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Reading strategies Common Core RL.11-12.5 literature circles
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 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
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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Julius Caesar Common Core Annotated Text – Brutus and Mark Antony’s Speeches
This resource includes the annotated text of the tomb scene in Act III, Scene ii in Julius Caesar in which Mark Antony and Brutus give their famous speeches rich with rhetorical devices and figurative language over Caesar’s dead body. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, and RL6 stan
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9th - 12th
Critical Lenses Mega pack!(Graphic Organizers, Posters, Mindmaps, Concept Maps!)
Critical Lens MEGAPACK!This megapack includes resources for twelve critical lenses. Featuring the following lenses:Reader's ResponseSociologicalFormalistCultural StudiesPsychologicalArchetypes / MythsGender CriticismGenre TheoryHistoricalExistentialism EcocriticismPhilosophical What you get!12 task cards12 posters3 concept maps featuring all twelve lenses1 mind map my life activity1 mind map assignment2 Theory Relays (Analyze a text from six different perspectives.)13 Graphic Organizers (1 for e
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7th - 12th
The Great Gatsby Literature Circle with CCSS
The Great Gatsby – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over The Great Gatsby i s included in this lesson. The unit will require 9 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 3 days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required to do du
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10th - 12th
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And The Mountains Echoed-Khaled Hosseini/CCSS Aligned Novel Study
This resource for the FANTASTIC book written by Khaled Hosseini, is a Common Core aligned chapter-by-chapter inference question bundle. These questions can be used as independent work or as a springboard for classroom discussions. I have used these resources in my classroom with great success, and my suggestion would be to assign the questions for homework, and then use the students' answers to begin a discussion. As students answer and discuss these questions, they should also be asking their o
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10th - 12th
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There Will Come Soft Rains: Close Reading & Socratic Seminar
Includes: Expectations outline sheet, discussion questions, individual response question, and rubric. This resource outlines a Socratic Seminar lesson step-by-step for Ray Bradbury's science fiction classic, "There Will Come Soft Rains." Designed to deepen students' understanding of the story's themes of morality, humanity, life, war, and death, this resource offers a scaffolded approach to literary analysis while challenging students to consider the rich subtext and layered meanings within the
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9th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Common Core Annotated Text – Balcony Scene (Act II, Scene ii)
This resource includes the annotated text of a key scene in Romeo and Juliet on the balcony between the two lovers. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative language, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, and RL5 standards from the Common Core State Standards. This resource will help teachers to guide students’ close reading of the text and help them to become more critical
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 1 Finch Background Discussion Qs & KEY
This ANSWER "KEY" includes the free "Finch Background Discussion Questions" resource and suggested answers. While there is no "one right answer" to these open-ended questions, teachers may find the answers helpful as they guide and observe students in discussion.Each of these discussion questions can also 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
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8th - 12th
Short Stories Literature Circles for High School
This particular literature circle works well with a mixed ability class - in my case it was a sophomore ICS class - and we received great results for the kids. Each student chose a role based on his/her ability. The short stories included in this activity were from Holt's Elements of Literature but the literature circle can be adapted for any short story unit.Related Resources Verbs that Identify Author’s Purpose Word SortEmbedding Quotes Model and PracticeTeaching StyleIdentifying ToneThe Syn
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7th - 10th
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A Christmas Carol Literature Circle with Common Core Standards
A Christmas Carol – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over A Christmas Carol is included in this lesson. The unit will require nine days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional five days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required
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8th - 12th
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Devil in the White City Literature Circle
Devil in the White City – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over Devil in the White City is included in this lesson. The unit will require 22 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 5 days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are req
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10th - 12th
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Literature Circles Project for Drama, Theatre, English or Reading Plays
This is a literature circles project for middle or high school students to engage in when reading any play in Theatre/Drama or working on a drama unit in English. The project lasts anywhere from 1.5-3 Weeks, depending on the complexity of the texts. Students read the text in class, conduct discussions after each Act, and assign a creative role to take on for each act. The roles they may choose from are theatre-themed: Summarizer, Director, Method Actor, Dramaturg, and Scenic Designer. The gro
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5th - 12th
Structure - Beginnings and Endings
These lessons look at the importance of beginnings and endings for the structure of a story. They look at the choices you can make in beginning and ending a story and each choice is accompanied by an activity which reinforces the technique. Tasks include continued editing of previously developed stories with the new information in mind, discussion and analysis of existing fictional texts in terms of beginnings and endings, research tasks leading to writing activities, and discussion with a gui
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
"The Cask of Amontillado" Reading Guide and Key
This reading guide has been developed to guide students in a close reading of the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Also this reading guide can help students read texts that are difficult. As students take time to read and answer questions, they have a better chance of understanding what the author is trying to convey. The student guide is ready to duplicate for classroom use and a teacher key for the guide is included. Other resources are also available for “The Cask o
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9th - 12th
Sense & Sensibility Literature Circle
Sense and Sensibility – Common Core Curriculum StandardsEverything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over Sense and Sensibility is included in this lesson. The unit will require 12 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 3 days for reading quizzes. Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Critical Reading Journal
This double sided journal asks students to critically analyze how Fitzgerald uses character, setting, symbols, and other literary devices to develop the plot or theme. On the left hand side the students will record descriptions directly from the novel; and on the right side, they will enter an analysis of their entry they wrote on the left hand side. The journal also asks the students to outline or explain the various elements of the plot.
Some research is required on the time period of the n
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9th - 12th
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READING GUIDE: Book Annotations & Reading Responses
Looking for a consistent, adaptable way to guide your students with reading, taking notes on, and making sense of novels? Then this READING GUIDE is for you!This READING GUIDE can be made into a BOOKMARK that travels with students as they read, annotate, and discuss novels within your class. You can use this guide for small group discussion, literature circles, reading quizzes/checks, comprehension assessment, and whole-class discussion. Additionally, the text annotation and reading response f
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9th - 12th
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Literature Circle: The Grapes of Wrath with Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over The Grapes of Wrath is included in this lesson. The unit will require 13 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional three days for reading quizzes If you are concerned that students cannot complete the outside reading during one day, you could expand each day into a two-day assignment giving the students more time to do reading in the classroom as a group or on their own.
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9th - 12th
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Book Bingo (Reading Activity)
Face it, sometimes students just don't like a book because they've simply never been exposed to it. Let's kick that excuse to the curb and get your students to read books that they might not read otherwise by incorporating this fun Book Bingo game. Book Bingo is not only a fun way to challenge your students to try new books, and it serves as a wonderful reading program incentive if you add a few prizes for achieving Bingo!Book Bingo comes with two different Bingo cards in seven different colors!
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5th - 12th
The Canterbury Tales: Literary Scavenger Hunt
With this graphic organizer, students are searching through the text to find examples of literary devices. Students are recording examples and page/line numbers on the graphic organizer. This is a great way to engage students as they see these literary devices at work.
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10th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Common Core Annotated Text – Tomb Scene (Act V, Scene iii)
This resource includes the annotated text of the tomb scene in Act V, Scene iii in Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo and Juliet meet their final, tragic demise. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetoric, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, and RL6 standards from the Common Core State Standards. This resource will help teachers to guide
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Minister's Black Veil Annotation Activity
Addresses CCSS RL.1, RL.2, RL.3, RL.5, While this document seems a bit informal, it is really very useful and simple to use. I copied it and cut into strips for a differentiated jigsaw activity. I gave students different parts of the text enlarged to 11x17 and assigned them an activity based on pretest scores. I then told students assigned the same color of Popsicle stick (or whatever method you would like to use) to come together and share information. It is uploaded as a Word document so yo
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8th - 12th
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