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Hexagonal Thinking Kit: Editable for Any Novel
Hexagonal thinking can help you ignite quality discussion as you read your next class novel! Unsure how to get started? This strategy can yield inspiring results, so let me help you launch it with this easy-to-use, resource-packed toolkit. Inside this editable toolkit on Google Slides, you'll find:An editable set of colorful hexagons with categories already laid out for you (characters, themes, symbols, literary elements, historical connections, modern connections, quotations) that you can tweak
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Hexagonal Thinking Digital Toolkit
Hexagonal thinking is a creative tool that will help you ignite critical thinking during discussion - online or off. This digital hexagonal thinking toolkit will help you prepare easily for either format. Hexagonal thinking will get your kids thinking about the connections between big ideas across your unit. It's an easy way to make interdisciplinary connections as well as connect your materials to the world today - always helpful for keeping kids interested! With this Google slides toolkit, you
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Monomyth Cycle (Hero's Journey) Activity Using "Piper" (2016) – Pixar Short Film
Piper (2016) is a Pixar short film that follows the journey of a young, sandpiper (bird) aptly named, Piper! This activity uses the short film as a way to engage student discussion and analysis of the Monomyth Cycle, or Hero's Journey.As of February 11, 2022, the short film is available on the Disney+ streaming service, or alternatively, you can purchase the Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 3 on Amazon, which includes Piper. It is highly recommend this short film is paired with the publicly
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Born A Crime Summative for Part I
This summative for Part I is meant to prove how students have learned the standards. They continue to explore the themes, characters, and explore literary devices that work together to develop the plot. Â Students are asked to analyze. There are multiple ways to use this summative for all levels of learners. I have a "sample" with sentence frames and examples that I give students who need scaffolding to get to the proficiency level. I also have a column that is meant to add an extension for stude
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Also included in:Â Born A Crime Part I
Tell Tale Heart By Allan Poe - Detective File Presentation
This PowerPoint presentation provides a fresh and engaging perspective on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." It's designed to captivate the audience with an immersive journey into the twisted psyche of the story's narrator and leave them with a deeper appreciation for the dark genius of Poe's writing.
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8-Week Book Club Unit: Increase Engagement and Reading Levels
This 8-week book club unit product contains lessons, assignments, rubrics, and directions for teachers. It is designed for students in grades 7-12 and is research based that has yielded consistent results to increase student engagement and increases in the reading areas of comprehension of information text, literary text, and overall reading abilities. The 8-week unit covers the following topics:Choosing a book to read and discuss as part of a book club groupSetting goals for independent reading
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Also included in:Â Book Clubs & Independent Reading Unit Bundle
Independent Reading Choice Board/Bingo Board
I did this with my students for an accountability grade while they independently read a book of their choice. It has a variety of creative and professional type activities that the student can choose to complete over time. It also requires a space for them to make connections for each activity with evidence from their book.
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"Whose shoes are these?" Characterization Activity (Editable & Printable!)
If you teach narrative elements to middle or high school students and feel like you need an engagement boost, this activity is high energy, zero prep, and ready to use! This product comes with a printable half sheet worksheet for your students to use, along with a ready-to-go presentation to use with it. Students view a pair of shoes, then use the guided fill-in-the-blank worksheet to "invent" a character that would wear those shoes!This activity is perfect for introducing characterization, or f
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Speak (Anderson) Marking Period #1 Close Reading Analysis Activities
Activities for students to analyze marking period #1 in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak. Questions include character development, conflict, setting, and theme. Students are to find quotes that illustrate different elements. This editable Google Doc is ready for you to use after reading the first marking period. It takes students roughly 1 90-minute class period to complete. There is also an answer key included.YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:* Speak Preview With Inferencing & Theme Practice* Reading Guides
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50 Photo Writing Prompts - PPT AND PDF (1920x1080px)
50 Photo Writing PromptsZip file includes:1) PowerPoint slide deck (1920x1080px, which is the standard 16:9 format)2) PDF fileDescription:A picture is worth a thousand words. And in this case, each picture in this PowerPoint deck (now also available as a PDF file) might spur a thousand words to be written by your students!Photo writing prompts tap into your imagination, empower creativity, teach inference, illustrate the power of storytelling and context clues, and provide a springboard for addi
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Characterization Guided Analysis
This is a flexible, editable graphic organizer that students can use to closely analyze characters in a text. A copy is translated into Spanish within the Doc as well.
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Macbeth Essay | Modern Connection | AP Literature | Google Drive
Macbeth Essay | Literary Analysis | Shakespeare | Modern MacbethLooking for an interesting approach to writing about power, current events and all things Macbeth? This creative Macbeth analysis will have students engaged and showing their understanding of the play and current events on an in-depth level. Macbeth in Real Life:Â Who do we see embody these behaviors and dynamics today?Shakespeare's plays are timeless because the conflicts and struggles of the often tragically flawed characters can s
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Dear Diary - reading summary
Summarizing is a key skill for students of various age groups. This handout allows is editable, ready to print, or can be assigned as a schoology assignment. Students assume the role of a character within any text you are reading, then write a diary entry summarizing the plot and themes of whatever section of text you designate! Quick and skills-based, help your students build knowledge of the text!
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Literature and Film Comparison Worksheet
This worksheet is great for comparing scenes from a literary text and its film adaptation. It includes a chart for students to create a side-by-side comparison focusing on setting, character, action, and scene resolution. It also includes a "final thoughts" section for students to explain which scene they prefer based on how they think it advanced the plot and character motivation.This can be used for any literature/film comparison in your classroom.
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How to Read a Rubric
This PowerPoint came to be when I discovered that many of my students could not read a rubric to make it beneficial to their writing. My main goal was to make sure they actually looked at the tool and could understand how they could tailor their writing to earn higher grades.
I hope you find it as useful as well. Thank you.
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Character Traits
Google Slide that explain character traits. Google slides can be used as a lesson or uploaded to Google Classroom for asynchronous school work. Videos, pictures, and emojis are used to activate students prior knowledge and create familiarity with content.
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Hexagonal Thinking Activities for Any Novel - Editable
Hexagonal thinking activities are a great way to help students visualize connections in literature and scaffold analysis. They are hands-on, require critical thinking, and can be used for cooperative work, assessment, and even homework. This product includes hexagonal thinking activities for any novel. Inside, you'll find:- ideas for use- a complete set of blank hexagons in two sizes to support differentiation. These hexagons can be printed and customized by hand, but they also contain text
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INDEPENDENT READING LITERACY CREATIVE CHOICE BOARD CAN BE USED FOR ANY TEXT
This Choice Board includes 8 Engaging Activities that can be used with any text! It is a Google Doc so you can re-use as many times as you like and edit it to fit your classes needs! Students complete the activities as they read their books. The goal is to get three in row to win (like a tic tac toe board)Visually appealing with bright colors and an opening book gif in the centerIs a great template you can use to make other choice boards in the futureStudents are more engaged because they can pi
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Character Archetypes Booklet
Need a quick and easy way for students to track the archetypes you've taught them in class? Look no further. This booklet serves as a template for students to track the qualities, examples, and characters they've read about in relation to the archetypes they fulfill. Suitable for students of all ages, and easily printable as a booklet. Printing Instructions: Go to File > Print.If your printer supports automatic printing on both sides, change Print One Sidedto Print on Both Sides. Choose the o
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Character Twitter Project
Looking for a fun way for your students to demonstrate understanding of characters? Look no further! This product will enable your students to set up a Twitter account based on a character in any novel. Templates are provided for your students to set up a profile page, then compose Tweets from a character's perspective. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the character's traits and motivations. No phone needed--this project can be done with pencil and paper, or in PowerPoint. Includes student
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Haikus With Hobbits
Hello, you are probably wondering why I gave the full download in the preview! Feel free to steal the Haiku With Hobbits idea (enjoy). The thing I am selling is the effort put forth in the design.This download comes with both the image version of the design (see below the assignment) as well as the actual shapes themselves (see second page) so you can feel free to change it up as you see fit. I am working on a few others, this one is the white theme background. The assignment in the middle is in
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COMPLETE Reciprocal Reading Organizer with Cheat Sheet!
This is a Reciprocal Reading organizer that allows students virtually and in person to gain deeper understanding and perspective of the text they are reading. The top sheet includes a check-off list for teachers, second page is a cheat sheet that includes sentence starters for the students, a page for each role, and at the end, an assessment to gauge student understanding.
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Tracing Character Identity Development - Graphic Organizer
Graphic organizer for students to track character development throughout the course of a whole novel. Students identify characters that interest them and further develop the plot and pace of the story. When tracing the character’s development, the students write adjectives to describe the character in the beginning, middle, and end of the novel, along with providing two quotes from the text that support their inferences. Graphic organizer can be used and adapted for any whole-novel study, or uni
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MAP Project
This project asks students to correlate the setting with the things happening in their novels. This can be used with any novel that students are reading. Have the students either draw or find pictures that relate to the setting in their stories and explain why that image relates to a specific plot element. Students will then write a sentence or two to explain their thinking. This is fun and artsy as well as getting students to use higher level thinking. Includes an explanation, optional template
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