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Common Core W.11-12.1 guided reading books
Ambrose Bierce's “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – 15 Common Core Tasks
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Ambrose Bierce’s short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, ar
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9th - 12th
Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour” – 15 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Kate Chopin’s short story, "The Story of an Hour." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, articles, and othe
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9th - 12th
Critical Literary Theory: Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, New Historicism etc
Critical Literary Theory: lessons and assessments & key terms - Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Queer, Death of the Author and New Historicism Literary Theory, for AP English and adult learners. Examples of application in media and short stories as far ranging as anime, detective stories, video games, and fairy tales.The Nathaniel Hawthorne story "The Birthmark" is included for a reading upon which all critical lenses can be applied.==============Check out our other lessonsRace horror as
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Literature Circle with CCSS
The Great Gatsby – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over The Great Gatsby i s included in this lesson. The unit will require 9 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 3 days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required to do du
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10th - 12th
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Death Coming Up the Hill : A Vietnam War Novel Workbook
This hands-on, engaging workbook acts as a strong supplement to the novel Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe. It is a fantastic resource for engaging students with historical literature and poetry and focuses on both Bloom's Taxonomy and Common Core Standards. Students will come away from the unit with a strong knowledge base of the Vietnam War, the late 1960s, haiku poetry, research sources, and informative texts.The workbook includes:A cover pagePre-reading research activity regarding t
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7th - 12th
Sherlock Holmes Close Reading Study Guide | SILVER BLAZE | Worksheets
Fog! Gas lights! Mysteries! SHERLOCK HOLMES must be close at hand. Silver Blaze--Sherlock Holmes Close Reading Study Guide is ready so students can enjoy a trip to Holmes’s flat at 221B Baker Street, London, and to the countryside in Dartmoor where Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the disappearance of the famous race horse Silver Blaze and the apparent murder of the horse’s trainer.Here’s what you’ll find in your 51-page reproducible guide:• introductory information about the story, along with
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Sherlock Holmes | Conan Doyle Biography and SILVER BLAZE | Worksheets
The Great Gatsby Call-in Radio Show: Ch 6
If you don’t have time to read chapter 6 as a class but you need students to know the important revelations within this chapter before you get to the climax in chapter 7, then this activity is perfect. You’ll choose four students to take on the roles of Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick. Then, you’ll host a call-in radio show and invite these characters to be the guests. They’ll have had time to internalize their parts (already written and included in this purchase), so that they can answer the quest
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Also included in: Gatsby Bundle: Highly engaging activities for chapters 5-7.
As You Like It - "All the World's a Stage" - Introducing Shakespeare Activity
Are you ready to engage your students in the timeless beauty of Shakespearean literature, but need a way to get your foot in the door? These resources on “Shakespeare’s Famous Speeches” are the perfect way to simply and effectively get your students to successfully learn from “The Bard of Avon.”As an educator, it is of the utmost importance to foster a love for language and literature in my students, and every product I create is crafted with this goal in mind. I created resources for “Shakespea
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6th - 12th
The Great Gatsby Passage Analysis and Expository Writing Assignment
This assignment takes a two-page passage from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which can be used to lead students through a complete analysis of the passage examining diction, detail, syntax, imagery and figurative language. A handout for students is included that defines terms they need for their analysis. Once the analysis piece is complete, there is a guided expository writing assignment making use of the information they garner from their close reading of the text.
A complete anal
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9th - 12th
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Divergent: Literature Circle with CCSC
Divergent – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over Divergent is included in this lesson. The unit will require 19 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 3 days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required to do during the 19 d
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9th - 12th
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Novel Unit for A River Runs Through It
This novel unit is concisely planned and common core-aligned to give you just the right amount of material so that you can effortlessly and effectively teach it in your classroom. Your students will be reading, writing, thinking, and discussing in a meaningful context. The following may be used as an independent reading journal, as a class oral reading/discussion guide, or a combination of the two.
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11th
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The Hunger Games Chapters 10-18 Questions and Journals
The attached documents are chapter questions and journal assignments to accompany the reading of The Hunger Games in any type of classroom. These questions have been used three times in the classroom setting and require the students to look beyond what is said in the text for answers that seek a further understanding of the text.
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7th - 12th
Literature Circle: The Grapes of Wrath with Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over The Grapes of Wrath is included in this lesson. The unit will require 13 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional three days for reading quizzes If you are concerned that students cannot complete the outside reading during one day, you could expand each day into a two-day assignment giving the students more time to do reading in the classroom as a group or on their own.
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9th - 12th
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The Hunger Games Chapters 19-27 Questions and Journals
These materials are best used when accompanying a class reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. These materials cover chapters 19-27 of The Hunger Games and require students to look past the text and answer questions the cover character analysis, themes as well as point of views of the characters.
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9th - 12th
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Blank Check, A Young Adult Novel - Study Guide
From the thrilling Young Adult Book, Blank Check.Educators designed the study guide for educators.What’s included in this Study Guide?All 50 state standards for English / Language Arts Grades 6-12 Over 30 Pre and Post Reading Activities 300 Vocabulary & Literary TermsDesigned for Distance Education & Traditional ClassroomThe Study Guide provides teachers with lessons that entail excitement and engagement.Activities include multiple websites that create critical thinking and student-cent
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7th - 10th
To Kill a Mockingbird Expostitory Writing: Foil, Parallel and Catalyst
This assignment will assist students to recognize character development such as the foil, parallel, and catalyst characters in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Students will work in groups to identify these types of characters in the novel. They will then write an expository paper to explain how the author uses these characters throughout the work. A list of characters that fit into these three categories is included as well as two examples of introductory paragraphs that will he
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7th - 11th
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Romeo and Juliet PARCC-style Learning Task - FREE DOWNLOAD!!
This FREE common core resource is written in a PARCC-style which requires students to draw thematic parallels between a scene in the tragedy and a cartoon parody. The second section of the performance task requires students to draw thematic parallels between modern-day ill-fated lovers and Romeo and Juliet. The task is aligned to the RL2, RL3, RL7m RI2, and W1 Common Core State Standards. Please feel free to download and share this resource.
Romeo and Juliet PARCC-style Learning Task - FREE
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9th - 12th
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The Hunger Games Journal Writing Rubric
You can use this rubric to assess students performance on journal entries for The Hunger Games. The rubric is aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards
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7th - 12th, Staff
T.A.G.S. Thesis Statement Handout
The T.A.G.S. acronym is very helpful for high schoolers when practicing literary analysis. I project this in my classroom and give copies while we are planning our writing.
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7th - 12th
AP English Self-Reliance Close Reading and Writing Prompts
Analytical and Close Reading Questions are embedded within the text. The close reading of the text culminates in two writing prompts modeled on the College Board's AP English Language Prompts.
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9th - 12th
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