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Adult education Common Core RL.9-10.4 interactive notebooks
The Man in the Well by Ira Sher, Short Story Unit Plan: Power & Dehumanization
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around why people do bad things? This short unit on “The Man in the Well” by Ira Sher will challenge your students to dig deep and think hard about what it takes to speak out against an immoral majority.“The Man in the Well” by Ira Sher is a very compelling and fairly horrifying story of a group of kids who, without even discussing it, decide to let a man die. With themes arou
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Native American History & Literature: Indian Boarding Schools | Louise Erdrich
Looking for a resource on the Indian Boarding Schools that will help your students understand how victims of mistreatment and abuse resist oppression in their own ways? In an effort to “kill the Indian to save the man,” the assimilation policies of the United States caused a great deal of pain to the tens of thousands of young people who were displaced from their homelands and taken to horrific institutions. While the Native American children who were forced to cut their hair and forget their c
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Hamlet Activities for Acts 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 | Revenge, Lies, & Depression
Worried that your students will fail to make connections between Hamlet and issues that matter to their own lives? Shakespeare’s classic play has so much to offer a contemporary audience, but it isn’t always easy for students to make those connections. If your students don’t understand how his work relates to problems and questions that matter to them, they won’t be excited to study the play. Even worse, when students are forced to read a book that they see as a dead text, they’ll be bored and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Native American History & Literature | Alcatraz Occupation 1969 | Irony & Satire
Want to teach a powerful lesson on the act of resistance that sparked a movement? The Occupation of Alcatraz was a powerful 19-month long protest in which the Indians of All Tribes lived on Alcatraz Island and created a small society; the occupation sparked the Indian Activist movements of the late 20th century including the Occupation of Wounded Knee, The Trail of Broken Treaties and the more recent Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock among many other actions.Besides being an exam
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Man to Send Rainclouds by Leslie Marmon Silko | Short Story Unit Plan
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? These lessons on “The Man to Send Rainclouds” by Leslie Marmon Silko will push your students to dig deep, get creative, and fully appreciate Silko’s wonderful writing.This seemingly simple story by acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo Indian, tells the story of the peaceful de
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Native American Literature & History Boarding Schools, Trail of Tears, Dakota 38
Ready to integrate more Native voices into your curriculum this year? While trickster tales, creation myths, and other traditional stories definitely have their place in an American literature curriculum, it’s important that your students don’t get the message that Indigenous literature is only something from the past or something to read about in their history books. In fact, if you’re not intentionally integrating current writers in your plans, you might be inadvertently giving your classes t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Speaking Out: Teen Depression & Mental Health | TED Talk, Spoken Word Poetry
Why are people not always honest about how they are doing? What are the mental health benefits of writing about personal struggles? How does art help people to heal from trauma? This compelling thematic unit on real-life issues of depression, mental health, and healing through artistic expression will get your students examining texts, participating in critical thinking activities, engaging in close readings of poetry, discussing ideas that matter, and writing with real purpose.The 11-16 day
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Margaret Atwood: Gertrude Talks Back | Hamlet | POV Creative Writing Act 3
A modern feminist revisioning of Queen Gertrude from Hamlet, this contemporary text by Margaret Atwood is a great choice for teaching point of view as well as for looking at Shakespeare’s classic play in a new light. “Gertrude Talks Back” presents a queen who is clever, sure of herself, and unafraid to say and do what she wants. It’s a very different version of the role than what most viewers have come to expect. However, when your students dig deeper into the character with the questions for c
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Romeo & Juliet Act 4: Activities, Quiz, Close Reading Questions, & Bellringers
With close reading questions, discussion questions, writing prompts, interactive notebook activities, bellringer writing prompts, and a complete answer key, this no-prep literature guide to Act 4 Scene 1, Act 4 Scene 2, Act 4 Scene 3, Act 4 Scene 4, and Act 4 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet is a complete teaching unit for Act 4! For most students, Romeo and Juliet is their first experience with a Shakespeare play, and so it is essential that they have the scaffolding they need to understand the c
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Stephen Graham Jones Unit: Horror Genre | Scary Short Story | Elements of Horror
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? Besides being a chilling, dark story about the tragic outcomes of four teen friends, this text is a great choice for analyzing literary horror with your classes--it's a master class on the elements of horror and how to tell a scary story. Dealing with themes of guilt, peer pressure, the past, storytelling, and our
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 16-17: Differentiated Standard, Honors, AP
Looking for an innovative lesson plan on chapters 16-17 of Their Eyes Were Watching God that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around colorism, domestic violence, and living a full life? These chapters capture the last normal days for Tea Cake and Janie, before the hurricane that will change everything. With more time on the muck and more enjoyment of the simple life of hard work and good music, these chapters also introduce Tea Cake’s decision to beat Jani
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Hamlet Unit Plan | Discussion Questions & Literary Analysis | British Literature
Are struggling to teach a unit on Hamlet that is both rigorous and fun?If your students’ experience of Shakespeare's classic play involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the play to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves and creating passive, apathetic, disempowered learners.Students today can learn so much from Hamlet
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter 6: Differentiated Standard, Honors, AP Lit
Looking for an innovative lesson plan on chapter 6 of Their Eyes Were Watching God that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around metaphors, expectations, and values? Chapter 6 is somewhat of a long, strange chapter that might seem to divert from the main plot of the novel. The seemingly-unimportant events of the mule baiting, the mule funeral, the buzzards’ reunion, and all the other fun that Janie witnesses from the store’s porch don’t seem to have much to
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 13-15: Differentiated Standard, Honors, AP
Looking for an innovative lesson plan on chapters 13-15 of Their Eyes Were Watching God that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around hard work, living for the moment, and love? Chapters 13-15 find Janie and Tea Cake living life on the muck—working hard picking beans, talking and singing and playing music, and loving all night. Finally, done with the expectations and judgements of Eatonville, Janie is living life on her own terms. While life on the muck se
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 18-19: Differentiated Standard, Honors, AP
Looking for an innovative lesson plan on chapters 18-19 of Their Eyes Were Watching God that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around life, death, and God? With the hurricane, the trial, and the burial of Tea Cake, these chapters contain some of the most impactful events of the novel as a whole. Readers have known from the beginning of the book that Tea Cake will die, but we now get to the story of his death. And with Janie’s agonizing decision to shoot Tea
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Shakespeare Curriculum: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Sonnets
Looking for Shakespeare resources that are rigorous for your students but no-prep and low-key for you? Every year, I look forward to teaching my Shakespeare units because I know that my students will get so much out of the unit without a ton of work on my part. This is because I have tweaked and adjusted my methods for teaching over the past 24 years, and I have found a system for supporting even my most reluctant learners to feel empowered to read these challenging texts on their own.When you
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Writing Prompts | Analytical & Creative Writing
Want to get your students writing better, thinking deeper, and analyzing the bigger ideas and themes of Twelfth Night? Whether it’s because your students are not inspired to write, you don’t know how to “teach” writing, or you’re too overwhelmed to deal with all the grading, writing is something that you might end up dropping.And the less your students write, the more anxious and uncomfortable they’ll feel when they are tasked with writing an essay or even a short reaction.If you want to help y
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Hamlet Act 1: Bellringers, Reading Guide, Discussion | Questions & Answer Key
Looking for rigorous and engaging no-prep plans to for teaching Act 1 of Hamlet?It’s not easy to find plans for teaching Shakespeare that are interesting enough for your students yet include enough structure and scaffolding to challenge them to read the text on their own.When you follow the step-by-step methods that I outline here, your students will learn to understand the language and appreciate the artistry of the play and ultimately, to understand their own lives a little bit better.The writ
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"Marigolds" by Eugenia W. Collier: Close Reading & Discussion | Answer Key
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around poverty, memory, and rage? “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier is a lovely, sad, masterfully written story that tells the tale of a young girl who, in destroying something beautiful, loses her own innocence. Bringing up big questions around the crushing oppression of poverty and racism, how we define innocence, and how memory is affected by time, it’s also a wonderful cho
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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“[I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]" Emily Dickinson Unit with Graphic Organizer
Looking for a practical no-prep guide for teaching this challenging poem in a way that will empower your students to bring their poetry analysis to the next level? This classic poem is a great choice for exploring how poets use concrete language to convey the inexpressible, why vivid imagery is so powerful in poetry, how poetic elements work together to make meaning, and how even sound can contribute to the experience of reading, hearing, and understanding poetry. The tried-and-true process fo
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter 20: Differentiated Standard, Honors, & AP
Looking for an innovative lesson plan on chapter 20 of Their Eyes Were Watching God that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around love, death, stories, and life? The final chapter of the novel is short, but there is so much rich imagery and language in these pages to analyze, unpack, and discuss. The lovely, sad, sweet, fulfilling ending to Jane’s story is portrayed here as she finds peace in her home back in Eatonville. She has completed telling her life s
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 7-9: Differentiated Standard, Honors, & AP
Looking for an innovative lesson plan on chapters 7-9 of Their Eyes Were Watching God that will get your students writing, analyzing, and discussing big questions around death and life? These chapters, as they wind down Janie’s life with her second husband, Joe, bring up many more big questions that Janie and the reader will wrestle with for the rest of the novel. Is it better to be indifferent to pain and joy or is it better to feel everything as much as possible? How does death change people?
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Big Hamlet Writing Prompts Bundle: Argument Essay, Bellringers, Lit. Analysis
Want to get your students writing better, thinking deeper, and analyzing the bigger ideas and themes of the play?The prompts, guides, handouts, rubrics, and suggestions here are all proven to work based on sixteen years of teaching writing to all levels of high school. It’s not easy to take students through a writing assignment or to get them to improve their skills, but with the right tools, it can be done.When you teach Hamlet with these writing activities you will:• bring your students’ writi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Geraldo No Last Name by Sandra Cisneros: Slurs, Stories, & Immigration
Looking for a quick short story unit that will help your students to deepen their understanding of the immigration experience and open up a discussion around stereotypes, slurs, and why we all matter?This short unit lessons on “Geraldo No Last Name” by Sandra Cisneros will challenge your students to examine important questions while they examine an accessible story together.When you teach “Geraldo No Last Name” with this resource you will:Start your classes off with bellringer freewrite prompts
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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