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Close reading Common Core W.11-12.1 interactive notebooks
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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9th - 12th
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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
American Literature Curriculum Units: Short Story Lesson Plans for American Lit.
Are you worried your American Literature curriculum doesn’t give your students the challenges and support they need to reach their full potential? So many ready-to-go curriculum packages involve meaningless busywork that is both boring and irrelevant for your classes. It might seem convenient, but it fails to challenge students and ultimately teaches them nothing more than how miserable it is to slog through texts.Worse, when students are lead to believe that studying great literature means fil
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9th - 12th
Shakespeare Sonnets Units Bundle: Love, Death, & Lies | Poetry Activities
Looking for Shakespeare units that will engage even the most reluctant learners? By combining TED Talks, pop music, Shakespeare sonnets, and non-fiction articles, the innovative Shakespeare units in this bundle will make Shakespeare’s sonnets relevant to your students.The variety of materials, real-life connections, and innovative approaches to the information will keep students engaged and excited about learning. Additionally, the concrete text-based questions and unique sources discourage che
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9th - 12th
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62 Short Stories & Poems High School American Lit. | 11th & 12th Grade English
Are you worried your American Literature curriculum doesn’t give your high school students the challenges and support they need to reach their full potential? So many ready-to-go curriculum packages involve meaningless busywork that is both boring and irrelevant for your classes. It might seem convenient, but it fails to challenge students and ultimately teaches them nothing more than how miserable it is to slog through texts.Worse, when students are lead to believe that studying great literatu
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9th - 12th
9th Grade Short Story Unit: High School Creative Writing & Literary Analysis
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever you mention literary analysis? You can’t really be surprised they act this way when they’ve been lead to believe that reading great literature means trying to figure out some inane, irrelevant puzzle. And when they’ve only experienced texts written by old white men who died one hundred years ago, it’s no wonder that they are bored out of their minds. On the other hand, literature units that are billed as fun and entertaining are often j
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9th - 12th
Native American Literature: Storytelling Thematic Unit | Indigenous Film, Poetry
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
Night Elie Wiesel Activities | Pre-Reading Unit: Bullying, Hate Crimes, Genocide
Looking for rigorous and engaging lessons that will help your students understand why they should learn about the Holocaust and other genocides?This 3-5 day unit covers bullying, hate crime, and genocide by exploring a TED Talk, famous quotes, a poem, an essay by Elie Wiesel, an opinion piece, and a study done on Holocaust knowledge and awareness. Students will start their unit on Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, or genocide with curated texts that will get them thinking, discussing, analyzing, a
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9th - 12th
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Literary Nonfiction Units for High School English Curriculum | Literary Analysis
Do you want to include more nonfiction in your plans but struggle to find units that are both challenging and engaging?As an English teacher, you know that it’s important to incorporate different kinds of texts in your plans, but it’s not easy to find nonfiction that isn’t boring, dry, or totally irrelevant to students. If a piece is challenging, it likely doesn’t relate to students’ lives, and if it feels relevant, it’s probably dumbed down or badly written.When you’ve felt the pain of giving a
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9th - 12th
Nonfiction Texts, Poetry Activities, Critical Thinking, Socratic Seminars Bundle
Want to challenge your students to analyze more deeply, write about and discuss big ideas, and think outside the box? Covering themes from love metaphors in Shakespeare’s sonnets to gang violence on the Chicago streets, from the Salem Witch Trials to the current refugee crisis, and from revenge in the 17th century to resistance movements during the Holocaust, these units will take your students far and wide.Some of my favorite units to teach, these lesson plans inspire students to explore atypi
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9th - 12th
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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
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe: Short Story Literary Analysis Essay Unit
Looking for an innovative unit on “The Black Cat” that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? This complete five-day unit will push your students to dig deep, get creative, and fully appreciate Poe’s brilliant work. Students will start off with bellringer freewrite prompts that will help them to focus, get ready to work, and begin to explore the essential questions of the text. With the addition of
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9th - 12th
Gothic Literature Bundle: Yellow Wallpaper, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner
Want to utilize your students’ love of scary fiction to keep them engaged and get them thinking about how master writers create works of literary art? Gothic fiction is lots of fun—it’s imaginative, creative, and innovative. But when your classes read these texts as pure fiction that doesn’t relate to real life, they won’t make the connections to their own worlds, and they won’t feel the responsibility to make a difference in their lives. Even worse, students might use this kind of fantastic wr
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9th - 12th
High School Anti-Bullying Unit: TED Talks, Stories | Social Emotional Skills
Tired of searching through anti-bullying and social emotional learning units that are appropriate for elementary and middle school but would never be effective for high school students? You know that the wellbeing of your students is important—if they are too stressed to learn, then there’s no amount or prepping or planning that will help them retain information or develop skills. But you also know what the research shows—that SEL anti-bullying programs designed for younger students will never
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9th - 12th, Higher 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
Poe Bundle: Black Cat, Tell-Tale Heart, Masque of Red Death, Cask of Amontillado
Looking for innovative resources to add rigor and fun to your unit on Edgar Allan Poe? Edgar Allan Poe is a perennial favorite with students and teachers alike—students love his dark themes and storylines; teachers love the opportunities to teach challenging literary devices and close reading. However, Poe’s writing is not always easy for students to comprehend, and so these resources include lots of scaffolding and activities to help your student grasp the deeper meaning and artistry of his w
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9th - 12th
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