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Middle school literature lectures for Microsoft Word
Story of Emmett Till (Black History: Civil Rights, Segregation, Jim Crow)
This prezi tells the story of Emmett Till, a young black boy who was viciously murdered in the Jim Crow south and whose confessed murderers were freed by an all-white jury. I use it as part of my introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird, but it would be great for any novel that deals with social justice, a history class, or a discussion of what sorts of events inspired the Civil Rights Movement (Rosa Parks cited Emmett Till as a reason that she refused to give up her seat on the bus). Finally, ther
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8th - 11th
Romeo and Juliet- Act 5 Guided Notes Handout
This handout provides detailed notes on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 5.The handout includes notes with fill in the blank spaces for students to complete, and a full set of notes for the teacher. Great resource for flipping the classroom and having students take notes at home to maximize class time.This handout is the companion of my Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Guided Notes Powerpoint and Act 5 Quiz and Answer Key.Check out my Romeo and Juliet Bundle that contains Powerpoints, Guided No
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7th - 12th
Romeo and Juliet- Elizabethan England Historical Context Guided Notes Handout
Great introductory powerpoint lesson for a unit on Romeo and Juliet. Frame the historical context by examining life and culture in Elizabethan England.Guided Notes Handout includes one version for students with blank spaces to fill in key information and one version for the teacher with completed notes.This guided notes handout is the companion of my Elizabethan England Historical Context Powerpoint.Check out my Romeo and Juliet Bundle that contains Powerpoints, Guided Notes Handouts, Quizzes/An
Grades:
7th - 12th
My Complete Novel Study any Book: "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
Engage your students with this comprehensive study guide for "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster. This resource is designed to help 3rd to 5th grade students explore the themes, characters, and lessons of the book through a variety of activities and discussions.✅This novel study includes:Book summary to provide context and backgroundCharacter analysis to deepen understandingThemed discussion questions to encourage critical thinkingVocabulary and Grammar exercises to reinforce key conceptsWr
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3rd - 8th
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My Complete Novel Study any Book : "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio
Engage your students with this comprehensive study guide for "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio. This resource is designed to help 3rd to 5th grade students explore the themes, characters, and lessons of the book through a variety of activities and discussions.✅This novel study includes:Book summary to provide context and backgroundCharacter analysis to deepen understandingThemed discussion questions to encourage critical thinkingVocabulary and Grammar exercises to reinforce key conceptsWriting prompts to
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3rd - 8th
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My Complete Novel Study any Book : "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
Engage your students with this comprehensive study guide for "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. This resource is designed to help 3rd to 5th grade students explore the themes, characters, and lessons of the book through a variety of activities and discussions.✅This novel study includes:Book summary to provide context and backgroundCharacter analysis to deepen understandingThemed discussion questions to encourage critical thinkingVocabulary and Grammar exercises to reinforce key concep
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3rd - 8th
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My Complete Novel Study any Book: "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo
Engage your students with this comprehensive study guide for "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo. This resource is designed to help 3rd to 5th grade students explore the themes, characters, and lessons of the book through a variety of activities and discussions.✅This novel study includes:Book summary to provide context and backgroundCharacter analysis to deepen understandingThemed discussion questions to encourage critical thinkingVocabulary and Grammar exercises to reinforce key concepts
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3rd - 8th
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My Complete Novel Study any Book: "The Mouse & the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary
Engage your students with this comprehensive study guide for "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary. This resource is designed to help 3rd to 5th grade students explore the themes, characters, and lessons of the book through a variety of activities and discussions.✅This novel study includes:Book summary to provide context and backgroundCharacter analysis to deepen understandingThemed discussion questions to encourage critical thinkingVocabulary and Grammar exercises to reinforce key co
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3rd - 8th
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My Complete Novel Study any Book: “The Chocolate Touch” by Patrick Skene Catling
Engage your students with this comprehensive study guide for "The Chocolate Touch" by Patrick Skene Catling. This resource is designed to help 3rd to 5th grade students explore the themes, characters, and lessons of the book through a variety of activities and discussions.✅This novel study includes:Book summary to provide context and backgroundCharacter analysis to deepen understandingThemed discussion questions to encourage critical thinkingVocabulary and Grammar exercises to reinforce key conc
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3rd - 8th
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My Complete Novel Study any Book: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” Series by Jeff Kinney
Engage your students with this comprehensive novel study for the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series by Jeff Kinney. This novel study is suitable for upper elementary and middle school students, typically ranging from grades 4 to 8, or ages 9 to 13.This resource is designed to accompany any book in the series, offering a range of educational activities, discussion topics, and projects that delve into the themes, characters, and plot elements of Greg Heffley's hilarious middle school adventures.✅This n
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3rd - 8th
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Romeo and Juliet- Act 1 Guided Notes Handout
Recap the major characters and events in Act 1 of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet.This handout covers the prologue and all five scenes of the first act, providing a short summary of the action in each act, then examining key characters, elements of plot, literary devices in context, and important quotes. The handout includes spaces with fill in the blank spaces for students to complete, and an Answer Key with a completed set of notes for the teacher's reference. This product is a
Grades:
7th - 12th
Guided Notes Over the Different Types of Characters
Guided notes over the different types of characters, including protagonist, antagonist, round, flat, dynamic, and static characters. This is a Word Doc and is fully editable!
These guided notes go along with this Prezi: http://prezi.com/l-qfw04gz5dp/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
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3rd - 8th
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Holocaust Timeline for Teaching Jewish History Novels
The Holocaust (Shoah) was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered.
During the Second World War the Nazis sought to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and to destroy its culture. In 1941 there were about 11 million Jews living in Europe; by May 1945 the Nazis had murdered six mil
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4th - 12th
Introductory Handout - Animal Farm by George Orwell
This 2-page handout provides information to help students understand the social/political context of Animal Farm. Explanations of the Russian Revolution, Totalitarianism, Marxism, and Communism are included, as well as definitions of Allegory, Satire, and Irony, and a glossary of dialectical terms.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
This is a page by page list of notes acquired over seven years of teaching this novel. This is not necessarily a study guide for students, but more of an annotated list of important points, allusions, symbols, and passages deserving a close read. It also includes a 20-question quiz on the book, which I use to make sure students have read.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Read Like an English Teacher
A student-friendly set of guidelines to common literary tropes to help students who ask, "But, Miss, how did you figure that out?" These guidelines can be applied to film as well. Includes examples from canonical literature. Fair warning-- after learning these rules, my students would often complain that they can't "just read" anymore because they are always examining the work for clues to meaning. This complaint is the best confirmation I have that these scaffolds help students to read crit
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
The Hero's Journey: Teaching story writing visually
This is a Prezi presentation that details The Hero's Journey. The Hero's Journey is based on Joseph Campbell's study of literature. In this presentation, your students will look at how stories are told in very similar patterns. I incorporated numerous video clips to highlight each concept (The Hunger Games, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Karate Kid, and Harry Potter). I would like to point out that this presentation does carry a PG rating. There is some violence and minor languag
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Poetry: Figures of Speech Handout
A five-page, fill-in-the-blank handout which provides definitions, examples, exercises, and other activities on the major figures of speech used by poets: simile, metaphor, the poetic apostrophe, personification, paradox, hyperbole or overstatement, and understatement.
Many of the examples, exercises, and activities incorporate the language of your students’ everyday life (love is a roller-coaster ride, Smartphone, the movies "Avatar" and "Monty Python," the paradoxical “youth is wasted on the
Elements of Fiction Binder Notes and Lecture Answers
Are you looking for a lesson on the elements of fiction? This is what I call the "legs" for the table of knowledge needed to analyze fiction. Students cannot apply the elements of fiction to literature until they have a firm foundation of the terminology. This straightforward assignment covers the following definitions:
* The types of fiction: novel, novella and short story
* The elements used to discuss fiction -
- plot
- conflict (internal and external)
- characters and charact
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6th - 12th
Much Ado About Nothing- Act 4 Guided Notes Handout
Discuss in depth the climactic moments in Act 4 of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing!This product is a complement to my Much Ado About Nothing Act 4 Guided Notes Presentation and Much Ado About Nothing Act 4 Quiz and Answer Key.The handout and presentation cover many details in the fourth act of the play with spaces for students to fill in the blanks. Topics include: the disastrous wedding of Claudio and Hero, parallelism, malapropisms, and quotations in context. A completed An
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7th - 12th
Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death”: A Close Reading Handout
A five-page stanza-by stanza analysis of the structure, theme, character development, symbolism, irony, paradox, personification, imagery, punning, biblical allusions, foreshadowing, understatement, and anaphora (repetition of words at the beginning of a string of sentences) in this most popular of Dickinson’s poems.
The handout, which has blanks that your students can fill in, is suitable as an in-class activity or for homework.
Since the words for the blanks are almost exclusively drawn from
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Elie Wiesel and Oprah Interview Viewing Guide
This is meant to accompany the interview between Wiesel and Oprah about his experiences at Auschwitz and his novel "Night." A series of video clips is available to view on Youtube.
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8th - 12th
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Much Ado About Nothing- Act 5 Guided Notes Handout
Discuss the culminating act of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing with this detailed handout!This product is a complement of my Much Ado About Nothing Act 5 Guided Notes Presentation and Much Ado About Nothing Act 5 Quiz and Answer Key.Information on the handout progresses chronologically though each of the four scenes of Act 5, beginning with a simple summary of each scene, followed by detailed slides with direct quotes, line citations, and analysis. Students will understand th
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7th - 12th
Much Ado About Nothing- Act 1 Guided Notes Handout
Make the comedic language, characters, and plot of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing accessible and understandable with this handout on Act 1 of the play!This close-reading handout is a complement to my Much Ado About Nothing Act 1 Guided Notes Powerpoint and Much Ado About Nothing Act 1 Quiz and Answer Key.The handout and powerpoint presentation cover many details in the first act of the play, including: setting, themes, subjects, motifs, symbols, plot, major and minor characters, fo
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7th - 12th
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