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Close reading Common Core RL.9-10.1 handouts
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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Of Mice and Men Characterization Activity -- CH 1 Worksheets
Freshen up your lesson plan and help your students begin to analyze the characters of George in Lennie in John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, with this two-page activity. Students analyze the given quotes from the text to determine what it suggests about the character.
For creative students, or to differentiate, you can instruct them to color both images of George and Lennie based upon Steinbeck's description of them.
This PowerPoint is INCLUDED in my Of Mice and Men bundle:
Of Mice a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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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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Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities - Roles, Rubrics, and Worksheets
These literature circle roles include 7 inquiry-based job descriptions to facilitate student-led book clubs. These responsibilities offer students the opportunity to practice essential reading strategies. This unit also includes editable and ready-to-print rubrics, a pacing guide, and scaffolding worksheets.Included with these Literature Circle Roles:✏️ Handouts Outlining Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities✏️ Scaffolding Worksheets for Each Role✏️ Task Chart Graphic Organizer and Pa
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7th - 10th
Bluest Eye COMPLETE UNIT: Discussion Prompts, Quizzes, & Writing | Toni Morrison
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 170-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, daily quizzes, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and g
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Paired Texts with Close Reading and Essay Writing - Middle School & High School
These 19 paired passages (using 39 texts) require students to use close reading, critical thinking, and analytical writing to help them prepare for standardized assessments. In each lesson, students synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas and themes across texts. With texts that vary by genre, time period, and author, this bundle meets the needs of diverse learners and provides scaffolding with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies.The following texts, which are available in
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6th - 11th
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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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Langston Hughes - Let America Be America Again - Poetry Analysis and Close Read
Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again Poetry Analysis and Close Read
Let America be America Again may not be Hughes' most popular poem, but it is my favorite of his works. The poem is very accessible for students and the message is so relevant in today’s day and age: Who has been left out of the American dream? Let America be America Again is perfect for pairing with stories, novels, and nonfiction texts concerned with Civil Rights. It would also work well when incoporated into Black His
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7th - 10th
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Night Elie Wiesel Close Read, Poetry, Art Theme Activities
Common Core Aligned. Great culminating or chapter by chapter progressive activity for the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. This adaptable activity can be done individually or in groups. Students will evaluate diction and figurative language in a variety of passages from Night, determine how these techniques are used to develop tone, mood, and theme. Students will then analyze poetry and art from Holocaust victims and evaluate how a common theme is expressed in each work (memoir, poem, and art).
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7th - 12th
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Lamb to the Slaughter: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
*Updated 10/12/20: For each worksheet, I’ve created a png image of the worksheet and then put that image as the background in a Google Slide. The students can use all of the tools in Slides to mark their answers. The links are already set up to force students to make a copy so they each have their own version of the worksheet in their Google Drive. Copy and paste the links below to share with your students. Please don’t post these links on any websites that are not password protected. A whole ne
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8th - 12th
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The Landlady Guide Questions and Movie Comparison
Students LOVE this story! With a bit of inferencing magic, around the 90% mark in the story, the class gives a collective "No way!" when they realized what's actually happening. It's a sight to see and it's guaranteed to warm your teacher heart as you see the students eager to read more to either confirm or debunk their theories.This product includes:*A guide sheet with 13 questions to help students identify the subtle clues Dahl gives about the nefarious intentions of Billy Weaver's landlady. *
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9th - 12th
Novel Discussion - Socratic Seminar - Activities, Graphic Organizers, Rubric
Improve reading comprehension and boost speaking and listening skills with this unit for whole-class reading discussion or literature circles. Discussion handouts require students to summarize, analyze author’s craft, define vocabulary, and identify text support. Students also select quotations to draw conclusions, make predictions, and form connections. These activities guide their reading and prepare them for Readers’ Roundtable, which imitates the style of Socratic Seminar. Each discussion pr
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8th - 12th
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Anthem by Ayn Rand Visual Worksheets Chapters 1-12
Engaging and entertaining visual worksheets. Assess student's learning of Anthem with visually appealing worksheets. Students stay engaged while using their creativity to showcase their knowledge of the novel.
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7th - 12th
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Methods of Characterization Worksheets for Secondary ELA
Spice up an age old lesson on the methods of characterization by connecting it to concepts students understand: trolls (nasty people), throwing shade (insults), and clapbacks (comebacks). Students will be instantly connected to the methods of characterization: what characters say, how they act, what other characters say, and how they react. This study is scaffolded to support student learning. The study begins with students analyzing the characterization of two "characters" in an image. Then, st
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7th - 10th
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Short Story Stations: Characterization, Style, Setting, Argument, and Makerspace
Short stories are a great way to bring many voices and themes into your English class. They're nice and snackable - easy to fit in between other units or right before holidays, and easily combined into a quality unit with something for everyone. But what do you do to keep the discussion of each new story engaging for your students? These short story stations give you five ways to approach any short story or short story unit. The stations get students examining characterization, setting, and styl
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9th - 12th
TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN Novel Study Complete Text Unit
A ready-to-print novel study on TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN by John Marsden complete with printable student booklet, teacher’s resources including full unit plan, notes, quotes and ideas for further extension.This easy to follow resource provides a ready Tomorrow When the War Began unit plan for teachers and Tomorrow When the War Began student booklet which is printable and ready to teach, saving you time and effort searching for suitable text study resources.Perfect for students in Australia an
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN Novel Study Essays Posters Secondary English
4 Steps for Pre-Reading Poetry Annotations (Works with ANY Poem) / Google Slides
Everyone loves TPCASTT. It’s a good acronym to guide students through the process of reading a poem, but oftentimes my students are so intimidated by a poem that they can’t even get started. So I teach my students these four steps before reading a poem. Each one of these steps is designed to help students break down a poem so it becomes less intimidating. These steps work for any poem and empower students to take ownership of a text. In addition, each step sets students up for quality annotation
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose
Close Reading Strategies, Techniques, & Tips: A Practical Guide for High School
Tired of useless close reading handouts that do nothing more than teach your students to hate literary analysis? Simply instructing your classes to go through a checklist or point out literary elements doesn’t teach them any skills. In fact, if you teach the wrong kind of close reading lesson, you’ll discourage critical thinking and teach students that reading great literature is just about ticking off lists of literary devices. That kind of disempowering instruction creates a generation of pas
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9th - 12th
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Paired Texts - Close Reading and Writing Lessons - High School Bundle
This bundle includes six of my paired passages lessons appropriate for high school students. Incorporating a total of 12 texts, these lessons require students to think critically and synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas and themes across texts. Each lesson guides them through close readings of stories, speeches, and poems that vary by genre, time period, and author. Additionally, students use before-, during-, and post-reading strategies to help them construct connections between
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9th - 12th
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Tone Analysis for a Short Story Graphic Organizer & Guided Analysis
Teaching students to analyze tone is tricky! These graphic organizers walk them through tone analysis for a short story, step by step. Students will start by summarizing the text and examining character descriptions and actions. They will examine diction and figurative language, choosing specific textual evidence to support their inferences about tone and theme. Finally, they will use a sentence frame to craft an effective analysis sentence that can function as a thesis or topic sentence. This o
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle: Organizers, Activities, and Assessments
To Kill a Mockingbird Editable Symbolism Analysis Review
Students reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird will gain a deeper understanding of the novel and its themes by analyzing various items from the novel.
To Kill a Mockingbird Symbolism Analysis Review activities allow students to practice higher-level thinking skills (critical thinking: analysis, evaluation, comparison, grouping) at the same time reviewing key events, themes, and concepts from the novel.
The standards-based activities included allow for differentiation: the information pro
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8th - 11th
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Figurative Language: High School Creative Writing & Literary Analysis Activities
Looking for an innovative resource that will help your students to better understand how literary elements create meaning in a text and apply those lessons to their own writing? Through many years of teaching, I have found that students usually have a fairly easy time identifying literary devices, but when it comes to explaining how those elements create meaning in a text, they are often stumped. Getting them to experiment with devices in their own writing is even more of a challenge.This kind o
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9th - 12th
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"Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie" Reading Comprehension Packet
"Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie" is SUCH a fun novel study to begin, or end a student's freshmen year of high school! This download is a comprehensive reading comprehension and reflection ready-to-print packet for students. The novel itself is an easier read, but the language is rich with poetic devices and characterization which is what this packet focuses on. There are questions provided for each chapter, as well as poetic device charts and journal prompts for many. The writing prompts include a
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8th - 10th
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