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11th grade informational text Common Core CCRA.L.2 resources
Rhetorical Analysis Unit Bundle - Appeals & Devices, High School Rhetoric Unit
Looking for a no-prep rhetoric unit that contains engaging, relevant, and rigorous materials? Fortunately, this 5-6 week Rhetorical Analysis Unit Bundle represents 21st Century learning at its best! Students will participate in a variety of analysis activities: from analyzing historical speeches and viewing modern advertisements to watching and analyzing movie speeches aimed to motivate and inspire audiences around the globe. Then, when students have mastered how to evaluate rhetorical strategie
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9th - 12th
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Famous Love Letters: A Close Reading & Creative Lesson for Valentine's Day
This lesson by Bespoke ELA is a great lesson to use in February to celebrate Valentine's Day in a unique and creative way that is sure to engage students!Task:To analyze how famous love letters use language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery to convey a message about love.Enduring Understandings:Students will understand how language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery affect a letter's meaning.Students will learn about famous people from history through the lens of their rel
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Lizzie Borden: Infamous Murder Case Nonfiction Unit, Tone, Bias, Persuasion
Lizzie Borden was tried and ultimately acquitted for the MURDER of her PARENTS in the 1890s. The trial was controversial. How could a WOMAN possibly hack her parents to death and why? How could this have happened while she was HOME if she didn't do it? In this nonfiction unit, students will read articles about the case and then decide for themselves if they think Lizzie Borden is INNOCENT or GUILTY. If your students like this nonfiction unit, be sure to check out the Bespoke ELA activity on
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Games for Secondary ELA
This bundle of argument and rhetoric games for secondary ELA contains SEVEN unique games that target the skills of argumentation in a fun and high-interest format.The games included in this bundle are:Rhetorical Devices BINGO GameIn this game, students fill out BINGO cards with rhetorical devices, and they have to identify devices used in quotations read by the teacher. Five in row WINS the round! This game tests students' ability to identify rhetorical devices in texts.Would You Rather? Card
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Jack the Ripper: Tone & Bias in the Media Coverage of this Infamous Murder Case
Jack the Ripper. One of the most notorious serial killers of all time. And he was never caught. There are over 100 theories about his identity. If you're looking for a high-interest nonfiction topic to get your students interested in analyzing nonfiction, this is it! This activity has two parts. The first parts takes students through an exercise of identifying tone in a news article written about Jack the Ripper. There are four articles in this part of this lesson that all come from The L
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Infamous Criminals: A High-Interest Nonfiction Research Project
In this project, students will research the life of a famous criminal and compile a bibliographic research project to share with the class. The criminals included in this project range from fraudsters to gangsters and from pirates to drug lords. There are plenty of options here to captivate the interest of secondary students. After selecting a criminal, students will compile an annotated bibliography as they go through the research process while preparing to create their final projects. Stud
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9th - 12th
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Ultimate Media Literacy, Advertising, Fake News, & Confirmation Bias FULL UNIT
Updated for 2024!With so many messages aimed at teens today, it's important for them to understand how to learn the various ways in which advertisers target them. In this comprehensive media literacy unit, students will learn about media literacy, common rhetorical strategies, and have multiple opportunities to apply their learning to print and commercial advertisements. It's never been more important than ever to help students understand the differences between fake news, misinformation, click
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7th - 12th
Henrietta Lacks and Bioethics CER Research Project - Black History Month Project
Looking to spark amazing discussion and engage your students in real-world debate, all while learning an important figure in Black History? Help your students learn about Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and the property rights of biological materials with this bioethics research project. Students will gather information from text and video sources. Then they will craft an argumentative essay using the CER format.The lesson meets science, reading, and writing standards. Students begin with gathering
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8th - 11th
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News Writing - Studying the Newspaper & Writing a News Article: A Unit Plan
This complete, 3-week unit plan contains materials designed to teach students about journalism, newspapers, and news writing. This unit is a terrific way to connect to the Common Core Standards’ emphasis on informational and non-fiction reading and writing. The unit packet contains a daily breakdown of lessons, activities, worksheets, a quiz, as well as a project sheet and rubric to use for a final assessment in the unit.In this unit students read a variety of news articles to expose them to cur
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6th - 12th
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Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
ELA Grades 9-10 Quarter 3 Curriculum - 9 Weeks Rhetoric Unit, MLK, Argument Unit
Looking for a no-prep rhetorical analysis and argument writing quarter of instruction that contains engaging, relevant, and rigorous materials? Fortunately, this complete nine-week bundle, with a free daily calendar (click to download), represents 21st Century learning at its best! Students will participate in a variety of educational activities that range from analyzing prominent speeches and viewing real-world advertisements to watching and working with iconic movie speeches aimed to motivate
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9th - 12th
Journalism, Newspaper Feature Article Writing Full Unit
✨This attractive feature article unit curriculum is designed for any journalism teacher who wants to strengthen instruction on writing feature/people news stories. This collection of resources includes a variety of Powerpoints, class activities and a special section using Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tom Hallman’s piece “Boy Behind the Mask”. This complete 2-3 week unit plan includes detailed Powerpoints and high-interest examples, engaging activities, printables, examples, and a final assi
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9th - 12th
Also included in: MEGA Journalism Advisor Advanced Tool Kit--YEARLONG CURRICULUM!
Review Writing BUNDLE (Digital & Print)
Empower student choice, spark engagement and save with this fun Review Writing BUNDLE!Students follow the steps to produce and publish original, informative and rigorous reviews to ANY movie, TV series and/or video game.These versatile DIGITAL or PRINT scaffolds include exemplar tasks, editable rubrics, vocabulary lists and everything else students need to write awesome reviews.This bundle is the perfect companion to any persuasive or informational writing unit!Review writing is always a highlig
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6th - 12th
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Journalism-Newspaper Sports Writing Full Unit Plan
✨Don't miss this graphically appealing sports writing unit! Did you know that next to the Opinion section, the Sports section is the most read part of a newspaper? However, readers can find out the score long before they open our sports pages. So, how do we entice readers to read sports stories? This introductory sports writing unit is designed to keep kids engaged, while providing meaningful and thoughtful instruction for student success!Students experience: Students will create vivid moments o
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9th - 12th
Also included in: MEGA Journalism Advisor Advanced Tool Kit--YEARLONG CURRICULUM!
The Donner Party Tragedy-- A Nonfiction Research Synthesis Project
This nonfiction project is constructed much like the synthesis essay from the AP Language and Composition exam. Students are to get into groups and review each artifact, one-by-one, and compile facts about the Donner Party tragedy on their evidence logs. There are 11 artifacts in total. But before students dig into the artifacts, they will first listen to a podcast on the Donner-Reed Party to learn the basics of the tragedy. Students can either listen to this podcast episode inside or outside of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: THE Ultimate High-interest Halloween Bundle for Secondary ELA
Persuasive Writing Activity BUNDLE
If you want to build skills for persuasive or argumentative writing, this resource is for you. The activities are ready to use to engage your students as they learn the process they need to follow to fully explore an idea for persuasive or argumentative writing. Your students will also get multiple opportunities to read, view, write, speak, listen, and collaborate. During each activity your students will:Do an initial reflection on how they feel about the topicView videos that gives them more in
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8th - 11th
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Embedding & Citing Quotes Practice Activities
Students need lots of practice with embedding and citing quotations. These activities will provide them with the opportunity to do so, using quotes from pop culture, making the process more engaging for students.NOTE: this resource provides some short, engaging activities that will help students understand how to embed and cite quotations that they find in print and online sources; it is not a detailed look at all types of sources. If you want more detail check here. And if you need help teachin
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8th - 12th
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Argument in the real world: a PSA campaign with open letter and radio PSA
***Fully revamped 8/2020***In this partner/individual project, students create a PSA campaign - an open letter and a radio public service announcement - about a cause they care about. At the end, they present their cause, a summary of their letter, and their PSA to the class.This project is awesome for Common Core, as it covers a range of tasks including reading informational text, writing in different contexts, speaking and listening, and demonstrating an understanding of language!A Prezi intro
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7th - 12th
Embedding Quotes Model and Practice
There are two handouts with a total of FIVE exercises that scaffold the skill of embedding quotes into sentences. This is a vital skill for college and is tested on the PARCC as well as college entrance exams. The first handout explains how and why to embed source material and a model example; then it gives two exercises for students to practice integrating quotes in their own original sentences. The second handout focuses students furthering their skills by revising faulty or poorly embedded
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10th - 12th
Also included in: AP Language and Composition Rhetoric Bundle
ELA Grades 9-10 & 11-12 Multiple Prep Full Year Curriculum Yearlong ELA Courses
If you're like me, you are teaching two or more different high school English preps and are in need of multi-faceted resources that can solve your preparatory burdens! Fortunately, this jammed-packed value bundle, offered at over a 35% discount, contains enough materials for multiple ELA curriculum options. I personally use these materials to teach 10th grade ELA and 11th grade AP Language and Composition, but the materials are versatile and can be used in almost any high school English setting.
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9th - 12th
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Early America AP Language & Composition Rhetorical Analysis Rhetoric Unit Bundle
This comprehensive and rigorous bundle of rhetorical analysis resources provides AP Language & Composition students with an in-depth study of early American history and the invaluable texts that pervaded the time. Students will read a letter from Columbus in 1493, John Winthrop's "City Upon a Hill" sermon, Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech, and finally, the "Declaration of Independence," one of the foundational seminal documents that has shaped American philosophy and
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10th - 12th
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Digital Media Literacy Unit for High School - Print and Digital Versions
This unit is designed to help students develop critical thinking skills related to digital media. Students will learn digital media literacy vocabulary; examine media bias; examine examples of fake news; learn about satire; analyze various news articles for bias, and examine how word choice can show bias or objectivity. The unit includes the following:Introductory vocabulary activity (two versions with key)Media bias chart activity (with key) “Fake News Online” activity (with key)“Fake News
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9th - 12th
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Artificial Intelligence MEGA BUNDLE-16 ESL Reading Passages Comprehension
AI MAGAZINE (16 ARTICLES) : READING PASSAGES | COMPREHENSION DISCUSSION QUESTIONS | WRITING | NO PREP RESOURCE FOR ESL, EFL, ELA STUDENTSAre you looking for a way to make artificial intelligence exciting and accessible for teens? This AI magazine is the perfect tool, blending captivating articles with interactive reading comprehension activities, conversation questions, and creative writing tasks. Designed for ease and impact, it requires no prep and comes loaded with stunning photos and pre-r
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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