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Common Core RL.9-10.1 handouts
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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Diary of Anne Frank Play - Student-Ready Complete Packet
Diary of Anne Frank Student-Ready Packet is an attractively-designed ready-to-hand-out resource based on the play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It is aligned with ELA Standards, focusing most specifically on these skills:*analysis through citing textual evidence; drawing inferences*determining theme/central idea; summarizing*analyzing dialogue *determining word meanings; connotation*analyzing differences in points of view*writing arguments, explanatory text, and narratives-------------
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6th - 9th
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Literary Analysis Essay, Introduction to Lit. Analysis Essay Writing, CCSS
Help students dig into the elements of literary analysis essay writing with this MASSIVE collection of tools organized into an efficient and effective nine-day writing unit. Using an animated short film on YouTube and a classic short story as source material, students will see how introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs are built. They’ll learn step-by-step building block formulas and deconstruct sample essays. By the end of the unit, students will have the tools they’ll need to be able to
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8th - 11th
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Shakespearean Sonnet, Iambic Pentameter + Creative Writing, PDF & Google Drive
Get your students excited about Shakespeare with this introduction to the Bard’s sonnet structure and iambic pentameter. Every eye in the room will be glued to the vibrant, information-packed slides in this poetry presentation. This 28-slide deck (downloads in both Prezi and Google Slides format) includes detailed descriptions of iambic pentameter, iams, rhyme scheme, and Shakespeare's sonnet structure. Skills are put into practice with a close look at Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130. You can use the s
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8th - 11th
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RACE Writing Strategy: Lesson and Practice
When I first started teaching the RACE strategy for constructed response, I was blown away by how much my students’ writing improved. Often times they had the correct answer, but the way in which they were constructing the answer cost them precious points on tests and benchmarks. RACE is an acronym for Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain. It is easy to remember and students pick up on it very quickly. I used a variation of this lesson for an observation my very first year of teaching and got rave
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6th - 9th
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Short Stories with Comprehension Questions - 11 Short Story Units - Annotations
This giant Short Story with Comprehension Questions Bundle contains 11 of my best selling products bundled together for a heavily discounted price! Perfect for short story reading comprehension, it has a variety of different short story activities, as well elements of literature activities and notes. This package has enough resources to keep kids engaged while learning about literary elements.✅Please check out the thumbnails and individual products in this bundle for detailed descriptions and im
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6th - 9th
Midsummer Night’s Dream Unit Plan, Four Weeks of MSND Materials/Activities, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into A Midsummer Night’s Dream? William Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of love and magic will engage your students when you use this MASSIVE bundle of fun and creative lessons. This package includes four weeks of complete materials designed to challenge and entertain middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this
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7th - 10th
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NIGHT by Elie Wiesel - Novel Guide - Print & DIGITAL
NIGHT - This Novel Guide for Elie Wiesel’s Night will keep students thinking and enhance their understanding from the first page of the book to the last. Now includes a DIGITAL version! Section-by-Section Response Pages challenge students to dig into the text to explain and make inferences as they read. Includes a pre-reading Web Quest, Theme Essay writing assignment, and Vocabulary study. The DIGITAL version offers colorful slides that allow students to type their responses into text boxes. To
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7th - 10th
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Close Reading Passages For Middle School - Close Reading Guide and Strategies
Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving•The B
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6th - 9th
Halloween Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Halloween Activities
Halloween Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Spooky Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP Halloween activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•The Masque of the Read Death
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6th - 9th
Harrison Bergeron - Middle School Short Story Unit - Dystopian Literature Intro
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Unit Bundle - Activities and Introduction to Dystopian Literature. Perfect for your upcoming short story unit or dystopian literature unit, this package contains questions and activities to go along with Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut. This Harrison Bergeron literature package contains a detailed introduction to Dystopian Literature. After learning about the genre, students read the Harrison Bergeron short story, and locate the elements of Dysto
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7th - 10th
Hexagonal Thinking: One Pagers l one page templates l one pager for any novel
Hexagonal thinking is a creative way to get students making connections with one pagers. BUT, it's a lot of work for you, as the teacher, to create and cut out dozens of hexagons for your students to connect, arrange, and discuss. Why not get the students brainstorming and designing their own hexagons with hexagonal one-pagers?In this activity, groups of students use critical thinking, close reading, and design skills to create hexagonal one-pagers for characters, style elements, connections to
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7th - 12th
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Transcendentalism, Project to Link Thoreau & Emerson to Modern Pop Culture, CCSS
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were promoting the ideals of Transcendentalism way back in the mid-1800s and, yet, those same ideas still surround us today in our media and popular culture. When you pause and closely examine the music in your earbuds, the movies in your streaming accounts, and the bestsellers loaded in your e-readers, you’ll see that some of today’s artists promote the very same ideas as the founders of Transcendentalism.For this assignment, your students will become
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9th - 12th
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Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Analysis, Team Activity, CCSS
Make the words of Transcendental philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson come alive for your students with breath-taking photography in this two-day class group activity with optional independent writing supplement.This packet includes visually stunning images from nature coupled with quotations from Nature and Self-Reliance, two of Emerson's most-noted works. This 17-page PDF also includes a detailed suggested lesson procedure along with 10 half-sheet student handouts for teams to use as the
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9th - 12th
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"A Raisin in the Sun" Complete Unit
This CCSS aligned unit includes a variety of discussion questions, class handouts, quizzes and tests to give students a thorough understanding of Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning play. Teacher notes and keys for quizzes, discussions questions and the unit test are included. This unit is based on Hansberry’s first edition of the play from the original Broadway Production.
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* "A Raisin in the Sun" Web Quest with Teacher Notes
* Vocabulary Words and Activity with Teacher Not
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8th - 11th
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“Marionettes, Inc.” Literary Analysis, Ray Bradbury Short Story PDF & Google App
Imagine you could buy a clone of yourself and no one would ever know. Unpleasant chores? Your cyborg will clean the mess. Stacks of essays to grade? “You 2.0” quickly manages that paper load. Dinner with a difficult spouse? Send in the clone.What a great world! And nothing could possibly go wrong in this utopia, right? Right?Ray Bradbury’s short story, “Marionettes, Inc.,” gives us a glimpse of a world where clones are available to solve all of our problems. This compelling 45-minute lesson will
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8th - 11th
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ELA Exit Tickets / Short Response Slips - Differentiated - for ANY Literature
Differentiated Exit Tickets / Short Response Slips for Literature contains 27 different standards-based short tasks for students designed in 81 convenient half-sheets that can be used with any literature! Each topic is differentiated (3 separate slips per topic) to accommodate 3 levels of learners: struggling, average/grade-level, and advanced.The response slips can be used for short assessment with any literature activity (whole class, literature circles, stations, guided reading groups, etc.)
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6th - 9th
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Long Way Down Workbook with Chapter Comprehension Questions - Novel Study
This student workbook for Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds is an engaging way to keep students focused on their reading. This Long Way Down workbook contains a combination of comprehension, analysis, and opinion questions for every chapter. This eye catching workbook can be bound or used as individual worksheets. All answer keys are included. There is no prep for you, and it's easy to use. Just print and go!Save 20% by buying the full novel unit. Click here to check it out!Long Way Down Printable
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Long Way Down Novel Unit Bundle - Printable Novel Study - Jason Reynolds
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Activity Pack
This CCSS aligned set encourages students to analyze James Thurber’s short story through a variety of lenses. After reading the story, students complete a general analysis of the work, play the role of an armchair psychologist and practice their text structure analysis skills before comparing and contrasting the story with the 2013 film. Students write a comparison essay as their final assessment.
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* a link to the short story
* a 10 question reading quiz
* analysis questions with teach
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9th - 12th
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Literature Circles Activity Set for Any Book l high school literature circles
Literature circles are so promising. Giving students choice really helps inspire them to read. At the same time, traditional literature circles are prone to draaaaag. Students aren't always prepared to dive in and lead their own discussion, even when assigned to the classic literature circles roles. It's no fun racing from group to group, trying to inspire good conversation with your teacherly presence. That's why this literature circles unit for older kids skips the roles and the awkward silenc
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7th - 10th
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Paired Text Analysis Lessons for "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou & Tupac
Literary analysis is less intimidating with these paired text analysis lesson plans for Maya Angelou's poem and Tupac's song "Still I Rise." Detailed, CCSS-aligned lesson plans integrate close reading, text-based writing, and research skills, making this digital & print resource both engaging and worthwhile. There are three lesson plans in this product that build upon each other. The timing of the activities may be adjusted to fit the needs of your classroom/students, and one “lesson” may a
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8th - 11th
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The Hate U Give Workbook with Chapter Comprehension Questions - Angie Thomas
This student workbook for Angie Thomas's novel The Hate U Give is an engaging way for students to stay accountable for reading. This workbook for The Hate U Give contains a page for every chapter with a mix of writing prompts, comprehension questions, background research, textual evidence practice, and connections to students' lives. This modern, eye catching workbook can be bound or used as individual worksheets. Answer keys are included. There is no prep, and it's easy to use. Just print and g
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8th - 11th
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Context Clues Vocabulary Bundle- SAT + Close Reading Practice for ELA
This bundle targets the five different types of context clues: definition, synonym, antonym, inference, and punctuation. Students will practice each type of context clue using SAT-style sentence completions. They will then complete a close reading of The Declaration of Independence plus a close reading of an excerpt from the novel Middlemarch using context clues to decipher the meaning of unknown words and phrases.Here is what is included in this bundle: Teacher Page Types of Context Clues
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9th - 12th
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