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Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories
Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories: This comprehensive middle school and high school short story unit will captivate your students with four highly engaging stories, all with surprising endings. The resource includes eye-catching PowerPoint presentations to introduce short story terms and to guide the lesson for each of the short stories, dynamic discussions, enriching videos, and creative assessments and activities to engage and challenge your stude
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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STEAM DaVinci Renaissance Style: A Unit for Elementary GATE
In STEM Renaissance Style, students will follow the engineering process as they return to the 16th Century. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning.
Students construct a prototype of Da Vinci’s parachute while learning about falling objects, gravity,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
5 Day English Sub Plan - Emergency Plans - FULL WEEK Middle/ High School English
EDITABLE Secondary English 5 Day Sub Plan. Ready to print or email. Students will read the short story "Trap of Gold" and create a poster project. Complete with lesson plans, short story, and poster project all in 1 easy to read document. Also, works in multiple grade levels so you can leave one plan for all your classes. - Instructions are detailed and easy to read so the sub can simply follow along. - Plans, short story, comprehension questions, and poster project all included in one editable
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7th - 12th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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Chrysanthemum! Teaching the Elements of a Short Story
This unit provides lesson plans for teaching the elements of a short story using Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes as a model. Several graphic organizers are included as well.
Topics covered: setting, characters, conflict, rising and falling action, climax, resolution, and theme.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
The Most Dangerous Game Short Story Lesson with Activities Common Core CCSS
1. This packet is filled with a post-reading pop quiz, three creative project based assignments, and a group activity that will lead the entire class in a review of several literary devices: Direct Characterization, Indirect Characterization, Tone/Mood, Sensory Imagery, Conflict, Foreshadowing, Personification, Hyperbole, and Symbolism. Technology is involved in almost every element of the unit. This is a wonderful engaging short story rich with detail and textual evidence.Click here to follow m
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Short Story Unit Bundle of Lessons Use Digital or Printable
Literary Elements Pre-Test
This a selected response test to assess students prior knowledge of literary elements including the parts the plot, characterization, theme, point of view and dialogue and should be used at the beginning of a reading unit that focuses on these terms. Question types include multiple choice, short answer, fill-in (word bank included).
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6th - 8th
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Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete combo for both the "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" books. It has chapter comprehension worksheets for both books. This also includes my logic unit study which teaches a basic introduction to formal logic as well as analyzes a lot of the hidden logic lessons within the first Alice book.Logic Unit Description:This is a collection of worksheets and tests that work for a month long introduction to formal logic and fal
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5th - 12th
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Introduction to Criminology- A four to five week course
Updated August 2021 with working current links. Please re-download the unit if you purchased it previously. This unit presents a complete overview of criminology and includes daily lessons (along with articles, materials, and web quests) games and activities and three short assessments. Everything needed to teach the introduction tocriminology is present in the unit and students in grades 8-12 would be appropriately and actively engaged in the activities, readings, and supplementary materials.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Elements of Fiction: Curriculum Materials MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL
Help your students learn all about what makes a story good with the Elements of Fiction Curriculum Materials MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL.
A two-page outline of all the documents is included. Also includes title-divider sheets to keep things organized in a binder or file folders.
Includes the following products (for less than what it would cost to purchase separately):
Brain Warmer Quick Write and Write Around
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elements-of-Fiction-Brain-Warmer-Quic
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Full Year Middle School Literacy: Non-Fiction Units
The following is a compilation of the high interest, non-fiction units I have developed and used in my classroom over the last five years. Each unit comes with a variety of readings that will provoke debate and discussion in your classroom. Each reading also has questions that allow your students to look beyond the text while working on important skills such as connecting, inferring, questioning, summarizing, and synthesizing. Combined with any fiction you introduce in your class, there is enoug
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7th - 9th
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Going Commercial -- a GATE Unit for the 21st Century and the Common Core
Going Commercial is 100 pages of lessons and materials for the 21st Century Learner. It’s designed for 4th and 5th grade GATE students, but it is appropriate up through 8th and even 9th grade because of the nature of critical thinking and creativity involved.
This unit in its entirety will extend well beyond 20 classroom hours. You get lessons in economics, common core language and math activities, bunches of primary sources for best practices in social studies, public speaking opportunities,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Baseball in April by Gary Soto: Writing Prompts/Discussion Questions
This 3-page download includes written response and discussion questions for Gary Soto's short story collection "Baseball in April."
With open-ended writing and discussion prompts--18 prompts covering all 11 short stories--this set of questions is ideal for in-class seminars, small group discussions, literature circles, quick writes, or providing a starting point for formal essays or in-class responses.
Designed for students in grades 5 through 8, these prompts require students to reflect upon
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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"Amigo Brothers" Curriculum All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students read and understand Amigo Brothers, a short story by Piri Thomas.
Includes the following products (for less than it would cost to purchase separately):
Anticipation Guide
Quick Write and Write Around
Building Background Notes and Answers
Vocabulary Builder
Vocabulary Scramble
Vocabulary Quiz and Answers
Double Entry Response Chart
Character Chart
Reading Guide Advanced
Reading Guide Basic
Making Inferences and Using Text Support
Discussion Cards and Comprehension Questions
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Debate- Basic Argumentation and Fallacies Unit Packet
This is my introductory unit packet for my Debate class. It prompts bellwork assignments, explains several fallacies, provides opportunities for practice, previews a formative project, as well as outlines basic information on sources and argument structure. There are answer keys provided at the end.
This is great for a debate class or even for a debate team to use in between competition preparation!
I use this packet for a 2 week unit in class. You could use an abbreviated pacing or you could
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Complete Unit for Henry Slesar's "Examination Day" - Editable - Answer Keys
This resource is a complete and editable unit for Henry Slesar's short story "Examination Day." What's included in your purchase: a teacher guide for assignments, links needed for the unit, a week's worth of bell work questions, comprehension questions, a plot diagram, foreshadowing analysis, theme analysis, and a choice project. Want more ELA resources? Check out my store!
Grades:
7th - 12th
Good Country People - Mini Unit Activities
Use the following items to aid an in-depth study of Flannery O'Connor's short story, "Good Country People":
- A biography of Flannery O'Connor's life and works.
- 29 analysis questions that focus on setting, characterization, making text-self connections, and strong comprehension.
- A 10 question multiple choice DYRT (Did You Read This) quiz.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Myths, Legends and Folktales Cooperative Unit
In this unit students will identify the characteristics of myths, legends, and folktales, apply thinking skills to reading, listening, and writing, and demonstrate knowledge of plots and major characters of myths, legends and folktales.
Students work in cooperative groups to read Native American and Japanese myths and legends. They learn about trickster tales and the characteristics of them.
Included is the unit test.
Grades:
4th - 8th
"Rogue Wave" Unit
In this unit is everything you will need while reading the short story, "Rogue Wave!" You will find pre-reading activities, during reading activities, and post-reading check questions. There are also two options for post-reading projects included! Enjoy!
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5th - 8th
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"Seventh Grade" Curriculum All in one DEAL
Help your students read and understand Seventh Grade, a short story by Gary Soto.
Includes the following products (for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately):
Anticipation Guide
Quick Write and Write Around
Building Background Notes and Answers
Vocabulary Builder
Vocabulary Quiz and Answers
Connecting Chart
Character Chart
Discussion Cards and Comprehension Questions
Reading Comprehension Quiz and Answers
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Thank You Ma'am By Langston Hughes
This product includes the short story Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes. It includes both short answer and multiple choice questions that assess every common core standard for literature in regards to stories. Topics covered include: characters and character traits, setting, plot, motive, dialect, theme, point of view, inferring, predicting, compare and contrast, and context clues. It would be great used as a unit assessment over short stories.
This product includes 2 exam versions. One
Grades:
4th - 6th
VIPER Reading Planning - The Tiger Who Came To Tea
7 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Can’t you sleep, little bear? Written by Judith Kerr. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 7 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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Thank You, M'am Curriculum All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students read and understand Thank You, Mam, a short story by Langston Hughes.
Includes the following (for less than it would cost you to purchase each document separately):
Anticipation Guide
Quick Write and Write Around
Building Background Notes and Answers
Vocabulary Builder
Vocabulary Quiz and Answers
Reading Think Chart
Double Entry Response Chart
Character Chart
Discussion Cards and Comprehension Questions
Reading Comprehension Quiz and Answers
Grades:
6th - 12th
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