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Informational text Common Core RL.9-10.3 lessons
Norse Mythology Unit, Campbell Hero’s Journey, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Thor
In this epic Norse Mythology unit, you and your students will explore the realms (Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, etc.) and characters (Odin, Thor, Loki, etc.) of Norse Mythology and study Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey (monomyth). You will apply the Hero’s Journey to the Norse myths as well as Marvel’s Thor and connect the past with the present by comparing Norse myths to The Lord of the Rings and Marvel’s Thor. In other words, you’ll leave your ordinary world, enter a special world filled with g
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Bundle: Norse Mythology Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Full Year High School English Curriculum: Secondary ELA 9-12 Common Core Aligned
If you are teaching a new high school English course this year, or you're looking to upgrade your current high school English class curriculum, this full year ELA curriculum is for YOU! This Common Core Standards aligned English Language Arts curriculum will help you create meaningful learning experiences for your secondary English students AND protect your time outside of contract hours.This English curriculum is perfect for you if are looking for...creative, effective activities for you and yo
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9th - 12th
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Characterization Unit: Looks Can Be Deceiving- with The Landlady
This 5-day unit has everything you need to teach characterization in a fresh and relevant way that students will love! I don't know about you, but I feel like we do students a disservice if we teach them English in a vacuum. I don't want them just describing characters...I want them to understand HOW and WHY we characterize people in both the real-world and in literature. This unit aims to do just that with a series of lessons and activities that incorporate fiction (Roald Dahl's wonderfully cre
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7th - 10th
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High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Test Prep Paired Texts
Do you need High School Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions to help with reading test prep? This Reading Test Prep Lesson BUNDLE helps students prepare for state standardized reading comprehension exams and assessments by focusing on 5 different standards!! It contains 5 DAYS of EASY-TO-TEACH activities and test prep QUESTIONS and ANSWERS based on the Common Core Standards, focuses on 1 set of paired passages (an excerpt from Joshua Slocum's "Sailing Alone Around the World" and a passag
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7th - 10th
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Paired Texts - A Midsummer Night's Dream & Newspaper Article
Make teaching Shakespeare relevant with connections to nonfiction texts. Students complete close readings of two texts: an excerpt from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The New York Times online article (link provided) “Modern Love--Breaking our Parents’ Rules for Love.” Using an excerpt from the play will make Shakespeare manageable and engaging for many of your students.In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for online learning with EASEL by TpT.Stu
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9th - 12th
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Teach Reading Comprehension Skills using Music as Poetry | Printable & Digital
Teach high school reading comprehension and analysis skills using music as poetry activities (Printable & Digital): Use song lyrics and music videos to teach EVERY high school reading literature and reading informational text common core state standard to cover entire Grade 9 - 12 English Curriculum. All 15 lessons include editable lesson plans, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Answer Keys, Rubrics, Google Docs, Google Slides for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities.C
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 12th
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Complete Unit Plan Bundle for Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Part 2
Teaching Fahrenheit 451 has never been easier! This complete unit plan for PART 2 has everything you need to teach Ray Bradbury’s classic tale of dystopian society. Organized into jam-packed lessons, this unit plan will challenge your students in new ways each day. Every lesson has an activator, activities for the section of text, and a quick write. An alternative option that replaces the quick write for multiple-choice is available for every lesson. Every student packet has a coordinating Powe
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9th - 12th
Standardized Test Prep High School Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
Need help with preparing your students for standardized tests? This ELA Reading Test Prep Bundle: 20 Days to the BIG TEST prepares students for state reading comprehension exams and assessments with a focus on informational texts, literary texts, and paired passages with questions. It includes a selection of 20 EASY-TO-TEACH Lessons, Activities, and Common Core Style Test Prep QUESTIONS and ANSWERS based on specific standards! Give yourself a breath of fresh air with this NO PREP curriculum tha
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6th - 10th
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ELA II AIR Test/OST Test Prep, Review, Rubrics, and MORE--Growing Bundle
This is the ultimate ELA AIR II/OST Testing Bundle. This is an excellent resource to use in the month prior to the test. This month-long bundle will give students a full overview of what to expect, and also provide some fun along the way! This is all you need to help teach the argumentative and informative writing seen on the test. It helps provides students with all tools to be successful!This bundle includes: ELA II AIR TEST/OST Released 2018ELA II AIR TEST/OST Released 2019ELA II AIR TEST/OST
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9th - 12th
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The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus: A TED ED Lesson Plan and EdPuzzle
The myth of Icarus and Daedalus is fascinating on its own, but this lesson pairs the myth with the Essential Question: What is great leadership? I like to use this myth as a supplemental text with Julius Caesar as the students look at Caesar's leadership style leading up to his assassination.THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:Link to the TED Ed and an accompanying worksheet with questionsLink to the EdPuzzle version of the activityThe preloaded questions connect this TED Talk to Julius Caesar. The questio
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9th - 12th
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High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions | Printable & Digital
Teach EVERY high school ELA (Grade 9 - 12) reading literature and reading informational text common core standard using fun read along videos of meaningful children's books (printable & Digital). 16 no prep lessons include editable lesson plan, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Google Doc, Google Slides and grading rubrics for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities. Fun independent reading activities for beginning of the year, end of the year, fun Friday activities or an
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9th - 12th
Back to School Week Bundle for any Secondary English Class- 5 one day lessons!
Don’t stress about the first week of school with this collection of my favorite lesson plans for introducing units and reviewing skills! The lessons combine authenticity, movement, competition, and collaboration to make sure your students stay engaged and build a positive classroom culture in the first week. And, it’s all bundled here for big value!This bundle includes the following five listings (listed in the order I’d teach them the first week). More details and thumbnails available on each l
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9th - 12th
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Paired Texts - Native American Myths and Book Excerpt - Writing Activities
Students read Native American myths and connect their reading to a nonfiction excerpt from the book No Impact Man by Colin Beavan. The lesson culminates with a writing assignment from a menu of writing activities (choice board). By giving students choices, teachers are able to differentiate their instruction and meet the needs of diverse students. To begin, students complete an anticipation guide with statements about nature and the environment. A handout with pre-reading strategies prepares t
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8th - 11th
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Patrick Henry Speech to the Virginia Convention Test Prep Give Me Liberty Quiz
This Reading Test Prep Quiz Pack for Patrick Henry's Speech "Give Me Liberty" contains 15 Reading Comprehension QUESTIONS and ANSWERS, which focus on the Common Core standards and are modeled after various standardized tests!!A detailed lesson, pre-quiz reading questions, and test prep quiz options are included to help you teach this iconic and relevant speech in your English and/or United States History classrooms!My goal is for test prep to become a natural and easy part of the curriculum, ins
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8th - 12th
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"We Wear the Mask" / The Souls of Black Folk Synthesis Pack / Editable
In an effort to make my teaching more responsive and representative for my students, I decided to pair Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" with an excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk. For this reason, I chose an excerpt from Chapter 1 "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," which explains the idea of "double consciousness." This idea resonates with the mask Dunbar describes in his poem. Here's what you get in the pack: For "We Wear the Mask"A pre-reading guide for "We Wear the Mask,
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9th - 12th
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Foreshadowing Lesson and Activities | Printable & Digital
No prep foreshadowing activities (Printable & Digital) - Editable lesson plan, student handouts, rubric, PowerPoint slides, Google Doc and Google Slides for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activity.Everything you need to teach the five types of foreshadowing in a fun & engaging way!!The easy-to-follow lesson plan and complete student handouts and slides cover the following activities for an effortless 40-60+ min lesson:Product Includes (Printable & Digital):Lesson PlanS
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8th - 10th
Standardized Test Prep Digital Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
Need help with preparing your students for standardized tests while in your physical and/or distance learning classroom? This DIGITAL ELA Reading Test Prep Bundle: 20 Days to the BIG TEST prepares students for state reading comprehension exams and assessments with a focus on informational texts, literary texts, and paired passages with questions. It includes a selection of 20 EASY-TO-TEACH Lessons, Activities, and Common Core Style Test Prep QUESTIONS and ANSWERS based on specific standards!Give
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6th - 10th
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Reading Lit & Informational Texts Playlists - Complete Grades 9-10 Bundle
Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. Save 30% with this mega-bundle, and get 1 month's worth of activities! 22 content-rich multimedia lessons integrate original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standards. See the preview file for detailed standard coverage. This product is a complete offering of our grades 9-10 reading playlists
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9th - 10th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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Book Introduction Lesson: "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan
An introductory lesson on the graphic novel "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan in which students watch an interview with Tan about his graphic novel and his writing process and take notes on his answers. Also includes an introductory vocabulary exercise. Works well to introduce students to the graphic novel before they begin reading.
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6th - 12th
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Godzilla 3/4 Week Unit Bundle
This Drive folder contains the following:Total Lesson Plans for the 3/4 week unit complete with differentiation (Read Me)Pre-Reading / Short ResponseEnd of WWII (Japan-centered) PPT--statistics on Hiroshima and Nagasaki including picturesAllegory Presentation / Guided Questions for Allegory PPTModified Allegory of the Cave Active Viewing Questions Expository Essay Instructions and Writing Template Differentiated Expository Essay Chunking Worksheet
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10th - 11th
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Basketball Literature Bundle (3 resources / 1 price) / Print + Digital
My students love basketball, but they are not always super excited about reading, annotating, and analyzing literature. For this reason, I put together this collection of literature about basketball! These titles help students engage in analytical thought about something they truly enjoy! I've put together resources for two poems and one nonfiction article. “Slam, Dunk, & Hook” by Yusef Komunyakaa: Since this poem features important classical and historical allusions, I've included an allusi
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9th - 12th
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