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Common Core RL.11-12.5 literature circles
THE GREAT GATSBY Complete Unit: EDITABLE Chapter Questions, Worksheets, Writing
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 240-page MEGA-BUNDLE on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading slideshow, daily quizzes, discussion questions, close-reading exercises, creative writing assignment, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights. The
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Literary Lenses Literature Circles: A Book Club Meeting of the Masterminds
Turn your students in literary masterminds with Meeting of the Masterminds Literature Circles. For this literature circle activity, student will meet in a book club and role play using a literary lens. They’ll be a critic, (reader) responder, psychologist, historian, philosopher, and linguist. Meeting of the Masterminds Literature Circles are perfect for you if are looking for...an engaging learner-centered approach to encourage literary analysisan activity to get your students excited about rea
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Literary Analysis | Literary Lenses Activities Curriculum Bundle
The Book Thief Novel Study
The Book Thief Novel Study is a comprehensive set of instructional materials with over 100+ resources for teaching The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. With these Common-Core aligned materials, students will deeply engage with the novel and develop their literacy skills. The suite includes 100+ resources to help you implement an engaging, rigorous ELA unit. The Book Thief Novel Study Snapshot of Resources Included in Unit:34 Literary Analysis Assignments34 Close Reading Assignments (literary skills-
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8th - 11th
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Novel in Verse Vault : Digital reading worksheets for novel in verse lit circles
Are you teaching a novel in verse such as The Crossover, Long Way Down, The Poet X, or a hundred other options to engage students in poetry and prose? Then this novels in verse vault has you covered!This reading worksheet vault has 15 completely editable activities for ANY novel in verse!It's Common Core aligned hitting author's craft, author's vocabulary, author's choice, author's mind (inferencing), and author's message.⭐Also included is a novel in verse viewing guide for setting up novel in v
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7th - 12th
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The House on Mango Street Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Sandra Cisneros' award-winning novel, The House on Mango Street effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Lear
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7th - 12th
The Great Gatsby Unit Plan | Novel Study Bundle — 6 Full Weeks of Lessons
This resource includes FIVE FULL WEEKS of content for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald!Additionally, in this UNIT PLAN BUNDLE, you will receive a teacher guide that encompasses an example Unit Schedule/Pacing Guide!Lessons Included in this Bundle:Anticipation Guide and QuestionsJudge The Book by its Cover Before ReadingBackground Info on 1920s, the American Dream, the Roaring Twenties culture, and F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Author Study: Collaborative Poster ProjectWould You R
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Wuthering Heights Student Workbook - Comprehensive Study Guide with Activities
Wuthering Heights Student Workbook contains everything a teacher needs to teach Bronte’s novel. Instead of the boring question and answer format, the Student Workbook prompts students’ ideas about characters, asks them to comment on significant quotes, and to notice some of the essential techniques used by the author such as symbolism, allusions, themes, etc. in each of the chapters. I have created this resource for my own classes, and students love the meaningful format. Instead of writing info
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9th - 12th
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Complete Literature Guide
This novel, by Ken Kesey, is an excellent novel to ready with higher level high school students and college students. It is extremely interesting and provides a lot of content to analyze and discuss.
Within this literature guide are deep and dynamic analytical questions that ask students to focus on quotes, characters, plot development, themes, literary devices, and writing assignments that ask students to provide a comprehensive review of the content.
There is background information about Ken
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Gothic Novel Unit for AP Lit | Materials for Gothic Book Clubs & Lit Circles
This unit is designed for AP® Lit students to read five different gothic novels (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights) in small groups in a literature circle design. Multiple assessment options are used with five unique rubrics, including: Reading journals (rubric included for grading)Group discussions (rubric included for grading)3 On-demand paragraph quizzes per novel (rubric included for grading)On-demand summative essay (AP®-style holistic rubri
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Course Year Long Bundle | 3500+ Pages!
Beowulf Final Exam (Burton Raffel translation)
This 54-question final test is over the Burton Raffel translation of Beowulf. It covers the following stories in the epic poem: 1. The Wrath of Grendel2. The Coming of Beowulf3. The Battle with Grendel4. The Monsters' Lair5. The Battle with Grendel's Mother6. The Last Battle7. The Spoils8. The FarewellThe test is completely editable in Microsoft Word and consists of 12 matching, 38 multiple-choice, and four essay questions. They cover the following areas:• Characters• Anglo-Saxons (values)• Qual
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Scripts: Poe Pack (readers theater, Power Point +)
Edgar Allen Poe comes alive with reader’s theaters, choral readings, Power Point, projects, writing prompts and more. Package includes a 52 slide Power Point as well as 53 pages of scripts, graphic organizers, a visual dictionary for The Poe's Cask of Amontillado, rubric, and a How to do reader’s theater .PDF.The Raven and Annabel Lee are presented as choral readings; Helen 1831 and 1848 as tiered group project readings, The Cask of Amontillado is presented as a reader’s theater trial pre-readi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
High School Literature Activities Bundle | Literature Circles Teacher Resources
Teaching high school literature and meeting high school literature standards requires a diverse set of tools. Included in this literature bundle are activities specifically geared toward older students.In this literature bundle, you'll find activities that will work year after year and with a variety of students for literature circles, independent reading, whole class novels, and more. TEN different literature activities for high school are included. Specifically included in this high school lit
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9th - 12th
Making Text to Self Connections | ANY TEXT | Nine Activities
Encourage your students to connect with any piece of fiction or narrative with these nine differentiated activities for linking self with text.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE.This product includes…Three approaches for students to connect self to any textThree levels of differentiation for each approachSlideshow of the tasksWorksheets for the tasks Each method has a set of instructions, plus three activities with difficulty levels indicated by a star rating. You can
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8th - 11th
Close Reading Task Cards for High School
Visual task cards to help your high school students read with purpose. They make close reading accessible by giving each student a specific task to focus on. Each student ends up with something to offer our post-reading discussion. Together we learn about how literary elements overlap to create a unified effect. The best part? These cards can be adapted for any fictional text. I've included strategies for scaffolding and individualizing instruction. Enjoy!
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9th - 12th
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Book Clubs & Lit Circles Made Easy with Google Docs! Updated for Online Learning
Now updated to include a remote, asynchronous online book club option due to COVID-19! Note: If you are moving to all-online learning due to the pandemic, I would suggest students choose public domain books that can be found for free online. Here is a great site to visit for public domain books! Want to infuse more student choice in your classroom? Need to facilitate deep literary analysis? Desperately need a better way to hit and assess those speaking and listening standards? Class book clubs (
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan (9-12): Literature Analysis Using Socratic Circles
Encourage your students’ active analytical efforts! Providing a framework for analytical creativity, Socratic Seminar nurtures deep thought through dialogue while encompassing many of the Common Core State Standards for reading, speaking, and listening. This strategy targets competence in analysis aligned with common core standards and expectations.To that end, this resource includes categories with model questions to assist students in their development of pertinent inquiries written to includ
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9th - 12th
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Reading Like a Professor Book Clubs for AP Literature
Literature Circles are a great way to involve your AP Literature students in deep analysis while providing them with choice. These Reading Like a Professor Book Clubs allow students to select their own text while applying the skills they learn from studying How to Read Literature Like a Professor. The Choice Board in this unit focuses on the AP Lit Essential skills for Character, Setting and Structure while pulling from the Professor Chapters: "Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion," "Never
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: How to Read Like a Professor AP Literature Bundle
Literary Analysis Tools | Easy Literature Writing Prompts Worksheets
These literary analysis prompts includes 25 writing prompts—perfect literary analysis tools. Print or share digitally with students! You can use these literary writing prompts with any piece of literature. This literature analysis writing prompts download works well with short stories, novels, lit circles, book clubs, and more. These digital and print literary analysis prompts download contains:✓ 25 writing prompts for literary analysis. ✓ 5 blank pages for teachers to add their own writing prom
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9th - 12th
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AP English Literature Full Course Bundle
This bundle has everything that an AP Literature teacher needs to teach a full year of poetry, short stories and full length texts plus much more. The units are designed to meet the Essential Skills outlined in the 2019 CED and help new and seasoned teachers to begin their AP Literature and Composition journey.Consider checking out two free resources for teaching AP Lit and Comp before purchasing: Read the post on my website: 5 Ways to Organize Your Curriculum Map (you can get a free workbook
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10th - 12th
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Making Text to Text Connections | ANY TEXT | Nine Activities
Encourage your students to draw connections between any two imaginative, informative or persuasive texts with these nine differentiated activities for linking text with text.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE.This product includes…Three approaches for students to connect two textsThree levels of differentiation for each approachSlideshow of the tasksWorksheets for the tasks Each method has a set of instructions, plus three activities with difficulty levels indicated b
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8th - 11th
LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott
MONTH LONG, 31-PAGE UNITAdvantages • Every single product has been tested in my classroom—no corporate fluff.• Tests are deliberately written in the tone of the author’s novel under study.• All materials are designed to meet the rigors of AP and Common Core.IncludesA NOTE ON LITERATURE GUIDES NOVEL GUIDE DRAWING OUT EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT DISCUSSION OF OPEN PROMPTS M/C EXAMINATION OVER LITTLE WOMEN ANSWER KEY LITTLE WOMEN ESSAY EXAMINATION OVER LITTLE WOMEN ESSAY RUBRIC
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9th - 12th
The ULTIMATE Collection of 1984 Discussion Questions, Parts II and III
These 1984 questions work beautifully as warm-ups, group discussions/debates, homework questions, journal entries or quiz/test questions. They are divided by chapter, for easy integration into your lessons no matter where you are in the novel.A NOTE FROM LITERARY LUMINARIES:1984 is one of the greatest written works of all time. The way that George Orwell explores the notions of freedom, punishment, love, betrayal, and the power of the media has rarely been matched since. When I first read 1984,
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9th - 12th
Great Expectations Complete Teacher's Unit
The Great Expectations Complete Teacher's Unit is the ultimate resource for English teachers seeking to bring this classic tale by Charles Dickens to life for their students. This comprehensive package contains everything needed to teach the novel in a meaningful and engaging way.The unit begins with an Introduction Power Point that sets the stage for the novel and provides important background information. This presentation is a valuable tool for engaging students and generating interest in the
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9th - 12th
Sylvia Plath "Selected Poems": A Study Guide
Sylvia Plath "Selected Poems": A Study Guide is the Third Edition of this guide, completely rewritten and revised to 165 pages (around 80,000 words)!The result is a detailed guide to the poems in the Faber "Selected Poems" of Sylvia Plath. The guide was written after a great deal of research and study.Includes:1. Preface and Teacher's Introduction;2. Background information on Plath, critical viewpoints on her poetry, the development of her poetry, Freud, the problems of interpretation, etc.;3.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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