Halloween writing-expository Common Core RL.9-10.3 resources

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Games

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.2

, RL.5.3

, RL.6.1

, RL.6.2

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Also included in: ELA FULL YEAR READING & WRITING CURRICULUM W MAP LESSON PLANS MIDDLE SCHOOL

The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM (Shirley Jackson)

Created by

Language Arts Excellence

Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for Th

Subjects:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: The Lottery Activity Bundle (Shirley Jackson)

Short Films CHRISTMAS ELA ESCAPE ROOM DIGITAL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

Created by

DiGiGoods and Printables ELA

What a great pair! An animated short film and a 360 digital escape room! This resources offers 4 ROOMS: 15 clues, activities, puzzles, videos, and sound effects. *Photos and Images by Jenny WalkerShort film: A Nutty Christmas - A walnut must save himself and his friends as a villainous Nutcracker tries to get them. Students will work through the clues that teach plot structure, setting, figurative language, vocabulary, and more literary devices. GUARANTEED LAUGHTER AND FUN! OUTSIDE LINKS: Make s

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Games

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.2

, RL.5.3

, RL.6.1

, RL.6.2

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Also included in: December Literary Analysis and Pi Short Film For Google Classroom Unit 4

Reading Paired Texts Bundle — The Story of an Hour, The Yellow Wallpaper

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In this Paired Texts Bundle — You will receive a literary analysis for each individual story: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In addition, you will receive an essay prompt and rubric for a text-dependent analysis essay and graphic organizer to compare and contrast both pieces of literature. The paired texts analysis focuses on many literary elements (similarities and differences) including: point of view, text structure, theme, characters

Subjects:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Lesson

Grades:

8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

CCSS:

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Friday Night Lights Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities

Created by

Connie

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

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Expository

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Unit Plans, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

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Antigone Common Core Unit Learning Tasks - 15 Rigorous Activities!!

Created by

JCBEdPRO

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

Subjects:

Literature, Reading, Writing-Expository

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

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Creative Writing Unit Plan for Gothic Fiction and Horror (Google Drive)

Created by

Inquiring Mind of the English Teacher Kind

Save time without sacrificing rigor in the high school Creative Writing classroom with this low-prep, Common Core-aligned unit plan and these all-inclusive resources for engaging students fully in the narrative writing process. Materials are made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, printable versions are available.) Included are the following:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring understanding(s), learning target(s), academi

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Curriculum and Materials Bundle

The Fall of the House of Usher Literature Guide

Created by

Language Arts Excellence

This resource features a comprehensive Common Core-aligned literature guide for use while reading Edgar Allan Poe's tale of the original haunted house, The Fall of the House of Usher. The packet provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourages students to think critically about Poe's use of literary elements, figurative language, plot elements, and symbolism. Also included is a creative "Snap Chat!" activity that will bring the story to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Short Stories

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Short Story BUNDLE

Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost

Created by

Tracee Orman

My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to

Subjects:

Poetry, Winter, Writing-Expository

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RL.7.1

, RL.7.2

, RL.7.3

, RL.7.4

, RL.7.6

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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook

Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories — BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Activities

Created by

This Edgar Allan Poe Gothic Short Stories Bundle includes a literary analysis for the following 5 short stories:The Tell-Tale HeartThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Black CatThe Masque of the Red DeathEach product includes an in-depth look at each piece of literature with corresponding activities and reading comprehension questions. All stories form a perfect gothic literature unit, Edgar Allan Poe unit, or short story unit during Halloween season!This BUNDLE also includes

Subjects:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

Grades:

6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

CCSS:

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The Scorch Trials teaching packet, includes vocabulary packet

Created by

Christine Steele

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

Subjects:

Literature, Vocabulary, Writing-Expository

Grades:

9th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

Created by

Language Arts Excellence

Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Halloween ESCAPE ROOM for ELA!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Halloween-themed Escape Ro

Subjects:

Autumn, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Holiday Escape Room BUNDLE for ELA

Annabel Lee Fun Activities Edgar Allan Poe for Middle School and High School

Created by

The Supported Teacher

Edgar Allan Poe’s famous spooky poem, Annabel Lee, is one of the most engaging Halloween ela activities for middle school and high school students. This EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES close reading activity is filled with fun activities and is a great way to acknowledge Halloween without losing focus on teaching ELA activities that address the standards for close reading and analysis! In this fun activity, students work collaboratively to develop their understanding of figurative language and

Subjects:

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.7.2

, RL.7.3

, RL.7.10

, RL.8.2

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Expository

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Also included in: Halloween Short Stories: Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee & Masque of the Red Death

Characterization in Fahrenheit 451 One-Pager Characterization Activity

Created by

Spark Creativity

Want a fun critical thinking activity to complement your study of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451? This guided one-pager activity will bring out your students' creativity and help them to dig deep into the characters of Montag, Mildred, Beatty and Faber. Go beyond the run-of-the mill trait charts and bullet point lists as you study characterization and let your students bring their understanding to life with one-pagers.Over five thousand teachers are already using my guided one-pager activities, a

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Assessment

CCSS:

RL.9-10.3

, RL.9-10.10

Edgar Allan Poe Digital Escape Room Bundle — 5 Digital Escape Rooms

Created by

English Language Arts, Halloween, Literature

Save money and get FIVE DIFFERENT digital escape rooms!This purchase includes the bundle of 5 Awesome Edgar Allan Poe Digital Escape Rooms. Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in these dark and creepy, 360° digital escape rooms. All 5 escape rooms are designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Students will solve a series of clues based on the texts. The clues require comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences.The 5 pieces of Poe

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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Michael Jackson's Thriller Music Video Analysis

Created by

Whitney LaDon

Grisly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom... Looking for a fun, rigorous Halloween lesson that your students will enjoy? This is it.Halloween is a great day to introduce students to classic, creepy texts. It doesn't get more classic than Michael Jackson! Introduce students to this iconic music video in a way that will get them thinking critically and will hit CCSS standards on characterization, inferences, comparison and contrast, and MORE! What's included? ♦ 2 guided

Subjects:

Close Reading, Halloween, Poetry

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Secondary ELA Halloween Activities

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Complete Unit (Print + DIGITAL)

Created by

My Reading Resources

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is known as one of America’s first short stories. This classic story by Washington Irving is still loved today, 200 years after it was first published. Great story for Halloween!This complete unit was written by My Reading Resources, and it focuses on vocabulary. The unit includes: Student Packet - 18 pages of short answer questions, multiple choice, and writing prompts designed to address many CCSS for grades 6-12 (digital option)Vocabulary cards with several game

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Short Stories

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Assessment, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

RL.6.1

, RL.6.2

, RL.6.3

, RL.6.4

, RL.6.10

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The Raven Poetry Analysis | Poem Close Reading

Created by

Halloween, Literature, Poetry

This resource includes a copy of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe and 26 close reading questions. The analysis includes an in-depth look at academic vocabulary, poetic devices, and literary elements in the poem. (An answer key is also provided.)Poetic and Literary Devices Covered in this Activity:allusionalliterationsymbolismrhyme schemerepetitionmoodtoneimagerygothic literaturethemeYou May Also Like!The Tell-Tale Heart Digital Escape RoomIntroduction to Gothic Literature

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

RL.8.1

, RL.8.2

English Language Arts, Halloween, Poetry

, RL.9-10.1

, RL.9-10.2

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Also included in: High School Poetry Unit | 4 Weeks | Poetry Bundle | Analyzing & Writing Poems

Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven", Halloween Activity | Poetry Analysis

Created by

English Oh My

Use Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven". Are you interested in teaching “The Raven”? Need an awesome three to four-day lesson right before Halloween? Here it is! Introduce your students to the haunting poem, “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, and have your students learn, analyze, critically think and discuss this poem with guided vocabulary and comprehension questions. Next, have your students dive into Poe’s poetry writing, analyzing his style and formatting. Lastly, challenge your students to write

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

CCSS:

RL.8.2

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Expository

, RL.8.4

, RL.9-10.2

, RL.9-10.3

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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Bundle- The Raven, Posters

The Odyssey Unit Plan for Middle and High School with Intro to Greek Mythology

Created by

Three Heads Works

It’s time to start thinking about your unit plan for The Odyssey. You know you need some background activities for an introduction to Greek mythology, something to keep your students engaged with a difficult text, some way to help them access this difficult task, and an essay prompt to round it all out. Sound familiar? This was where we found ourselves when we started planning to teach The Odyssey for the first time. A whole lot of “some of this” and “some of that,” and not a lot of clear direct

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Grades:

7th - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

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Writer's Resources BUNDLE WITH EXTRAS: posters + handouts for a writer's corner

Created by

Tamara Salisbury

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

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Outlines, Bulletin Board Ideas, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

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Limetown Season One Active Listening Notes Handouts

Created by

Around the World With Mrs C

Are you looking to add a highly engaging podcast that your high school students will love? These active listening handouts help students with notetaking skills while listening to the podcast Limetown. As they listen to the episodes of Season 1, they use these interactive notes to remember plot points in Limetown as well as digging a little deeper into the allusions, symbolism, and themes in the series.Limetown is a fictional podcast that is reminiscent of old radio shows. It is in the mystery/su

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

9th - 11th

Types:

CCSS:

Heroic Journey Project | Finding the Hero's Journey in a Book or Movie You Love

Created by

Education is Powerful

Students choose a book or movie they love and trace the hero's journey throughout. Students also present their findings in a written report and multi-media presentation. This is an authentic assessment of student understanding of the heroic journey and its archetypes. This project pairs perfectly with my Heroic Journey PPT!As I teach the heroic journey, I want students to see it in the world around them. Heroes aren’t just in myths, but they permeate so many aspects of our own modern-day cultur

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing-Expository

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Growing Greek Mythology Mega Bundle

Halloween Gothic Short Stories Volume II — Bonus Halloween Activity

Created by

This bundle contains 5 Halloween Gothic Short Stories as well as a Bonus Halloween Activity (just for fun!)This bundle includes the following short stories analyses:The Outsider by H.P. LovecraftLuella Miller by Mary Wilkins FreemanThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingThe Body Snatcher by Robert Louis StevensonAdditionally, there is a Halloween puzzle/activity packet included which is just for fun!All products include: academic vocabulary, reading compr

Subjects:

PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Lesson

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.8.1

, RL.8.2