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Higher education close reading simulations
The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Crucible Introductory Activity: Salem Cold Case Mystery Activity
Perfect for introducing The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, this three-day activity is the Salem Witch Hunt edition to the popular Cold Case File game. It encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and inference skills. This introduction activity puts your students in the shoes of Arthur Miller when creating the drama The Crucible based on this mark on America's History. This innovative lesson puts students in the driver's seat of their learning. They will analyze 14 pieces of historically accurat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate: Templates, Rubric, Research, Slides
I developed the Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate after thinking carefully about relevance for my students. This debate answers a question I struggled with for years: How can I get my students to authentically engage with Shakespeare's language and how language exposes cultural/societal norms? The Hip-hop Shakespeare debate not only addresses student relevance, it also engages students with the cognitively demanding, novel task of defending a hip-hop artist as "the Shakespeare of our time" with a defen
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Teaching The Great Gatsby Starter Pack - Lessons, Historical Context, and More
This bundle gives you the following four products, all of which I have routinely used to start off a fun and interactive unit on The Great Gatsby and introduction to American Literature (in the 1920's): 1. An initial lesson (on Fitzgerald's use of language in the text). This lesson helps students see and understand the beauty of the author's language choices before diving into individual chapters.2. A comprehensive research party workshop activity that allows students to explore different rese
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby - Full Lesson (with Focus on Unreliable Narrators)
This product is a full lesson for teaching "Chapter 1" of The Great Gatsby: learning objective, opening activity, developmental questions, explicit teaching notes, workshop guidance, and a thorough breakdown of the events and key concepts in Chapter 1. Since students meet Nick Carraway in Chapter 1, the lesson focuses on the definition and role of an unreliable narrator. Moreover, the lesson models for students how to lead discussions on any chapter of The Great Gatsby (or any book for that m
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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GOOD THINKING: A Self-Improvement Approach to Getting Your Mind to
Huh? Hmm. Aha! GOOD THINKING, from high school English chair and Hunter College instructor Robert Eidelberg, is 14 chapters of interactive and mindful college-ready self-improvement from Binder Books / Books With a Built-In Teacher. GOOD THINKING (the ultimate compliment to a student of all life's "classrooms") is engaging (in all senses of the word) and essential foundation preparation for anyone planning on starting and succeeding in college in the next year or two. Thoughtful and thought
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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