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Close reading Common Core CCRA.R.10 projects
50 EDITABLE Projects and Assignments for ANY NOVEL STUDY
This bundle contains 50 projects and activities for ANY NOVEL STUDY in secondary English Language Arts. Use these projects, activities, handouts, and lessons to enrich your students’ close reading and analysis of any novel unit in your curriculum. THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS BOTH A PDF VERSION AND AN EDITABLE MICROSOFT WORD VERSION SO THAT YOU CAN ADAPT THESE RESOURCE FOR DISTANCE LEARNING AS NEEDED!This bundle includes the following projects, activities, lessons, and handouts:1. FreeChoiceReadingChal
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6th - 12th
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Halloween Activities Mini Unit BUNDLE Lesson Plans for English
If you are looking for quick and easy ideas to use in October to keep your middle or high school English students on task and engaged, then look no more! Add rigor and fun to October! This pack includes up to 3 weeks of materials depending on your class periods and how you use what's included: Use them all or use pieces to provide differentiation to your different groups. This mini Halloween unit with poetry, nonfiction, fiction, research, and writing will help you SURVIVE the holiday season wh
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8th - 10th
Book Report Poster Template: Works with any Fiction or Non-Fiction Book
Book Poster: This Book Report Poster template can be used with any fiction or non-fiction book and can be completed with illustrations, sentences, or a combination of both. That makes this book report poster a perfect leveled activity for all learners.Print out the 2 pages and staple together, or copy onto 11 x 17 paper for a book report poster that looks great displayed in the classroom! Set printer to landscape setting for best results. Choose the lined or unlined version depending on your stu
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2nd - 5th
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"The Most Dangerous Game" Map Comprehension Activity)
This assignment serves as a good wrap-up of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and assesses student understanding of the plot. This download includes ready-to-print mini project guidelines for students (half sheets), a blank map template, as well as two rubric choices for "grading". *It should be noted that I do not grade artistic ability. This activity requires a close read of the text and students must mark the paths of both main characters throughout the story on their map. If they a
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8th - 11th
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Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project
Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th
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5th - 7th
The Amanda Knox Case: A High-interest Project on Bias in the Media
The purpose of this high-interest project is to analyze how bias in the media can shape and affect our perceptions of truth and reality by observing this influence in a criminal case... that of Amanda Knox.Learning ObjectivesTo identify examples of bias in the mediaTo annotate news articles for biasTo compile evidence to support an argumentTo make observations about the impact of bias on our beliefsThe CaseAmanda Knox was an American student who was studying abroad in Italy in 2007 when her Brit
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Choice Novel Project - An Independent Novel Study
Do you need to assign choice novels to your students, but want to hold them accountable for their reading? Try this Choice Novel Project - a complete independent novel study that works with any novel!The project includes:Comprehension & Analysis ActivitiesPre-Reading, During Reading, and Post Reading AssignmentsScaffolds that build to higher-level thinkingChoice AssessmentsAssignment Pacing OrganizerThis independent project is designed for grades 6-12 and could be easily adapted to work with
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6th - 12th
Gender Roles Unit AP Language High School English 11th 12th BIGGER THAN EVER!
This huge unit is now even more massive! A compendium of canonical and modern gender-focused texts that span many perspectives, time periods, and arguments.Original questions and prompts for writing and discussion PLUSEngaging and creative critical thinking tasks EQUALS Weeks and weeks of fun and challenging content and activities.This unit is designed for AP English Language and Composition course, but is easily suitable to upper-level high school English classes, as well.OVER 25 TEXTS! OVER 80
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Romeo and Juliet: Act 5 Funeral Project
Get your students engaged in the ending (Act 5) of the play Romeo and Juliet by allowing them to plan a funeral for their favorite characters! Students will complete a culminating group project in which they explore character, plot, conflict, theme, symbolism and mood while playing the role of funeral director. What You Get:Teacher scope and sequence and suggested funeral setupAn overview of the funeral preparations which follow the 5 stages of griefA slideshow that details each day of work as w
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Romeo and Juliet: Acts 4-5 Activities Bundle
Othello Unit Plan and Enrichment Activities
Did Othello and Desdemona ever stand a chance as an inter-racial couple? Were they “star-cross’d,” like Romeo and Juliet? If not, what circumstances doomed their love? Students will wrestle with these and many other questions in their study of Othello, the Moor of Venice. The focus of this unit plan and enrichment activities resource is on close textual analysis for upper level (grades 11-12) students. However, like all of Shakespeare’s plays, Othello was meant to be performed before an audience
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10th - 12th
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Solar System Activities | Project Based Learning Solar System Unit
Using this interactive Project Based Learning Solar System Unit, you will guide your students into learning about the phases of the moon, role of the moon, the moon's orbit, role of the sun, the size of the sun compared to other objects in the solar system, the sun's shadows and the effects of sunrise and sunset. It is complete with a final project for students to use the information they have learned about. This unit has everything you need to teach about the solar system. It is a complete unit
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1st - 2nd
Also included in:Â Project Based Learning Curriculum 1st Grade PBL Activities
Rhetorical Analysis Speech Project - Rhetorical Devices, Appeals, Rhetoric
Looking an engaging rhetorical analysis activity for your high school or advanced middle school students to review and refine their rhetoric skills? This Rhetorical Analysis Speech Project is the perfect finale to any rhetorical analysis unit, offering opportunities for student choice, creativity, critical thinking, and in-depth analysis. With this rhetorical analysis project, your secondary ELA students will choose from a wide range of carefully selected historic speeches, then complete a varie
Grades:
8th - 12th
American Civil War Escape Room Activity Bundle | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
Four individual Escape Room activities about the following different figures, areas or periods of the American Civil War: Abraham LincolnAn Overview of the Civil WarThe Battle of GettysburgThe End of the War & the Assassination of Abraham LincolnIdeal for fifth grade or sixth grade, the breakout room activities are perfect for group work, starting a new history topic, team-building activities or for fun, engaging and interactive lessons. The activities can be used in English also as they inc
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5th - 6th
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Abraham Lincoln : The Gettysburg Address Project
Give meaning and excitement to Abraham Lincoln’s legacy with this Gettysburg Address Project. As your students learn about this United States President or the Civil War with the included article and close read, they will analyze the words and meaning of the Gettysburg Address, practice the speech together, manipulate puzzle pieces to learn the speech sequence and meaning, and recite the speech individually using the scoring sheet (if you choose).•Begin with the included article about Abraham Lin
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2nd - 5th
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Ancient History Escape Room Mega Bundles | Volume 1 & Volume 2 | 5th & 6th Grade
32 individual Ancient History Escape Room activities about famous figures or periods from Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Persia, Ancient India, the Ancient Hebrews and Ancient China.The following Escape Room Activities are included: An Overview of Ancient EgyptCleopatraTutankhamunRamesses IIAn Overview of Ancient RomeJulius CaesarAugustusSpartacusAn Overview of Ancient GreeceAlexander the GreatAristotleSocratesAn Overview of Ancient MesopotamiaEpic of G
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5th - 6th
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Narrative Nonfiction & Memoir Unit ELA Short Story & Memoir Analysis Activities
Together, these diverse materials create a 5-6 week unit that thoroughly covers the memoir and narrative nonfiction genre. First, students will work closely with two iconic paired short texts - "Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf and "Death of A Moth" by Annie Dillard. Not only will they analyze each story in length, but they will discuss their similarities and differences - which obviously go much deeper than their titles! Then, they can dive into any full-length memoir of your choosing, usin
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9th - 12th
Word Problems Censorship 2020 AP Language Rhetorical Analysis Rubric Journalism
In this extensive and engaging unit, students will explore the idea of freedom of speech (and censorship) in the past and present United States. By reading and analyzing numerous articles, an image, and two anchor texts, Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" and George Carlin's "Parental Advisory", students will explore and defend opinions about free speech and censorship. In a summative assessment, students will write a speech assuming the voice of Carlin or Henry. This unit was ta
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ghost by Jason Reynolds, Novel Study Bundle, Google Slides & Activities
Engage your students with rigor, technology and creativity when you use activities in this bundle of student-centered resources for Jason Reynolds's novel, Ghost. Designed with Common Core standards, best teaching practices and student centered learning in mind, these activities will free up your valuable prep time to concentrate on what you do best - TEACHING KIDS! Resources incorporate literary elements and writing in student-friendly platforms, so students stay engaged and LEARN! Since these
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Middle Ages Escape Room Activity Bundle | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
Four individual Escape Room activities about the following famous figures or key periods from the Middle Ages: CharlemagneWilliam the ConquerorJoan of ArcThe RenaissanceIdeal for fifth grade or sixth grade, the activities are perfect for group work, starting a Middle Ages topic, team-building activities or for fun, engaging and interactive lessons. The activities can be used in English also as they incorporate some ELA skills, or in Social Studies.Each activity has been split into four different
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5th - 6th
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World War 2 Volume I Escape Room Activity Bundle | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
Four individual Escape Room activities about the following different areas or periods of World War II: The Outbreak of the Second World WarAn Overview of World War IIThe Blitz on BritainDunkirk & the Battle of BritainIdeal for fifth grade or sixth grade, the activities are perfect for group work, starting a new history topic, team-building activities or for fun, engaging and interactive lessons. The activities can be used in English also as they incorporate some ELA skills, or in Social Stud
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5th - 6th
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A Mango-Shaped Space Complete Novel Unit
Novel Unit includes Worksheet Assignments and Project for the novel A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass. Great for hybrid/online learning and Google Classroom! 12 Student Version Worksheets by Chapter12 Worksheet Answer Keys1 Project Guidelines Sheet3 Real Project Student Samples I taught this in my class of 7th graders in fall 2020 all virtual learning, and it worked so well! Usually I would make worksheets with more pictures, graphs, and charts... but I found that students struggled with the fo
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Novel Bundle
Ancient Civilizations Escape Room Activity Bundle Volume 1 | 5th & 6th Grade
Four individual Escape Room activities about the following four key civilizatons from ancient history: Ancient RomeAncient EgyptAncient GreeceAncient MesopotamiaIdeal for fifth grade or sixth grade, the activities are perfect for group work, starting a new ancient history topic, team-building activities or for fun, engaging and interactive lessons. The activities can be used in English also as they incorporate some ELA skills, or in Social Studies.Each activity has been split into four different
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5th - 6th
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Ancient Civilizations Escape Room Activity Bundle Volume 2 | 5th & 6th Grade
Four individual Escape Room activities about the following four key civilizatons from ancient history: Ancient IndiaAncient ChinaAncient PersiaAncient HebrewsIdeal for fifth grade or sixth grade, the activities are perfect for group work, starting a new ancient history topic, team-building activities or for fun, engaging and interactive lessons. The activities can be used in English also as they incorporate some ELA skills, or in Social Studies.Each activity has been split into four different ta
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5th - 6th
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Aztec Empire Escape Room Activity Bundle | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
Four individual Aztec Empire Escape Room activities about the following famous figures or periods from history: Aztec Empire OverviewReligion in the Aztec EmpireMoctezuma IIHernán CortésIdeal for fifth grade or sixth grade, the activities are perfect for group work, starting a new ancient history topic, team-building activities or for fun, engaging and interactive lessons. The activities can be used in English also as they incorporate some ELA skills, or in Social Studies.Each activity has been
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5th - 6th
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