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Common Core W.11-12.9 interactive notebooks
Analysis Booklets & Writing Mini-Unit: Use with ANY Essay!
Do your students struggle to choose, lead into, cite, and analyze evidence? Need them to give more detail in their answers or explain data, direct quotes, and facts in writing? Use this booklet and quiz set to give them a crash course on analysis before your next assessment!
These TWO instructional mini-booklets, plus all the subsequent follow-up, are great whether students are learning analysis for the first time or you're doing review/ differentiation with older students:
Booklet #1: What is
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7th - 12th
Any Book & Movie Comparison Reader's Notebook Activities CCSS RL.7
Movie and Book Comparison Activities with Interactive Reader's Notebook Foldables - Use with ANY Novel or Story
Aligned to the Common Core State Standards for grades 7-12, Reading Literature RL.7 and Writing Standards W.4, W.7, W.9, W.10
Contains 37 printable pages with numerous prompts, evaluations, and comparison charts. Students will analyze the movie's scenes, direction, cinematography, acting, props, dialogue, and setting, comparing each to the novel. Differentiated for multiple levels.
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Twelfth Night Bullying, Deception, & Love | Shakespeare Unit | Editable Handouts
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever they hear the word “Shakespeare”? Reading a Shakespeare play is challenging for students—but flashy handouts and cute classroom decor will not teach your students the skills they need to read, understand, or enjoy the Bard's work independently.When students misbehave, put their heads on their desks, or just stare vacantly into the distance, it’s not because they aren’t capable of understanding the Bard—it’s because they are aren’t given
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Harlem Renaissance Activities: Langston Hughes, Art, Music | American Literature
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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Interdisciplinary Decades Research Project -distance learning
This resource is on sale for 7/13 only as part of a special promotion. Find more deals for grades K-12 and information about giveaways here!This Decades Project is interdisciplinary, including history, music, fads, economics, politics, and science. Students will research each decade and fill in the appropriate template, either through Google Classroom (Google Slides version) or on paper. It is helpful to assign students to decades in groups or two to three so they can divide up the work easily.
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3rd - 12th
American Literature Full Year ELA Curriculum for High School English | Secondary
Looking for a full-year American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? Spanning American literature from Puritans to young authors writing today, this truly diverse curriculum has differentiated plans for honors and standard level classes. From the Puritan worldview to YOLO culture, from love and lies to the Iraq war, and from the everyday pains of growing up to the unique experience of the contemporary immigran
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Close Reading | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The American Dream
Tired of superficial resources on The Great Gatsby that just go through the motions when it comes to truly examining the important questions? Why do we lie to ourselves and others? Should we do everything for love? What is the American Dream? How do factors such as race, class, or gender help or hinder people from achieving their dreams? Fitzgerald’s classic novel is classic for a reason—in this short, lovely text, he asks some of the biggest questions of our times. But you need to make sure
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9th - 12th
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Salem Witch Trials Unit Bundle | Puritan Primary Source | Colonial America
Want to teach a Puritan literature unit that will get your students engaging independently with texts, making connections to contemporary issues, and excited to discuss essential questions that really matter? From their world view to their religious beliefs to their daily life, the people of the early colonial period lived lives very different from those of contemporary Americans. The texts included in this unit will give students a glimpse into those lives. Three of the pieces included in this
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9th - 12th
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Langston Hughes "I Too Sing America" and Walt Whitman Paired Texts Poetry Lesson
Looking for poems to explore the American experience on a deeper level? While Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" is joyful and celebratory, Langston Hughes' poem is more questioning of America's history--though it too is not without hope. Exploring themes of class, race, privilege, and point of view, these two poems are well worth examination.When you teach these timeless and important poems with this unit you will:Start your class period with bellringer freewrite prompts that will h
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11th - 12th
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53 High School Poems: Literary Analysis, Poetry Close Reading, ELA Lesson Plans
Want to be done planning your high school poetry lessons for the rest of your career? A collection of close reading and discussion questions, activities, and writing prompts on 53 poems that I have taught multiple times over the years, this bundle will provide you with over three months of rigorous, engaging and ready-to-go lessons to teach your students to analyze poetry on their own. The worksheets included here are great choices for supplementing a thematic unit, for adding more voices and p
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9th - 12th
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10th & 11th Grade English: American Dream Poems | High School Poetry | Vol 1
Want to immerse your students in the diversity of this country by studying engaging poetry together? Your students will learn so much when they explore the essential questions of American Literature with these ready-to-go lessons.A collection of questions on 27 poems, spanning from Puritan poetry to the 20th century, this bundle will provide you with over a month of rigorous, engaging, and ready-to-go lessons. The themes explored in these units--materialism, love, race, family dynamics, class,
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9th - 12th
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Reading Response Handouts for High School | Reading Logs | Reading Journals
Do you want you students to learn how to read, analyze, and write about literature independently?Do your students have a tough time when they are faced with a blank page or have to write without being told what to write about? This guide to reading response journals based on quote analysis and close reading will get your students reading, analyzing, and writing about literature on their own. I have been teaching with reading responses for eleven years, and this guide includes what you need to
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9th - 12th
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The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost | Poetry Analysis & Close Reading High School
The close reading questions on Robert Frost’s iconic poem “The Road Not Taken” will get your students thinking about big ideas and questions that matter, as well as noticing how the smallest details of a poem contribute to meaning.This poem is one that everyone thinks they know, but they don’t really. It is likely that your students know the title of the poem and the last three lines—which have been quoted in everything from graduation speeches to needlepointed pillows. In fact, the title of t
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9th - 12th
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“The Most Dangerous Game” Character Analysis Unit -Digital for Distance Learning
✐Help your students fully understand the characterization in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Students will receive a digital or printable student interactive notebook to develop their understanding of these characters and ultimately create a full character analysis essay.✎This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. This unit will contain a Google File Link Page that will provide you with a Google Doc/Slides for each activity. ✨Included in th
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
Common Core Writing Bundle: Argument, Research, & Narrative Workbooks
Empower your students to develop as writers and master the Common Core Standards for Writing Grades 9-12. This resource includes three writing workbooks that align to the Common Core Writing Standards for narrative writing (personal narrative essay), explanatory/informative (research paper), and argument (argumentative essay). All three resources come with editable print and digital versions with PowerPoint and Google Slides. Teacher's directions are included with all resources.Save by purchasin
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9th - 12th
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Shakespeare's The Tempest Complete Unit: Race, Gender, Class, & Colonialism
With themes ranging from colonial oppression to romantic love, from art to slavery, and from family betrayal to the beauty of nature—this play offers so much to explore. But if you want your classes to get excited about reading this challenging text, your students will need to be excited to delve into the book and feel empowered to tackle the difficult language on their own. You’ll also need to help your classes to make connections between their own lives and those of these fictional characters
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9th - 12th
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"Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde | Close Reading Poetry Lesson
Want to teach a relatable poem that will get your most reluctant students excited about reading poetry?Audre Lorde’s free verse poem “Hanging Fire” is a great choice for teaching point of view, tone, speaker, gender roles, and diversity--it's also an accessible and relevant poem that has been a favorite of my students for years. In this engaging poem, the teenage speaker worries about everything from braces to her own death. Students will love this poem because of its natural sound and its por
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9th - 12th
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Night by Elie Wiesel Unit Plan: Projects, Activities, Chapter Questions, Writing
Are struggling to teach a unit on Night that is both rigorous and engaging? If your students’ experience of Elie Wiesel’s classic novel involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the novel to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves. In fact, by giving your classes the message that their ideas don't matter, you're helping
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9th - 12th
Fun Independent Projects: End of the Year English Activities for High School
Want to have a low-stress end of the year without sacrificing rigor? The last few weeks before summer vacation can be a slow, miserable countdown, just waiting for the days to pass while students get more and more unruly. You might try to make it through by showing movies or doing other meaningless activities, but that never really works as students realize that these strategies are wasting everyone’s time.Instead of just trying to survive, you need to take this opportunity to try new and exci
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9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance Poetry: Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar
Looking for a challenging but accesible poetry unit to add to your unit on the Harlem Renaissance or the American Dream?These questions on "Harlem" (also known as "Dreams" or "A Dream Deferred") by Langston Hughes, “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem,” by Helene Johnson, and "We Were the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar will get your students exploring themes of race, culture, and heritage.The poems are not included because of copyright. When they complete these lessons, your students will:—have a deeper
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9th - 12th
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AP Literature and Composition Short Story Unit 1 | AP Lit & Comp Curriculum
Looking for an engaging, rigorous, and fun AP short story unit? The beginning of the school year is so essential to setting the tone for the rest of the year, yet AP teachers also feel so much pressure to get everything right from the get-go. With limited time and so many requirements, it’s easy to feel like you don’t have time for fun or engagement. But when your most driven students get the message that literary analysis is all about dry questions and memorizing inane terms, they’ll quickly
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9th - 12th
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Anne Bradstreet Puritan Poetry | Upon the Burning of Our House | Close Reading
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Upon the Burning of our House" are great poems to introduce colonial america, Puritan world view, and early American Literature. As one of the first poets of the nation, Bradstreet’s ideas on love, life, materialism, and the afterlife reflect many popular views of her era.This resource includes:--a pre- and post-reading writing prompt to get students thinking about themes--copies of both poems with engaging graphics--questions on both poems that encourage c
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9th - 12th
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English | Back to School ELA Activities | High School | Growth Mindset, Writing
Worried that you’ll lose your chance to start the school year right this time? The first few weeks of school are crucial for your classes’ success throughout the year, and there is so much pressure to do it all: set the tone for your classroom; inspire students to work harder; establish rigor and expectations; teach students to think independently; get some solid assessments into your grade book. And of course, nothing is as important as establishing a strong connection with your students as so
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9th - 12th
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High School Short Story Units Bundle: Murder, Family Love, Dystopias, & Dreams
Want to empower your students to take charge of their own educations? So many short story resources involve nothing more than checking boxes or filling out pages of meaningless worksheets. This kind of busywork might seem convenient, but it doesn’t teach students any skills that they need. In fact, when students are lead to believe that reading literature means answering pages of meaningless questions, they are taught to see English class as a boring chore and to hate reading of any kind. Even
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9th - 12th
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