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Short stories Common Core RI.9-10.7 resources
Bundle: Dark Romanticism - American Gothic + Detective Stories Unit
This bundle includes the Dark American Romanticism - American Gothic Unit as well as the Detective Stories Unit.DARK ROMANTICISM – AMERICAN GOTHIC UNITIn this sublime unit, your students will explore American Romanticism and Gothic in works of fiction, poetry, art, and film. Your students will first learn about conditions that influenced American Romanticism and Gothic and study concepts and elements that characterize Romantic and Gothic literature and art. They will then apply these concepts to
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8th - 12th
9-12 Short Stories Bundle (9 Texts, 300 pages, 1 great price) / Print + Digital
The Short Story Unit is a staple in many literature classrooms. But finding quality, grade-level appropriate short stories that will engage students and lend themselves to ELA skills and content can be challenging. To make that process a little easier, I have collected high-quality short stories all in one place. All together, you get almost 300 pages of reading questions, writing prompts, visualization tools, and literary criticism activities. If you were to purchase each item in this bundle in
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9th - 12th
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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
Cask of Amontillado Analysis - True Crimes Activity and Argumentative Assignment
Explore “True Crimes and Strange Happenings” with this analysis activity for Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”! Students will learn about six spooky mystery stories and write an argumentative paragraph examining common themes within murder and mystery. Includes digital resources for Google Classroom®!Included with this “Cask of Amontillado” True Crimes Analysis Activity:✏️ 6 “True Crimes and Strange Happenings” Informational Handouts - PDFExplore real-life stories of fraud, coercion,
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8th - 12th
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Women's History Month
This short story unit for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" includes guided reading questions, informational handouts, assessment tools, pre-reading activities, and more! Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 20% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Short Story Unit for “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman:✏️ 30 Essential Vocabulary Terms - Digital & Print✏️ The Yellow Wallpaper Author Biography Informational Handout -
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9th - 12th
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The Danger of a Single Story COMPLETE 4-week ELA UNIT with NO PREP
Ever wanted to teach the TED Talk "Danger of a Single Story" and have your students analyzing rhetorical strategies AND critically thinking!? Then, this is the unit for you! You and your students will read excerpts, articles, short stories, poems, and more as you read traditionally underrepresented perspectives from communities such as Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic/Latino/a Americans, and African-Americans. As your students and you read through the texts and advance through the uni
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9th - 12th
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NEW Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit (Allende, Esquivel, Márquez)
In this fantastic Latin Folktales and Magical Realism unit, you will study characteristics of Latin folktales, analyze Latin cautionary folktales (El Silbón, El Sombrerón, La Llorona, La Siguanaba) and Latin animal folktales (Boitatá, El Cóndor y El Colibri, El Zorro, Jukumari), then explore genre elements of Magical Realism, and identify elements of Latin folktales and Magical Realism in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Gabriel García Márquez, short story), Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Es
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Bundle: Norse Mythology Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
English 9 Lesson Plans: One Year of Lesson Plans and Activities
These fifteen pages contain an outline of how to teach English 9 or language arts freshmen. If you teach eighth or tenth grade ELA, these lessons can also give you a starting point.Outlined in 36 week, these free lesson plans walk you through the literature, grammar, and writing portions of your classes. Included in the details are vocabulary, public speaking, nonfiction, and other areas of study.Please switch, delete, and add what will work for your English 9 students. These should be a start t
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8th - 11th
"Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?" Reading Questions and Google Form
After writing "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman received feedback from a variety of sources. Some criticized and discredited her account while others recognized her story as similar to their own. With these responses in mind, Gilman wrote "Why I Wrote 'the Yellow Wallpaper'?", a short essay about the impact of her famous short story. To help students consider Gilman's essay, I've included 10 multiple-choice questions. This is the perfect text to consider alongside "The Yellow Wall
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: "The Yellow Wallpaper" Instructional Pack (50+ Pages, 4 Tools, 1 Price)
Urban Tribes - Native Americans in the City Lessons - Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for High School StudentsThis learning resource uses the reading strategies: connection, question, infer and transformation, to allow for powerful understanding. Students will gain a better understanding of the unique issues facing Indigenous millennials in North America.Lessons included will ask:Students to make connections, between the text and personal experiences, other texts and media, or world events/issuesStudents to document and class
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Studying Podcasts with Short Stories
I created this unit to help my students overcome their test anxiety about the listening and nonfiction portions of the FSA. We spend so much time studying fiction, that I thought this would be a good blend! In this mini unit, created to take place before the Suspenseful Short Story Literature Circle Unit (coming soon), students begin by listening to a short story and tracking what details in the story make it suspenseful (i.e. word choice and imagery). Then, using those same skills, they read "M
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9th - 12th
Judith Ortiz Cofer: "American History" Worksheet (or Assessment) with Answer Key
This worksheet does not "discriminate" in presenting an abundance of review and discussion questions that seek to elucidate the true significance of prejudice. Integrating literary terminology into questions that reinforce standards, students will be given a chance to examine and evaluate critical aspects of intolerance as well as recognize the climate that permeated the nation after citizens experienced one of America's most shocking and tragic events. A detailed answer key is included.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: Differentiated Mentor Text List
In this resource, you'll find an assorted list of mentor texts that can be paired with students' reading of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Included in this guide are 9 mentor text suggestions that range from poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and multimodal podcasts and art. Included with each mentor text is a publication date, a brief description, and suggestions for how to use each mentor text to supplement student understanding and engagement with the text.This is a great resource for teac
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Sound Machine -Short Story and Rhetoric through Ecopedagogy
This started as a simple read a story answer a few questions project and snowballed into a much bigger Ecopedagogy project. It’s up to us as teachers to immerse our students in the bigger picture in a way that elicits not just understanding but compassion and caring. In this case, I am speaking to our current environmental situation. According to my own research, I have found we are in the biggest extinction crisis since the age of dinosaurs. Forests are being burnt and destroyed for capitalisti
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Earth Day Bundle - Persuasion, Rhetoric and Authorial Message
Analyzing Photographs
This product can be utilized with both fiction and non-fiction readings, from novels to informational articles, photographs should be 'read' and inferred as part of the story. This exercise is especially helpful for those visual learners that might need additional information to understand the context of the information.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Barack Obama and Past Tense Verbs
Content-based instructional lesson plan about Barack Obama and Past Tense Verbs. This file contains a step by step set of instructions on how to deliver a content-based lesson plan on regular and irregular action verbs. The file also includes a 2-page worksheet about Barack Obama for teachers to deliver the instructional lesson plan. This activity is intended to be used for high beginning and intermediate level ESOL students in high school, adult education and can also be applicable for mains
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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La Vida Robot article vs. SPARE PARTs compare/contrast lesson plans
lesson plan outlines for comparison/contrast of the WIRED MAGAZINE article, "La Vida Robot" with the movie, SPARE PARTS
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9th - 12th
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