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Informational text Common Core RL.11-12.10 resources
Beowulf Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Modern Pairings, Test
This Beowulf unit plan is designed for an active, creative, and inclusive classroom. With its difficult language and dated topics, Beowulf can be challenging to teach. However, with a little inspiration, it is possible to include meaningful, engaging, and fun activities for teaching Beowulf into your unit plan.These fun activities for teaching Beowulf will help you bring the archaic epic to life for your modern students!You will get:⭐ A detailed day-by-day Beowulf unit plan explaining exactly ho
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9th - 12th
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards’ Puritan Sermon, CCSS
Use these creative lesson materials to help your teens get excited about studying Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards’ most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” When you connect this 1741 lecture to modern elements, such as heavy metal lyrics from bands such as Metallica and Slayer (school appropriate selections, of course), your kids will be aching to dig into the fire and brimstone of Edwards’ ghastly sermon. Just warn them – Edwards’ imagery isn’t for the faint of heart!These
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9th - 12th
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Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe short story + non-fiction, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use “The Black Cat” by American Gothic/Dark Romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe to teach your students the elements of literary analysis, get them thinking deeply about the short story's text, and provide opportunities for real-world connections to this grisly story via a 2009 newspaper article (link included) and critical reading activity. This two-day lesson plan includes a full-text copy of the story, a 10-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and a real-world inf
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Compare & Contrast Poetry, Hamlet & Rudyard Kipling's "If" – PDF & Google Drive
Help students analyze how a similar theme is developed in three different mediums by using Rudyard Kipling’s timeless poem “If,” Polonius’ advice to his son in a brief monologue from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and a newspaper columnist’s Guide to Life that went viral in the late 1990s. (Remember that whole “Wear Sunscreen” thing?)This fun, attention-grabbing lesson was built to entertain and challenge high school students in grades 9 through 12, though advanced middle school students will als
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9th - 12th
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The Feather Pillow Horacio Quiroga, Lit. Analysis + Non-Fiction PDF & Google App
Introduce your students to Horacio Quiroga, a master of suspense who will forever change the way they look at their pillows and mattresses with his famous story of everyday horror, “The Feather Pillow.”This 9-page PDF (with Google Drive version of all student handouts) includes:• Suggested lesson procedure page• Full text of “The Feather Pillow,” a wonderfully creepy public domain short story by Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga. (English translation)• Handout of questions/discussion starters for
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8th - 11th
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Jack the Ripper: Tone & Bias in the Media Coverage of this Infamous Murder Case
Jack the Ripper. One of the most notorious serial killers of all time. And he was never caught. There are over 100 theories about his identity. If you're looking for a high-interest nonfiction topic to get your students interested in analyzing nonfiction, this is it! This activity has two parts. The first parts takes students through an exercise of identifying tone in a news article written about Jack the Ripper. There are four articles in this part of this lesson that all come from The L
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant, Multimedia Poem Analysis, PDF & Google, CCSS
Take a challenging poem and it make it far more accessible with these dynamic multimedia materials that will help students build connections between our modern world and the 1817 thoughts of American poet William Cullen Bryant.Romanticism poetry can be tough for today’s teens to master, but linking a poem’s themes to students’ own lives and popular media helps create a much richer experience. These print/post-and-teach materials do just that!This lesson, which will take at least two class period
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9th - 12th
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Farewell to Manzanar, Japanese Internment, Chapter Questions, PDF & Google Drive
Use this package of chapter-by-chapter questions as you take your class through Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s compelling true story, Farewell to Manzanar. As we work to pull more non-fiction materials into our Common Core-aligned classrooms, this autobiographical account of life in a Japanese internment camp during WWII is an important title to include. The worksheet questions (both printable PDF & interactive Google Drive versions included) were designed to pull your students into the Wakatsuk
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8th - 11th
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21 Chump Street Podcast & Video Lesson Compare/Contrast PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Behold the cautionary tale of Justin Laboy, an 18-year-old high school senior who agreed to sell a baggie of marijuana in a foolish attempt to impress the new hottie at school – a girl who turned out to be a 25-year-old undercover police officer. Yes, it’s a real-life version of a 21 Jump Street episode that concludes with a broken heart and a felony conviction. Justin Laboy’s case was featured on This American Life’s NPR podcast. In this lesson, students will listen to the 13-minute podcast epi
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Full Year High School English Curriculum: Secondary ELA 9-12 Common Core Aligned
If you are teaching a new high school English course this year, or you're looking to upgrade your current high school English class curriculum, this full year ELA curriculum is for YOU! This Common Core Standards aligned English Language Arts curriculum will help you create meaningful learning experiences for your secondary English students AND protect your time outside of contract hours.This English curriculum is perfect for you if are looking for...creative, effective activities for you and yo
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9th - 12th
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Move Beyond P-I-E and Get the Receipt: A Better Way to Teach Author's Purpose
Let me make a confession: A few years ago, I got very invested in the drama between Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian. For me, one of the biggest take aways from that drama was the phrase "Show me the receipts." I'd heard my students talk about "receipts" before, but something about the Kanye-Taylor drama really made that phrase memorable to me. As a teacher, I turned that phrase over in my mind. Where are the receipts in the English classroom? Well, when students are looking for auth
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose
Paired Texts - A Midsummer Night's Dream & Newspaper Article
Make teaching Shakespeare relevant with connections to nonfiction texts. Students complete close readings of two texts: an excerpt from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The New York Times online article (link provided) “Modern Love--Breaking our Parents’ Rules for Love.” Using an excerpt from the play will make Shakespeare manageable and engaging for many of your students.In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for online learning with EASEL by TpT.Stu
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9th - 12th
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ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 12th
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American Enlightenment Literature Bundle (9 resources, 100 pgs, 100 questions)
The American Enlightenment is the second unit for my juniors. In this unit, we focus on close reading, analyzing rhetoric, and synthesizing texts. This is also the first time my students venture into American literary movements. For these reasons, this is one of my favorite units, so I wanted to share my best texts and activities. As a bundle exclusive, I’ve also included synthesis writing prompts and rubrics that help students connect texts and see themes across texts. Includes 20 writing promp
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9th - 12th
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The American Dream in literature and today unit plan
This 26-day unit introduces the historical concept of the American Dream. Five days of the unit are devoted to "A Raisin in the Sun." We also read some articles about the American Dream today, and students write an essay on literature's depiction of the American Dream and its relevance today.
At the beginning, each day focuses on an aspect of the dream, plus an aspect of reading poetry (such as persona/tone, poetic language, form, etc.). After that, we read "A Raisin in the Sun." Finally, we re
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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ELA Full Year American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle
Set your students up for success with this zero prep, print and Google slides ready curriculum resource a full year of your American Literature course. In this resource you will find 13 units that span 36+ weeks of instruction:Rhetoric of the American RevolutionPost Revolution: American RomanticismPrelude to the Civil War: American TranscendentalismThe Dark Romanticism of Edgar Allan PoeThe Anti-Slavery Rhetoric of Frederick DouglassRealism and Early Feminist LiteratureThe Harlem RenaissanceLite
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9th - 12th
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A Modest Proposal - Paraphrasing Practice - How to Summarize & Paraphrase
The dense text within Jonathan Swift’s "A Modest Proposal" is hard for the modern teenage reader to summarize and paraphrase. When texts, tweets, and status updates are the only lines feeding our students, introducing a satirically ironic treatise on caring for the poor feels hopeless. These brief lessons include a paraphrasing lesson, a paraphrasing activity, a summarizing lesson, and a summarising activity. (Brits, that spelling of summarising is for you!)Contents◈Lesson 1: The Basics of Pa
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10th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions | Printable & Digital
Reading comprehension passage and questions to make raising reading levels fun!Enjoy no prep (and editable) lesson plan, student worksheets, answer key, PowerPoint slides and Google Doc for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities to teach reading comprehension with fun and engaging reading comprehension passages and questions!!Product Includes:Lesson PlanStudent HandoutsPowerPointGoogle DocAnswer KeyCommon Core Reading StandardsLearning FocusDifferentiation instructionsBell Ring
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6th - 12th
ELA Grades 11-12 Quarter 4 (Spring) American Literature Curriculum Bundle
Set your students up for success with this nearly zero prep, print and Google slides ready curriculum resource for Quarter 4 (Spring) of your American Literature course. In this resource you will find 4 different units that span 9 weeks of instruction:The Southern GothicThe Crucible20th Century American RhetoricContemporary and Diverse Short StoriesTake a look at my FREE Q4 Roadmap for a more in-depth look at these units.This curriculum bundle includes a wealth of print-ready resources, in-depth
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9th - 12th
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Book Review Template for Middle School
BOOK REVIEW TEMPLATE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL? Yes - this is SO FUN and a great way to get kids reading books and telling you all about them! This NO PREP Book Review template for middle school or high school is the perfect resource for holding students accountable for their reading in a fun and engaging way! This book review template for middle school or high school poster can be used like this: with ANY book! as an assessment! as a wrap up activity or end of a unit or independent reading expectation.
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6th - 8th
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Orwell's 1984 - Compare 1984 to Today - Group Research Presentation Project
George Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to demonstrate what our world could become based on practices of his 1948 society. Assess your high school ELA students' recognition of the importance of 1984 to them, today. Engage students with this detailed research and presentation activity. This activity guides students through researching, organizing, and performing a creative presentation comparing the society depicted in Orwell's 1984 to today's world. No prep.Each group chooses one of the f
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9th - 12th
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Pride and Prejudice Regency Period Power Point
The leisurely air of the characters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice can be confusing to readers of today, who—you know—expect people to actually have jobs and do things. This Power Point presentation puts the life of the upper class (even that of the Bennet family, who were, I suppose, “lower upper class” (!!) in context. In colorful terms, with many literary and historical references and quotations, it demonstrates how families maintained wealth, and that the planning of marriages for daug
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Diversity Activities - MLA Research Project, Ted Talk Activity, and Posters
The activities and posters in this Diversity Bundle, a comprehensive, step-by-step MLA research project, a Ted Talk reflection activity to accompany Adiche’s “The Danger of a Single Story,” and beautiful vibrant posters featuring inspiring quotes about diversity are a great way to encourage students to embrace the extraordinary contributions of varying cultures in the US. As educators, it is critical that we nurture curiosity, appreciation, and empathy in our students by exposing them to the b
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9th - 12th
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