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Free close reading Common Core RL.11-12.2 resources
The Lottery Shirley Jackson - Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Bell Ringers
Assess students’ knowledge of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” using these FREE reading comprehension questions! These bell ringer quizzes include six close reading questions that evaluate students' reading comprehension. Includes digital quizzes for Google Classroom®! Included with these Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes:✏️ “The Lottery” Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Digital & PrintSix close reading questions to evaluate knowledge and understanding✏️ Editable Reading Comprehension Que
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8th - 11th
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Poetry Anchor Chart - Bookmark for Reading, Annotating, and Analyzing Poetry
Scaffold the close reading process using this Poetry Anchor Chart! This personal bookmark will support students while they read, annotate, and analyze any poem independently. This poetry anchor chart offers a 4-step process for reading and annotating any poem, along with guidance for writing a close reading response. Using this bookmark, students can have step-by-step instructions on hand throughout your poetry unit.There are several different files included in this resource to accommodate diff
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9th - 12th
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Free Scaffolded Reading & Research Notes: Help Students Independently Annotate!
One of my year-long goals is for my students to reach a place where they can independently take and make meaningful notes and annotations while they read. Personally, I prefer to write in my books, but in the classroom, that's not always possible. With this in mind, I put together these 5 Square Notes sheets (kind of like graphic organizers) that walk students through annotation and/or note taking. Each sheet is set up in the 1-2-3-2-1 style, which is a pattern that's easy for students to rememb
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8th - 12th
Cynthia Ozick "The Shawl" | Free Short Story Unit Plan, Honors & AP Literature
Looking for a powerful addition to your unit on the Holocaust or genocide? “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick is sparse, memorable, and beautifully written. While the story itself is very short, your students will be inspired by the challenging text.This story pairs well with Night by Elie Wiesel, 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, or any other text that deals with themes of war, oppression, trauma, or death.When you teach this powerful short story
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9th - 12th
The Great Gatsby, Chapter 5 - Reading and Discussion Questions with Detailed Key
This reading and discussion guide with comprehension and analysis questions for The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 is great as an independent reading check, as a discussion or note-taking guide, a study reference, or an assessment for your high school ELA students. Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity 5 pages 31 numbered questions (with questions within the questions, the total is 40). The questions require comprehensionanalysissynthesisapplicationMany of the questions require students to refer
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 1 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Lady or the Tiger Reading Guide and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton. The Reading Guide provides the students with a close read of the text with dependent questions that help target the Common core State Standards for Literature. This guide helps students with comprehension to help determine what the author is saying? The student reading guide is ready to duplicate for classroom use and teacher key for the test is included. Other resources are also available f
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9th - 12th
American literature Unit | Black History Free Poetry Analysis Worksheet | BLM
Looking for an engaging, rigorous unit on the Black Lives Matter Movement?In this mini unit, students will learn about the history of the Black Lives Matter movement and the way that the word “boy” has been problematic for African American males. They'll also explore both the written version and performance of the wonderful poem “not an elegy for Mike Brown” by Danez Smith, a masterful, award-winning contemporary poet and performer. Rounding out the unit are an opinion piece and an inspiring TED
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9th - 12th
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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
Shakespeare's Hamlet | Pre-Reading Handout on Major Themes in Hamlet | Free
This 3-page pre-reading handout introduces students to the most prominent themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. By having your class read and discuss this thematic introduction together, students will be captivated by the complex questions invoked in Shakespeare's play before they begin reading the enigmatic first scene.If you like this 3-page pre-reading handout, you'll definitely want to check out my 200-page Complete Teaching Unit on Hamlet. The complete unit features worksheets on every sc
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Poetry Analysis Mother To Son Langston Hughes
This is a one day lesson to reinforce making inferences, identifying theme, and citing evidence. Students will read the poem, Mother To Son, and then complete a graphic organizer identifying literary elements. Great for National Poetry Month in April.
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6th - 12th
Literary Criticism Freebie | Generic Critique for Any Fiction
Enjoy this complimentary sample of my Generic Lessons and Worksheets for Any Fictional Text. This is a quick critique that works with any work of fiction. Full Version of Generic Lessons for ANY Fictional TextELA Teacher's Toolkit for ANY Work of Fiction.Engaging, flexible, and requires no-prep (except copying) for middle school-secondary students! This standards-based lesson resource is designed to work with any fictional text to teach the learning targets and concepts your students are studyin
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Analysis and Assessment Bundle
The Minister’s Black Veil Review and Study Guide
Join thousands of teachers who have used this 12 page, easily-printable review guide to aid their prep and improve their students’ understanding of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil.”
This LitCharts review guide includes:
- Contextual info: author bio, historical background, related literary texts
- Analysis of characters, symbols, and themes
- Thematic analysis of important quotes
- Unique side-by-side summary analysis that supports and models the close and active reading tha
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9th - 12th
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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 Hate U Give-Chapters 1-3 Quiz
Here are 25 (page-specific) MCQs based on Chapters 1-3 of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give. Questions focus on point-of-view, plot structure, characterization, figurative language, juxtaposition, parallelism, and tone. Answer Key included. ***If you love quality and price of this resource and want to help other teachers find it, then please select My Purchases, choose Ratings, and leave Feedback. The more ratings you leave, the more free credits you earn to use on your next TPT purchase!
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Hate U Give--Quizzes Bundle
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!* PDF: Cornell Notes for CLOSE READING, NOTE-TAKING, & ANNOTATIONS!
* PLEASE NOTE that I have tagged CCSS, TEKS & VA Standards of Learning related to analysis of literary elements both in and across texts, as well as tracing an author's argument. As the lesson plan explains, this product can be used to assist in analysis of ANY text! Thus, it is a tool to help students get there, but does not fully accomplish that analysis without further structure--structure provided in my Mega Literary Bundle! *Now that we have that out of the way, what exactly are these C
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Chat GPT, AI-Proof Writing Assignment: Characterization Analysis & Close Reading
Worried that AI programs like Chat GPT will keep your students from learning to think for themselves? Learning to write literary analysis based on textual evidence is a great way for students to learn critical thinking, evidence-based reasoning, analysis, and writing, but if you assign your students to write an essay from home, what are the odds that they’ll be tempted to cheat and never learn those skills? The key to getting your students to avoid the temptation to use AI to think for them is
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Close Reading / Analysis Text-dependent Questions
These questions guide students through a close analysis of chapter one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Students work through the text, focusing on analyzing characters, building symbolism and themes, identifying tone / sarcasm, analyzing word choice, and using textual evidence. The questions can be used for individual analysis or small- or whole-group discussion of the text. They can also be left for substitutes!
All page references refer to the Scribner 2004 edition.
Looking
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9th - 12th
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Two No-Prep Lesson Plans or Sub Plans for Kurt Vonnegut's Dystopian "2BR02B"
Kurt Vonnegut's work is always engaging, and his dystopian short story "2BR02B" is no exception. The best part? It fits perfectly into so many different units and lessons, whether you're teaching science fiction, dystopian lit, short stories, allusions, or even Hamlet. It just works. And to make it even easier to incorporate into your curriculum, I've created two flexible, no-prep lesson plans.This freebie includes two no-prep lesson plans for you to choose from: a paired "reading" with Gustav K
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10th - 12th
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ELA Q1 Roadmap for Junior English American Literature Curriculum
This curriculum guide maps out 9 weeks of lessons for your American literature class (grades 11-12). Use this to help plan your own quarter or to see how I pace out my ELA Quarter 1 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle.This Quarter 1 curriculum resource takes students through the origins of American rhetoric and literature covering the speeches of Revolutionary War figures like Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, the short stories of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and finall
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Quarter 1 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle
The Great Gatsby Chapter I Study Guide (28 questions)
This study guide invites the reader to answer essential questions from Chapter I. This helps the student retain the plot and also dissect some language that is challenging for the eleventh grade student.
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Not Grade Specific
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Mini Lesson for Teaching Students to Discover Theme
FINALLY! A concrete way to teach your students how to discover theme, or to just make sure your whole class is on the right path.
In this mini lesson, which has been designed for students to complete independently (online, face to face, or blended), students will learn how to analyze and look at key components of a text to determine values, and create a theme.
It is LOADED with gifs and uses "The Lion King" as sample text. Great for students to independently navigate (online, blended, flipped
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8th - 12th
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The Yellow Wallpaper Review and Study Guide
Join thousands of teachers who have used this 13 page, easily-printable review guide to aid their prep and improve their students’ understanding of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
This LitCharts review guide includes:
- Contextual info: author bio, historical background, related literary texts
- Analysis of characters, symbols, and themes
- Thematic analysis of important quotes
- Unique side-by-side summary analysis that supports and models the close and active reading tha
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9th - 12th
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