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Adult education close reading resources for Microsoft Word
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Dangers of Energy Drinks
This informational text lesson on the dangers of energy drinks is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension! With eight specific standards-based questions and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Student Experience: Students will read the high-interest, engaging article about the dangers of energy drinks. Then, students will truly dig into and respond to that text. Last, students will write a short a
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
King Lear Complete Unit Plan
This extensive 277 page unit plan for King Lear is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the play. Our King Lear unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Shakespeare’s craft and encourage them to w
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Circles: LITERATURE / FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading/Literature Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class book, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a piece of literature (a novel or short story) to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Reading is Good for Your Brain
This mini lesson on the benefits of reading is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills. With five specific common core text-based questions, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Includes:-Formal lesson plan-Super simple sub sheet-Standards links-Link to article-Idea for starter-Short answer questions and answers- Argumentative Prompt-100% EditableClassroom success stories from other teachers who have tried this resource:♥ "Love this - a perfect les
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Hamlet: Complete Unit Plan
This extensive 240 page unit plan for Hamlet is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the play. Our Hamlet unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Shakespeare’s craft and encourage them to write t
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Frankenstein Test A + Answer Sheet + Answer Key
This comprehensive exam covers Mary Shelley's entire Frankenstein novel. This form includes the answer sheet and key for easy grading. 50 multiple choice/matching questions and three short essay responses.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Spanish Reading Ciencia y Tecnología | Lectura en español | Nuevos inventos
Science and Technology reading that I use for Spanish Reading. Even though these inventions are from 2017, they are still very relevant to this year. AP Spanish Language and Culture Sub themes:Ciencia y Tecnologia | Science and Technologycontexto 1 Tecnología, individuo y sociedadcontexto 2 El cuidado de la salud y la medicinacontexto 3 La ciencia y la éticacontexto 4 Los fenómenos naturalescontexto 5 El acceso a la tecnologíacontexto 6 Las innovaciones tecnológicascontext 1 Technology, individu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Solve a MURDER MYSTERY Using Inferences!
Unleash the detective in your students with this captivating murder mystery-solving lesson! Dive into a thrilling narrative, spanning under two pages, where students will put their deductive skills to the test. The carefully crafted guided worksheet encourages them to analyze clues and make inferences, engaging critical thinking in an exciting way.Whether pursued individually, with a partner, or in a group setting, this activity is designed for maximum flexibility. The PG-rated storyline ensures
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Washington Irving: "The Devil and Tom Walker" Assessment with Answer Key
From Electric English...
This is a three-part assessment. The first is simply true and false questions; the second is multiple choice; while, as a rule, I try to avoid this type of simplified question and answer, it is still good to give the students practice.... After all, they will see these types of questions on standardized tests. The third section asks students to make inferences from their reading, from Irving's life experiences, and from their class discussions, then to apply that knowled
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Common Core Close Reading (The High School Annotation Survival Guide)
Close reading a text is an essential skill to teach, especially in a high school English class following a Common Core aligned curriculum. My annotation strategy teaches students to record the gist of each paragraph or chunk of text on the right and talk back to the text using symbols on the left. For the gist, students first must determine the type of noun the chunk of text is about. They then decide what is being said about the noun.
This mini bundle includes the following:
- The General An
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Performing Poetry: Creating an Oral Interpretation of a Poem
REVISED AND UPDATED August 3rd 2019!Performing Poetry is a one-to-two week long assignment that takes students through the process of finding and developing an interpretation of a poem for performance in the classroom. It contains the lesson, students handouts, a performance rubric, a student seld-evaluation, suggestions for poems to use, and several great vocal warm ups that I use extensively in my drama classes. One of the nice things about teaching students to create an oral interpretation of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Drug Awareness Research Project
This Webquest is a worksheet to accompany students' exploration of the NIDA for teens Drug Abuse Awareness website, found at teens.drugabuse.gov/. It guides them through the website pages and asks comprehension questions.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Analyzing Rhetoric and Poetic Devices in Hamilton
Infuse your classroom with the exciting, contemporary hip-hop of Hamilton: an American Musical! Loved around the world, Hamilton can bring energy and joy to poetry and rhetorical analysis. This packet combines both, per needs in my curriculum; however, it's highly customizable, so you can adjust the focus as needed for your own class. This lesson aims to help students recognize the arguments in music and art all around them.Packet asks students to analyze "Cabinet Battle #1," "Cabinet Battle #2,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Room of One's Own Complete Unit
Complete guide to Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own." Originally intended for use in the AP classroom (AP Language and Composition), but can be leveled to any high school grade. Includes: cooperative anticipation activity, daily lessons with bell work that can be leveled up or down (originally used for AP Language to coincide with the Q2 but can easily be adjusted), chapter high lights to ensure thorough lecture/discussions, reading quizzes, 4 test versions, and an essay assignment/project.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Literary Theory ENTIRE Unit Bundle
This is a higher level thinking unit plan for grade 11 and/or 12 University level students, and I can guarantee you that they will absolutely love it! They will see new and exciting ways to look at media and literature. They will be challenged to look at literature and media from different literary lenses. After the completion of this unit, my students come back to me and tell me that they apply literary theory to everything now … when watching a movie, listening to a song, reading, or watching
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Beowulf AP Literature
This fun and creative unit is packed full of different activities that keep things fresh and keep the learning flowing. Students are first introduced to the time period and complete a couple of assignments to familiarize themselves with any necessary background information. For different sections of this poem, students have different projects to complete that will require them to use close reading skills. At the end of the unit, students look at exemplar essays and then produce their own essay i
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Things They Carried: Close Reading O'Brien's "The Man I Killed"
You've never had your students making connections about literature like this!Help your students grasp the masterful way Tim O'Brien presents images in his chapter "The Man I Killed" from his Vietnam War novel The Things They Carried. In this adaptable lesson, students are introduced to the concept of literary impressionism as they identify repeated elements in an excerpt from the chapter. Then, they visualize connections and surmise what this repetition has to do with the themes of the chapter/
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Julius Caesar Fill-in-the-Blanks Activities
This 27-page Fill-In-The-Blank bundle is originally part of our Julius Caesar complete unit. We decided to sell this component separately and it includes five fun fill-in-the-blank activities for Shakespeare’s play.
Fill-In-The-Blanks:
• All five acts are included
• Each review sheet follows the play’s plot in chronological detail
• Word banks are included for each fill-in-the-blank activity
• Teacher answer key is included for each act
**Students have the most fun doing these assignments i
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter – Literary Analysis Assignment with 47 Quotations
Literary Analysis Assignment for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter with 47 Key Quotations
This editable Word document is 6 pages long, and there are 47 key quotations from the novel.
Students are asked to analyze the significance of each passage as it relates to one or more of the following literary devices: theme, characterization, point of view, setting, tone, style, symbols, figurative language, etc.
They must support their analysis by integrating brief quotes (words and phrases) fr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"; A NEED-TO-KNOW Handout
This handout focuses on what your students, especially those college-bound or in college, need to know about Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock.”
Its fill-in-the-blanks format, largely text-based, has your students analyze the historical background of the poem, its themes, structure, mock-epic genre, and stylistic features.
The handout begins by stressing that “rape” in the title meant “theft” in Pope’s time, not that horrible crime in its modern sense, which does not occur in the poem.
However,
Hamlet: Tests and Essays Only
This 23 page test bundle is originally part of our Hamlet complete unit. We decided to sell this component separately and it includes two formal assessments and two varieties of essays for Shakespeare’s play.
Unit Tests
Test “A”: 50 question assessment: Matching, Fill-in-the-Blank, True/false, Multiple Choice
Test “B”: 46 multiple choice questions
Both answer keys included
Essay Possibility 1: Choose from one of seven given essay topics
Essay Possibility 2: Prepare three essay outline
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fahrenheit 451 Close-Reading Passage ACT -Style Multiple Choice Questions
This resource has two brief passages from Fahrenheit 451 accompanied by 11 multiple choice questions written to be practice for the ACT reading section. Key included.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Bundle of Activities and Assessments for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" Assessment with Answer Key
From Electric English...
This is the reading assessment for the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher". This is a two part assessment. The first part is simply true and false questions; the second is multiple choice; while, as a rule, I try to avoid this type of simplified question and answer, it is still good to give the students practice.... After all, they will see these types of questions on all standardized tests.
NOTE: The answer key is included here and is the last page of the doc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Comparing and Contrasting (cut&paste) Venn Diagram *Editable*
This Blank Venn Diagram comes with half sheets to use for cutting and pasting. EDIT the half sheets to include the information you would want your students comparing before printing, or leave them blank to allow your students to find and fill in the information being compared. This is also a great way to differentiate by putting pictures on the half sheets .
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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