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Poetry Close Reading & Analysis FREEBIE

By Bespoke ELA

In this FREEBIE by Bespoke ELA, you will find a close reading activity for Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that includes an answer key to the close reading questions. This activity also asks students to write their own Shakespearean sonnets in which they

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

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Digital Download PDF (0.50 MB)

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End of Semester Reflection Guide, Goal Setting, and Metacognition FREEBIE

By Bespoke ELA

If you like this freebie, click the green star to follow Bespoke ELA to keep up with product alerts, more freebies, and giveaways! This product is for ANY CONTENT AREA and contains an end of semester reflection guide for students to reflect back on

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Assessment

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Digital Download PDF (0.55 MB)

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FREE Podcast Listening Guide: Sketch Notes for Secondary ELA

By Bespoke ELA

This podcast listening guide provides students with a means of analyzing and organizing information as they listen to podcast episodes. It also includes a written reflection component in which students reflect back upon the topic covered in a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

CCRA.SL.2, CCRA.SL.3, CCRA.SL.4, CCRA.SL.5

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Digital Download PDF (9.55 MB)

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Crafting Commentary Bundle-- Sample Preview

By Bespoke ELA

This is a sample of the Crafting Commentary Bundle by Bespoke ELA. Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

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

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Unique Ideas for Poetry Writing and Analysis-- FREEBIE

By Bespoke ELA

If you like this freebie, click on the green star to follow Bespoke ELA to stay up-to-date with new product releases, exclusive freebies, and giveaways!Be sure to click the FOLLOW star at the top of the page to follow Bespoke ELA. I like to send

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.34 MB)

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Poetry Analysis Chart-- TPCASTT

By Bespoke ELA

This FREEBIE from Bespoke ELA contains a TPCASTT Poetry Chart that takes students step-by-step through the process of analyzing a poem for theme. The TPCASTT strategy for analyzing poetry takes students through analyzing the title, diction, shift,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.32 MB)

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Essay Writing & Literary Analysis Paragraph Format

By Bespoke ELA

This handout gives students a well-developed body paragraph example for a literary analysis essay that uses textual evidence from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.Below the example paragraph, it outlines the parts of the paragraph as follows: topic

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.9, CCRA.W.10

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.28 MB)

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My Virtual Bookshelf Icebreaker Activity for Google Slides-- FREE DOWNLOAD

By Bespoke ELA

Check out this FREE activity for Google Slides in which students create a virtual bookshelf of their favorite books. After creating their bookshelves, students then select a book and explain why it's their favorite.Students then get into groups--

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Other (ELA)

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

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Online Resource
Google Slides™

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National Poetry Month Calendar FREEBIE-- An ENTIRE MONTH of Poetry Activities

By Bespoke ELA

This calendar contains an ENTIRE MONTH of poetry activities to celebrate National Poetry Month in your secondary ELA classes.Activities includedTone TunesZip OdesExquisite Corpse PoemsCut in Half RevisionFun-House Mirror RevisionPoetry in MotionSong

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.06 MB)

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Macbeth FREEBIE: Three Levels of Questioning with 145 Questions for Inquiry

By Bespoke ELA

If you like this freebie, click the green star to follow Bespoke ELA for product alerts, more freebies, and giveaways! This FREE PRODUCT by Bespoke ELA contains 145 questions for studying Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The questions are divided into

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Study Guides, Activities, Assessment

FREE

Digital Download PDF (3.07 MB)

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Beowulf Journal Prompts

By Bespoke ELA

These Beowulf journal prompts contain writing tasks for all three levels of writing. They are excellent to use as warm-up/ bell-ringer tasks at the beginning of class periods or as more developed writing assignments. They also lend themselves to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Homework

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.48 MB)

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The Worst Essay of Your Life: A Diagnostic Essay FREEBIE

By Bespoke ELA

This is an excellent way to "diagnose" student writing skills at the beginning of the year in a fun, interactive way that puts students in charge of the diagnostic process!If you like this freebie, be sure to click the green star to follow Bespoke

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Assessment

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.13 MB)

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Creating Cultural Awareness: Diversity Quotes and Activity

By Bespoke ELA

In this activity, there are a series of quotations about diversity to read with your students. After viewing the quotations, give each student a piece of paper and have them create their own quotations about the importance of diversity and then

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Cultural Activities

FREE

Digital Download PPTX (23.41 MB)

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Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies: A FREE Halloween Primer on Victorian Satire

By Bespoke ELA

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was an American writer and illustrator of “children’s” books that satirized Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He was born in Chicago in 1925 and later attended Harvard University. His books contain dark satire, often

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Close Reading

Grades:

11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.10

FREE

Digital Download PDF (9.76 MB)

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Writer's Workshop Wrap-up Task Cards-- FREEBIE

By Bespoke ELA

These Task Cards are to be used at the end of a Writer’s Workshop during the last ten minutes to emphasize with students that any part of the essay can be edited and revised at any time. The purpose of these Task Cards is to communicate to students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Task Cards

FREE

Digital Download ZIP (7.11 MB)

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Beowulf Rhetoric Activity

By Bespoke ELA

This activity has students complete a close reading of Beowulf's speech to Hrothgar in which Beowulf beckons the king for permission to slay the mighty monster Grendel. Students then make observations about the effect and impact of Beowulf's

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.08 MB)

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Exquisite Corpse Poetry Info Sheet

By Bespoke ELA

Exquisite Corpse Poetry actually has nothing to do with corpses! It was a parlor game created during the Parisian Surrealist Movement of the 1920s & 1930s in which players would create random lines of poetry by passing their papers around the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.20 MB)

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Close Reading Activity for Texts About Diversity and Inclusion

By Bespoke ELA

This activity can go with any text centered upon diversity and/or inclusion. Students will answer some pre-reading questions about their prior knowledge and experiences with diversity and inclusion and then complete a close reading of the selected

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Lesson

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.40 MB)

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Macbeth Visual Art Journals for Text-to-Text Connections

By Bespoke ELA

This FREE PRODUCT from Bespoke ELA contains a series of paintings and photographs that all relate in some way to Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The Power Point begins with four guiding questions that students will answer for each work of art in order

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Assessment, Cultural Activities

FREE

Digital Download PPTX (81.79 MB)

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Character Assassination: Analyzing HOW Character Weakness Impacts a Story

By Bespoke ELA

This listing is for a characterization activity entitled "Character Assassination" in which students analyze how a character's weaknesses impact the story. This mini-lesson is part of the Mega Characterization Bundle of over 15 characterization

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.47 MB)

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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.