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Free high school informational text unit plans
Informational Informative Explanatory Writing Rubric and Mentor Essay FREE
Informative writing kit for easy scoring/feedback, peer evaluation, and mentor sample evaluation. These tools will help your students quickly and thoroughly learn the elements and process of informational writing. Download for FREE. How to use: Students can color-code the sample essay to find all of the elements such as thesis statement, hook, topic sentences, evidence, elaboration, etc. and discuss as a class or in stations.Students can use the rubric expectations to write their own essays.St
Grades:
6th - 10th
FREE AP English Language and Composition (AP Lang) Curriculum Map
Are you new to teaching AP Lang or curious about how other teachers organize their AP Lang class? Let me show you what my curriculum looks like!This free resource is a detailed look at how I have aligned my curriculum to the CED units while still including the activities and texts that make the class fun and engaging for students. If you are new and overwhelmed, consider the yearlong curriculum bundle with all of ready-to-go materials you need for an engaging and successful year of AP Lang.
Grades:
10th - 12th
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Social Justice Unit-Ghost Boys
**If you wouldn't mind leaving a review, that would mean the world to me!!*(Click "My TPT" "My Purchases" "Free Downloads" to access)**If you already downloaded this unit prior to June 30, 2020, I've added an optional introduction activity that connects the newly released (free) BrainPop video about the Black Lives Matter Protests to a class discussion. This is a 10 day unit (with an optional intro activity) that is designed to be used with the novel, Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes. It inco
Grades:
4th - 9th
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ELA Curriculum Map Pacing Guide for 9th & 10th English Quarter 1 of Full Year
This curriculum map resource includes a suggested pacing guide for 9-weeks of ELA curriculum for grades 9-10. You can use it to help plan your own year of ELA lessons and/or get a better sense of the materials included in my ELA Quarter 1 Curriculum Grades 9-10.The Quarter 1 curriculum resource is intended for both new English teachers as well as experienced English teachers looking for new ideas and creative lessons to add to their mix. This 9-week curriculum plan focuses on short fiction and n
Grades:
8th - 11th
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IB MYP English Language and literature unit plan with assessment tasks
This unit is a four-week unit with the key concept Creativity and designed for Grade 10 or MYP 5 students. In the resource are the assessment tasks used in the unit with task specific clarifications. This unit has been successfully adapted by three teachers in three different international schools in Asia and Europe, who teach with the MYP framework.
Grades:
10th
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ELA Curriculum Grades 9-10 Q2 Pacing Guide Curriculum Map - High School English
This resource includes a suggested curriculum map pacing guide for 9-weeks of high school English instruction for grades 9-10. You can use it to help plan your own year of ELA lessons and curriculum and/or get a better sense of the materials included in my ELA Quarter 2 Curriculum Grades 9-10.The ELA Quarter 2 curriculum resource is intended for both new high school English teachers as well as experienced ELA teachers looking for new ideas and creative lessons to add to their mix. This 9-week cu
Grades:
8th - 11th
Serial Podcast Unit - Whole Unit
This is a unit designed to go along with the wildly popular podcast, "Serial." The unit is extremely engaging for the students and focuses on analysis, persuasion, and critical thinking. After completing the unit with my own students, I took a survey to ask them what they thought; here are some of their reactions:
"[I like it] because it's more hands on and we as students can try to solve a mystery that has no definite answer. It allows us to develop our thinking skills."
"I really enjoy Se
Grades:
9th - 12th
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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
Grades:
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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Night Unit Pacing Guide - Elie Wiesel - FREE
This resource includes a suggested pacing guide for Elie Wiesel’s haunting memoir, Night. The guide can be used in whole or part to teach this text. You can find all the lessons, activities and assessments featured in this guide within my Night Full Unit Mega-Bundle.Of course, depending on the academic level of your students and your individual scheduling, the pacing can be adjusted as needed. For example, students can do some or all of the reading as homework if necessary, or some of the activi
Grades:
7th - 11th
Ain't I A Woman Speech Analysis
Two lessons analyzing the themes and ideas of Ain't I A Woman. Three different leveled versions of each plan.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
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
Literary Annotations Unit
This is a unit designed to introduce the act of annotating and close reading. It includes an introduction ppt, notes, literary practice, and non-fiction articles and guided questions.
I originally created this for my high school sophomores, but it has been modified to fit into a middle school Language arts classroom. I have found a lot of success with it. It can be broken apart into individual components, or you could work through beginning to end and create a final summative assessment using
Grades:
6th - 9th
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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
Rhetorical Analysis of Reagan's Eulogy
This unit thoroughly analyzes the eulogy that Margaret Thatcher delivered at Ronald Reagan's funeral. Not only does the unit cover rhetorical appeals by looking at the rhetorical triangle, but it also breaks down how to find persuasive purpose through devices and modes. This is a great opening lesson for AP Language students as well as your basic English I kids.
I hope you enjoy this product and find it useful!
Pairs well with the FREE .... EDITABLE PPT.
Grades:
9th - 12th
ELL friendly Famous People with Simple Past Verbs
This mini unit was designed for high school English Language Learners but could be used for any level that needs reviewing Simple Past verbs and rules.
This unit can be printed and directly given to students for use.
This unit includes several activities to practice Regular Simple Past, Irregular Simple Past, Negative Simple Past, and Simple Past Questions. There is also a focus on famous people, including the lives of Malala Yousafzai and Martin Luther King, Jr. This unit could be boosted b
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Night Unit Intro
Night by Elie Wiesel Unit PlanThis document includes a unit calendar (based on April/May 2022), student bookmark, and objectives/standards covered. The standards are MN state standards but share the same verbiage as Common Core. This unit is always a student favorite!
Grades:
11th - 12th
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Also included in: Night by Elie Wiesel Bundle
Football and Brain Disease-A Complete Unit
I am celebrating my 100th follower with this complete unit on football and brain disease. Thank you for honoring me by being a follower.
Many of my students and I love football. Several of my boys play football. My brothers are football players. It is a way of life here in the midwest. However, my feelings have started to change as more information has come out about the dangers of football, primarily because of the head trauma that so many players endure.
This school year, I am using K
Grades:
7th - 10th
Preview / Sample of "All American Boys" Novel Unit
I have developed a five week unit that blends the book with a variety of nonfiction media for students to analyze. This novel unit focuses around the award winning novel “All American Boys” by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. The book takes head on the issue of police brutality, prejudice, bias, and racial tensions in compelling story told in tandem by Rashad, a victim of police brutality, and Quinn, a witness to that brutality. There is a five question quiz for each chapter. The quizzes are
Grades:
9th - 12th
ELA Grades 9-10 Quarter #3 Curriculum Map, Pacing Guide, Daily Resource Calendar
Here is a free inside look at the daily calendar and resource outline for my ELA 9-10 Quarter 3 Curriculum Package!Quarter Three of my ELA Grades 9-10 Full Curriculum includes rhetorical analysis and argumentation resources, celebrates iconic activists like MLK and Elie Wiesel, and features modern 21st Century texts like advertisements and movie speeches to help students stay engaged throughout the lessons. It also includes argumentative essay writing test prep materials to help students conque
Grades:
9th - 11th
Julius Caesar quizzes and activities: Act 1-4
This unit includes articles for supplementary reference, quizzes and a group analysis assignment. Students can explore the play Julius Caesar in more depth while helping them to understand the modern human connections that are present in the play.
Grades:
11th - 12th
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FREE "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" - Jonathan Edwards PDF
Shortened version of Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands with an Angry God" with active reading key embedded at the top. Use this with the Puritanism Unit.
Title Font: http://www.1001fonts.com/colonial-fonts.html
Grades:
10th - 12th
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Mythology: Egyptian/Norse Pantheon Introduction/Comparison
9th Grade Greek Mythology is a fun unit with the purpose of exposing students to a different culture and the influence that culture has on modern society. Greek is our basis but including information on other pantheons creates a more inviting academic unit. This three part lesson introduces Egyptian and Norse Mythology with a focus on independent research, through controlled source, and argument writing (thesis statements).
Grades:
6th - 9th, Adult Education
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