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Common Core RL.9-10.2 videos
Video: "The Lost Thing" Utopia and dystopia
Video worksheet to analyze the dystopic and utopic aspects of the short film "The Lost Thing" (https://vimeo.com/63003515). Requires students to use their knowledge of dystopic and utopic qualities and literary elements such as setting, conflict, and theme to analyze the filmmaker's message. Requires students to write a theme analysis paragraph with supporting details. Includes a classification chart for notes on dystopic and utopic qualities.
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9th - 12th
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September 11 Poems
All poems are about September 11. Poetic devices covered: theme, symbolism, rhyme, rhythm, mood, and tone. Package includes instructional videos from the internet to introduce and explain poetic devices and four total September 11 poems with sixteen total questions for these poems. It's a seven page document. Free resource Sept. 11 Blog accompanies this lesson too.
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9th - 12th
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The Secret Garden - Text Based Evidence - Text Analysis Essay Writing Lesson
Teaching how to write a literary analysis essay citing text evidence for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett has never been easier! This in-depth text dependent analysis (TDA) writing prompt resource guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a compare and contrast essay with textual evidence as support. It includes an compare and contrast writing graphic organizer, rubric, compare and contrast writing quiz, and a comparison contrast writing template.All aspects of text
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9th - 12th
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Free Common Core Activity for Plot Structure, Theme, and Tone in a Movie Trailer
The provided FREE Common Core rigorous activity explores the development of plot structure, tone, theme, and character development in a popular movie trailer from 2014. The activities are tied to the Common Core standards RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, SL2, and SL3. The activity focus on the analysis of how authors develop plot structure (foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, humor, and mystery), tone, theme, and complex characters in a movie trailer. The activity includes a teacher answer key to assist you
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6th - 12th
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How to Write Thematic Essays (Step-By-Step with Video)
11-page slideshow that takes students step-by-step through identifying a theme to gathering evidence. Slides use Fahrenheit 451 as a reference, but students need not have read the novel to use the slides.
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6th - 12th
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Creation Stories in the Bible - Video Lesson & PowerPoint™ with Questions
Includes 20 minute and PowerPoint used in video. Use as a video lesson to launch discussion or as your own editable PowerPoint lesson.This video lesson with Power Point is appropriate for both public school (such as a Bible as Literature Class) and private school (such as a Bible class) use. You will be able to steer the ensuing discussions wherever you need it to go.Watch the preview video for a short explanation of this lesson, and you will get to see the first minutes of it as well.Most creat
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Harrison Bergeron Classroom Screenplay
‘Harrison Bergeron’ is a 1961 short story by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). The story can be categorized as ‘dystopian satire’ or a ‘satirical dystopian story’, but we’ll say more about these labels in a moment. The action of the story takes place in the future America of 2081, where everyone has been made truly equal, physically, mentally, and aesthetically.This product has broken up the dialogue, added screen directions, and printable props.
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6th - 12th
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Interactive Reading Strategies (for Social Studies and Other Content Areas)
Interactive ways to increase reading skills are featured in this lesson. 8 different strategies are featured including 1 original game. This lesson focuses on social studies and reading but can be used for almost any subject area to help increase reading skills.
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Not Grade Specific
Short Story Elements
Stories may seem daunting because of their glossary of terms, characters, storylines, etc. This document allows teachers to facilitate the reading of short stories much more easily; it will soothe the anxious student and make reading short stories much more fun and pain free. This 4-page document teaches students how to navigate and read short stories. This document can be used for middle or high school students. Also, check out the FREE L.A.P. Youtube video on how to further breakdown a short s
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Also included in: THE ODYSSEY [BOOKS 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, & 12] [MEGA-PACK 1]
VIDEO - Antigone Prologue discussion and explication
This 8 1/2 minute video is the first in a series of videos for classroom use on Antigone. Mr. Mooney walks the students through the Prologue of Antigone step by step. An optional writing or reading assignment is at the end.Imperative that you download this free script version of Antigone. It's 41 (entire play) pages, but may be worth your while to print out so students can annotate.Great sub plan!
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9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance Song Assessment
This final assessment I use after the Harlem Renaissance Poetry Unit. You could do this after any poetry unit if you teach poetic devices and literary analysis to your students. Students absolutely love this assessment because it they make their own lyric music videos and identify poetic devices within the video (such as metaphor, anaphora, consonance, assonance, etc.). This file lays out the order in which students create their video and how to do it with specific instructions. I make stude
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9th - 12th
Othello Morality Bundle
This bundle includes instructional videos for each scene, one interactive presentation, a project, and an essay prompt with selected passages that all work together on the topic of morality.
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9th - 12th
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Key Macbeth Soliloquies and Performance Video Resources
This collection of soliloquies from Shakespeare's Macbeth is a one-stop-shop for text study of the key moments in the play. The soliloquies have been compiled, and a link to my resources website is included, which houses strong acting examples of these pieces. This resource can be used while reading the play, to have google doc versions for annotation or manipulation, as well as independent of the play as a text study.
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9th - 12th
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant Read Aloud with Full Text of Story
Use this video presentation to help your students read and comprehend this important story. "The Necklace" teaches students how harmful it can be to be unappreciative of the life you have, and this video made from a PowerPoint presentation has the text of the story typed onto individual slides so students can follow along with the narrator as she reads. This video can be played for the class in person or easily assigned to virtual students to complete at home. The PowerPoint presentation file wi
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7th - 12th
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Othello Instructional Videos
This documents links to Othello instructional videos for each scene.
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Othello Morality Bundle
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Context of Macbeth
This video includes key historical context and concepts to understanding the world of Macbeth. Additionally, this video includes major themes of the work as well as past AP Literature topics covered with the play.
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: Macbeth Bundle
Analyzing Mood: Three Skeleton Key Trailer
Get your students in the MOOD for reading the classic thriller, "Three Skeleton Key," with this spooky story trailer. The trailer can be used in conjunction with my close reading unit "Analyzing Mood: Three Skeleton Key" which is available for sale in my TPT store. The story is perfect for teaching students students how to analyze an author's choices, and support inferences with text evidence, and study literary elements such as foreshadowing, mood, diction, and voice.
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8th - 11th
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
Show your students what Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg looked like! Let them experience how it felt to be Rodion Raskolnikov walking to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment with his dreaded task on his mind.This bundle includes four videos from St. Petersburg that make Crime and Punishment come alive:1. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 1: Walk the most likely murder route suggested by the landmarks Dostoevsky discusses in the novel. Length: 15:30.2. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route
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Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Bundle: Live from Mystic Seaport!
Show your students what an authentic nineteenth-century whaleship looked like! You will visit the Charles W. Morgan, a real wooden whaling ship still in the water at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. It is the only wooden whaling ship in the world still in the water. Learn more about the Morgan at Mystic Seaport's website: https://mysticseaport.org/explore/morgan/. Note that the ship in Moby-Dick, the Pequod, is fictional.This bundle includes two videos from Mystic Seaport Museum in
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Anthem Revisited
From Electric English....
I recently had the opportunity to teach Anthem to my students. This is a lower level class, however, so I wanted to create a few more activities to help their background knowledge and overall understanding of the novel. This file contains specific chapter questions, political cartoons, videos on capitalism and communism, propaganda cartoons, and character analysis among other things....
I am also in the process of creating a unit test for the novel as well; I will be
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10th - 12th
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Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Video Tour
Show your students what an authentic nineteenth-century whaleship looked like! This 12-minute, 28-second video tour shows you the rigging, attached whaleboats (including one that you can climb into), and deck of a whaleship—including tryworks—along with a special cabin constructed on deck for the wife of one of the captains, the windows that allow a little bit of light to go belowdecks, the captain's quarters, the mates' quarters, the forecastle ("fo'c'sle") where the majority of the sailors sle
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Also included in: Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Bundle: Live from Mystic Seaport!
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Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Hold and Barrels of Oil Video Tour
Explore the hold of a nineteenth-century whaleship in this 1-minute, 53-second video. Note the difference between the vertical support posts that have been restored on the vessel and the originals, worn down by barrels of oil constantly knocking into them at sea. Notice also that new technology was installed in the hold to accommodate the vessel's historic 2014 journey along the coast of New England.The video is of the Charles W. Morgan, a real wooden whaling ship still in the water at Mystic Se
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Also included in: Melville's "Moby-Dick" Whaleship Bundle: Live from Mystic Seaport!
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Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 2
Walk the steps of Fyodor Dostoevsky's protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, as he murders the old pawnbroker woman in the most famous murder in literary history! This 12-minute, 16-second video was filmed on the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2023, walking the assumed route from Raskolnikov's apartment to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment. Dostoevsky was a master of "psychogeography," who mapped the events of his novels onto the actual streets and even specific buildings of his 19th-ce
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
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Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 1
Walk the steps of Fyodor Dostoevsky's protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, as he murders the old pawnbroker woman in the most famous murder in literary history! This 15-minute, 30-second video was filmed on the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2023, walking the assumed route from Raskolnikov's apartment to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment. Dostoevsky was a master of "psychogeography," who mapped the events of his novels onto the actual streets and even specific buildings of his 19th-ce
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
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