Highschool English Class 7 Unit Bundle Mythology Beowulf Persepolis & More

Big Savings! This mega English Class bundle includes lessons and materials for teaching Beowulf, Greek Mythology, Persepolis (Both parts!), Siddhartha, Pygmalion and a writing-based unit on Professional Writing! Your students will love this combination of texts that includes a mix of genres including poetry (Beowulf), Greek Mythology, a graphic novel, a play and real-world writing and reading.

What's included:

✴️ Beowulf Unit Plan - This Beowulf unit plan is straightforward with 7 core lesson plans covering culture, language, epic hero, kennings, symbols, theme and more. Lesson plans are engaging and clear for students and the worksheets encourage deep thinking. This plan comes with:

✏️ 7 Lesson Plans with objectives, assessments, and procedures. Topics include..

• Introduction in Anglo-Saxon culture
• Descriptive language in "Grendel"
• Beowulf as an Epic Hero
• Kennings in "The Battle with Grendel"
• Symbols in "Grendel's Mother" and "The Battle with Grendel's Mother"
• Theme in "Beowulf's Last Battle" and "The Death of Beowulf"
• Funeral Rituals in "Mourning Beowulf"

✏️ 7 PowerPoints to accompanying Lesson Plans. Each PowerPoint includes

• Bellringer/Do now
• Topic Information for that day's plan
• The day's focus for students
• Discussion Questions
• Pre Reading Questions

✏️ Student Worksheets for each lesson.

• Analyzing descriptive language including imagery, alliteration and power adjectives
• Identifying and labeling qualities of an epic hero in Beowulf
• Interpreting, identifying, and creating kennings
• Analyzing symbols and finding textual evidence
• Determining themes from select passages of the text
• Comparing Anglo-Saxon Funeral Practices to your own culture

✏️ Study Guide with 50 questions for each major section

✏️ Multiple Choice Test

✏️ These BONUS PRODUCTS also included.

• Grendel's Perspective in Beowulf Independent Reading and Writing Activity
• Review Crossword Puzzle
• First and Final Boast Comparison Chart
• After-Reading Reflection Essay Prompt

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✴️The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (unit for part 1 and part 2) This complete no-fuss unit includes 20 easy to follow lesson plans with engaging thought-provoking activities and both cooperative learning activities as well as independent work, questions and charts, PowerPoints, 2 multiple choice tests and assessments. Works great for all students but is really manageable  for lower-level students. Reading is broken up between small-group reading, whole class reading, and independent reading. 

20 Lesson Plans with the following topics. Lesson plans also include all necessary discussion questions, charts and reading questions for the topic and chapters (Editable Word Docs.)

✏️Part 1:

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Persepolis, Censorship and Freedom of Speech. This is an interesting way to start talking about the novel as students consider what censorship looks like in our society. This lesson is made relevant to students by having them explore various social media platforms. 
• Lesson 2: Censorship Around the World. Students work in small groups to explore what censorship looks like in other countries and then focus on Iran. 
• Lesson 3: Historical Context of Persepolis. Students explore the history of Iran through research and lecture to establish background knowledge before reading. 
• Lesson 4: Reading a Graphic Novel (Chapters 1-3). Students learn about the graphic novel format and begin reading the text.
• Lesson 5: Small Group Reading (Chapters 4-6). Students read the text in small groups with discussion questions to be answered. 
• Lesson 6: Heroes in our Society and in Persepolis (Chapters 7-8). Students think about and explore what being a hero looks like for them and what a hero looks like for Marjane. 
• Lesson 7: Mood and Atmosphere (Chapters 9,10,11). Students are taught about mood and atmosphere and then read to determine how it has changed within the novel so far. 
• Lesson 8: Literary symbols (Chapters 12-13). Students think about symbols in their life and then identify symbols and their meaning in the text. 
• Lesson 9: Reading and Discussion (Chapters 14-15). Students independently read and then create their own discussion questions for the class to respond to. 
• Lesson 10: Coming of Age in 1980’s (Chapter 17-18). Students research the 1980s in America and then compare it to Iran and Marjane’s experience after reading. 
• Lesson 11: Analysis Essay (Chapter 19). After finishing the novel, students begin working on an analysis essay that calls for them to determine the three events in Marjane’s life that had the most significant impact on her. 

✏️Part 2:

• Lesson 1: Assimilating to a new country (Chap. 20-22). Students read the testimony of Yasmin-Ghafai who left Iran to live in the U.S (supplementary text included) and compare it to Marjane's beginning experience in Austria.
• Lesson 2: Reading and discussion (Chap. 23-26). Students independently read and then create their own discussion questions for the class to respond to. 
• Lesson 3: The evolution of the veil (Chap. 27-28). Students analyze how the symbolism behind the veil has changed from chap 1 till now.
• Lesson 4: Author's Purpose (Chap. 29-30). Students learn about author's purpose and determine whether Marjane is achieving it or not.
• Lesson 5: Pre-writing for personal graphic novel project (Chap. 31-32). Students begin to brainstorm ideas for their own graphic novel.
• Lesson 6: Author's Style (Chap. 33) Students learn about author's style than complete a chart determining what they style of Persepolis is.
• Lesson 7: Perspectives on clothing (Chap. 34-35). Students read the supplementary text "Burka vs. Bikini" and critically analyze the argument and compare it to Marjane's perspective.
• Lesson 8-9: Class Discussion and drafting personal graphic novel (Chap. 35-37).
• Lesson 9: Writing a rationale for project. Students read "I Must go Home to Iran Again" and "Satrapi on Writing Persepolis" to gain insight into the author's reasoning behind her novel. Then, students work to write their own rationale as part of their project.
• Lesson 10: Analysis test. Students complete test then work on project.

✏️PowerPoints Included (PPT):

• Censorship and the Freedom of Speech 
• Exploring Persepolis as a Graphic Novel 
• Persepolis Historical Context PowerPoint
• Literary Symbols
• Mood and Atmosphere
• 3 Vocabulary PowerPoints 
• Author's Purpose
• Author's Style

✏️Analysis Test, 10 prompts for students to choose from and respond to in paragraph form.

✏️ Multiple Choice Tests

• Part 1
• Part 2

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✴️Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Includes 7 detailed lesson plans with accompanying materials such as worksheets and questions. This unit focuses on character development and identification and has opportunities for students to self-reflect as well. Multiple opportunities for class discussions and writing opportunities are included as well as cooperative group work. Test at the end is also included.

✏️ Lessons Included

• Background Knowledge and learning about Ancient India, Buddhism and Hinduism
• Evaluating Siddhartha's Character
• Identifying Character Development
• Learning about self-discovery
• Kamala's Character Sketch
• Character Resume Task
• Symbolism
• Themes and Symbols
• 8-fold path of Buddhism identified in Siddhartha's Journey

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✴️Professional Writing - This professional writing or business writing unit plan for high school students contains 7 detailed Lesson Plans with accompanying PowerPoints on resume and cover letter writing and writing emails. This is very practical unit for students to learn real world related writing skills and it is completely geared to their age-group. Some of the activities include them revising authentic student messages for more formality of language, writing hypothetical professional emails, and creating a personal resume for themselves that can be used to apply towards a job of their choice.

✏️Lessons with step by step procedures and objectives included:

• Lesson 1 - Introducing Professional Writing
• Lesson 2 -Formal and Informal Language
• Lesson 3 - Career Related Writing and Writing Emails
• Lesson 4 - Peer Editing
• Lesson 5 - Writing Resumes
• Lesson 6- Writing a Personal Resume
• Lesson 7 - Writing a Cover Letter

✏️PowerPoints included:

• Professional Writing
• Sending Messages
• Writing Emails
• Effective Peer-editing
• Writing Resumes
• Writing Cover Letters

✏️Worksheets included:

• Journal Prompt - The Relevance of Writing (with Rubric)
• Revising Student Messages (two versions)
• Email Scenarios (with Rubric)
  Professional Writing in Select Careers
• Create a “Fake” Resume Group Activity (with Rubric)

✏️Writing a Personal Resume and Cover Assignment

• Includes 4 Steps with Rubric

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✴️Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw - This Pygmalion unit has everything you need to cover George Bernard Shaw's classic play! Includes 9 detailed lesson plans with worksheets and materials included. Each lesson is accompanied by a PowerPoint that is ready to be presented to students covering the day's reading focus and information for teaching that day. The Unit also includes study guides for each act, a multiple choice test and a vocabulary test.

✏️ 9 Lesson Plans that cover the following topics

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
• Lesson 2 - Social Classes, Dialect and Characters
• Lesson 3 - Character Relationships
• Lesson 4 - Comedy and Social Criticism
• Lesson 5 - Allusion in Pygmalion
• Lesson 6 - Protagonist vs Antagonist
• Lesson 7 -  Play’s Structure
• Lesson 8 - Epilogue Creative Writing Activity
• Lesson 9 - After Epilogue Activity

✏️9 PowerPoints with all necessary information for the day's lesson

✏️5 Study Guides - to help with reading comprehension. Each guide includes

• pre-reading vocabulary terms for students to define before reading the chapter
• comprehension questions to answer while reading,
• more open-ended, analysis questions for after reading the act that can also be used for discussion.

✏️9 Student Worksheets or Charts that follow lesson plans

✏️Vocabulary Test based on words for study guides

✏️Complete Play Multiple Choice Test with essay/short answer prompts.

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✴️Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton - Covering chapters 1-15 of Hamilton's Greek Mythology text this bundle includes summary PowerPoints, readings guides with before, during and after questions, activity worksheets focusing on a range of skills and close reading, and three test for each part of the text. *There are NO detailed lesson plans for this section just a wealth of resources for each chapter.

✏️13 PowerPoints (PPT.)

• Each slide is a summary of the most important points from the chapter with direct quotes from the text and pictures.
• PowerPoints range from 10-40 slides depending on the length of the chapter.
• PowerPoints are for Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-12, 13, 14, and 15

✏️13 Reading Guides (Doc.)

• 12-27 questions each depending on length of chapter
• Terms/Concepts for students to research before reading the chapter in order to establish background knowledge
• Questions for students to answer during reading. These are identification and recall questions. 
• Higher-order thinking, open-ended and opinion based questions that can be used for discussion or short answer responses after reading. 

✏️ 11 Chapter Activity Worksheets: (PDFs)

• These worksheets cover a variety of topics to get students engaging with the text and closely reading. Students can practice skills such as reading comprehension, textual referencing, identifying key details, and independent reading. They pair greatly with each chapter of Mythology and be used in any lesson plan or as homework.
• Worksheets are approximately 1-3 pgs. each; keys are included except for chap. 2&3)
• Chapter 1 - Fact identification & Direct/Indirect Characterization
• Chapter 2 - Writing an Ode
• Chapter 3 - Comparing Creation Myths
• Chapter 4 - Story Map and using the text to write description (2 worksheets)
• Chapter 5 - Literary Elements
• Chapter 6 - One-sentence summaries
• Chapter 7 - Cause and Effect
• Chapter 8 - Imagery
• Chapter 9-12 - Matching to correct Hero
• Chapter 13-14 - Using evidence from the text

✏️3 Tests (Docs.)

• Part 1 multiple choice test (50 questions)
• Part 2 multiple choice test (40 questions)
• Part 3 multiple choice test (50 questions)

✏️BONUS Product included with Purchase - Greek Mythology Crossword Puzzle Worksheet Bundle.

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