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Close reading Common Core W.8.1 resources for Microsoft Word
Argumentative Essay Exemplar Analysis and Critique!
This is a great lesson for students to complete before crafting their argumentative essays. It provides a 5-paragraph argumentative essay and analysis sheet. The essay attempts to persuade the audiece that tea is better than coffee and includes an introduction, 2 body paragraphs, a counterclaim and conclusion. Students will read the essay and answer the analysis sheet which asks 11+ questions about the content and structure of the essay. I hope your students learn a lot about the parts of th
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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200+ Chapter questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
200+ Chapter questions for every last chapter of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Most questions grouped into two chapter bundles. Assign two chapters for reading, assign the questions either for homework, classwork (great sub plan!) or for an academic discourse activity (fewer papers to grade!) With this purchase you get every single well thought-out question.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Common Core Argumentative Essay Boot Camp Survival Guide (33 pages, editable)
Whether you're prepping your students for a rigorous state exam or teaching an argumentative writing unit for 3-4 weeks, this 33-page fully editable Survival Guide for the Common Core Argumentative Essay is packed with proven strategies, methods, organizers, models and checklists that will lead both you and your students through every step of the argumentative writing process.
The many resources will make teaching the argument a stress-free breeze. ALL the work is DONE for you! Ideal for high
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Argumentative Writing and Creative Problem Solving Lesson Plan
This lesson uses the conflicting texts "Ban the Ban! Soda's a Problem but..." and "Three Cheers for the Nanny State". Students will read the texts and engage in a creative problem solving discussion in which they identify the central ideas or problems that the author's identify. They then analyze the solutions to those problems and evaluate which solutions will be the most effective. The culminating assignment is an argumentative writing assignment. This is about 3-5 days of lessons.
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8th, Staff
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Waters of Gold
Waters of Gold is the perfect introduction to figurative language and imagery as it adds to style and authorial intent!As an introduction to character development, read slowly in small cooperative groups. The full text document is formatted with marginal questions and vocabulary words for independent reading. For my teaching style, it allows me to individualize the reading.To encourage notetaking, I have built a Cornell notes sheet to be printed right into the packet. AND, a fully completed note
Grades:
7th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Six Short Stories For Middle School - Full Text included
Analyzing a Sonnet: "The New Colossus" Printable Lesson
This printable lesson facilitates teaching the analysis of the poem "The New Colossus." A companion PPT is also available; however, the printable lesson can be used alone if you do not want the PPT."The New Colossus" is a well-known poem that can be used to teach multiple standards, including analysis of the author's craft in a sonnet, of diction and imagery, as well as meter and rhyme scheme in a sonnet.This lesson focuses on author's craft: the structure of a sonnet, with the differing purpose
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8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Analyzing a Sonnet: "The New Colossus" Complete Bundle
Out of the Dust Essay Questions
This can be a culminating assessment for Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust. Students are presented several essay questions and are asked to respond in a well-formed paragraph. I suggest using the R-estate A-nswer C-ite evidence E-xplain D-emonstrate good writing traits format (a spinoff of ACE in Math), but the 8-sentence paragraph (or any other) format works just as well.
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6th - 8th
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Close Read: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Whenever introducing students to Poe, the Tell-Tale Heart is a perfect place to begin. The ultimate goal of this Close Read is for students to decide whether the narrator is truly mad. Should he be found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, or is he a cold-blooded calculated killer that should be found Guilty of 1st Degree Murder? The discussions that students will have on those questions will prepare them for a variety of culminating activities, such as: Socratic Seminar, Mock Trial, and/or a Lite
Grades:
8th
Also included in:Â Poe Unit - The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Black Cat
Dialogue and Characterization
Authors reveal information about their characters through dialogue. Students will use this graphic organizer to analyze dialogue between characters. The purpose of this lesson is for students to utilize the literary technique of dialogue in order to characterize. From there, they can make inferences about the characters in the text as well as make sense of meaningful quotes. This can be used as a group-work activity in which students collaborate to analyze characters through dialogue. This works
Grades:
6th - 12th
Editable Argument Analysis Worksheet
Teaching argumentative writing? This is a great editable resource that will help students analyze and organize an argument. This can be used to plan their own essay or to analyze a text written by someone else! This resource provides a great visual to students and facilitates understanding of the art of argument.
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Outsiders Packet
These questions connect directly to CA common core standards. Activities and questions are provided for each chapter.
Grades:
7th - 9th
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Primary Source Close Reading - Christopher Columbus Letters
This primary source activity asks students to critically read Chrisopher Columbus' letter detailing his first voyage and an account by Bartolome de las Casas depicting the bloody result of the Europeans', and specifically Columbus', appropriation of the island he called "Hispaniola."
This activity would fit well within a unit on the Age of Exploration or a study of colonialism. This version is ideal for 7th and 8th graders because the excerpts are highly abridged and I have simplified the ques
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7th - 10th
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Argument Analysis - DIGITAL worksheet
Teaching argumentative writing? This is a great DIGITAL resource that will help students analyze and organize an argument. This can be used to plan their own essay or to analyze a text written by someone else! This resource provides a great visual to students and facilitates understanding of the art of argument. This resource is intended for digital use only, please check my other product listings for the PDF and/or editable version of this resource.
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Circuit Bundle
This is an activity that allows students to work together. It is focused around the short story "The Circuit." It can be incorporated in a unit of similar themes, characters, or stories. The story is included. I used this as a pre-reading exercise. I have students to complete the questions before reading the story. There is a word search with key at end of lesson - this is usually how I start the lesson. The key to the word search also includes definitions. The activity could take 1-3 days
Grades:
6th - 8th
Quote Sandwich
You can use this worksheet for any assignment that you are asking students to provide evidence on. I use it in both a short story unit, as well as argument writing. Here is the typical quote sandwich breakdown that I use in my classroom:
Top bun: restate question or introduce quote by giving context.
Middle/ meat: The juicy evidence
Bottom bun: explaining how this specific piece of evidence proves their point
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6th - 12th
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Murder at Inverness Police Report
Duncan's been murdered, and there are two main suspects. Have your students decide who really is guilty of the deed- Macbeth or Lady Macbeth? This unique take on citing textual evidence to support a claim will have your students close reading Shakespeare AND having fun. Most appropriate for grades 7-12. Can be customized to fit different stories.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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