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Close reading projects for staff
Atomic Habits Book Study
Take your high school English classroom on a transformative journey through the book Atomic Habits with this comprehensive unit! As an experienced high school English teacher, I understand the importance of providing educators with resources that foster collaboration, meaningful engagement, and clear learning objectives.This unit comes complete with a detailed pacing guide, allowing you to plan exactly how long each lesson will take to teach. With clear learning objectives and essential question
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
The Lightning Thief - Camp Half Blood Cabin Project
Are you looking for a way to assess your ELLs while reading The Lightning Thief? This is the perfect way to do it!Students will each be given a short description of a cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Using the description from the text, along with their knowledge of the Greek god that goes along with that cabin, students will create the cabin. This is a no-prep project! Just print and distribute! Students must read closely and pay attention to detail in order to create an accurate representation of t
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4th - 7th, Adult Education, Staff
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Signpost Mind Map Activity, Annotation, Close Reading, Literary Analysis
Looking for an effective close reading activity that pushes students to think critically about literary text AND provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate their reading in a unique way? The Fiction Signpost Mind Map is a visual thinking strategy that teaches students to analyze literary text with purpose, make strong connections between reasoning and evidence, and extend writing--all without "writing" an essay! The Mind Map utilizes Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst's Signpost annotat
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Rhetorical Analysis Greta Thunberg Speeches Essay Organizer + Slides + AP Lang
Greta Thunberg offers rich analysis in understatement, sarcasm, irony, litotes, and parallelism. I've included 2 speeches that pair nicely: "The House is on Fire" and "The House is Still on Fire." This material is visual, colorful, and includes lots of stems for rhetorical analysis writing.What's included: 42-slides / lesson on parallelism and the overall structure of the Rhetorical Analysis essay28-slides / lesson specific to rhetorical devices within Thunberg's speeches: understatement, sarcas
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 | Ghost's Message | Detective Evidence Sort Activity
Looking for a way to get students hyped about Hamlet? Do you want to hear students debating, discussing, and invested in higher-order questions about Hamlet? This activity offers engagement and a reading purpose. Students are detectives searching for clues to 4 specific questions about Hamlet, Queen Gertrude, King Claudius, and The Ghost. The evidence: Act 1, Scene 5 - "The Ghost's Message." Take this scene "off the page" for students to literally manipulate text. This is a hands-on simulation.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Carousel Writing Text Analysis - Literary + Informational - Activity, Lessons
Looking for a new way to bring excitement (dare I say fun?) into critical thinking and argument writing? Teach your students how to "think like a lawyer" when evaluating either literary or nonfiction text to make arguments and counter-arguments and build reasoning. This activity is high engagement, organized into 6 timed rounds, mimicking a relay race. This activity raises the bar on high cognitive demand, pushing students to focus on claims the author makes, rather than claims students make the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Greek Mythology
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Teach students the beauty of Ancient Greece by getting them into Greek Mythology. End the unit with a fun Greek Project! This product covers:
Fun Greek God Activities
Greek God Research
Incorporating Technology
Greek Kings
Greek Females
Create a GREEK Story Board Project
Greek Foods
The Greek Project: My Big Fat Greek Story
Students are to DRAW the story in the white portion of
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Argumentative Writing and Creative Problem Solving Lesson Plan
This lesson uses the conflicting texts "Ban the Ban! Soda's a Problem but..." and "Three Cheers for the Nanny State". Students will read the texts and engage in a creative problem solving discussion in which they identify the central ideas or problems that the author's identify. They then analyze the solutions to those problems and evaluate which solutions will be the most effective. The culminating assignment is an argumentative writing assignment. This is about 3-5 days of lessons.
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8th, Staff
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Left to Tell- Symbolism- Project
After students read Immaculée Ilibagiza's book Left to Tell, they will complete a project that focuses on symbolism, along with analyzing both the author and themselves!
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7th - 12th, Staff
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Fantastic Mr Fox Comprehension Activities Booklet!
This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr Fox.' (Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or close reading sessions). Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also r
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PreK - 9th, Staff
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Fahrenheit 451 Presentation (*World Famous, the Best You Can Buy!--238 slides)
Fahrenheit 451 Presentation (*World Famous, the Best You Can Buy!--238 slides)
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Literature/History Connection Project
This activity, which is also listed on the course syllabus, entitled Intro to American Literature Syllabus: Prompts and Tech Enhanced Projects, offers a cross curricular project (connecting ELA to history), which can be responded to through a variety of project options (include website design). There is an exemplar for the website project prompt response (the web pages were downloaded in PDF form) to demonstrate how technical hard skills can be developed while teaching students about hard techni
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Make your own bookmark
make your own bookmark
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Individualized Novel Guides
You choose the novel you want to use and give me the grade level you teach. All novel guides come with your state standards listed in "I can" statements. All novels come with:
*A synopsis
*Your state standards listed in "I can" statements
*High level critical thinking; application; and synthesis questions, while teaching compassion
*Vocabulary with definitions used in context
*Choice Board
*Essay prompts depending on grade level and state expectations
*Extension activities
*Writing Activities us
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4th - 12th, Staff
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