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Free Common Core RL.11-12.2 lessons
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 Danger of a Single Story Lesson Plan
Do you need an interactive, student-centered project that will encourage social justice awareness and group collaboration? Go beyond just reading dusty tomes written by dead people and regurgitating boring details. Delve into a TED Talk, a related poem, and follow them up with highly engaging student discussions.
This 1-2 day lesson contains everything you need to guide students through reading and viewing modern literature covering social justice topics, responding to a daily essential questi
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9th - 12th
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Oscar Wilde Poetry Mini-lesson
This short lesson poses several discussion questions to guide students through an analysis of Oscar Wilde's "To My Wife - With a Copy of My Poems." This poem can be studied individually or as a part of a larger study of his play, The Importance of Being Earnest. The resource comes with a teacher guide with insights to lead discussion. Looking for more Oscar Wilde resources? Check out my bundle on The Importance of Being Earnest!This resource is included in my AP Lit Full Course Bundle!AP® is a t
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9th - 12th
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EVIDENCE OF A THEME Textual Analysis Worksheet Critical Analysis Worksheet
This easy-to-follow Textual Analysis Worksheet will help students find examples and textual evidence of a theme throughout a text. Students can use this theme analysis worksheet to focus on a theme and develop their understanding of how the author used it throughout the text.They need to add events, characters, choices or areas in the text where this theme can be found, and then go through and find specific quotes to back up their ideas.Completing this sheet is an excellent way to prepare for w
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN Novel Study Essays Posters Secondary English
FREE Active Reading Comprehension Strategies - FREE SAMPLER
Improve your students' reading comprehension and lay the foundation for close reading and annotation with this EDITABLE Active Reading Strategies GOOGLE SLIDES Presentation. This FREE SAMPLER presentation includes a graphic organizer, key details, a modeled example, and a practice opportunity for one active reading strategy.Interested in teaching all 7 reading comprehension strategies? Check out the full resource here: Active Reading Strategies PresentationThis presentation is based on The Good
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8th - 11th
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Shakespeare's Hamlet | Pre-Reading Handout on Major Themes in Hamlet | Free
This 3-page pre-reading handout introduces students to the most prominent themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. By having your class read and discuss this thematic introduction together, students will be captivated by the complex questions invoked in Shakespeare's play before they begin reading the enigmatic first scene.If you like this 3-page pre-reading handout, you'll definitely want to check out my 200-page Complete Teaching Unit on Hamlet. The complete unit features worksheets on every sc
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Literary Criticism Freebie | Generic Critique for Any Fiction
Enjoy this complimentary sample of my Generic Lessons and Worksheets for Any Fictional Text. This is a quick critique that works with any work of fiction. Full Version of Generic Lessons for ANY Fictional TextELA Teacher's Toolkit for ANY Work of Fiction.Engaging, flexible, and requires no-prep (except copying) for middle school-secondary students! This standards-based lesson resource is designed to work with any fictional text to teach the learning targets and concepts your students are studyin
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Analysis and Assessment Bundle
Free American Enlightenment Literature Unit Planner / 4 weeks of plans!
Sometimes the most helpful thing one teacher can give to another is experience. For this reason, I wanted to share a pacing guide for my American Enlightenment literature unit. This is one of the earliest units for my juniors, so it spirals them toward independent reading and writing. While the needs of students always adjust my pacing, this is a snapshot of what this four-week unit would look like on a 45-50 minute bell schedule. All of the resources mentioned in this free unit planner are incl
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11th - 12th
Ecocriticism Lesson | Poetry Writing Activity | High School
Explore the concept of ecocriticism in this ELA lesson for 11th and 12th grade! Students will learn & practice literary criticism while exploring SEL skills like mindfulness as they participate in a nature walk (virtual or actual) and use their observations to write a poem.Access the full lesson plan, slideshow, student documents, and teacher answer key here!★ Meet the Teacher: Christina Torres Cawdery ★Christina Torres Cawdery is a middle-grade English educator at Punahou School in Honolulu
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11th - 12th
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Recurso didáctico GRATUITO El Conde Lucanor
Este recurso gratuito (PDF) busca ayudar al estudiante del curso de AP Spanish Literature a identificar los temas de análisis AP, características de la literatura medieval y recursos literarios más representativos presentes en la obra. La adaptación usa el texto original del exemplo XXXV tomado de Abriendo Puertas: Ampliando Perspectivas (2012) de Bowen y Bowen y la versión publicada por La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Se usa codificación de color por temas AP, recursos y glosar
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11th - 12th
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Discussion Activity
Have your literature students conclude their study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with a fun and interactive discussion!ALL students will participate in small group discussion with the activity included. You can expand the small group discussions to a whole group discussion as well!Challenge your students with detailed and specific questions from each section of the work. You could also use these questions in a summative writing activity as well!What's IncludedTeacher instructions slideQuest
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Designing a Book Cover - Lesson Plan/Activity
Designing a Book Cover Lesson Plan/ActivityBring the magic of book cover design to your classroom with this engaging and hands-on lesson plan. Designed to ignite students' creativity and visual communication skills, this comprehensive resource guides them through the process of crafting an original book cover design for a novel of their choice.In this immersive lesson, students will:Analyze the elements that make book covers effective and eye-catching, from imagery and symbolism to color sch
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ELA Grades 11-12 Quarter 4 (Spring) American Literature Curriculum Roadmap
This curriculum pacing guide maps out 9 weeks of lessons for your American literature class (grades 11-12). Use this to help plan your own quarter, or to see how I pace out my ELA Quarter 4 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle.This Quarter 4 (Spring) curriculum resource takes students through the following four units:The Southern Gothic (Flannery O'Connor and Joyce Carol Oates)The Crucible20th Century American Rhetoric (McCarthy, JFK, LBJ, and Reagan)Contemporary and Diverse Short
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Unit Pacing Guide
This unit pacing guide maps out 5 weeks of reading and lessons for teaching The Great Gatsby. This resource takes students through each chapter with a focus on the big ideas of the novel, standards-based questions covering all 11-12.RL standards, quotation task cards, character and research activities, reading comprehension quizzes and more!This pacing guide can be modified to suit your needs and even extend beyond 5 weeks. Links within the pacing guide will take you to individual lessons for sa
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby 5 Week Novel Unit Plan
Wuthering Heights: 27-Lesson Unit Outline - FREE - Best Downloaded with Bundle!
Description:Unit Overview: This 27-lesson unit outline is recommended for high school students taking AP Literature (grades 11-12). It is designed to progress students’ literary analysis abilities through close reading and analysis of poetry, short prose, and the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Students will read the novel outside of class, with occasional in-class scaffolding lessons, reading accountability quizzes, and Socratic seminar discussions. Other in-class lessons will be focus
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11th - 12th
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Two No-Prep Lesson Plans or Sub Plans for Kurt Vonnegut's Dystopian "2BR02B"
Kurt Vonnegut's work is always engaging, and his dystopian short story "2BR02B" is no exception. The best part? It fits perfectly into so many different units and lessons, whether you're teaching science fiction, dystopian lit, short stories, allusions, or even Hamlet. It just works. And to make it even easier to incorporate into your curriculum, I've created two flexible, no-prep lesson plans.This freebie includes two no-prep lesson plans for you to choose from: a paired "reading" with Gustav K
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10th - 12th
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ELA Q1 Roadmap for Junior English American Literature Curriculum
This curriculum guide maps out 9 weeks of lessons for your American literature class (grades 11-12). Use this to help plan your own quarter or to see how I pace out my ELA Quarter 1 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle.This Quarter 1 curriculum resource takes students through the origins of American rhetoric and literature covering the speeches of Revolutionary War figures like Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, the short stories of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and finall
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Quarter 1 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle
ELA Grades 11-12 Quarter 3 (Winter) American Literature Curriculum Roadmap
This curriculum pacing guide maps out 9 weeks of lessons for your American literature class (grades 11-12). Use this to help plan your own quarter, or to see how I pace out my ELA Quarter 3 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle.This Quarter 3 (Winter) curriculum resource takes students through the rhetoric, poetry, and short fiction of The Harlem Renaissance. Then students engage in a brief survey of the works of the Lost Generation including Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants,
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9th - 12th
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Mrs Dalloway – Comprehension and Analysis Bundle
Save prep time and help your students read closely and actively with this bundle of Common Core aligned organizers, worksheets, projects, quizzes, and review materials for Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Note: We provide as many of our worksheets and organizers as possible in Word format to facilitate easy customization. CONTENTS:Character Analysis OrganizersOrganizers for every major character of Mrs Dalloway to aid students in gathering evidence and then using it to describe a character’s trai
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9th - 12th
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Mini Lesson for Teaching Students to Discover Theme
FINALLY! A concrete way to teach your students how to discover theme, or to just make sure your whole class is on the right path.
In this mini lesson, which has been designed for students to complete independently (online, face to face, or blended), students will learn how to analyze and look at key components of a text to determine values, and create a theme.
It is LOADED with gifs and uses "The Lion King" as sample text. Great for students to independently navigate (online, blended, flipped
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8th - 12th
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Valentine's Lesson Plans or Sub Plans for "The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin
Want to mix things up this Valentine's Day? (Or any day, for that matter?) Teach Kate Chopin's feminist text, "The Story of an Hour," and introduce your students to a "joy that kills." Or pair it with Billie Eilish's song, "What Was I Made For?" (from the Barbie movie) for a modern, engaging comparison activity that's sure to excite your class. You can bring in some historical context by reading Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments" as well. You've got options!This freebie include
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8th - 11th
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Two No-Prep Lesson Plans or Sub Plans for "Time Enough at Last," by Lynn Venable
Lynn Venable's engaging short story, "Time Enough at Last," is a great addition to any unit. It pairs perfectly with Ray Bradbury's story, "There Will Come Soft Rains," and his most famous work, "Fahrenheit 451." Both authors were writing in the 1950s, and concerns over the atomic bomb found their way into these eery, important texts."Time Enough at Last" was also adapted by Rod Serling for his incredible show, "The Twilight Zone." What does that mean? It's a great way to compare a single subjec
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8th - 11th
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Ophelia Movie Comparison and Discussion
After reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet give your student’s an opportunity to engage with the plot and themes through a different lens. Watch the movie Ophelia (2018) starring Daisy Ridley with your students. It is available on YouTube for free with ads. Give students the note sheet to take notes as they watch. Then use the questions below to discuss the movie either during or after the showing. The questions are sectioned by YouTube timestamps below.
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9th - 12th
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Einstein's Dreams Socratic Seminar
This educational resource, "Einstein's Dreams Socratic Seminar, is designed for high school English literature classes, specifically catering to students in grades 11 and 12. It offers a comprehensive lesson plan for engaging students in a deep and thoughtful exploration of Alan Lightman's novel "Einstein's Dreams."Key components of this resource include:Standards Alignment: The lesson plans align with specific Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for grades 11-12 in English Language Arts, ensurin
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9th - 12th
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