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Free Common Core RL.11-12.2 literature circles
12 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Spark Critical Thinking
Students LOVE literature circles - especially when you incorporate awesome task cards! These task cards are a SIMPLE way to make literature circles FUN and engaging for students! Take a PEEK at this BRAND NEW "ELA Task Card MEGA BUNDLE"...Visit my Ms. G's Room 30 Blog for more tips, tricks and resources that can further enhance the magic that happens in your classroom on a daily basis!Looking for more than 12 task cards?24 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Critical Thinking Ski
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6th - 12th
Also included in: ELA Common Core Task Cards - MEGA Bundle - CCSS Reading and Writing
Christmas Tree Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer Template
Merry Christmas! Use this for your favorite Christmas story and copy on red or green paper to add a festive touch for your students. This 8.5"x11" sized graphic organizer plot arc or pyramid squeezes in space for: title, exposition, characters, setting, conflict, rising action events, climax, falling action events, resolution, and theme. I hope you enjoy this plot template gussied up for the season.Other suggested resources:Reindeer Race Christmas Holiday Board GameCustomer Tips:Be the first to
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4th - 8th
FREE Fiction Reading Response Form
Looking for a formative assessment to track comprehension and reading analysis? This Google form makes collecting data about student progress easy. Use with any fiction book, either a whole class novel, literature circles or student free choice reading books. All students write a summary response for their reading that day and then pick one: setting, character, conflict or theme to analyze. Perfect after a 30 minute chunk of independent reading. Use multiple times to collect data and formatively
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
The ULTIMATE Collection of 1984 Discussion Questions, Part I
These questions about George Orwell's novel, 1984, work beautifully as warm-ups, group discussions/debates, homework questions, journal entries or quiz/test questions. They are divided by chapter, for easy integration into your lessons no matter where you are in the novel.
This resource pack contains questions for PRE-READING, as well as BOOK I of the novel.
A NOTE FROM LITERARY LUMINARIES:
1984 is one of the greatest written works of all time. The way that George Orwell explores the notions
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9th - 12th
The ULTIMATE Collection of Fahrenheit 451 Questions, Part I
This resource pack contains powerful journal and discussion questions connected to the following sections of Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451:
-THE HEARTH AND THE SALAMANDER
You are the kind of teacher that every student wants to have. You fill your classroom with big ideas, meaningful assignments, and discussions that enrich the lives of students.
That’s why this resource pack is perfect for you.
These resources will let you take your instruction to the next level.
Forget about those basic co
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9th - 12th
The Hobbit - Anticipation Guide
This is a preview of my full unit (lesson plans, assignments, quizzes, projects, rubrics, and all) on The Hobbit!
Anticipation guides are wonderful ways to get students thinking about the text before they read. This anticipation guide raises several themes about The Hobbit and is intended to be used with small groups. This would make a perfect start to literature circle work if you wish to use those, however, that is not necessary.
With this file you will receive:
-A two page anticipation guid
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5th - 12th
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FREE Creative Book Reports - 50 Fun Book Talk Projects for ANY Play or Novel
50 fun end of book individual and group activities and assessments for ANY novel or play: these FREE book report projects and creative book talks with rubrics are a win-win! All of the extension activities and assessments end-of-book projects are no-prep, paper-less ways for your students to show their comprehension of a book that they have read either with the class or on their own. This resource supplies individual creative oral presentation ideas, along with a number of presentations for grou
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7th - 11th
Einstein's Dreams Socratic Seminar
This educational resource, "Einstein's Dreams Socratic Seminar, is designed for high school English literature classes, specifically catering to students in grades 11 and 12. It offers a comprehensive lesson plan for engaging students in a deep and thoughtful exploration of Alan Lightman's novel "Einstein's Dreams."Key components of this resource include:Standards Alignment: The lesson plans align with specific Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for grades 11-12 in English Language Arts, ensurin
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9th - 12th
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The Book of the Unknown Americans End of Book Socratic Discussion Questions
The Book of the Unknown Americans Discussion Questions. I use this as Socratic Seminar Questions for my advanced 8th grade class, there are directions for that at the bottom. I will be adapting it for literature circles in my grade level 8th grade class. These are for after the students have finished the book.
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7th - 12th
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Lesson Plans/Study Guide
This study guide/lesson plan(s) based on Mark Haddon's novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time includes comprehension and analysis questions/activities to generate discussion groups as well as individual writing tasks.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Schedule & Annotation Guidelines: Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is a contemporary novel that is a perfect choice for independent reading because it is complex enough to provide students opportunity to practice key analysis skills while also accessible enough for students to avoid frustration and thus confidently and actively participate in independent annotation, group literature circle discussions, and summative analysis essays in either a timed or process format.As a teacher, this means you get to step back and become
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9th - 12th
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Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
Show your students what Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg looked like! Let them experience how it felt to be Rodion Raskolnikov walking to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment with his dreaded task on his mind.This bundle includes four videos from St. Petersburg that make Crime and Punishment come alive:1. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 1: Walk the most likely murder route suggested by the landmarks Dostoevsky discusses in the novel. Length: 15:30.2. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route
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Not Grade Specific
The Miracle Worker Anticipation Guide
Anticipation guides are wonderful ways to get students thinking about the text before they read. This anticipation guide raises several themes about The Miracle Worker and is intended to be used with small groups. This would make a perfect start to literature circle work if you wish to use those, however, that is not necessary.
With this file you will receive:
-A two page anticipation guide designed to provide insight into the theme of the text and promote critical thinking and discussion of
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7th - 12th
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Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Bundle: Live from Mystic Seaport!
Show your students what an authentic nineteenth-century whaleship looked like! You will visit the Charles W. Morgan, a real wooden whaling ship still in the water at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. It is the only wooden whaling ship in the world still in the water. Learn more about the Morgan at Mystic Seaport's website: https://mysticseaport.org/explore/morgan/. Note that the ship in Moby-Dick, the Pequod, is fictional.This bundle includes two videos from Mystic Seaport Museum in
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Not Grade Specific
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Macbeth Acts 1-5 Quick Writes
The following questions should be answered in 3-5 sentences after reading each act. They prompt readers to analyze character development and behavior.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Utlimate Collection of ADVANCED Lord of the Flies Questions Part 1
These resources will let you take your instruction to the next level.
Forget about those basic comprehension questions.
This resource pack contains materials that will spark the highest quality of deep discussion and expand your students’ critical thinking skills.
These Lord of the Flies questions work beautifully as warm-ups, group discussions/debates, homework questions, journal entries or quiz/test questions. They are divided by chapter, for easy integration into your lessons no matter wh
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9th - 12th
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The Turn of the Screw Study Prompts
This 14-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter and build up a full understanding of what Henry James is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revisi
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9th - 12th
Prologue to Canterbury Tales - Reading Guide
This is the handout I use when reading Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales. It helps students to comprehend the difficult text since they are looking for specific things - physical description and adjectives or actions that describe each pilgrim. An example is provided for the Knight. This exercise can be done cooperatively or in literature circles.
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11th - 12th
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12:28
Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Video Tour
Show your students what an authentic nineteenth-century whaleship looked like! This 12-minute, 28-second video tour shows you the rigging, attached whaleboats (including one that you can climb into), and deck of a whaleship—including tryworks—along with a special cabin constructed on deck for the wife of one of the captains, the windows that allow a little bit of light to go belowdecks, the captain's quarters, the mates' quarters, the forecastle ("fo'c'sle") where the majority of the sailors sle
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Also included in: Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Bundle: Live from Mystic Seaport!
Characterization Worksheet-- Great for short story and novel study!
This worksheet will help the student track information on a character in a work of fiction. It covers the whole gamut of characterization, from physical appearance to primary motivations.
This has been a great help to my high school students, but it can also be used in middle school and modified for younger grades.
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7th - 12th
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BELOVED Part 1 The Literal vs the Literary
After reading Part 1 of Beloved, students are invested in the story with a lot of questions and predictions. For my class, I purposely didn't tell students that it was based on the true story of Margaret Garner for elements of suspense. This activity is to give some background of the true story of Margaret Garner and explanation of Sethe's mindset. It is meant to be an interactive activity with hyperlinks to maps, pictures, and summaries. Students are encouraged to discuss the questions with par
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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1:53
Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Hold and Barrels of Oil Video Tour
Explore the hold of a nineteenth-century whaleship in this 1-minute, 53-second video. Note the difference between the vertical support posts that have been restored on the vessel and the originals, worn down by barrels of oil constantly knocking into them at sea. Notice also that new technology was installed in the hold to accommodate the vessel's historic 2014 journey along the coast of New England.The video is of the Charles W. Morgan, a real wooden whaling ship still in the water at Mystic Se
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Also included in: Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Bundle: Live from Mystic Seaport!
Novel Report Handout
From Core Instruction: You can download this FREE Novel Insights book report handout for your high school English Language Arts students and AP English students to use to record novel information for novels they read.
My students do this for every novel and play they read. Studying these completed forms prepare students to take the AP Literature test Open Question essay for which they must select a book or play of literary merit that they have read and write an analysis of it.
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9th - 12th
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Close Reading (Prose Fiction) Teaching Copy
This stand-alone resource is taken from the opening section of the highly regarded 215-page ‘Writing Unseen Commentaries: A Student Help Book’, a two-year course in the close textual analysis of short prose extracts and poems, designed to help students, within a clear framework, develop the skills of focused reading and critical commentary – skills they will be called upon to demonstrate in most national and international pre-university literature examinations.This is the introductory prose (fic
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11th - 12th
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