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Close reading Common Core W.9-10.1d resources
THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS Unit Plan: Discussion Questions, Worksheets, & Writing
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 75-page EDITABLE unit has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis. Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, quick writes, daily quizzes, and final writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights!The gra
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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"The Kite Runner" EDITABLE COMPLETE UNIT Activities,Tests,Analysis,AP Style,Keys
A 127 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Original photographs of Afghanistan included on handouts.EXAMPLE PACING GUIDES: 3 sample pacing guides for 3 different levels (Honors/AP, Grade Level, Below Grade Level) for a 3 weeks unit. * over 135 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloo
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9th - 12th
Fences by August Wilson Unit Plan Bundle: Worksheets, Task Cards, Projects
If you're teaching August Wilson's play, Fences, you need this teaching bundle to help shape your unit and lesson plans. Included in this bundle:• 56 task cards with engaging critical thinking questions for every scene of the play• Anticipation guide• Writing activities for each scene• Acting activities• Sample pacing guide• Troy as a tragic hero• Uncle Remus allusion close-reading activity• 7 Characterization chart activities• Video worksheet for film on the Negro Baseball Leagues (film availab
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8th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol Unit Plan With Lessons and Activities for High School Students
Draw students into A Christmas Carol with this 3-week unit plan! This unit is perfect for the three weeks between Thanksgiving and Winter Break. Lesson plans, bell ringers, activities, questions, final projects and more are all included. Students spend the first two weeks on an in-depth study the text filled with engaging activities. Week 3 is spent on creative final projects and the unit is concluded with a hot cocoa party with toasts to Scrooge. All the prep work is done! Includes PDF print ve
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7th - 12th
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American Literature Full Year ELA Curriculum for High School English | Secondary
Looking for a full-year American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? Spanning American literature from Puritans to young authors writing today, this truly diverse curriculum has differentiated plans for honors and standard level classes. From the Puritan worldview to YOLO culture, from love and lies to the Iraq war, and from the everyday pains of growing up to the unique experience of the contemporary immigran
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9th - 12th
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit Plan Bundle, Activities
Whether you're teaching Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream for the first time or looking for ways to freshen up your lesson plans, this unit plan bundle is for you! With more than 100 files, everything you need to teach Shakespeare's popular comedy is in this bundle.
Included in the bundle:
• Anticipation guide
• Characterization charts and activities
• 84 task cards with critical thinking questions
• Drama activities
• Writing prompts
• Activities for each scene of the play
• 46-sli
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9th - 12th
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Jamaica Kincaid's ANNIE JOHN (+ the story "Girl") | 3 Weeks of EDITABLE Lessons!
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 80-page EDITABLE unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. Invite your students to engage in student-driven discussions that promise to be profoundly stimulating! The discussion prompts, daily quizzes, short writing prompts, and final paper will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! Hold your students
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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ADVERTISING STUDY Complete Secondary Unit High School ENGLISH
This complete unit walks Secondary English students step-by-step through a high-school style Advertising Language Unit. Perfect for Year 9 or Year 10 English looking at visual and verbal language techniques used in the media, particularly advertising.This unit is all about looking at a range of visual and verbal language techniques used in advertising, analysing advertisements, creating an advertisement of their own, and completing an independent advertising analysis.The print-and-go student boo
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8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â FULL YEAR ENGLISH PROGRAM Year 9 Year 10 BUNDLE Australia New Zealand
A Separate Peace Close Reading Bundle All Chapters Notes Quizzes Essay Project
This is a challenging, thorough close reading bundle for students reading John Knowles' A Separate Peace. You will receive the following:Chapters 1-4 Close Reading NotesChapters 1-4 Reading QuizChapters 5-10 Close Reading NotesChapters 5-10 Reading QuizChapters 11-13 Close Reading NotesChapters 11-13 Reading QuizFinal Group ProjectEssay Prompts with RubricKeys provided for close reading notes and quizzes. Essay prompts come with rubric only. These are PDF (printable; non-editable) resources. The
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9th - 12th
Literary Analysis Essay Writing Practice and Paragraph Writing Activities
Finally, a tried-and-true process for teaching literary analysis essay skills! Students will focus on connotation and denotation, use literary analysis graphic organizers, apply inferential thinking to text analysis of images & quotations, and analyze paired-texts (no-prep lesson plans), all while practicing important written text analysis skills needed for literary analysis paragraph & essay writing. Assess student learning with Google Form quizzes and writing tasks!********************
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8th - 11th
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Star-Crossed Romances: Unit 4 (9th Grade MyPerspectives)
Dive into the timeless tale of Romeo and Juliet with this immersive novel study lesson designed for high school English classrooms! This comprehensive lesson package is packed with a wealth of activities, videos, comprehension checks, CER (Claim-Evidence-Reasoning) paragraphs, audiobook links, and other resources aimed at fostering lively discussions and deepening students' understanding of the text.Throughout the lesson, students will actively engage with the material, participating in interact
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9th - 12th
True Crime Mystery: Circleville Letter-Writer/Possibility of Evil Persuasive Wr.
Bring a little mystery into your short stories unit by tying the mystery of the Circleville Letter Writer to Shirley Jackson's 'The Possibility of Evil.'This real life mystery spans decades and includes affairs, death, shifty lawmakers, false imprisonment. Walk your students through these true events and have them discuss their theories in groups.Lesson 1:1) Put the students into 6 groups2) Read them the story on the PowerPoint and have them take notes on the 11x17 group worksheet3) Stop at the
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9th - 12th
Patron Saints of Nothing Novel Bundle
This is a large bundle for the novel Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay containing the following items:1) Anticipation Guide Pear Deck 2) Pear Deck for pages 67-1003) Pear Deck for pages 118-1344) Pear Deck for pages 164-1805) Pear Deck for pages 202-2436) Vocabulary set of 10 words7) Analysis Writing Prompts (pages 0-98)8) Summative Analysis Writing Prompts (whole novel)Anticipation Guide Description:This Pear Deck is the PERFECT tool to entice your class and hook their attention before re
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8th - 12th
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AP Literature and Composition Poetry Unit 1 | AP Lit. & Comp. Poems | Curriculum
Worried that your AP poetry unit won’t teach your students to analyze literature independently? Like many people in the history of reading poetry, your students might not quite understand the point of it all. Why does poetry have to be so hard to understand? Why so many comparing of things to other things? Why can’t they just say what they mean?And when students are lead to believe that reading poetry means listening to lectures and parroting a teacher’s analysis, they become even more disempowe
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9th - 12th
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AP Literature and Composition Short Story Unit 1 | AP Lit & Comp Curriculum
Looking for an engaging, rigorous, and fun AP short story unit? The beginning of the school year is so essential to setting the tone for the rest of the year, yet AP teachers also feel so much pressure to get everything right from the get-go. With limited time and so many requirements, it’s easy to feel like you don’t have time for fun or engagement. But when your most driven students get the message that literary analysis is all about dry questions and memorizing inane terms, they’ll quickly
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9th - 12th
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Animal Farm Bundle: Activities, Essays, Projects, Task Cards
Everything you need to teach George Orwell's timeless novel, Animal Farm, is included in this bundle. With more than 100 pages, you will find the following activities to help shape your unit or lesson plans:60 task cards covering each chapter of the novelPre-reading activitiesAnticipation guideGeorge Orwell biography activityBell-ringersWriting activitiesCharacterization activitiesFinal essay prompt with rubricReview activities that can be used as quizzes (with keys)Propaganda poster project wit
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7th - 12th
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All American Boys Complete 6-7 Week Novel Unit (NO PREP)
Unlock the Power of Critical Reflection with Our All-Inclusive Curriculum for All American Boys Are you ready to transform your English classroom into a dynamic space of cultural relevance, critical thinking, and literary analysis? Dive into my meticulously crafted curriculum for the riveting novel All American Boys – a unit that not only aligns with Common Core standards but also empowers your students to explore the intricacies of societal conflict, racial bias, and the enduring legacy of Dr.
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9th - 12th
Romeo & Juliet Unit Bundle: Top 15 Resources Comprehension, Writing & Creativity
This complete teaching scheme will save you many, many of hours of preparation. It contains 15 different tasks including work on comprehension, vocabulary, persuasive writing, creative writing, figurative language, imagery and much more. Resources are provided both as a computer friendly presentation and in an easily printable black and white form.· Questions on every scene break the whole play down into bite-size chunks· Play Summary·Close Reading and Comprehension exercise - sixty pages of det
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9th - 12th
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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Reading Journal | Unabridged & Young Readers
Teach Born a Crime by Trevor Noah--online or in-person--with this reading journal and workbook to engage students. This reading journal and workbook for Born a Crime will make incorporating creative and thoughtful activities simple!This 40-page resource centers on 5 writing prompts with additional enrichment lessons and engaging activities. The journal has rubrics built-in but also comes with rubric-free pages in case you have a different grading style. Other activities include quote, poetry, an
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Unit Bundle | Unabridged & Young Readers
Socratic Seminar, high school reading comprehension, task cards, philosophy
Socratic Seminar, high school reading comprehension, task cards, philosophy Socratic Seminars provide an engaging way for students to learn about any topic and build critical thinking skills. It’s a low-prep way for teachers to teach without sacrificing rigor. Furthermore, because it can foster open dialogues among classmates, it builds better classroom camaraderie.What buyers are saying:This was perfect! I had been looking for a way to get my students to think more and engage each other instead
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen Close Reading Worksheet (Google)
For many high school readers, age-appropriate fantasy and fairy tale fiction are genres that maximize engagement with literature. With this worksheet composed of rigorous questions on "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen, English teachers will help students extend beyond reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, and save valuable time at home without sacrificing rigor in the classroom. An answer key and copy of the public domain narrative (estima
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6th - 12th
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The Necklace Short Story Unit Pre-Reading, Questions, Quiz, Essay and More!
This is a complete unit for Guy de Maupaussant's "The Necklace."You will get the following materials:Pre-Reading VocabularyGuided and Unguided Quote Studies with Literal and Inferential QuestionsSupplemental Follow-Up to Quote Studies on Literary Elements & IronyClose Reading Notes and Additional Worksheet Focusing on Values and Cause & EffectPost-Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking QuestionsEssay Planning Sheets, including a RubricMultiple Choice QuizKeys for all worksheets (exc
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â Short Story Bundle for Middle and High School--Popular Titles! {CCSS}
Argument Writing Activity - Banned and Challenged Books - Writing a Rationale
In this engaging lesson, students use argumentative writing to provide a rationale for the study of banned or challenged books. Students participate in a short research activity to discover the charges against the books, then use a note catcher graphic organizer to help them identify text examples that demonstrate the educational value of their books. They annotate for life lessons, character connections, pathways to understanding, and real-world relationships. After gathering their text evide
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7th - 10th
Reading & Analyzing Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" Lessons (NO PREP)
Elevate Your Classroom with Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" Speech! Ready to inspire and empower your students with the powerful words of Amanda Gorman? My comprehensive multi-lesson unit on "The Hill We Climb" speech is the perfect resource to spark meaningful discussions and foster critical thinking in your classroom. Explore Gorman's Message: Dive deep into Gorman's background and the significance of her speech with our engaging Google Slides presentation. From understanding who Amanda G
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9th - 12th
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