American Literature Bell Ringers and Creative Activities - 11th Grade English
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Resource One: American Literature Bell Ringers and Extended Response ActivitiesProvide your students with meaningful opportunities to connect: text to text, text to world, and text to self! This resource includes 30 bell ringers and extended response activities for secondary American Literature.YoPrice $10.00Original Price $11.50Save $1.50
Enhance your American Literature curriculum with these modern, relevant, and engaging high school English resources! This diverse bundle will breathe life into your 11th grade American Literature course throughout the entire year! This resource includes research projects, high school English bell riPrice $37.00Original Price $49.50Save $12.50
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American Literature Bell Ringers and Creative Activities will facilitate meaningful connections with your students: text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self. Breathe life back into your American Lit course by implementing activities designed for today's modern teens!
This resource includes 32 bellringer prompts and six extended creative activities for secondary American Literature. Your students will be engaged with the attractive resource design, high-interest writing prompts, and the multiple activities utilizing popular related songs and video clips!
American Literature Bell Ringers and Extended Response Activities include the following materials:
- 32 attractive Google Slides Bell Ringer Prompts and 6 Engaging Creative Activities
- Teacher’s Master Copy of Slides with Notes, Ideas, and Suggested Responses
- Sweet Betsy Pike Extended Response Activity and Teacher's Answer Key
- Salem Witch Trials Song Annotation Activity with Rob Zombie's "American Witch" and Answer Key
- How To Tutorial Handout on Using Google Docs Highlighting and Commenting Tools for Digital Note-Taking and Annotating
- Thoreau's Civil Disobedience Activity and Answer Key
- Beatles "Revolution" Song Analysis Activity and Teacher Answer Key
- Romantica Dating Site Google Slides Templates: Create a Dating Profile for a Romantic or Dark Romantic Writer (Sample humorous dating profiles for Poe and Hawthorne included)
- Welcome to the Apocalypse Song Comparison Handout and Teacher Answer Key
The bell ringer activities include songs, Ted Talks video segments, and more! All links to the digital media are conveniently included on the students' bell ringer slides! Implementation is easy and convenient.
The Bell Ringer Writing Prompts feature insightful quotes from popular American Literature authors such as Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more!
This resource includes activities focusing on the following themes and concepts: Innocence and Awareness, Identity, Song of Myself, the American Dream, Journeys, Utopia vs. Dystopia, and Community.
Detailed teaching notes are included with suggestions on how to implement the activities via American Literature timelines and literary movements.
Thematic and conceptual alignment notes for this resource are also included with with suggestions for related American literature, short stories, and novels that can be paired with the creative activities.
Engage your students and facilitate their making meaningful connections with American Literature through this unique resource!
This resource is copyrighted by Teen Tech University and includes a single license for your classroom use.
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You can buy the American Lit bundle and receive this resource and the American Literature Literary Periods Digital Poster Project!
This high-interest American Literature Bundle is listed below:
American Literature Bundle: American Lit Bell Ringers, Activities, and Project
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Looking for additional engaging resources for teens?
Please check out these additional resources designed to support the secondary American Literature curriculum:
Cultural Clashes Utopia vs. Dystopia Writing
I’ve Got the Power! Power and Identity Common Core Research Project
And They All Fall Down: The Rise and Fall of Modern Day Tragic Heroes
Stand Up! Civil Disobedience Research Project and Informational Writing
*See my Google Drive Products for additional digital high school English teaching resources.
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