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12th grade close reading cultural activities
Native American Literature Unit: Poems, Myths, Non-fiction in Digital & Print
Looking to add some fresh activities for Native American literature to your classes' studies? You have come to the right place! Your students will love these beautifully designed slides that will not only capture their attention but also provide them with interesting Native American reading selections and engaging activities that require analyzing, creating, thinking, writing, and reflecting. Printable version included!This Native American Literature Digital Unit includes► 2 poems► 2 myths► a no
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7th - 12th
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Tell-Tale Heart by Poe. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. ESL Beginner Unit.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to ESL and ENL beginners and newcomers. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. Please open up the preview for details to make sure the text is right for your classroom -- it will be a challenge for your ELLs, but hopefully worth it.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also pri
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fairy Tale Analysis Unit High School - Cinderella Around the World Folktale Unit
Looking for a multicultural folk literature unit for your high school or advanced middle school students? Throughout this relevant and engaging fairy tale unit, students have an opportunity to study multiple Cinderella fairy tales from a historical perspective. Grimm's Cinderella is used as the anchor short story for in-class work and discussions. Then, students will have the opportunity to explore many other cultural versions of Cinderella by completing an independent research project. By the e
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8th - 12th
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ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Back to School Reading Lesson | ESL Activities
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. What’s Included:Digital Version of Lesson3 Levels of Differentiated Text Au
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3rd - 12th
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story Comparison
This side-by-side chart is great for comparing Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story. Viewing West Side Story allows students to understand the themes of Shakespeare's play with a more understandable interpretation.
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7th - 12th
ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Black History Month: ESL Distance Learning
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
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4th - 12th
World Mythology
A complete three to four week unit on mythology from around the world. Includes Mythologies from 8 different cultures, worksheets, myth packets, creatures from different mythologies, a project, and a jigsaw activity.The myth unit covers creation myths in the 1. General Asian Mythology 2. Celtic Mythology 3. Egyptian Mythology 4. Greek/Roman Mythology 5. Islander Mythology 6. Native American Mythology and 7. Norse Mythology. In addition to Local Myths from my area. You will need to do your own re
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Hero's Journey/Ender's Game/World Mythology Bundle
Dystopian Projects and Activities
This dystopian package includes the following 6 projects and activities to pair with a dystopian unit. I have also paired these activities with a Holocaust unit, and Social Justice unit.
1. Dystopia Introduction (Power Point) – This activity asks students to review a series of images, colors, words, and sounds, and give an emotional assessment of each. At the end, students are then asked to reflect on their emotional reactions and explain what a world might look like where these items, emotion
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9th - 12th
Martin Luther King, Jr. Paired Text Lesson, Printable/Digital
With this no prep activity for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, you'll be set to share important messages for Black History Month as well as meet several standards while engaging your high school students creatively. The resource includes everything you need to be successful while covering Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essay "The Purpose of Education." Student Experience: This lesson takes King's "The Purpose of Education" and pairs it with a song from popular culture, Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Native American Literature Activities
Includes: A. Close Reading Activity comparing Iroquois’ Creation Myth “The World on the Turtle’s Back” and Onondaga’s Creation Myth “The Earth on the Turtles Back” with Blooms-leveled questions. B. Modern-Day, Real-World Creation Myth Examples (clips) and analysis questions. C. Perspective Sponge Activity with discussion questionsD. Two-Version Creation Myth Writing Assignment with two Common Core Rubrics (Constructed Response and Extended Response) Link for the video (Jessie's Girl) is: https:
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11th - 12th
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Plato- Allegory of the Cave Common Core Lesson
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a great piece of literature to introduce students to Ancient Greek philosophy, and it has the added bonus of promoting education in a thought-provoking way.
This Common Core aligned activity includes a condensed version of "The Allegory of the Cave," which matches a memorable eight minute cartoon video that can be accessed on YouTube (web address provided in the worksheet). Additionally, there is a Common Core-styled activity sheet that provides a variety of s
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8th - 12th
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Washington Irving: "The Devil and Tom Walker" Assessment with Answer Key
From Electric English...
This is a three-part assessment. The first is simply true and false questions; the second is multiple choice; while, as a rule, I try to avoid this type of simplified question and answer, it is still good to give the students practice.... After all, they will see these types of questions on standardized tests. The third section asks students to make inferences from their reading, from Irving's life experiences, and from their class discussions, then to apply that knowled
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Dear Basketball Poem Questions (Poem Included) by Kobe Bryant
The sudden loss of Kobe Bryant has sent shock-waves throughout our children. I wanted to cover him in class for those that loved him. After looking and looking for a good set of questions and not finding any to suit my needs, I took his "Dear Basketball" poem and created 15 common core style questions to encourage analytical skills, knowledge of the structural elements of poetry, and comprehension. Even though you can find copies of the poem online, I included it as a convenience. You are pa
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4th - 12th
Drug Awareness Research Project
This Webquest is a worksheet to accompany students' exploration of the NIDA for teens Drug Abuse Awareness website, found at teens.drugabuse.gov/. It guides them through the website pages and asks comprehension questions.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass - Novel Study and Text Analysis
This unit can be taught in tandem with the text Motorcycles & Sweetgrass, written by Drew Hayden Taylor in 2011.I have used this resource alongside the text for my grade 11 university and college level First Nations English classes. It was taught over about 10 weeks.Included:Pre-reading work, to provide some background, context and social/historical significance to the story prior to reading. This includes looking at the epigraph of the text both before and after completion. Basic comprehens
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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ESL Lesson Plans: Frida Kahlo Close Reading: ESL Distance Learning
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
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3rd - 12th
Latin American Literature Curriculum Map ( Full High School Year)
Curriculum map created for a Latin American literature course.
Course description: The goal of this course is to introduce students to major literary topics and themes within a variety of Latin American nations and cultures. Students discuss and analyze the cultural, social, political, historical and economic contexts of a variety of contemporary Latin American literary works. Topics to be examined include Latino identity, language, immigration, civil rights and gender roles.
Each cycle or m
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9th - 12th
Native American Literature Unit: Poems, Myths, Non-fiction
Looking to add some fresh activities for Native American literature to your classes' studies? You have come to the right place! Your students will love these beautifully designed slides that will not only capture their attention but also provide them with interesting Native American reading selections and engaging activities that require your students to analyze, create, think, talk, draw, and reflect.This Native American Literature Unit includes► 2 poems► 2 myths► a nonfiction text ► Daily less
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7th - 12th
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Take a Knee to Take a Stand: Colin Kaepernick and Social Justice
This identity-based curriculum lesson is one of 4 within the Black History/Social Justice Movements Module (available as a bundle on my TPT). The lesson includes:
-Anchor text
-Supplemental texts
-Vocabulary
-Discussion questions
-Social Justice work
-Performance task
-Grading rubric
-CCCS alignment (common core)
-Social Justice standards alignment
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6th - 12th
The Things They Carried - Empathy Building Unit
The series of activities in this unit are designed to enhance empathy for your students to situations, people, cultures, and places they may have never experienced before. Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, is an excellent literary resource, in particular with setting, narrator, and characterization, imagery, syntax, and more, as well as developing deeper understandings of the themes of war, post-traumatic stress disorder, battlefield violence, social and political inequities, and men
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10th - 12th
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Amy Tan's "Fish Cheeks": Questions w/Answer Key, 2 Worksheets + More!
I use these questions to help my students gain a deeper understanding of Amy Tan's story about identity and assimilation. Questions can be used as a reading guide or as an assessment. This product also contains an EDITABLE matching vocabulary exercise, two (2) EDITABLE True-False exercises intended as exit tickets (or bell ringers the next day for review) as well as answer keys for both, and a characterization worksheet. This product allows for multiple entry points and a comprehensive look at
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6th - 12th
"The New Colossus" Poem Breakdown and Analysis - American Dream Unit
Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" is perfect to start the American Dream unit with the promise of the dream.
Here is a graphic organizer that helps students focus on individual aspects and literary devices with the poem. It also contains a place to examine the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet and discuss WHY Lazarus chose that highly structured poetic form.
I partnered students based on pretest data, and they completed as much of the document as they could in 90 minutes. The followi
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9th - 12th
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ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Distance Learning | ESL Women's History Month
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
Grades:
5th - 12th
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