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11th grade informational text Common Core CCRA.W.7 resources
The Crucible Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Movie Guide, Test
You don't need a wand to engage students with The Crucible, but a touch of inspiration can certainly work its magic! This complete and editable Crucible unit plan will help you add theatrical fun, historical intrigue, modern connections, and academic rigor to your Crucible lesson plans. Each act contains interactive notes and engaging activities to help bring this play bubbling to life!Are you ready to engage students with meaningful and fun activities for teaching The Crucible? Hop on your broo
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Serial Podcast Season One Unit Plan: True Crime Lesson Plans, AP ELA Activities
Serial Podcast Season One by Sarah Koenig is a fantastic way to teach literary nonfiction, rhetoric, bias, and the power of storytelling. This podcast is so engaging that even your most reluctant students will be enthralled with the true crime content! This Serial unit plan will provide you with literary nonfiction activities that help students analyze the production of the podcast, discuss bias from multiple angles, examine rhetoric from a real-world perspective, and so much more. All of these
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rhetoric Unit Bundle– Devices, Appeals, Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis Unit
Strengthen the rhetorical analysis and argumentation skills of your high school and advanced middle school students by helping them learn, identify, analyze and practice rhetorical strategies—both rhetorical appeals and rhetorical devices—AND have them apply what they’ve learned using Martin Luther King’ Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” along with a host of other historical speeches and seminal U.S. texts. This 150+ page engaging and academically rigorous rhetorical analysis bundle--now provi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
British Literature Time Period Introductions : British Literature Activities
Never worry about how to start a British Literature unit again! These succinct British literature time period introductions are designed to help you deliver simple context before diving into your British literature unit of study. Each time period includes a paragraph about the history, context of literature, and culture of the time. Anyone who knows history knows that it's impossible to cover everything before beginning a unit, but these summaries provide an essential overview.You will get: ⭐T
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9th - 12th
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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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Urban Legends Nonfiction Reading Passages & Questions (Printable & Digital)
30 urban legends and myths informational texts, reading comprehension and analysis handouts, writing prompts (persuasive, expository, creative/narrative) and graphic organizers (Printable & Digital) - NO PREP lesson plan, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Google Doc, Google Slides, bell ringer, exit slip and effortless grading rubric perfect for distance learning!Urban Legends, mysteries and myths engage students in practicing every single common core standard for writing (persuasive, e
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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ChatGPT & Artificial Intelligence: A reading & writing unit
ChatGPT and AI are here to stay. As scary as that is, it won't help to ignore it. Instead, give your students the opportunity to really explore and talk about the issue of artificial intelligence, so they can make some informed decisions about using AI as students. This full unit will provide them with the opportunity to reflect, read, discuss, collaborate, and write as they explore how ChatGPT and AI will affect them and the society they live in.This bundle includes:✅ An introductory mini-lesso
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8th - 12th
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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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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
Grades:
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
Infographics Research Project l infographic template l infographic rubric
Infographics are a powerful combination of research, writing, and visuals. They represent the kind of multi-medium work that goes on in the real world using ELA skills all the time. Students see infographics everywhere, on social media, in magazines, and on websites. If you wish your students would care more about research and editing, this project can help. It takes a design thinking approach to infographics, first guiding students to brainstorm issues they care about, then considering what aud
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Distance Learning Bundle: Help for ELA
Daily Writing Prompts for Distance Learning Google Drive
My Daily Writing Prompts for Distance Learning is already formatted in Google Slides with a text box for responses from students. There are 345 total prompts, so you can decide which ones you want to share with students. I also include directions for sharing single slides with students.The writing prompts include almost 200 based on events in history, current events, pop culture, author's birthdays, or holidays from around the world. The others are prompts that can be used anytime, including som
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Distance Learning Digital Bundle
Review ANY video game (Digital & Print)
Have students write and publish their own original video game reviews.This scaffolded review package allows student to review ANY game and includes an exemplar, analysis tasks and rubric, as well as DIGITAL or PRINTABLE versions.Video game reviews are a fantastic way for students to practice the skills of persuasive and non-fiction writing. With an editable rubric this pack is perfect to use as an assessment or folio piece.I hope this pack is as useful and fun in your class as it is in mine!
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Review Writing BUNDLE (Digital & Print)
True Crime Writing in the United States Unit (AP Language)
This unit looks at American history and culture through the lens of true crime narratives. The assignments and activities trace the roots of this genre of non-fiction from Puritan accounts of executions to 19th Century murder ballads to modern day serial killer stories while analyzing the changing intellectual landscape of the last 300 years. This unit asks student to explore questions of class, gender, race, and morality in relation to criminal behavior. As an AP Language unit, students practic
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Writing In-text (Parenthetical) Citations Practice Worksheet #1
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT MY SHOP FOR MORE IN THIS SERIES!Worksheet provides practice for students learning how to write MLA-style in-text (parenthetical) citations based on a sample Works Cited page for a research essay. Like this resource? Here's a second one: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-In-text-Parenthetical-Citations-Practice-Worksheet-II-8725366
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 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
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: MEGA Journalism Advisor Advanced Tool Kit--YEARLONG CURRICULUM!
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
Entire Year of Middle / High School English: Printable Units - Major Bundle!
Save 50%!!!This is everything (and more) that I use in my upper middle and high school English classes. Each activity is easily adaptable to make it fit at any grade level. Really easy to use - everything is printable,and easy to organize from this massive bundle. Assignments and activities are inquiry driven, engaging, collaborative, and student centered. Contents:First Week Activities UnitMemoir UnitBell Ringer Journal PromptsProject Based MagazineMemory Book UnitInfluential Person Researc
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8th - 12th
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Info Text English Lesson on Hot Topics: Fast Fashion, Is It Worth the Cost?
Engage and motivate students with this informational text close reading assignment. This easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension! Your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate and discuss no matter their reading level or experience with close reading and annotating. The questions are designed to have students truly dig into and respond to a text. This resource is not just questions and answers -
Grades:
10th - 12th
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text English Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #4
Winter Seasonal Activities, Projects, Research, and Skill Practice for ELA
Step into a winter wonderland of engaging lessons, captivating activities, and inspiring projects with our Winter Mega Bundle, tailor-made for 7th to 12th grade English classrooms. Embrace the magic of the season while seamlessly integrating key themes like winter celebrations, Black History Month, and Valentine's Day into your curriculum. Unleash the power of education with these thoughtfully curated resources, ensuring you and your students embark on a journey of discovery and creativity.Explo
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8th - 11th
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