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7th grade Common Core RL.11-12.2 research
Transcendentalism and American Romantic Poetry Webquest
This Google Slides Webquest is provides an opportunity for groups or individuals with a mini-research component, as well as excerpts from Walden, Self-Reliance, and poetry from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Also included is a creative writing final assessment project related to either Transcendentalism or American Romantic Poetry. Three expository writing prompts are also included with the poetry. This assignment is intended to engage students with challenging topics and literary works throu
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature: Transcendentalism, Poetry, and Short Stories
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer Research Project for Google Drive
Facilitate the process of investigating relevant topics, documenting information gathered, and delivering formal speeches with this low-prep, standards-based research project to complement Susan Beth Pfeffer's dystopian novel The Dead and the Gone, the sequel to Life As We Knew It. The focus of the project is natural and human-influenced disasters, covering twenty topics including the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the flu pandemic of 1918, the tri-state tornado outbreak of 1925, the Fukushi
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6th - 12th
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Interdisciplinary Research Presentation Project
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Interdisciplinary Research Presentation Project: This resource includes 11 pages that are the perfect, no-prep way to have your students research deep and meaningful connections between themes from the play and historical events. This Common Core Aligned resource will guide your students to connect themes of power and corruption in Macbeth to examples from history of political insurgencies or corporate corruption scandals. They will then design and present slides o
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7th - 12th
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Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Research Project for Google Drive
Promote student choice and facilitate the process of researching scientific and societally significant topics from beginning to end with this low-prep, standards-based resource pertaining to the novel Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Students will choose from more than a dozen topics—Yellowstone's supervolcano, Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, and nuclear disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima to name a few—and navigate academically appropriate sources with the goal of
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6th - 12th
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" Worksheet, Test, or Homework and Detailed Answer Key
knowledge of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as they complete this worksheet! This "star" of a handout offers a series of critical-thinking questions about America's national anthem and incorporates literary terminology to provide readers with a full understanding of one of this country's most famous songs. A copy of the lyrics and a detailed answer key are included.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Characters Real-World Connection and Research Prompts
Looking for an enrichment activity to provide students with extra challenge and depth in your lit elements unit? Use these prompts to have students choose a short assignment that takes their practice with analyzing characters to the next level! 8 different prompts have students think about characters in 4 different ways: characters in other media, characters relating to real life, more complicated elements of developing characters across literature, and connections to literary characters in scie
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Identifying and Analyzing Characters Intervention and Enrichment BUNDLE
Theme Real-World Connection and Research Prompts
Looking for an enrichment activity to provide students with extra challenge and depth in your theme unit? Use these prompts to have students choose a short assignment that takes their practice with theme to the next level! 8 different prompts have students think about theme in 4 different ways: theme in other media, theme in real life, more complicated elements of theme across literature, and connections to theme in science and social studies content.Check out the Theme Intervention and Enrichme
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Identifying and Analyzing Theme Intervention and Enrichment BUNDLE
Plot Real-World Connection and Research Prompts
Looking for an enrichment activity to provide students with extra challenge and depth in your lit elements unit? Use these prompts to have students choose a short assignment that takes their practice with analyzing plot to the next level! 8 different prompts have students think about plot in 4 different ways: plot in other media, plot relating to real life, more complicated elements of plot across literature, and connections to literary plots in science and social studies content.Check out the P
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Identifying and Analyzing Plot Intervention and Enrichment BUNDLE
Setting Real-World Connection and Research Prompts
Looking for an enrichment activity to provide students with extra challenge and depth in your lit elements unit? Use these prompts to have students choose a short assignment that takes their practice with analyzing setting to the next level! 8 different prompts have students think about setting in 4 different ways: setting in other media, setting relating to real life, more complicated elements of setting across literature, and connections to literary settings in science and social studies conte
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Identifying Literary Elements Intervention and Enrichment BUNDLE
Current Event - Text-to-Text/World - Social Justice
This worksheet is a half-sheet that can be a wonderful, casual introduction/review of research/finding articles. Additionally, this could be used as a regular assignment for increasing text-to-text and text-to-world connections. These questions guide the student to thematically connect a text they are reading to the topic they research and then summarize their learning from the non-fiction reading. Because of the necessary non-fiction reading for this worksheet, you might use this to diversify y
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Harlem Renaissance Artistic Project
Looking to ENGAGE students with a focused research project that promotes higher level thinking and allows for artistic expression? Outside-the-box thinkers will love tackling this project. Force the students to critically think and make connections between the Harlem Renaissance and today. Download once - make copies to your hearts content! I just think it's a cool 2+ day lesson that's fun, engaging, and allows for something other than lecture.
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7th - 12th
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