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A Modest Proposal Satire Study: Fun Lesson Plan + Teaching Satire with Examples
Make A Modest Proposal relevant and fun with this engaging satire study! Not only will students better comprehend the challenging text, but they will also be equipped to write their own mini modest proposal for a issue or injustice they the care about in today's world. Whether you are teaching A Modest Proposal digitally or in print, this satire unit will have you covered!You will get:⭐ The full text of A Modest Proposal in a guided reading format⭐15 questions and active reading tasks for A Mode
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Giving instructions GREAT FIRST DAY ACTIVITY TEAMWORK LEADERSHIP
This activity demonstrates the difficulties that arise when a medical professional or other professional must give instructions verbally without the assistance of anything in writing. This is an essential ability in the medical field or any field that requires relaying of instructions or orders. health science, medical, anatomy, communication disorders, speech therapy, homeschool, high school, middle school, medical terminology, pharmacology, leadership, teamwork, first day, icebreakers, intro
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Discussion Guide
This speech analysis discussion guide highlights the rhetorical devices used by King with margin annotations and correlating color coded lines underlined in the text. I use this key to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading). Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Dangers of Energy Drinks
This informational text lesson on the dangers of energy drinks is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension! With eight specific standards-based questions and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Student Experience: Students will read the high-interest, engaging article about the dangers of energy drinks. Then, students will truly dig into and respond to that text. Last, students will write a short a
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
30 MENTOR SENTENCES with Writing Revision for GOOGLE SLIDES
This product is an EDITABLE POWER POINT PRESENTATION that contains 30 MENTOR SENTENCES from famous classic writers to model key literary terms, rhetorical devices, and syntactical structures for students.For each sentence, students are to:1. Copy the sentence.2. Make observations about the sentence.3. Imitate the sentence.4. Learn about literary devices.5. Answer questions about how the devices are used for rhetorical and literary effect.6. Revise an essay with a new sentence modeled after
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Bell-Ringers & Mentor Sentences: A Bundle for the Beginning of Class
Bell-Ringers & Mentor Sentences: A Bundle for the Beginning of Class
Product #1: Bell-Ringers for the ENTIRE YEARThis bundle of EDITABLE bell-ringers for the entire school year contains 40 weeks worth of prompts (323 SLIDES)!Each day of the week is assigned to a specific type of prompt to challenge students with various skills tasks. Here is the weekly key of prompts in this bundle:Mondays = Vocabulary TasksTuesdays = Debate TopicsWednesday = Mentor SentencesThursday = Literary Analysis ActivitiesFridays = Creative Writing PromptsUse these bell-ringers at the be
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Paraphrasing Practice Task Cards
60 Inspirational Quotes to practice paraphrasing every day! Task cards, PowerPoint slides, Google slides and answer key included. Perfect for distance learning!Perfect English bell ringer or task card activity for middle or high school students to strengthen reading comprehension, analysis, and paraphrase skills for CCSS-aligned reading and writing standards. Don't stress about creating engaging English Bell Ringers or Reading & Writing Activities to strengthen comprehension. Use these 60 in
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: English Bell Ringers for Middle School and High School
King Lear Complete Unit Plan
This extensive 277 page unit plan for King Lear is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the play. Our King Lear unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Shakespeare’s craft and encourage them to w
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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By the Waters of Babylon Short Story Unit Distance Learning
By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet Complete Short Story Unit {Standards Based} *Use this is Google Classroom!* All of the student handouts and assessments are EDITABLE and SHAREABLE Online in Google Docs and Google Forms. Perfect for a 1:1 school and for distance or remote learning!This is one of my most comprehensive short story units. It includes: - By the Waters of Babylon Introduction Presentation: 30+ page introduction about the author, narrator/point-of-view, dramatic irony,
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jen W.
The Canterbury Tales BUNDLE: The Pardoner's Tale & The Wife of Bath's Tale
Save with this lesson pack bundle that includes everything you need to help your students closely read and analyze "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, translated by Nevill Coghill.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
English Bell Ringers for Middle School and High School
No Prep English Bell Ringers for the entire year! Students paraphrase 180 inspirational quotes to strengthen reading comprehension, analysis, and paraphrase skills for common-core-aligned reading and writing standards. Task cards, PowerPoint slides, Google slides and answer key included. Perfect for distance learning!3 products for the price of 2!PRODUCT INCLUDES:180 Task Cards 180 Powerpoint Slides Google Drive link (Google slides) for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activityAnswe
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Reading Circles: LITERATURE / FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading/Literature Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class book, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a piece of literature (a novel or short story) to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
BANK ROBBERY MYSTERY - WHODUNNIT - IN-PERSON AND DISTANCE LEARNING
ABOUT THE GAMEThis is a simplistic and controlled whodunnit mystery. Union Bank was robbed and now students need to look at evidence and interviews and decide who is guilty.Almost every single thing in this file is editable. Sp you can adjust the language/cultural references as necessary. The lesson also works great as a debate class, as at each step you can have students discuss who they think is guilty and why. However, this is also great for any other language skill you might like to practice
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Biography PowerPoint Project
Students create a PowerPoint presentation based on a person who has contributed something to society or to history. This is a beginning project for high school or middle school students. The lesson lays out what should be included on each slide. There is a rubric for grading the project as well.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
AP Language The Great Gatsby Unit
This unit is designed with AP Language students in mind, which means there is focus on nonfiction ideas and supporting texts. With The Great Gatsby, students focus on the themes of materialism and class with additional nonfiction texts supporting the exploration of these themes. In addition, The Great Gatsby offers an excellent opportunity to analyze figurative language, so slides on new figurative language terms are also provided. This unit, therefore, can help students practice close reading
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Notice and Note - Signpost Picture Book Lists, PPT and Activities
This product supports the strategies outlined in the text Notice and Note - Strategies for Close Reading, written by Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst.
Research has indicated that when a reader pays attention to the particular signals or “signposts” provided by the author within literary texts, depth of understanding and personal engagement with texts can increase.
This EDITABLE resource includes:
*A 27 page Ppt presentation that introduces and explains each signpost, has
activities for
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Hamlet: Complete Unit Plan
This extensive 240 page unit plan for Hamlet is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the play. Our Hamlet unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Shakespeare’s craft and encourage them to write t
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Reading is Good for Your Brain
This mini lesson on the benefits of reading is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills. With five specific common core text-based questions, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Includes:-Formal lesson plan-Super simple sub sheet-Standards links-Link to article-Idea for starter-Short answer questions and answers- Argumentative Prompt-100% EditableClassroom success stories from other teachers who have tried this resource:♥ "Love this - a perfect les
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Describing your location - ESL adult and kid conversation lesson
YOU CAN FIND A VIDEO SAMPLE OF THIS LESSON: Click here This presentation contains a 71 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a vocabulary handout and Teacher’s notes.Descriptions of locations are becoming more and more difficult (not only for ESL), because we have learnt to rely completely on a GPS. We can’t read maps anymore and we have a tough time for giving directions to a specific location, if we can’t “share the GPS location on our phone”.In this lesson, I’ve tried to collect
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: learning to describe - bundle for ESL, EFL, ELL adult conversation
Wuthering Heights Novel Pack
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is an astounding novel with a circular narrative, characters who are doubled and named after each other, and a heroine who doesn’t make it to the end of the story. At the center is Heathcliff. Heathcliff rocks the patriarchy. He's evil. He's dirty. He's dead sexy. The novel is supposed to be mean and dirty and rough. None of the characters are likeable. That's part of what makes it so unique. It also takes all the ideas the Romantics were so fond of—isolation, r
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Literary Theory and Criticism 8-Lesson PowerPoint Presentation Bundle
After many requests, I have bundled some of the most popular resources in my store.Now, you can purchase eight vibrant and culturally-relevant PowerPoint Presentations and a Literary Theory and Criticism Handout at cost savings.The bundle includes a PowerPoint Lesson for each of the following:1. Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism2. Formalism3. Psychoanalytic4. Archetypal5. Marxist6. Feminist7. Reader Response8. Critical Race Theory (CRT)I hope you enjoy teaching these Literary Theory
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
TALK FOR A MINUTE - LEVEL 1 - EFL/ESL Speaking Practice)
BETTER THAN FLASHCARDS!This Powerpoint activity makes speaking practice more fun!How do you play this game?: Students get to choose a number cloud leading them to an unknown topic in which they need to talk about for one minute. (A one minute timer is included in the PowerPoint slides, just click the "Start" button or the screen to activate it.) Who can play this game?: Anyone can play, however it is best suited for Elementary - Intermediate level EFL/ESL students. This game can be played in pai
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Reading Quizzes for ALL CHAPTERS of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (Google Docs)
This is a complete set of reading quizzes for all 24 chapters of Frankenstein.Teachers all know that few kids read assigned material unless they’re given reading quizzes. I want them to read, so I regularly use reading quizzes to make sure the reading happens. I always try to make my reading quizzes "Sparknotes-proof," so just reading summaries wouldn't be enough to pass these quizzes.These quizzes are divided into three reading sections: Letters - Ch. 8, Ch. 9-16, and Ch. 17-24.There are 8-10
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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