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Free high school informational text thematic unit plans
Unit Plan Template
This template is meant to be a tangible resource in which you can organize your year. It works best with middle school and high school unit planning because it is organized in terms (9 weeks). Most of the organization comes from my background in both Reader's Workshop and LDC modules, which are student centered curriculum integration models. There is a place to write down texts, as well as planning each week briefly in order to create a comprehensive unit. I've used this model I created for 3
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Supersize Me as Literary and Informational Nonfiction
Students will love this lesson !! Teaching nonfiction and struggling to capture your students’ interest? This uses the much-loved documentary, Supersize Me, as the vehicle to teach the pros and cons of the fast food technology, as well as the link between literary and informational nonfiction. Supersize Me is a wonderful combination of both story and facts. It reaches the balance students need to provide important information that will impact their health today and in the future, as well as
Grades:
6th - 12th
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PROGRESSIVE ERA & GILDED AGE HISTORICAL VOCABULARY with PRIMARY SOURCES
This HIGH QUALITY FREEBIE is part of my FEEDBACK CHALLENGE!
This includes a succinct informational text and primary source pictures to introduce the Progressive Era and Gilded Age with style!!! I would love to see if I could get at least 200 people to leave feedback on this listing!
GREAT PAIRED WITH A NOVEL! Combines primary source pictures and secondary source informational text to introduce students to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era time period. This is an interactive way to allow st
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6th - 12th
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Reading List and Website Sources for Texts About Diversity
If you like this freebie, click the green star to follow Bespoke ELA and receive product alerts, more freebies, and exclusive giveaways. Given all of the tragic events that have happened in our world and continue to happen in our world, I have compiled a reading list of 75 texts for grades 6-12 about DIVERSITY, RACISM, INCLUSION, TOLERANCE, and MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS. I truly believe that it is crucial to our world that we diversify our students' reading experiences beyond the standard cannon
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Flint, Michigan Water Crisis (2014-2016) Interactive Close Read
Looking for an engaging, topical informational text for your middle/early high school students?
This is an interactive close read for a mini-unit on the Flint water crisis. The overall objective of this mini-unit is: By the end of this mini-unit, students will be able to use textual evidence to discuss the short and long-term environmental and social impacts of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
This item is the bulk of the mini-unit. It is an interactive close read (with various student pro
Grades:
6th - 9th
I'm Going to Camp Informational Text
I Wonder... I'm Going to Camp Informational Text Level 3. This is part of a differentiated resource. I Wonder books are supported text to be used for students who struggle with citing text by referring back to the text/graphic/illustration/map. It can be printed, stapled and used as is, or laminated and bound for durability. The student will read each passage, looking at the corresponding, color coded pictures. To assess comprehension and mastery of referring back to text, the student will co
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Grades:
K - 9th
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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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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Roadmap for Junior English American Literature Quarter 2 (Fall) 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 2 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle.This Quarter 2 curriculum resource takes students through Edgar Allan Poe's impact on American literature and Gothic horror, Frederick Douglass's fiery anti-slavery rhetoric, and the most significant authors of American Realism including Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain,
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: ELA Quarter 2 American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle
Are We Getting Anywhere? Analyzing Civil Rights and Humanity
Note: Some of my products have some “out there” ideas. Make sure to look at the preview before purchasing. Everyone's classroom is unique and while these lessons work within my classroom, that may not be the case in another’s room.
This thought provoking lesson guide takes students on a journey discussing historic civil rights documents, speeches, poetry, and music. This lesson guides students to think deeply, analyze and synthesize the material in a manner, which will encourage discussion and
Grades:
6th - 9th
Grade 6, 7 and 8 Non-Fiction Reading Unit Plan
Grade 6, 7 and 8 Non-Fiction Reading- incredibly detailed unit plan on reading skills that includes activities and resources for over 18 lessons! Includes differentiated activities to three levels (core, support and more able), homework activities and more. What’s more, it’s completely FREE to download! Topics covered include language, structure, analytical paragraphs, comparing texts, text types, inference and implication and more.To work in conjunction with our Grade 6, 7 and 8 Non-Ficti
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Grade 6, 7, 8 Non-Fiction Reading Unit
Examining Ambition in Macbeth - An Argumentative Unit
Aligned with Common Core reading and writing standards, this literacy unit explores the concept of ambition in Macbeth through literary and informational texts. It consists of 4 parts: understanding learning outcomes; enhancing reading; shifting to prewriting; and developing writing. Multiple texts and online links are included as possible resources. They can be used to differentiate learning by groups or individuals. Included on the day-by-day plan are skills with Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy ve
Grades:
9th - 10th
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Ghandi, the Great Soul
Story of Ghandi's life with a comprehension and answer sheet.Interesting reading piece with interactive pictures.
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5th - 12th
Vietnam War Gallery Walk: Hawks vs Doves
This Gallery Walk is to accompany the slideshow (Vietnam War: Musical Resistance). Students view a variety of images to compare the Hawks and Doves - such as their style, protest posters, beliefs, and political cartoons. The images were provided as a free resource from a TeachRock conference.
Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: Vietnam War Unit
ANGLO-SAXON (OLD ENGLISH) WITH FUN LEARNING ACTIVITIES!
This, as uploaded today 1/6/2016, begins with basic information about Anglo-Saxon which is also called Old English.
There’s a handy page with language background and pronunciation tips; a phrases/dialog section with: Hello, What’s your name?, I don’t understand, Again please, Thanks, What is that?, How much?, I want one, No , two, Yes, good; Where is a/the toilet?; Here, There; Goodbye.
Then come some additional extra vocabulary: woman, already, go, speak, in, house; man, see, much, food,
Grades:
6th - 12th
IN SPANISH - 12 World Holidays - Slideshow with pictures & descriptions
In this product, teachers can present 12 World Holidays with descriptions in Spanish to students using this slideshow with pictures and descriptions of each holiday.Included are:DiwaliNowruzOrthodox ChristmasKwanzaaDay of the DeadLunar New YearBodhi DayHanukkahRamadanWinter SolsticeNew Year's EveCarnival+ 5 Activity sheets to explore a countryStudies have shown that learning about different cultures at an early age expands our horizons, and allows us to be open to criticism, as well as to be pat
Grades:
5th - 10th
March Madness Paired Text Questions
These questions go with a paired text that can be accessed for free online.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
On-Going Research: Persecution and Revolution Assessment Arcade of Social Issues
From Electric English...
This is a list of social issues that I put together to help the students generate their initial ideas about the awesome creations they will make and display for their Arcade of Oppression and Transformation.
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Grades:
10th - 11th
GERMAN AUTHORS JIGSAW PUZZLES (Great End And Start of School Year Activities}
GERMAN AUTHORS JIGSAW PUZZLES is a set of three cut-out jig-saw puzzles for helping students learn famous German authors. Select the DOWNLOAD PREVIEW to see a sample.
What you do after a purchase is scroll down to see the puzzles, then once there print a copy of one then cut its parts out along the lines. Reassemble the parts by gluing or pasting the pieces onto a different sheet of paper. It’s that simple. Repeat whenever you want to use the other two cut-out jigsaw puzzles, too.
The stud
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Essential Questions #1: Early American Literature (American Literature)
This product pairs well with the Into Literature Grade 11 American Literature textbook published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in 2020. However, it is completely customizable and can be used as a pre/post assessment for any literature/historical unit. This particular "essential questions" is meant to test background knowledge and opinions on specific themes in the 1400-1700 time period students will encounter throughout specific texts in the unit. Many of these themes are unive
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11th
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Written in the Stars: Romeo and Juliet - Unit Map - FREEBIE
Need inspiration for your Romeo and Juliet unit? Download this FREE unit map and check out a spin on this classic text that includes narrative writing and paired texts.Unit Description: This abridged unit in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is intended to deep dive into character development and narrative writing. Through this unit, while not read the entire play, students will engage with several extension texts that will enrich their reading of the complex text.This unit is available as a growin
Grades:
8th - 10th
Travel Writing Unit Plan
Travel Writing - incredibly detailed scheme of work on writing skills (non-fiction, information text) that includes activities and resources for over 18 lessons! Includes differentiated activities to three levels (core, support and more able), homework activities and more. What’s more, it’s completely FREE to download! Topics covered include sentences, purpose, audiences, text types, sentence starters, paragraphs, punctuation, vocabulary and more!To work in conjunction with our Travel Wri
Grades:
6th - 9th
ELA Unique Research & Writing Unit: Automotive Technologies!
A fresh and unique approach to teaching high school students critical reading and research!Students do not just need vocabulary strategies and research skills for their classes in school. We all use technical vocabulary as we talk about the things we do, whether it's our classes in school, jobs, or hobbies. Without vocabulary strategies, we can't learn new things or try new hobbies!And without research strategies, when you first learn how to change the oil in your car - or bake a cake, or croche
Grades:
7th - 12th
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