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Close reading Common Core W.9-10.1b resources for Microsoft Word
Jamaica Kincaid's ANNIE JOHN (+ the story "Girl") | 3 Weeks of EDITABLE Lessons!
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 80-page EDITABLE unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. Invite your students to engage in student-driven discussions that promise to be profoundly stimulating! The discussion prompts, daily quizzes, short writing prompts, and final paper will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! Hold your students
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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Born A Crime: Close Reading and Writing Activities
Digital Learning Friendly ActivitiesEasily uploaded to online learning platforms. Word doc. for easy editing.Close reading and writing activities for Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. These activities provide the opportunity to take advantage of the popularity and appeal of Noah's story especially with the self-proclaimed "non-readers." The activities provide opportunities for students to read closely and analyze the moves of a writer to write their own narratives. Reproducibles Include:Chapter by Cha
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9th - 12th
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Complete English 1 (Freshmen Curriculum) with 9 unit plans
This 9th-grade unit plan includes nine complete unit plans on research writing, short stories, poetry, memoirs, epics, and novellas. It includes a pacing guide, details on the skills focused on each unit, and a list of texts and materials needed for each unit. This standard-based curriculum uses the Common Core Standards, Student Learning Objectives, Enduring Understandings, and Essential Questions. If you are looking for a skills-based curriculum for a 9th-grade English class, this is it. This
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9th - 10th
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.
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7th - 12th
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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Brief introduction to Chicano History and Gangs
Materials for a basic introduction to Chicano History including Pocho's Progress vocabulary and text, I am Joaquin study, discussion and essay, historical speech assignment with rubric, and gang unit including discussion and essay assignments.
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9th - 12th
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Odyssey Bundle - Anticipation Guide, Blame Chart, Poetry & Character Analysis
One of the greatest challenges of teaching a classic work like The Odyssey is maintaining student engagement from start to finish. By providing a variety of multi-modal activities and real-world skills applications, you will keep students focused on the important aspects of Homer's epic poem as they read. Start strong with the anticipation guide and finish stronger with Another Odyssey character analysis. Students enjoy deciding Odysseus' fate for another journey. Finally, revisit the Anticipati
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8th - 12th
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How To Write a Literary Analysis Body Paragraph
This is gold. It's an acronym I came up with ten years ago to teach the necessary parts of a clear and persuasive body paragraph. Our entire department uses this, and students come back from college to thank us for it. This is funny, because it's really simple. I did not invent the body paragraph, but I did come up with this nifty little mnemonic device.
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7th - 12th
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"The Freedom Writer's Diary" Unit
This is a document with questions that align to sections of the novel. Use the questions for discussion, Socratic Seminar, Journal Entries, blogging assignments, creative writing, and so much more!
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9th - 11th
Of Mice and Men Unit Plan
This is a thorough and well tested guide for John Steinbeck's classic novel, Of Mice and Men. It includes details on side projects, research assignments, and group analysis, as well as including a guide on working through the content of the novel! Make your planning simple and streamlined, and grab a copy of this unit plan today!
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9th - 12th
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Body Biography Character Analysis (with Writing)
Body bios are a fantastic way to get students thinking about characters, symbolism, and in general on extended non-literal/figurative ways of thinking. It asks students to represent each part of a character with a symbol, shown both pictorially and through an analytical paragraph.Assignment contains detailed instructions and suggestions for thinking.A great creative project mixed in with serious writing. Can also easily include presentations.File is a fully editable Microsoft Word document.
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9th - 12th
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Of Mice and Men Characterization and Writing
Implement as part of your Of Mice and Men unit or as a standalone assignment. The goal is to have students read a two page excerpt from John Steinbeck's novella and discuss what the character's interactions reveal about humanity as a whole before writing a more specific short essay showing how Steinbeck uses dialogue and description for character development. The four page packet includes:full text formatted for annotationone pager assignment sheetconstructed response/ short essay rubricPerfect
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8th - 11th
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" Writing Assignment
After reading "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, students will examine Mary's guilt or innocence by using textual evidence and inference. A writing prompt is given, as well as legal information to help form a verdict. Note: After completing this assignment, students can be asked to hold a "mock trial."
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9th - 11th
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Odyssey Reading and Annotation Guide version 2
This unit outline contains:culminating essay promptannotation guidereading scheduleassessment dates + assessment tasksbackground for reading with a feminist lens
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Teaching the Odyssey with a Feminist Lens
Antigone Rhetorical Analysis Extended Responses (Prompts ONLY)
This is a comprehensive list of rhetorical analysis prompts that can be used throughout Antigone. No rubric is included.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"A Sound of Thunder": Reading Response
This is a reading response to "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.
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6th - 12th
EOC Prep- Writing a Counter Argument!
Simple and effective way to practice and review how to write a counter argument!
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7th - 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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