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Adult education short stories independent works
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson Unit with Hunger Games Comparison
"The Lottery" Short Story Literature GuideThis package of documents features numerous materials for teaching Shirley Jackson's 1948 short story "The Lottery." Includes an introduction activity (using real stones), guided reading questions (for recall/comprehension, analysis, applying, critical thinking), discussion questions, a character chart, extended activities, a 26-question quiz (15 multiple choice, 9 vocabulary matching, 2 short answer essay), and a theme comparison with the novel The Hung
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Hunger Games Teaching Unit Mega Growing Bundle
Short Story Unit, Eng. 11/12 Short Stories + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Short Story Unit for Older TeensTired of teaching the same old short stories? Did a teacher in the earlier grades steal your thunder by already teaching some of the short stories you were planning to use in your classroom? This bundle of modern and classic short stories (all with multimedia add-ons) is for you! Designed for high school junior and senior English classes, this unit plan includes a wide variety of lesser-known high-interest short works that will entertain and challenge your uppercl
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Yellow Wallpaper Mini-Unit - Engaging, Complete Print and Digital Resource
“The Yellow Wallpaper Mini-Unit” is perfect for teaching students to analyze literature in a meaningful way. All of the prep work and thinking have been done for you. This truly is a print-and-go resource. The mini-unit includes 5 lesson plans, an interactive PowerPoint presentation to introduce the story’s historical context, student activities, as well as a detailed answer key. The mini-unit also includes a creative writing piece that allows students to play around with voice and situate thems
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell short story, art analysis PDF & Google Drive
Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” a short story version of her one-act play, Trifles, is a quick-paced thriller that’s sure to get your students thinking and debating the nature of justice.This 20-page PDF download (includes Google Drive version of all student handouts) includes a full-text copy of Glaspell’s public domain story (nine pages), a 9-question short answer sheet, a symbolism harvesting activity, and a supplemental art analysis activity. Answer keys and suggested responses are i
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Fall of the House of Usher: A Mini-Unit! *Snapchat Activity Included!*
#TheFalloftheHouseofUsher #EdgarAllanPoe #Snapchat #AmericanLiterature
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Need a lesson that lasts in your students' minds for more than 10 seconds? This Edgar Allan Poe mini-unit can help students understand "The Fall of the House of Usher" with a modern twist! This activity pack hits many standards: h
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" Mock Trial Bundle - Engaging Activity
Engage your students with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" by facilitating a mock trial while practicing close reading, citing strong and thorough textual evidence, analyzing evidence, persuasion/argumentation/debate, writing, and speaking/listening. This is truly an authentic learning experience that covers a wide range of essential skills and gets every student involved! This bundle contains the discussion cards I use to activate students' thinking before the mock trial, as well as the comple
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Egg by Andy Weir Modern Short Story + Media Analysis PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Looking for a short story from a modern writer that’ll get students reading and thinking? “The Egg,” a short story by The Martian author Andy Weir, will hook teens’ attention and hopefully inspire them to think deeply about how we treat each other.Although not particularly religious, the story centers around a God figure talking to his supernatural child. The story includes a bit of science fiction and a bit of philosophy. It’s just under 1,000 words, a very short read.In this 45-minute lesson,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Devil and Tom Walker: Mini Unit! ~ *MEME* Activity Included!
This product is a mini-unit on The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving.
#TheDevilAndTomWalker #WashingtonIrving #AmericanRomanticism #Romanticism #MemeActivity
This Washington Irving classic is updated for the current classroom! This lesson helps with understanding the author, reading comprehension, and understanding literary devices (satire) with a creative MEME worksheet! Help your students understand Tom's dealings with the devil with this mini-unit!
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*Washington Irving B
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Minister's Black Veil: A Mini-Unit!
In need of materials that will compliment your unit on The Minister's Black Veil? This *Mini-Unit* can help fulfill many Common Core standards with a variety of activities!
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography! (With check questions!)
Vocabulary Worksheet! (**KEY INCLUDED!**)
Quickwrite Activity- A glance into the past!
Study Questions (**KEY INCLUDED!*)
Connecting the literature graphic organizer! (Example response included!)
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Thank You, Ma'am By Langston Hughes Scavenger Hunt and KEY
This 2 page, 50 question scavenger hunt follows Langston Hughes' short story in chronological order. Students have to find answers as they read or reread the story; they have to skim/search for details. This activity works well as either an individual, silent, directed reading or as a quiet partner, in-class assignment. It starts with a one paragraph background introduction to enhance comprehension. This lesson plan can also be given as a homework sheet or as an open book quiz. This is an ad
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Gift of the Magi-- Readers' Theater Adaptation with Activities
Included in Gift of the Magi-teacher and student pages-vocabulary -pre-reading activities-questions -projects-quiz-answer key -synopsis -suggestions for teacher useThis readers’ theater adaptation of “Gift of the Magi” adheres wholly to the plot, setting, characterization, and themes of the original story from which it is adapted. It can be used with both large and small groups in language arts classes. Students in regular, remedial, gifted, and special education classrooms, in both middle and h
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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Trifles Susan Glaspell Unit Analysis Lesson Plans Questions Answer Keys Rubric
Susan Glaspell's Trifles is a wonderful one act play that helps students learn about gender roles and stereotypes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Trifles, first produced in 1916, themes and topics are still just as applicable as they were in 1916. Trifles is an excellent resource to use to hone skills with characterization, theme, motif, mood and tone and symbolism. Furthermore, in a society of social alone-ness, this unit gets students thinking about the destruction of isolation
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Short Story Unit Questions Activities Quiz
William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily is a great short story lesson to use to discuss inferences, characterization, foreshadow, theme, point of view and more!This short story analysis includes the following:-Pre-reading vocabulary-Historical context handout-Analysis questions chunked by text parts-Post-reading literary devices handout-Post-reading writing activity-Quiz-Full text of the short story-Answer key and rubric**Please note: This lesson plan is a ZIP file with three PDFs; they are not edi
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Short Story Analysis
Ursula K. Le Guin's short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is perfect when studying utopian and dystopian literature. The theme: there cannot be happiness in the world without suffering. Included in this literary analysis of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas:Academic VocabularyAnticipation GuidePowerpoint Presentation with literary termsParadoxAllegorySymbolism"Psychomyth" (term created by Ursula K. Le Guin)Utopia and DystopiaThemeComing of ageReading Comprehension QuestionsAcrostic P
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Dystopian Literature Unit | 6 Weeks | Dystopian Lit Unit Plan
ESL / ELL Short Reading + Boom Cards Bundle | Level: Beginner Newcomer
This English Language Learner reading comprehension short stories set is perfect for ESL / ELL / ESOL learners in all classrooms. This comprehensible input story features early, common English words: this is, animal, person, is called, there is, says, is not, and I am alongside many cognates in 5 short stories. Each story is accompanied by 6 task / question cards for reading comprehension practice. Task cards include: multiple choice, matching, cognate recognition, drawing, & meaning associa
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
Sweat Zora Neale Hurston Short Story Analysis Unit Lesson Activities Rubric
Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston is a great short story to use to expose students to dialect in writing, and it's great to use to teach characterization and various literary elements such as simile, metaphor, allusion, foreshadow and irony. It's also an excellent incorporation into a longer unit on Southern literature, or as an introduction to one of Hurston’s longer works such as Their Eyes Were Watching God. In this lesson plan for Sweat you will find an activating pre-reading assignment, pre-r
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Roald Dahl Story Bundle The Landlady Man From the South Lamb to the Slaughter
This short-story bundle for The Landlady, Man From the South and Lamb to the Slaughter, three of Roald Dahl's great short stories, helps make literary analysis easy! The thought of analyzing can be daunting for many students, so why not make it fun with all the delightful dark humor of Roald Dahl? Let students start off their learning adventure by getting to know Dahl with a web quest. After the webquest you then have the option to have students write their own biography for Roald Dahl. The b
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories — BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Activities
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
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Monkey's Paw - 2-Level Adapted Text Bundle - ESL Halloween Fun!
This is a bundle of two text levels of The Monkey's Paw, plus activities and lessons - they assign straight to Google Classroom (with no prep!) via TPT Digital.The two levels cover Beginner to Advanced ESL students and ELA classes. Perfect for differentiated or tiered instruction! The package also comes with the original textTackle vocabulary and ELA critical thinking -- including inferencing, irony and literary elements -- with the story, bundled lesson ideas, six reusable graphic organizers an
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh By Ray Bradbury Scavenger Hunt & KEY
This two page, 50 question scavenger hunt follows Ray Bradbury's short story in chronological order. Students have to find details or answers to the clues as they read or reread the story. This activity works well as either an individual directed reading or as a partner assignment. It can also be given as a homework sheet or open book quiz. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves read
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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3 Reading Comprehension Stories & Activities Level: Beginner + ESL Newcomer
This English comprehensible input story set features high frequency verbs in the present tense. This ESL / ELL short story set is accompanied by various reading comprehension check activities. Students will receive lots of comprehensible input with the super 7 verb target structures is /are, has / have, goes, wants, likes, and there is as they read. This English short stories set is perfect for ESL / ELL classes for both young and adult students. This short stories set would also be a great addi
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" 25-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 25-question multiple choice quiz is on Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt." This quiz contains questions that assess students' knowledge of the characterization, color symbolism, conflict, dialogue, figurative language, foreshadowing, inferences, irony, plot, setting, subtext, symbolism, and themes.A study guide that can be used to prepare students for this quiz is available here.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Activities and Handouts for the Short Story "A Rose for Emily"
This is a unit for the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner which is a Southern Gothic short story. I've used this story numerous times with my high school students. They always find the ending shocking and memorable.
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An Anticipation Guide
Vocabulary List and Definitions
Study Guide Questions with Suggested Answers (22 questions)
Three PPT Lessons
Task Cards for the story
A Quiz with an Answer Key (20 multiple choice questions)
There are a total of 33 pag
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Halloween ELA Bundle
Tell Tale Heart. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. Full Unit for ELA ESL Sp. Ed.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to a wider variety of readers, including ESL, ENL and Special Ed. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. See preview for details.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also prints out for in class instruction.Unit includes:An illustrated adapted text of The Tell-Tale Heart by Po
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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