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Writing-expository Common Core RL.9-10.3 resources $5-10
Friday Night Lights Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger's study of the impact of football in a Texas town resonates across the country. His discussions of the academics vs. sports debate,race, gender, and class issues, and entitlement will hook middle and high school students. Friday Night Lights speaks to the secondary school experience as well as society's expectations.This complete unit plan, includes: Common Core Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy grade level, time frame, assessments, and detailed daily plans as we
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7th - 12th
Antigone Common Core Unit Learning Tasks - 15 Rigorous Activities!!
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sophocles’s "Antigone." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informationa
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9th - 12th
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The Scorch Trials teaching packet, includes vocabulary packet
This teaching packet includes vocabulary, response prompt, chapter check questions, character charts, and more for James Dashner's novel "The Scorch Trials." This includes the 72-word vocabulary unit that can also be purchased separately. The vocabulary is divided into four sections and each section has three different matching quizzes to provide for mastery, reteaching, and integrity. Chapter check questions are in 5-chapter chunks, and can be used for homework or study guide questions, as we
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9th - 10th
Writer's Resources BUNDLE WITH EXTRAS: posters + handouts for a writer's corner
These handouts and posters combine to form my Writer’s Resources board. This 4’ x 4’ bulletin board is in the corner of my room, and kids are welcome to use any of the writing aids at any time – for any assignment. The materials range from a visual on how to format the heading on an MLA paper to a graphic organizer for argument writing.
NOT INCLUDED in the bundle are the posters labelled “25 Starts”. These are sentence starters for different types of quote integration, and I modified them from
Grades:
5th - 12th
Eleanor & Park teaching packet
This CCSS-aligned teaching packet contains activities for Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell. This includes chapter check questions, vocabulary, a character chart and several writing prompts and activities. Answer keys are included. Vocabulary has three separate matching quizzes to attempt to limit cheating and encourage proficiency and mastery. The chapter check questions are divided into roughly 40-page segments, and are perfect for homework, comprehension checks, independent study, make-up
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9th - 12th
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Poe's, "The Cask of Amontillado": A Short Story Unit Focused on Pre-AP Skills!
Written to meet the demands of the new Common Core and PARCC test, this one week unit includes engaging and challenging lessons to teach pre-AP skills to your students. You'll find 16 pages of original handouts, including a words and phrases scavenger hunt to teach connotation and mood, an interactive anticipation guide to introduce major thematic elements, an introduction to paraphrasing Poe, engaging lessons on irony, close reading, and annotation, and two key writing assignments. The first
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8th - 11th
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Literary Analysis Essay Outline Rubric Activities Characterization Worksheet PDF
This Literary Analysis Pack encourages students to begin their journey into writing a literary analysis essay. It takes students step by step through the literary analysis process by encouraging them to examine how characterization leads to theme within "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe OR in ANY text!Just PRINT, PRESENT, and TEACH!This product includes the following:2 Characterization Worksheets with Differentiated Options: Character Traits and Character AnalysisPowerPoint that introduce
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9th - 12th
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The Death Cure teaching packet
This CCSS-aligned teaching packet contains activities for “The Death Cure,” by James Dashner. This includes the chapter check questions and vocabulary packet that can be purchased separately. This packet also includes a character chart and several writing prompt and activities. Answer keys are included. Vocabulary is divided into four sections. Each section has three separate matching quizzes to attempt to limit cheating and encourage proficiency and mastery. The chapter check questions ar
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9th - 10th
Animal Farm Chapter Quizzes and Unit Test
Each of the quizzes in this file contains 10 multiple choice questions designed to check for literal comprehension. Each also ends with an essay prompt that goes up the critical thinking ladder and asks students to explain or analyze, using supporting evidence from the chapter. The first three quizzes cover chapters 1 - 6 in two-chapter combinations. Each of the remaining chapters (7 - 10) has its own quiz.
The unit test contains 10 multiple choice questions, carefully designed to require criti
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9th - 12th
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Speak the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson | Digital & Printable BUNDLE
Are you looking for supplemental resources for SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson? This BUNDLE includes the following items:Essential Question SignsAnticipation Guide (Google Form + Doc)The First Lies They Tell You in High School (Google Form)Vocabulary Quiz (Google Form + Doc) plus a link to a way to study the words!Mental Health Research Paper for use after reading SpeakSpeak is one of the most engaging texts for young people today. This bundle includes some of the things I have created along the
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9th - 12th
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Neale Hurston, Final Test, Novel Assessment
This is a final test for Zora Neal Hurtston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, including multiple choice, true false, quote matching, and short answer essay questions with an ANSWER KEY included. Possible answer examples for each short answer essay prompts are also included. I use the essay prompts for essay choice questions they can use for their expository essay at the end of the term as well.This assessment delves into the rich tapestry of themes, characters, and literary elements within the nov
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Final Test, Novel Assessment, Final Exam
This is a final test on To Kill a Mockingbird — a versatile assessment tool designed to evaluate students' understanding of Harper Lee's timeless masterpiece. This exam includes a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true / false, quote identification, and short answer essay questions to assess comprehension, critical analysis, and interpretation skills. Use and reuse the test from year to year and/or give it as a make-up test for absent students. An answer key including key po
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Hobbit: Passage Analysis and Expostiory Writing
Like any good writer, J.R.R.Tolkien is a master of using literary devices to “paint” the reader a picture of the ancient and dangerous Mirkwood Forest. The dangers of the forest are foreshadowed when the narrator says, “Now began the most dangerous part of all the journey.” Since our adventurers have encountered stone giants in the mountains, the goblin attack and escape through their tunnels, and the Wargs trapping them in the trees, it has to give the reader pause to be told that these were
Grades:
7th - 10th
I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Novel Study Unit
Discussion and analytic questions for the novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name are primary to this unit. These questions will have students analyzing and understanding the concepts Craven weaves into her plot.In addition there are vocabulary worksheets and puzzles.An essay assignment derived from a topic specific journal (attached), with detailed student handout is included in this file. There are half-page quizzes for Ch. 1 to 5, and Ch 18 & 19, plus a full-page test and an essay for the to
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7th - 10th
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Business Letter Format - Crime Investigation - Middle & High School English
Looking to grab your students’ imaginations as you teach the business letter format? Students interview witnesses, consider motivation, and gather evidence for a crime scene report. Then, based on their findings, they make a recommendation to the district attorney using a formal business letter format in this fun, engaging criminal investigation unit. A carefully selected episode of the USA Network’s television show Psych and quick overview of essential terms in criminal investigations provide
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8th - 10th
Lord of the Flies: Quizzes, Disscussion Questions, and Final Test
Contained in this file you will find twelve quizzes, one for each chapter in the novel, each one with ten multiple-choice reading comprehension questions and a corresponding answer key.
Along with the quizzes I have included a set of end-of-book small group discussion questions with handy answer blanks for each group’s reporter. These are thought-provoking, high-interest questions that require interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of the text.
A final essay test—also included—asks student
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9th - 12th
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5 Paragraph Essay Tutorial for Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Everything you need to teach your students how to write a 5 paragraph analytical essay about Mildred Taylor's novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Includes assignment sheet, thesis instruction, introductory paragraph instruction, body paragraph instruction, how to include quotations as evidence in writing, body paragraph checklist, concluding paragraph instruction, essay checklist, and essay rubric score sheet.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Reading & Paragraph Outlining (CRISS or Roman) - Beowulf Final Battle Response
Students will learn how to use outlining to quickly organize a writing assignment while reading, and how to simultaneously use outlining to assist in understanding the reading, the final battle of Beowulf. This method is adaptable to other readings.Students are either to take notes on paper or mark the reading for this assignment, and conclude with a full sentence outline assignment.READING THEME: HonorREADING & WRITING STRATEGY: A version of outlining for reading, and a full sentence outlin
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7th - 12th
Beyond the Chocolate War Objective Test & Essay Prompt, Planning Sheet & Rubric
This packet contains two forms of assessment related to the novel. The first is a 50 question test that assesses literal comprehension of plot, setting, and characters using matching, quotation identification, and True/False formats. An answer key is provided plus a page reference sheet linking answers to the pages on which they are found in the Beyond the Chocolate War paperback published by Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1985.
The second item is a performance assessment in the form of an expository essay w
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9th - 10th
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Love Sonnets Analysis Journal
A higher level poetry analysis activity in which students read and analyze love sonnets. Includes a brief introduction to the sonnet form and poetry analysis, six love sonnets for students to practice analyzing, and a sonnet writing assignment. Also includes QR/internet code links to online content.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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