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Free Common Core RL.11-12.5 literature circles
Christmas Tree Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer Template
Merry Christmas! Use this for your favorite Christmas story and copy on red or green paper to add a festive touch for your students. This 8.5"x11" sized graphic organizer plot arc or pyramid squeezes in space for: title, exposition, characters, setting, conflict, rising action events, climax, falling action events, resolution, and theme. I hope you enjoy this plot template gussied up for the season.Other suggested resources:Reindeer Race Christmas Holiday Board GameCustomer Tips:Be the first to
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4th - 8th
The ULTIMATE Collection of 1984 Discussion Questions, Part I
These questions about George Orwell's novel, 1984, 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.
This resource pack contains questions for PRE-READING, as well as BOOK I of 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
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9th - 12th
The ULTIMATE Collection of Fahrenheit 451 Questions, Part I
This resource pack contains powerful journal and discussion questions connected to the following sections of Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451:
-THE HEARTH AND THE SALAMANDER
You are the kind of teacher that every student wants to have. You fill your classroom with big ideas, meaningful assignments, and discussions that enrich the lives of students.
That’s why this resource pack is perfect for you.
These resources will let you take your instruction to the next level.
Forget about those basic co
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9th - 12th
Easy To Kill a Mockingbird Text with Footnotes & Discussion Questions Ch. 1
These questions/writing prompts include modified, footnoted text for easy underlining and annotations. Streamlined prose and embedded definitions make comprehension, note-taking and discussions easier than ever. Each of these questions can be used as a writing prompt either alone or following discussion (students may choose a prompt or teachers can assign one or more to each student or group).This free question set applies to the first part of Chapter 1 in To Kill a Mockingbird where Scout Finch
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8th - 12th
How to Write a Literary Analysis Paragraph
I designed this checklist to help students who struggle with answering a literature response question well. It is formulaic for students who need specific steps as they write a solid answer. The checklist includes directing students to use two pieces of textual evidence in their answers to ensure all sub-questions are addressed. I've had experience seeing this work with students who struggle to use quotations in their answers to support their answers.
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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FREE | Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare | Act 1 Scene 1 | Literary Analysis Guide
Are you new to teaching Shakespeare? Never fear! This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. It includes a side by side adapted text version of Act 1 Scene 1 so that students can read the original text and instantly look to the right to see an adapted text version. Download this free resource and to see if it might just be exactly what you're looking for. In addition the literature guide makes sure your students won't miss out any important analysis for what happened in the scene. Here’s
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9th - 12th
SAMPLE: Task Cards for Reading Short Stories
This is a free sample based on the 76 card set available for purchase in my shop. Enjoy!
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9th - 12th
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The Book of the Unknown Americans End of Book Socratic Discussion Questions
The Book of the Unknown Americans Discussion Questions. I use this as Socratic Seminar Questions for my advanced 8th grade class, there are directions for that at the bottom. I will be adapting it for literature circles in my grade level 8th grade class. These are for after the students have finished the book.
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7th - 12th
AP English Unit 2 Poetry I: Poem #1 "The Prodigal" by Elizabeth Bishop
Teaching AP English for the first time? Or maybe just looking for something new? Check out this lesson on "The Prodigal" by Elizabeth Bishop. This is Poem #1 of 17 poems that I personally teach in Unit 2 of my own AP English Literature and Composition course. Unit 2 introduces students to the fundamentals of reading poetry. We begin with studying poems anchored to characters, a literary element that students are familiar with having finished Unit 1 Short Fiction. (Curious? Here's Unit 1: https:/
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English: Poetry I Unit
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
Show your students what Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg looked like! Let them experience how it felt to be Rodion Raskolnikov walking to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment with his dreaded task on his mind.This bundle includes four videos from St. Petersburg that make Crime and Punishment come alive:1. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 1: Walk the most likely murder route suggested by the landmarks Dostoevsky discusses in the novel. Length: 15:30.2. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route
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Not Grade Specific
The Utlimate Collection of ADVANCED Lord of the Flies Questions Part 1
These resources will let you take your instruction to the next level.
Forget about those basic comprehension questions.
This resource pack contains materials that will spark the highest quality of deep discussion and expand your students’ critical thinking skills.
These Lord of the Flies 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 wh
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9th - 12th
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The Turn of the Screw Study Prompts
This 14-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter and build up a full understanding of what Henry James is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revisi
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9th - 12th
Close Reading (Prose Fiction) Teaching Copy
This stand-alone resource is taken from the opening section of the highly regarded 215-page ‘Writing Unseen Commentaries: A Student Help Book’, a two-year course in the close textual analysis of short prose extracts and poems, designed to help students, within a clear framework, develop the skills of focused reading and critical commentary – skills they will be called upon to demonstrate in most national and international pre-university literature examinations.This is the introductory prose (fic
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11th - 12th
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12:16
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 2
Walk the steps of Fyodor Dostoevsky's protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, as he murders the old pawnbroker woman in the most famous murder in literary history! This 12-minute, 16-second video was filmed on the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2023, walking the assumed route from Raskolnikov's apartment to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment. Dostoevsky was a master of "psychogeography," who mapped the events of his novels onto the actual streets and even specific buildings of his 19th-ce
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
All the Light We Cannot See Unit Plan Preview, Sample Guided Reading Questions
This is a preview of the unit plan for All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. You must purchase the entire unit that is only previewed here. The purchased unit contains a full 25 page PowerPoint with before, during and after reading activities and essay questions, as well as a document with over 200 guided reading questions/answers.
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9th - 12th
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15:30
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 1
Walk the steps of Fyodor Dostoevsky's protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, as he murders the old pawnbroker woman in the most famous murder in literary history! This 15-minute, 30-second video was filmed on the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2023, walking the assumed route from Raskolnikov's apartment to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment. Dostoevsky was a master of "psychogeography," who mapped the events of his novels onto the actual streets and even specific buildings of his 19th-ce
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
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Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": Dostoevsky Day in St. Petersburg 1
Show your students how Dostoevsky continues to live today on the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia! Every year since 2010, on the first Saturday of July, the city celebrates Dostoevsky Day. Performances of various styles are staged throughout the city, with perhaps the most unusual being on Kuznechny Lane outside of the Dostoevsky Museum. This 25-second video shows an actor-axe bringing Crime and Punishment to dramatic life. It is from the 2022 celebration.The city chose the first Saturday in Ju
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
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Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment": Dostoevsky Day in St. Petersburg 2
Show your students how Dostoevsky continues to live today on the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia! Every year since 2010, on the first Saturday of July, the city celebrates Dostoevsky Day. Performances of various styles are staged throughout the city, with perhaps the most unusual being on Kuznechny Lane outside of the Dostoevsky Museum. This 25-second video shows a Russian hip hop group bringing their unique interpretation of Crime and Punishment to life. It is from the 2022 celebration. The c
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
1984 Discussion Targets, Reading Log, and Book Mark (AP Lit)
Contained are 3 handouts:1) 4 pages of discussion questions of varying difficulty; little to no summary questions2) Reading Log Template3) Printable Bookmark TemplateWhat you're paying for:Really, the discussion questions. I'm charging a buck per page of discussion questions. They take an obscene amount of time to create as they are incredibly specific to certain aspects of the text; I read very closely.Sample Discussion Questions:Chapter 2A) Consider the description of the “Victory Mansions.” J
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Discussion-Based Novel Study (Unit Planning)
Discussions are central to any novel study. This resource outlines the key steps in planning a discussion-based unit including ready-to-go lessons and discussion prompts. Use this planning guide to have discussions on Parlay, or however you typically run your class discussions! This includes links to ready-to-go discussion prompts for: 1984 (George Orwell)Animal Farm (George Orwell)Brave New World (Huxley)Fahrenheit 451 - (Ray Bradbury)Hamlet (William Shakespeare)Lord of the Flies (William Goldi
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5th - 12th
Huckleberry Finn Chapters 22-25 Quiz
Huck, the king, and the duke learn about the Wilks family. This is a multiple choice quiz and key, useful as a reading check and springboard for discussion.
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9th - 12th
Independent Novel Journal Response Rubic
Two different grading rubrics are offered in this resource for grading Independent Novel Journals.
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Not Grade Specific
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