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12th grade close reading cultural activities for Easel Activities
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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Notice and Note Analysis: Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan
NO PREP. JUST PRINT!Read this "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan text set, which combines contemporary literature and Notice and Note strategies for older students. Students will have the opportunity to identify and analyze different Notice and Note Signposts from the texts including:Tough QuestionsWords of the WiserAha MomentThis set includes:Chunked text set complete with an annotation sidebarTeacher guide to identifying and analyzing the N&N signposts used for this textGraphic Organizer where stude
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6th - 12th
Satire: Mark Twain's "Advice to Youth" close reading w/ vocab EASEL & KEY
This famous piece is a great example of satire with Mark Twain calling out the faults of society through his "advice." The questions each focus on one paragraph's use of satirical techniques like reversal or hyperbole. The first EASEL activity allows students to complete the worksheet on their computers or you can download and print the worksheets. The second EASEL is using context clues to determine the meaning of words that appear in the essay = self-grading.For more lessons and tools for tea
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
SATIRE: "How to Write About Africa" article close read & analysis w/ KEY, EASEL
This close reading of the satirical article "How to Write About Africa" focuses on cliches and misconceptions writers tend to make when writing about Africa. The article is broken into sections for close reading with each section followed by text-based questions.It is important that students recognize a satirical tone of verbal irony and the purpose of using it to criticize an issue.The assignment can be given as group discussion work or individual work.EASEL OPTION: You can assign for student
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence (A Stolen Generation story) EASEL, story - w/KEY
"Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence" is a fictional narrative about a nonfiction event - when the author's mother escaped a mission where Aboriginal children were held for forced assimilation during the Aboriginal Act in Australia. Because they were kidnapped from their parent, they became known as The Stolen Generation.The lesson focuses on sensory language, diction, mood, and setting as the author uses rich, descriptive language to explain the tension and the escape route. The story is included wi
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8th - 12th
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A Lesson on Stereotypes: "The Danger of a Single Story" - video, discussion
This lesson allows students to open up to one another about stereotypes by watching the amazing TedTalk “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The lesson includes the whole class watching the video. (video link included)The worksheet includes a script for the video that students can annotate and mark as they listen in preparation for the group discussion.The group discussion encourages students to share experiences and opinions with one another in a small Socratic approach.M
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Martin Luther King, Jr's Montgomery Bus Boycott Speech Analysis w/ KEY & EASEL
Martin Luther King was a master of using persuasive techniques in his speeches. This analysis focuses on the use of parallelismrepetitionanalogiesemotionally charged languagelogicThe prompts require students to choose and mark text as well as explain the devices and their effects.The EASEL activity allows students to practice identifying and fixing parallel structure.For more lessons and projects on civil rights, please click here.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
MLK's use of rhetorical devices - PowerPoint engagement lesson with KEY
This lesson includes excerpts from Martin Luther King's Montgomery Bus Boycott Speech to teach and reference before students analyze "I Have a Dream." Each slide has a student engagement question to allow for whole class discussion and participation. The rhetorical devices being analyzed include:emotionally charged languageparallelismrepetitionanalogy - extra slide using examples from other texts.This lesson not only helps students identify the devices but learn how to explain the effect they ha
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8th - 12th
Things Fall Apart analysis of Imperialism in "The White Man's Burden" w/KEY
As students learn about Imperialism in the novel, analysis of this poem serves to provide a controversial attitude. Theodore Roosevelt mentioned the poem as a reference to his attitudes about Imperialism.The assignment includes:1. Historical background for when and why the poem was written2. Annotation with focus on Imperialism and depiction of the native populations3. Graphic Organizer for breaking down the messages throughout4. Written response questions in reaction to the poem, one of which
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Things Fall Apart Unit Bundle, guides, vocab, tests w/TEACHER KEYS
Cultural Lesson: "The Writing on the Wall" close reading on Angel Island w/KEY
This article, written by poet Camille Dungy, looks at the poetry that encapsulates the history and conditions of Chinese immigrants who were held on Angel Island, United States between 1882 and 1943.The close reading is a two-column chart. In the left column, students are directed to select specific text or define a word. In the right column, students draw conclusions or make inferences about the text in that particular section of the article.The EASEL activity helps students practice recognizin
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8th - 12th
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Satire - analyze the techniques in article on child labor with KEY
Students annotate the text and answer questions about exaggeration, reversal, tone, verbal irony, and the effect of the piece on the social issue. Teacher Key is included.For more lessons and a unit on Satire, please click here.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Holocaust Pre-reading: Antisemitism Close Read - 1930s in Nazi Germany w/ KEY
Every time I assigned this, students wanted to talk about what they'd read. It's an effective tool for acquainting them with how the hundreds of Anti-Semitism decrees affected people on a personal level but also made the Holocaust possible. This can be taught as part of a Holocaust unit, a cultural study, or a world history lesson.This close reading helps students understand the rise of Anti-Semitic decrees and laws in the 1930s decade of Nazi Germany.The close read is designed for students to u
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
TED Talk: A Teen Just Trying to Figure It Out (Worksheet)
A continuation of the Feminism series of TED Talk Worksheets housed in this classroom, this TED Talk focuses on a Teenager trying to find their way through their own thoughts, feelings and beliefs. This is a great entrance ticket / do now, or Exit ticket / CFU when teaching on Ethos, Pathos, or Logos. This would also be a low-stakes review for the aforementioned topics, as well as a conversation starter for a Socratic Seminar.The worksheet pushes students to consider their own experiences in com
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7th - 12th
Justice-Themed: STUDY GUIDE for excerpt from IQBAL: CHILD LABOR
inspires youth to make a difference while teaching inference, characterization, plot, suspense, foreshadowing, allusions, and idioms.
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9th - 12th
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