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9th grade Common Core RL.8.1 handouts
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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Diary of Anne Frank Play - Student-Ready Complete Packet
Diary of Anne Frank Student-Ready Packet is an attractively-designed ready-to-hand-out resource based on the play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It is aligned with ELA Standards, focusing most specifically on these skills:*analysis through citing textual evidence; drawing inferences*determining theme/central idea; summarizing*analyzing dialogue *determining word meanings; connotation*analyzing differences in points of view*writing arguments, explanatory text, and narratives-------------
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6th - 9th
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Literary Analysis Essay, Introduction to Lit. Analysis Essay Writing, CCSS
Help students dig into the elements of literary analysis essay writing with this MASSIVE collection of tools organized into an efficient and effective nine-day writing unit. Using an animated short film on YouTube and a classic short story as source material, students will see how introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs are built. They’ll learn step-by-step building block formulas and deconstruct sample essays. By the end of the unit, students will have the tools they’ll need to be able to
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8th - 11th
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RACE Writing Strategy: Lesson and Practice
When I first started teaching the RACE strategy for constructed response, I was blown away by how much my students’ writing improved. Often times they had the correct answer, but the way in which they were constructing the answer cost them precious points on tests and benchmarks. RACE is an acronym for Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain. It is easy to remember and students pick up on it very quickly. I used a variation of this lesson for an observation my very first year of teaching and got rave
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6th - 9th
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Short Stories with Comprehension Questions - 11 Short Story Units - Annotations
This giant Short Story with Comprehension Questions Bundle contains 11 of my best selling products bundled together for a heavily discounted price! Perfect for short story reading comprehension, it has a variety of different short story activities, as well elements of literature activities and notes. This package has enough resources to keep kids engaged while learning about literary elements.✅Please check out the thumbnails and individual products in this bundle for detailed descriptions and im
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6th - 9th
Midsummer Night’s Dream Unit Plan, Four Weeks of MSND Materials/Activities, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into A Midsummer Night’s Dream? William Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of love and magic will engage your students when you use this MASSIVE bundle of fun and creative lessons. This package includes four weeks of complete materials designed to challenge and entertain middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this
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7th - 10th
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Shakespearean Sonnet, Iambic Pentameter + Creative Writing, PDF & Google Drive
Get your students excited about Shakespeare with this introduction to the Bard’s sonnet structure and iambic pentameter. Every eye in the room will be glued to the vibrant, information-packed slides in this poetry presentation. This 28-slide deck (downloads in both Prezi and Google Slides format) includes detailed descriptions of iambic pentameter, iams, rhyme scheme, and Shakespeare's sonnet structure. Skills are put into practice with a close look at Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130. You can use the s
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8th - 11th
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Close Reading Passages For Middle School - Close Reading Guide and Strategies
Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving•The B
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6th - 9th
NIGHT by Elie Wiesel - Novel Guide - Print & DIGITAL
NIGHT - This Novel Guide for Elie Wiesel’s Night will keep students thinking and enhance their understanding from the first page of the book to the last. Now includes a DIGITAL version! Section-by-Section Response Pages challenge students to dig into the text to explain and make inferences as they read. Includes a pre-reading Web Quest, Theme Essay writing assignment, and Vocabulary study. The DIGITAL version offers colorful slides that allow students to type their responses into text boxes. To
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7th - 10th
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Holes Quizzes - Multiple Choice and Quote Chapter Quizzes & Answers Louis Sachar
Holes Quizzes resource includes nine reading quizzes for the novel, Holes by Louis Sachar. These short chapter assessments are perfect as a quick check for student comprehension. Each quiz covers a chapter set and includes a detailed answer key for easy grading or review. You can be totally confident that your students are understanding Holes with these easy-to-use assessments as they include both multiple choice and short answer quote response questions.This is included in our best-selling nove
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Holes Unit Plan - Louis Sachar Novel Study Reading Unit
Halloween Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Halloween Activities
Halloween Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Spooky Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP Halloween activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•The Masque of the Read Death
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6th - 9th
Outsiders Close Reading Materials for 4 Chapters, S.E. Hinton The Outsiders CCSS
Help your students learn how to dig deep into analyzing text with these four close reading lessons to use with chapters 2, 4, 6, and 10 of S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders.Each of the four lessons includes a student handout of a select bit of text with generous margins to allow for students to annotate the selection with their thoughts, ideas, and/or questions. After students are given 8-to-10 minutes to finish their annotations, pull the class back together to annotate a copy of the material
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7th - 10th
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Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Analysis, Team Activity, CCSS
Make the words of Transcendental philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson come alive for your students with breath-taking photography in this two-day class group activity with optional independent writing supplement.This packet includes visually stunning images from nature coupled with quotations from Nature and Self-Reliance, two of Emerson's most-noted works. This 17-page PDF also includes a detailed suggested lesson procedure along with 10 half-sheet student handouts for teams to use as the
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9th - 12th
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Harrison Bergeron - Middle School Short Story Unit - Dystopian Literature Intro
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Unit Bundle - Activities and Introduction to Dystopian Literature. Perfect for your upcoming short story unit or dystopian literature unit, this package contains questions and activities to go along with Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut. This Harrison Bergeron literature package contains a detailed introduction to Dystopian Literature. After learning about the genre, students read the Harrison Bergeron short story, and locate the elements of Dysto
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7th - 10th
The Tell-tale Heart Mock Trial - Edgar Allan Poe - Real life and Speaking Skills
Ignite your students' passion for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe with this immersive Mock Trial! Turn your classroom into a thrilling courtroom drama where the lines between fiction and reality blur. Prepare for an educational experience that will leave your students spellbound and craving more!Watch as your students step into the shoes of the characters, ready to take on the roles of the narrator, police officers, mental health psychiatrist, and more in a riveting courtroom showdown.
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7th - 10th
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ELA Exit Tickets / Short Response Slips - Differentiated - for ANY Literature
Differentiated Exit Tickets / Short Response Slips for Literature contains 27 different standards-based short tasks for students designed in 81 convenient half-sheets that can be used with any literature! Each topic is differentiated (3 separate slips per topic) to accommodate 3 levels of learners: struggling, average/grade-level, and advanced.The response slips can be used for short assessment with any literature activity (whole class, literature circles, stations, guided reading groups, etc.)
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6th - 9th
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“Marionettes, Inc.” Literary Analysis, Ray Bradbury Short Story PDF & Google App
Imagine you could buy a clone of yourself and no one would ever know. Unpleasant chores? Your cyborg will clean the mess. Stacks of essays to grade? “You 2.0” quickly manages that paper load. Dinner with a difficult spouse? Send in the clone.What a great world! And nothing could possibly go wrong in this utopia, right? Right?Ray Bradbury’s short story, “Marionettes, Inc.,” gives us a glimpse of a world where clones are available to solve all of our problems. This compelling 45-minute lesson will
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8th - 11th
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Creepy Stories Inference Reading Passage Bundle + Freebie
Get students close reading and making inferences with this bundle of four of my creepy Inference Reading Passages products: John Mortonson's Funeral, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Dracula. Plus, includes my free product The Feather Pillow Inference Reading Passage. Students will read a 2-3pg short stories/text excerpts, stopping at the stop signs to answer inference and evidence-based questions. Questions ask students to make inferences, support inferences with evi
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7th - 10th
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The Odyssey Character Trading Cards Writing Activity - Unit Plan Lesson - Homer
Embark on an exciting journey through the world of The Odyssey by George Orwell with these vibrant character cards! Unleash the power of learning with a total of 24 cards, available in both dynamic black and white and color options. An editable version on Google Slides is also included for easy customization. Students can effortlessly type in their responses, making learning not just interactive but a breeze!For that extra boost, a handy suggested answer key is also included! Here are the cards
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6th - 9th
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Animal Farm Study Guide Questions for Every Chapter
Help your students analyze and understand George Orwell's novel Animal Farm with these study guide questions. This resource includes 100 questions (10 for each chapter) for students to answer as they read Animal Farm. This resource includes:⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 1 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 2 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 3 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 4 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 1 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 6 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 7 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapte
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8th - 12th
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The Outsiders Questions - Comprehension and Analysis Chapter Reading Questions
The Outsiders Questions resource includes ready-to-use questions that will check your students' comprehension and challenge them to analyze literary elements in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. This ready-to-use resource includes questions organized by chapters that include comprehension, analysis, and literary device questions. It also includes a useful handout with definitions and examples of common literary devices that they can use as a reference while answering questions. Finally, a presentati
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7th - 10th
Also included in: The Outsiders Unit Plan - S.E. Hinton Novel Study Reading Unit
Fahrenheit 451 Study Guide Questions and Comprehension Crossword Puzzles
Engage your students while reading Fahrenheit 451 with these reading questions and fun review crossword puzzles! This Fahrenheit 451 teaching resource includes three sets of reading questions and three crossword puzzles (one for each part of the book) that cover the entire novel.The study guide questions are challenging and engaging, and they are also written in sequential order so that students can follow along during your Fahrenheit 451 novel study. Some of the questions are multi-faceted, and
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Fahrenheit 451 Teaching Unit and Novel Study
Fiction Notice & Note Signposts Doodle Notes
Engage students' whole brain while teaching this fun reading strategy! Doodle notes engage verbal and visual centers in the brain which helps students retain information longer.
Notice & Note Signposts are engaging reading tools that send students on a scavenger hunt through a text to make deeper meaning. These notes would be a great way to introduce the topic to your students.
Each signpost has its own notes sheet:
- Tough Questions
- Again & Again
- Words of the Wiser
- Memory Mom
Grades:
4th - 12th
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