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Short stories research for Microsoft Word
John Updike A&P Short Story Quiz
John Updike's Short Story A&P Quiz - Includes 20 questions and answers to assess student comprehension and understanding. Also great to be used as a Research Paper Idea (See my Short Story Research Assignment)
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8th - 12th
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Life in a Shtejtl, from a Holocaust survivor perspective.
This lesson is an annotated story of the Jewish experience of life in a shtejtl. Following the two page story, there are two open ended questions for students to answer as well as 8 more multiple choice questions. This assignment is useful for students to build prior knowledge for the Jewish experience, particularly if students are learning about the Holocaust. The questions created were designed to increase reading skills in inference,main idea, comparing differences, and comprehension. The que
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Chaucer Scavenger Hunt
This is an Introductory Activity that I used to introduce Geoffrey Chaucer to my English IV students before they read The Canterbury Tales.
Grades:
10th - 12th
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Martian Colony Project
This is a fun and creative project for students to complete after reading "Dark They Were & Golden Eyed" by Ray Bradbury and/or any other type of science fiction stories. It allows students to be creative in a small group setting, while also using critical thinking skills both independently and in their group. Students create their own colonies on Mars by submitting a proposal, creating a flag, writing a pledge and much more!
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4th - 9th
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Cask of Amontillado - Catacombs of Paris
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe always freaks the students out a bit. If you want to freak them out even more, use this download that introduces the Catacombs of Paris.
10 questions, one after each paragraph of the Wikipedia article (linked and legal to use), followed by open source photos of the catacombs. Yes, you could easily create this on your own, but you don't want to spend another prep period or night at home creating this assignment when it's right here for you.
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8th - 12th
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The Monkey's Paw pre-reading questions
This is a list of at least 6 questions for the students to research and provide for class before reading the short story, The Monkey's Paw. The questions are ways for students to visualize the topic of the short story as well as parallel the vocabulary list.
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6th - 12th
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Edgar Allan Poe Background and Spanish Inquisition Webquest
This assignment is a pre-reading research assignment for Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum." It has students find basic background information about Poe's life, as well as information about the Spanish Inquisition which is the setting for the story. Several useful websites are provided as a starting point for students.
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9th - 12th
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Animal Book Nonfiction
After researching an animal, students can use this product to illustrate their knowledge of the animal. This 13-page document includes a blank title page, table of contents, chapter pages, and glossary. Students will learn features of a non-fiction text. Students can either draw their animal pictures or insert photographs. In the chapters, the students will write facts about the animal's appearance, habitat, food, and predators. The last chapter is where the student include more fascinating
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1st - 5th
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" - Pre-Reading Web Quest
Links with questions / activities.In a Word document so you can add or take away.Topics Covered:Setting - The Gold RushAuthor - Bret HarteLiterary Movement - NaturalismHistorical Connection - Donner Party
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7th - 12th
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Newspaper article for classroom news
I love using this in my classroom. You can use the blank newspaper article in many different ways. Students can write about something going on in their own town. They can be assigned to research a topic and write an article. There are so many fun ways to create a classroom newspaper! This document can be edited so that you can enter your hometown newspaper name and slogan.
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1st - 5th
Lobbying to Congress for Ray Bradbury's characters
This assignment re-imagine Ray Bradbury's "The Long Rain" from The Illustrated Man. In this new scenario the story is actually the Lieutenant’s diary, here is the set-up:
The waterproof diary of a lieutenant stationed on Venus has recently been recovered out in the wilds of Venus. It logs the experiences of this lieutenant and his crew who had crashed their rocket and tried to make their way to safety at one of the planet’s Sun Domes. Unfortunately, the fate of the men is unknown as the autho
Grades:
9th - 12th
Science Fiction Project
This is a fun and creative project for students to complete after reading "Dark They Were & Golden Eyed" by Ray Bradbury and/or any other type of science fiction stories. It allows students to be creative in a small group setting, while also using critical thinking skills both independently and in their group. Students create their own colonies on another planet by submitting a proposal, creating a flag, writing a pledge and much more!
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4th - 9th
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College Road trip Pricing Project
Find a friend that wants to attend the same college as you out of state. Even if you don’t plan to go out of the state for college, for this project you will make these plans to gain knowledge of prices for an out of state trip. Your role: You and your friend have wanted to take a road trip together and to get out of this tiny town for so long. You also plan on attending a sporting event. Now you need to figure out how much it will cost to make this trip happen. Oh, and there is another little i
Grades:
9th - 12th
Spanish Language Arts- Stories from the Past/Historias del pasado
In this project students will receive an outline for interviewing an older individual on a memory from their childhood. Students will:
1) Interview an individual on a childhood memory
2) Use a rubric to score a story written by them on the interview they conducted
3) Use a scaffold of how to take Cornell notes when interviewing
4) Guide themselves in their own reporting with the use of a scaffold example of a written story
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Allegory Project
Students will create a children's book that is an allegory of a famous feud.
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8th - 12th
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Write an original Mystery
Using what they've learned about the mystery genre, students use the attached to write an original mystery using a historical landmark/location (in Michigan, but can be adjusted to another state). Lesson includes assignment description, complete rubric, notes page, brainstorming page, and bibliography pattern.
Grades:
5th - 9th
Create-a-Book - Pirate, Pirate What Do You See
Using the same repetitive pattern as Eric Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, this book provides easy to remember facts about various famous pirates, and leaves room on each page for the child to do their own illustrations.
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Are Parents Real People? Persuasive Essay and Song / Poetry Assignment
Parents loved this assignment if I could get it graded before conferences. The students take songs, stories, and their own lives to prove whether or not their parents understand. About 90% of my students believed their parents DID understand, and that's what made this assignment so much fun at conferences, especially since the kids rarely told their parents about the assignment.
I have a better version of this assignment listed as an essay about love with many more sources, but this one is a c
Grades:
8th - 11th
Genius Rat Barney! English 7-9; Read, Write, Research, Think; 3 days + projects
*This is an updated, online version of an existing lesson plan by me on Teachers Pay Teachers; if you are using Zoom, this is adapted. However, you do not have to do so.*3-5 Classes, depending upon pace and presentation length.Fun, engaging lessons, useful learning for students, and all learning styles accommodatedNeed a fun short story to keep your students engaged with different ideas? This is it.Your prep: 10 minutes day 1; 2 minutes each following day.Students: Get inspired with a story. The
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Short Story Author Study and Writing Assignment
This includes instructions for a short story author research and reading project. Students must select an author, research the author, read three pieces by the author, and prepare an analytical paper.
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7th - 9th
Non-fiction creative writing prompts
Engage your students with these pictures to write non-fiction stories. These are great for reading centers and research projects!
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PreK - 6th
King You Historical Fiction
While attempting to add more engaging writing tasks to my repertoire that are still connected to the curriculum, I happened across a couple of paragraphs in my textbook (Harcourt Brace Social Studies Ancient Civilizations, 2004) about King You of the Zhou Dynasty. His story is surprisingly similar to the story of �The Boy Who Cried Wolf.� Building on this familiarity I designed this writing project.
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4th - 8th
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Writing Conference Form
This conference form allows you to easily record your students' progress on informational, narrative, and even opinion writing. This writing conference form can be used in grade 3, grade 4 and even grade 5. It can be used to conference with a student in any stage of the writing process. And, if you make back to back copies, one sheet can be used for four different conferences on the same student. All of the information on the check off form is Common Core related.
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3rd - 5th
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"The Story of an Hour" 1890's Resume
Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is featured. Students research the 1890's as they build pre-knowledge of Kate Chopin's America. They also learn resume building skills as they perform this activity, prior to class and group discussions.SUMMARY:Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour” highlights the emotional journey of Louise Mallard after she learns that her husband has died. After learning that her husband, Brently, has died in a train crash, Louise is overcome with grief. Why? Why is she dist
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: THE STORY OF AN HOUR [BUNDLE]
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