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Common Core W.11-12.1b interactive notebooks
American Literature Full Year ELA Curriculum for High School English | Secondary
Looking for a full-year American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? Spanning American literature from Puritans to young authors writing today, this truly diverse curriculum has differentiated plans for honors and standard level classes. From the Puritan worldview to YOLO culture, from love and lies to the Iraq war, and from the everyday pains of growing up to the unique experience of the contemporary immigran
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Close Reading | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The American Dream
Tired of superficial resources on The Great Gatsby that just go through the motions when it comes to truly examining the important questions? Why do we lie to ourselves and others? Should we do everything for love? What is the American Dream? How do factors such as race, class, or gender help or hinder people from achieving their dreams? Fitzgerald’s classic novel is classic for a reason—in this short, lovely text, he asks some of the biggest questions of our times. But you need to make sure
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9th - 12th
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Common Core Writing Bundle: Argument, Research, & Narrative Workbooks
Empower your students to develop as writers and master the Common Core Standards for Writing Grades 9-12. This resource includes three writing workbooks that align to the Common Core Writing Standards for narrative writing (personal narrative essay), explanatory/informative (research paper), and argument (argumentative essay). All three resources come with editable print and digital versions with PowerPoint and Google Slides. Teacher's directions are included with all resources.Save by purchasin
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9th - 12th
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Shakespeare's The Tempest Complete Unit: Race, Gender, Class, & Colonialism
With themes ranging from colonial oppression to romantic love, from art to slavery, and from family betrayal to the beauty of nature—this play offers so much to explore. But if you want your classes to get excited about reading this challenging text, your students will need to be excited to delve into the book and feel empowered to tackle the difficult language on their own. You’ll also need to help your classes to make connections between their own lives and those of these fictional characters
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9th - 12th
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Fixed vs. Growth Mindset Activities: High School Research Project, TED Talk, Lit
Frustrated with students who refuse to accept feedback or take on any new challenges? When students have a fixed mindset about your class, they can be almost impossible to teach. Some feel hopeless, convinced that they are simply “bad" at English, and sure that there is nothing that they can do to improve the situation. Others define themselves as “good” at English, but never want to push themselves or try anything new—they’re so terrified of failure, that they want to play it safe at all times
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9th - 12th
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AP Literature and Composition Short Story Unit 1 | AP Lit & Comp Curriculum
Looking for an engaging, rigorous, and fun AP short story unit? The beginning of the school year is so essential to setting the tone for the rest of the year, yet AP teachers also feel so much pressure to get everything right from the get-go. With limited time and so many requirements, it’s easy to feel like you don’t have time for fun or engagement. But when your most driven students get the message that literary analysis is all about dry questions and memorizing inane terms, they’ll quickly
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9th - 12th
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English | Back to School ELA Activities | High School | Growth Mindset, Writing
Worried that you’ll lose your chance to start the school year right this time? The first few weeks of school are crucial for your classes’ success throughout the year, and there is so much pressure to do it all: set the tone for your classroom; inspire students to work harder; establish rigor and expectations; teach students to think independently; get some solid assessments into your grade book. And of course, nothing is as important as establishing a strong connection with your students as so
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9th - 12th
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Writing Prompts: 151 Bellringers, Literary Analysis
With everything from reading response handouts to engaging bell ringers, from literary analysis essays to a fun memoir writing project, this resource will get your students writing better, thinking deeper, and analyzing the bigger ideas and themes of the novel.When you teach with these writing prompts you will:• get your students past writer’s block• have 151 engaging, rigorous, and text-specific bellringers to choose from each day• have a no-prep opener for the beginning of class• be able to gi
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9th - 12th
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Hamlet Activities for Acts 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 | Revenge, Lies, & Depression
Worried that your students will fail to make connections between Hamlet and issues that matter to their own lives? Shakespeare’s classic play has so much to offer a contemporary audience, but it isn’t always easy for students to make those connections. If your students don’t understand how his work relates to problems and questions that matter to them, they won’t be excited to study the play. Even worse, when students are forced to read a book that they see as a dead text, they’ll be bored and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Issue Module, Juvenile Justice / Youth Justice
This Juvenile Justice Unit seamlessly blends writing and collaboration. For 4-6 weeks, your students will embark on a journey of exploration, diving deep into the complexities of the juvenile justice system.The unit features a compelling writing component, challenging students to form and defend their opinions through thorough research. But that's not all – the project piece adds an engaging twist. Students collaborate to delve into real-world applications of juvenile justice concepts, fostering
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9th - 12th
10th & 11th Grade English: American Dream Poems | High School Poetry | Vol 2
Want to immerse your students in the diversity of this country by studying engaging poetry together? Your students will learn so much when they explore the essential questions of American Literature with these ready-to-go lessons.A collection of questions on 24 poems, from the mid 20th century to the present, this bundle will provide you with over a month of rigorous, engaging, and ready-to-go lessons. The themes explored in these units--materialism, love, race, family dynamics, class, immigrat
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9th - 12th
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American Literature Curriculum: Short Story Unit Plan | Writing & Lit. Analysis
Looking for American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? With themes ranging from the purpose of gossip to the conditions of tenant farmers, from the need for artistic expression to how we define freedom, these four short stories offer so much to explore.The variety of materials, real-life connections, and innovative approaches to the information will keep students engaged and excited about learning. Additional
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9th - 12th
Analysis & Elaboration Sentence Frames
Are you tired of students using the exact same sentence structure in their written assignments? Having trouble getting students to analyze their thoughts? Break up the monotony and improve your students' writing with this easy to implement tool! 20+ sentences frames for students to use when writing. Sentence frames are split into three categories (Analysis, Elaboration and Introducing quotes) and allow students to easily access different styles of writing. Students can use the sentence frames to
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7th - 12th
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Hamlet Unit Plan | Discussion Questions & Literary Analysis | British Literature
Are struggling to teach a unit on Hamlet that is both rigorous and fun?If your students’ experience of Shakespeare's classic play involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the play to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves and creating passive, apathetic, disempowered learners.Students today can learn so much from Hamlet
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Shakespeare Curriculum: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Sonnets
Looking for Shakespeare resources that are rigorous for your students but no-prep and low-key for you? Every year, I look forward to teaching my Shakespeare units because I know that my students will get so much out of the unit without a ton of work on my part. This is because I have tweaked and adjusted my methods for teaching over the past 24 years, and I have found a system for supporting even my most reluctant learners to feel empowered to read these challenging texts on their own.When you
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CC Writing and Tracing Arguments Interactive Notebook (EDITABLE)
Interactive google slides for all CC argument reading and writing standards- a virtual teaching dream come true!! Twenty five slides, complete lessons with texts, assessments, writing prompts, MLA research, and projects too! Students can personalize and add media too. For more resources like this, please check out my Tracing Arguments in Ads, Common Core Informational Interactive Notebook- completely EDITABLE and No prep needed at all and Teaching Argument (claims and evidence) with Murder Mys
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5th - 12th
Jimmy Santiago Baca: Literary Nonfiction | Chicano & Native American Literature
Looking for a compelling unit on contemporary Chicano nonfiction? This powerful essay by Jimmy Santiago Baca is a great choice for exploring why literature matters. Telling the story of how Baca first found his love for reading and writing, this essay is also a great choice for discussing themes around identity, self expression, metaphor, and the American prison system. In this lesson, students will start off by freewriting on engaging bellringer prompts and trying their hand at writing figurat
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9th - 12th
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Big Hamlet Writing Prompts Bundle: Argument Essay, Bellringers, Lit. Analysis
Want to get your students writing better, thinking deeper, and analyzing the bigger ideas and themes of the play?The prompts, guides, handouts, rubrics, and suggestions here are all proven to work based on sixteen years of teaching writing to all levels of high school. It’s not easy to take students through a writing assignment or to get them to improve their skills, but with the right tools, it can be done.When you teach Hamlet with these writing activities you will:• bring your students’ writi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Spanish/English Checklists: Individual and Peer Editing Combo Charts
Due to popular demand, I have combined my English and Spanish Individual and Peer Editing Checklists into a bundle at a reduced price. I had both of these charts as separate listings, but this listing will serve those who need each list on a combined sheet for both Spanish and English writers. This is a great tool for dual language, bilingual, multilingual, and adult education programs. These lists were created for my writing workshops' editing lessons in both English and Spanish. Enjoy!Lesson G
FLIP IT AND PICK IT SENTENCE-BY-SENTENCE PARAGRAPH STUDENT NOTEBOOK
includes color-coded essay example to show each part of essaystudents just flip the page and circle a sentence framehooks/ attention-getters are provided with examples of each kindmany types of essays are covered (narrative, memoirs, descriptive, cause-effect, research, expository, procedural, compare/contrast, character analysis, literary analysiscommon core standards are attachedscaffolded design for students with disabilitiescan be used as a rubric (self-assessment)Color-coded pages guide st
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9th - 12th
50 Visual Writing Prompts
This download contains 50 different writing prompts to use for whatever purpose you need them. These prompts are used with visually interesting slides to add some variety. The file includes a PDF slide show if you want to project the prompts, a Word file of the individual prompts as .pngs that you can adjust and copy and paste onto separate pages, and a PDF of all the prompts in the same format as the Word file. These also work well with interactive notebooks or writing journals. You can print,
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9th - 12th
Thesis Statement Guided Notes
Strong informative writing rests heavily on a solid thesis statement. These guided notes allow students to explore the elements of quality thesis statements by providing instruction on dos, don'ts, and common characteristics. The presentation ends with a formula students can use to create strong thesis statements for any prompt.
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6th - 12th
Also included in: THESIS STATEMENTS
Essential Elements of an Argument: Guided Notes
Intended for use with the Essential Elements of an Argument slides, these notes require students to follow along and fill in the blanks to complete their notes.
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Argumentative Writing
Culminating Writing Task Digital Notebook
This document is a digital notebook that guides students through the writing process for a literary analysis. This digital notebook was created for the Shakespeare's Hamlet Unit and is easily customizable for any genre and text. The response blocks expand as students type their response to each of the guiding questions. This is an excellent tool for virtual students.In using this resource students should be able to...write a well-developed essay that explores character traits and how the auth
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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