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Common Core W.9-10.1a resources for Microsoft Word
Jamaica Kincaid's ANNIE JOHN (+ the story "Girl") | 3 Weeks of EDITABLE Lessons!
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 80-page EDITABLE unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. Invite your students to engage in student-driven discussions that promise to be profoundly stimulating! The discussion prompts, daily quizzes, short writing prompts, and final paper will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! Hold your students
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Born A Crime: Close Reading and Writing Activities
Digital Learning Friendly ActivitiesEasily uploaded to online learning platforms. Word doc. for easy editing.Close reading and writing activities for Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. These activities provide the opportunity to take advantage of the popularity and appeal of Noah's story especially with the self-proclaimed "non-readers." The activities provide opportunities for students to read closely and analyze the moves of a writer to write their own narratives. Reproducibles Include:Chapter by Cha
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9th - 12th
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"Who's to Blame?" Romeo and Juliet Activity
In this activity, students will be building an argument as to who is most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Students should complete this activity after reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet play.The activity includes a completed example about Friar John being to blame, along with a list of characters students can choose from. Students must select a character and build their argument using evidence from the text. They're essentially writing an argumentative essay, but because it's in
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8th - 12th
Parts of an Essay Worksheet: GMO Foods (argumentative)
A good practice activity for teaching or reviewing parts of an essay. Activity includes a 5 paragraph argumentative essay (which follows FSA argumentative writing standards), annotation guide, and questions. Extension ideas: students can score the essay using the FSA writing rubric; students can also predict the prompt. In .doc format so teachers can edit and customize easily.
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8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â FSA Writing Preparation
Dystopian Literature Narrative Assignment: Write your own Dystopia
Studying Dystopian literature in your class? Assess your students understanding of Dystopian qualities and practice mastery of the narrative writing task by asking your students to craft a Dystopia of their own. Nurture creativity and cultural awareness by encouraging your students to examine today's societal tendencies. Beg the question... what if? Students Will: -Identify dystopian and literary elements (dystopian: technology, conformity, figureheads, etc. Literary: theme, character developmen
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7th - 11th
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone High School Curriculum
Put together makes up my 7week Harry Potter Unit, written/ used for a group of 11th & 12th grade high school students but easily adaptable for all high schoolers. Included is our 8 week pacing guide following the 2024 fall calendar
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9th - 12th
Complete English 1 (Freshmen Curriculum) with 9 unit plans
This 9th-grade unit plan includes nine complete unit plans on research writing, short stories, poetry, memoirs, epics, and novellas. It includes a pacing guide, details on the skills focused on each unit, and a list of texts and materials needed for each unit. This standard-based curriculum uses the Common Core Standards, Student Learning Objectives, Enduring Understandings, and Essential Questions. If you are looking for a skills-based curriculum for a 9th-grade English class, this is it. This
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9th - 10th
Court Case Unit (Argumentative Writing Project for High School English)
Hi! My students LOVE this court case unit. I put a lot of work into this unit over the past couple years and I am so excited to be able to share it with others. I have found this unit to be an absolute blast for my students and an excellent way to introduce them to argumentative writing without them even really realizing they’re writing a basic argumentative essay with a group until they’re told that’s what they’ve done. This unit allows students to practice the skills of basic research, separa
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8th - 10th
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Civics Initiative: Flint Water Crisis Writing Performance Task
This performance tasks puts students in the shoes of the Michigan Governor's top advisor. They are working to ensure that he puts Flint at the top of his priority list in the upcoming election. In this document you will have news articles about Flint, a hook including a letter from President Obama, supplementary YouTube videos, a graphic organizer and more!
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4th - 12th
Night Vs.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
This graphic organizer allows students the opportunity to view a different perspective on the Holocaust. The students will need to have read all of Night by Elie Weisel. They will fill out the Night side of the graphic organizer first, this will be a nice review for the students, and great opportunity for student to student discussions. Teacher will need to find a copy of the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." Students will fill out the chart for the movie as they watch it- teacher should
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9th - 11th
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"Golden Touch" by Nathaniel Hawthorne Focused Practice
This was a really good way to isolate the practice of choosing effective evidence and illustrating effective commentary for my students. We were able to break down and eliminate potential evidence with a focused mindset (really emphasizing which piece of evidence is: (1) Going to directly answer the prompt, (2) Have more potential for discussing/commenting. Three sections--(1) Multiple Choice (Evidence and commentary choices provided); (2) Multiple Choice (Evidence Choices provided), Fill in (Co
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9th - 12th
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9th Grade Essay Booklet
Over the last few years, I have developed a essay booklet that gives clear guidelines on how to write a proper literary analysis essay.I created it for one of my 9th grade classes, while we were reading The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. I noticed that many of them struggled to create a topic sentence, a thesis statement, etc. So I created this booklet as a guide to show them how to write a proper analysis (you can also use this template to make an argumentative pap
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8th - 10th
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Complete Unit Lesson Plan for Rhetorical Analysis, 9th and 10th Grade Focus
This is a complete four-week unit for Rhetorical Analysis, with bell ringers, quizzes, practices, formative assessments, and three versions of a summative assessment (with a Common Core-aligned rubric). This is indeed a complete unit that I've been teaching and refining for years. (I'll have some of my Animal Farm materials up at some point.)This lesson is bundled with my "Rhetorical Analysis Complete Unit -- Slide Show" and also my "Build Your Own Nation! Learning Rhetorical Devices and Propaga
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9th - 11th
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Informative Essay Outline
Use this fully editable outline to help your students organize research and writing for an informative essay, complete with sentence starters and scaffolded questioning to guide the process.
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5th - 10th
Essay Planning Guide (Sports Caster Version)
This is an outline students can utilize step by step to organize the structure and/or order of their essay. It is also 'sports' themed--so for those students who are interested or 'click' with sports--this is an outline they can utilize!
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
How to Write a Thematic Statement: Theme of The Little Mermaid
For High School -- How do you write a thematic statement or an introduction to a thematic essay? Find out here!
This includes an introduction to theme and full explanation of what a theme is, how to write one, and an example of a paragraph written for The Little Mermaid.
Students first listen to "Part of This World" then discuss themes from the story. This example is provided.
There is a key that shows students the parts of the paragraph analysis for them to highlight and label to keep for fu
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9th - 12th
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Exploring the parts of an Argumentative Essay
Equip students with a practical understanding of argumentative essay structure using this insightful worksheet. By analyzing a well-constructed essay sample, students gain a clear visual on the fundamental elements required for a cohesive 5-paragraph argumentative (expository) essay. This resource allows students to identify crucial segments like the hook, thesis statement, arguments, counterclaims, rebuttals, and more, providing a comprehensive overview of the necessary components for a compell
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7th - 12th
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Trevor Noah's Born a Crime Complete Essay Package
This bundle includes the Born a Crime essay prompts, study guide, outline, and rubric. It is the complete package gathered into one convenient place. This whole project is perfect for use as an end-of-unit assessment, or a final or midterm assessment. It also is an excellent way for students to be prepared for standardized tests.
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6th - 12th
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Quotation Analysis -- Say Mean Matter
These quotations analyses are tiered according to difficulty. Directions are included using the say, mean, matter technique used in Kelly Gallagher's books.
Quotations include quotations by/from Forest Gump, Eminem, Shawshank Redemption, Lao Tzu, Charles Bukowski, Rudy, Fight Club, Bob Marley, and Paradise Lost among others.
I use these as warm-ups after the Sentence Combining warm-ups. Over 3-6 weeks. Can be used as homework, practice before short answer EOCs or exams, or even with analysis.
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9th - 12th
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200+ Chapter questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
200+ Chapter questions for every last chapter of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Most questions grouped into two chapter bundles. Assign two chapters for reading, assign the questions either for homework, classwork (great sub plan!) or for an academic discourse activity (fewer papers to grade!) With this purchase you get every single well thought-out question.
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7th - 12th
Argumentative Essay Exemplar Analysis and Critique!
This is a great lesson for students to complete before crafting their argumentative essays. It provides a 5-paragraph argumentative essay and analysis sheet. The essay attempts to persuade the audiece that tea is better than coffee and includes an introduction, 2 body paragraphs, a counterclaim and conclusion. Students will read the essay and answer the analysis sheet which asks 11+ questions about the content and structure of the essay. I hope your students learn a lot about the parts of th
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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Counter Claim Practice Worksheet
Quick Counter Claim practice for students!This is a great way to really bring home the idea of a counter claim for students. Students revise regular claim statements to include a counterclaim. This activity takes around 20 minutes and just reinforces counterclaim for your students so they're ready for any essay, assessment, or state test. This worksheet is fully editable so you can shorten, lengthen, or adjust the activity for your student needs.
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7th - 12th
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500 Journal Prompts - Get Your Students Writing!!
Looking for a resource to get your students writing every day? Look no further than this collection of 500 journal prompts! Designed with high school students in mind, these open-ended prompts are sure to get your students thinking and writing. Each prompt is crafted to encourage students to write at least 150 words, helping to improve their writing skills and confidence.These prompts are divided into categories that cover a wide range of topics, including back to school, various holidays, sleep
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6th - 12th
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