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Free Common Core RL.11-12.2 pdfs
Identifying Symbolism FREE Handout Distance Learning
Symbolism can be hard for students to identify and analyze. Use this free handout with any story, novel, poem, play, and even speeches to help your students! You may utilize this as a print-and-go worksheet or share it digitally with your students on a secured platform using the Google Slides link in the PDF. Use it in conjunction with my INTRODUCTION TO SYMBOLISM presentation.Created and copyrighted by Tracee Orman
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7th - 12th
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The Lottery Shirley Jackson - Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Bell Ringers
Assess students’ knowledge of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” using these FREE reading comprehension questions! These bell ringer quizzes include six close reading questions that evaluate students' reading comprehension. Includes digital quizzes for Google Classroom®! Included with these Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes:✏️ “The Lottery” Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Digital & PrintSix close reading questions to evaluate knowledge and understanding✏️ Editable Reading Comprehension Que
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8th - 11th
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Free Twitter Tweet Story or Chapter Summary
Fiction & Non-Fiction Twitter Tweet Common Core Activity: Use the Twitter Concept to Make Connections to the TextUsing Twitter to Make Connections: Do you want to see if your students grasp the main idea or big event in a chapter or story but don't want to assign a boring chapter review? Use this creative "Tweet" activity--it's fun, fast, and you'll be able to tell right away if they read it/got it!Use in social studies for historical figures, science for chapter summary, and so many other
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Literature & Nonfiction Creative Reading Activities, Vol 2 Bundle
Poetry Anchor Chart - Bookmark for Reading, Annotating, and Analyzing Poetry
Scaffold the close reading process using this Poetry Anchor Chart! This personal bookmark will support students while they read, annotate, and analyze any poem independently. This poetry anchor chart offers a 4-step process for reading and annotating any poem, along with guidance for writing a close reading response. Using this bookmark, students can have step-by-step instructions on hand throughout your poetry unit.There are several different files included in this resource to accommodate diff
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9th - 12th
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The Hate U Give Student Workbook Sample Freebie - Chapters 1 and 2
This is a two chapter sample of a student workbook for Angie Thomas's novel The Hate U Give. The full workbook 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 go. For the full workbook, click here.Check out all
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8th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald - FREE Project Outline and Assignment Rubric
This free project outline for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an assignment to evaluate students’ understanding of the “Roaring 20s.” Includes instructions, supplementary resources with examples, and a 4-level rubric for assessment. Included with this Free Project Outline for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby:✏️ Visual Text Assignment Outline and Instructions✏️ Hyperlinks to Supplementary Resources with ExamplesFeaturing the artwork and Illustrations of John Held Jr.✏️ 4-Leve
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8th - 11th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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The Grand Stand Objective Summary Game
If you want an engaging, common-core aligned way to have students objectively summarize ANY text, then look no further!
With this activity, students will be out of their seats, engaged, and provide a full list of summary information in just minutes.
This FREE PDF file contains all of the information that you will need to play The Grand Stand Game with your students.
I suggested that this game be used with grades 4 and up, but I believe that it can be adapted for even more grades!
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4th - 12th
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Objective Summary Rubric (Fiction)
This rubric outlines the most important features of an objective summary for a fiction story. It makes it easy for teachers to grade and clearly shows the students what expectations they need to meet in their summaries.
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
This document is a guided reading when working with Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." It contains questions with graphic organizers as well.
Included are:
- guided worksheets to accompany in-class reading with McDougal Littell American Literature Book
- Think-Pair-Write summary activity
- Extended writing graphic organizer
The worksheets focus on Poe's aim to create "unity of effect" and how he creates an element of gloom/terror in the plot, characters and setting of the story.
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11th
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Macbeth Pre-Reading Activity Character Compatibility Quiz Free Resource
This pre-reading activity for Macbeth, "Character Compatibility Quiz" is a quick, engaging, and somewhat sneaky way to introduce your high school ELA students to the play's themes, characters, and most importantly, its universality. Students answer questions to which Macbeth would answer yes, for example:Have you ever doubted a friend's loyalty?... had a manipulative partner?... been lied to?Students count their "yes" responses to discover if they are like Macbeth, Macduff, or Banquo. Fun and e
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9th - 12th
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"The Crucible" Character Analysis Graphic Organizer Student Handout
This product is a character analysis graphic organizer student handout for The Crucible by Arthur Miller! It includes every character in the play and asks students to analyze them through 5 different categories:1. Character's role in story2. How character has changed throughout the play3. Positive/Negative connotation words to describe the character4. Struggles/oppressions they face or cause for others5. Students create a drawing of each character based on the description in the textThis product
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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12 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Spark Critical Thinking
Students LOVE literature circles - especially when you incorporate awesome task cards! These task cards are a SIMPLE way to make literature circles FUN and engaging for students! Take a PEEK at this BRAND NEW "ELA Task Card MEGA BUNDLE"...Visit my Ms. G's Room 30 Blog for more tips, tricks and resources that can further enhance the magic that happens in your classroom on a daily basis!Looking for more than 12 task cards?24 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Critical Thinking Ski
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6th - 12th
Also included in: ELA Common Core Task Cards - MEGA Bundle - CCSS Reading and Writing
Free Scaffolded Reading & Research Notes: Help Students Independently Annotate!
One of my year-long goals is for my students to reach a place where they can independently take and make meaningful notes and annotations while they read. Personally, I prefer to write in my books, but in the classroom, that's not always possible. With this in mind, I put together these 5 Square Notes sheets (kind of like graphic organizers) that walk students through annotation and/or note taking. Each sheet is set up in the 1-2-3-2-1 style, which is a pattern that's easy for students to rememb
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8th - 12th
Theme Analysis Discovery Learning - Taylor Swift or William Shakespeare? FREEBIE
This intriguing PowerPoint game has students guess whether a line is from a Shakespeare play or a Taylor Swift song as a way to start their thinking about the significance and timelessness of the themes we find in literature. After playing the game, students will be able to find connections in the themes between two completely different genres of storytelling that are centuries apart and construct their own knowledge about theme in literature and how it is so personally meaningful and enduring.
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4th - 12th
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Emma Lazarus The New Colossus Statue of Liberty Poetry Analysis
Deeply analyze Emma Lazarus’s famous poem and connect to its larger historical context of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the “New” immigrants, and America’s melting pot with this everything's-included, no-prep lesson.************************************Greatness is appreciating the layers of poetic word in expressing a complex idea.A poem written as a favor to raise money for a pedestal on which to display an unbelievable gift from France. The iconic poem that almost wasn’t written.Take yo
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8th - 11th
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The Crucible Meme
I was looking or a quick assignment that the kids would enjoy that would also exhibit their understanding of The Crucible. Here's that assignment! They absolutely love it and don't even mind having to write an explanation as well.
I've also loved seeing their individuality bleed through.
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11th - 12th
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Objective Summary Template
This template provides a formula that students can use to master the art of writing objective summaries across the curriculum. It can be adapted to meet the needs of lower grades simply by changing the academic vocabulary verbs to one appropriate for the grade level. A rubric has been created that should be used when first introducing the structure. Once the structure is mastered, use the CCSS Explanatory or Argument Rubrics that match the PARCC, QUESTAR, and MAP assessments.
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7th - 12th
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FREE | The Lottery by Shirley Jackson | Lit Guide | Literary Devices | Analysis
This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what it will do for your classroom:Encourage analysis of Shirley Jackson’s famous short story The LotteryExplore the setting, symbols, irony and foreshadow Insert students into the narrative and ask them to make and defend their decisionsDiscuss concepts of conformity, groupthink, tradition and violenceCreate guidelines that help one decide when to question or reject long standing traditionWhat's in the download?A 10 page PDF with:Links t
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Horror Genre Short Stories | Bundle of 15 Lit Guides | SAVE 40%
Cynthia Ozick "The Shawl" | Free Short Story Unit Plan, Honors & AP Literature
Looking for a powerful addition to your unit on the Holocaust or genocide? “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick is sparse, memorable, and beautifully written. While the story itself is very short, your students will be inspired by the challenging text.This story pairs well with Night by Elie Wiesel, 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, or any other text that deals with themes of war, oppression, trauma, or death.When you teach this powerful short story
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9th - 12th
The Great Gatsby, Chapter 5 - Reading and Discussion Questions with Detailed Key
This reading and discussion guide with comprehension and analysis questions for The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 is great as an independent reading check, as a discussion or note-taking guide, a study reference, or an assessment for your high school ELA students. Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity 5 pages 31 numbered questions (with questions within the questions, the total is 40). The questions require comprehensionanalysissynthesisapplicationMany of the questions require students to refer
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9th - 12th
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Poetry Analysis | Theme | Individuality
This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what your class will do:Analyze Robert Frost's famous poem, The Road Not Taken Engage with 5 high-level, short answer questionsIdentify figurative language, structure, enjambment, flow and moodExplore Frost's message and themeDiscuss the importance of individuality and it's importance today compared to Frost's day and ageWhat's in the download?A 13 page PDF with:Links to Google Formats [PDF p1]Answer Key with CCSS [Google Slides | PDF pp2
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8th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 1 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Christmas Tree Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer Template
Merry Christmas! Use this for your favorite Christmas story and copy on red or green paper to add a festive touch for your students. This 8.5"x11" sized graphic organizer plot arc or pyramid squeezes in space for: title, exposition, characters, setting, conflict, rising action events, climax, falling action events, resolution, and theme. I hope you enjoy this plot template gussied up for the season.Other suggested resources:Reindeer Race Christmas Holiday Board GameCustomer Tips:Be the first to
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4th - 8th
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