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Common Core RL.9-10.4 interactive notebooks for Google Apps
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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Harlem Renaissance | Zora Neale Hurston "Sweat" | High School Short Story Unit
This widely-anthologized story of a hardworking washerwoman and her abusive husband is a deceptively simple tale of good and evil, suffering and redemption, and reaping what you sow. However, when read in the context of the many biblical allusions in the story as well as the African American Spiritual, the seemingly-straightforward story becomes much more nuanced and complex. This fascinating mini unit will take your students through recordings of Zora Neale Hurston singing songs she learned th
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9th - 12th
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Figurative Language in Songs: Fight Song Activities Editable
Use "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten to help your students understand figurative language, poetic devices, speaker's tone, theme, and author's purpose. (Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Reading Literature, Language, and Writing)
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
"Fight Song" is an uplifting song with a positive message for students: be strong, never give up, and don't let others bring you down. This is a perfect song to get students ex
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7th - 12th
Native American Literature | Sherman Alexie | Indigenous Poetry | Stereotypes
Why are stereotypes dangerous? What is our role in breaking down stereotypes? Students might know some of the stereotypes surrounding Indigenous people, but they likely don’t fully understand where they come from, why they are harmful, or why positive stereotypes can be equally painful as negative ones. This 90-minute lesson will get them examining some of those assumptions when they explore videos featuring teens talking about stereotypes, a powerful slam poem performance, an accessible and
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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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Introduction to Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 & Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Looking for engaging lessons that will give your students the confidence and skills they need to read Shakespeare independently? So often, teachers think that the only way they can introduce their classes to the Bard is by working through the same old boring power point lectures on when Shakespeare was born, when he died, and where he lived.But Shakespeare’s work is popular 500 years after he died for a reason. The universal themes and questions of his poetry and plays are still very much relev
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Dystopian Short Story: The Lottery Shirley Jackson | Lesson Plans | Bullying
Looking for a complete unit on “The Lottery” that will challenge and inspire your students to make a difference in today's troubled times? By making connections among bullying, genocide, the Nuremberg trials, Stanley Milgrim’s obedience study, and a classic poem about the Holocaust, your students will be inspired to take their study of Jackson’s powerful story past the pages of the text.When you teach “The Lottery” with this unit you will:be sure that your students won’t miss any of the importa
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9th - 12th
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"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston | Figurative Language Lesson
Looking for a unit on this classic essay that will get your students engaging independently with the text, discussing big ideas, and sharpening their close reading and critical thinking skills?“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great choice for engaging your classes in discussions around race, identity, gender, and artistic expression. It’s also a wonderful essay for exploring figurative language and how writers create meaning through comparisons. When you teach “How it F
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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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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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Literature Circles | Book Clubs | Student Led | Project-Based ELA
Literature circles and book clubs are an empowering way to keep up reading and discussion practices. Lit circles are a highly effective way to allow students to connect socially and intellectually and hold each other accountable. With this student-led unit, students will create their own reading calendar and pacing plan, prepare independently for weekly book clubs, schedule and run their own weekly meetings and assess their own work. The teaching philosophy incorporated here is “Student as Worke
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8th - 11th
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 Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Dystopian Short Story
Looking for an engaging short story unit that will inspire your classes to make a difference in their worlds?In this classic of dystopian fiction, Ursula Le Guin describes a city where people celebrate happily without a care in the world—except for one child, kept in miserable conditions.“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a great choice for getting students to think about their own role in perpetuating injustice in the world. It’s also a wonderful text for teaching point of view, setting, a
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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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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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Claude McKay "If We Must Die" | Black History: Red Summer of 1919 | BLM
What is the best way for people to maintain their dignity in the face of racism, oppression, and brutality? Written after the horrific events of the Red Summer of 1919, Claude McKay’s timeless poem “If We Must Die” attempts to answer that important question. This classic of the Harlem Renaissance is also a great poem to explore issues of the Black Lives Matter movement. When you teach “If We Must Die” with this powerful unit, you will:Start your class periods with bellringer freewrite prompts t
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9th - 12th
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"Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood | Allusion Poetry Lesson: Gender Roles
Looking for an engaging poem to add a feminist perspective to your unit on The Odyssey?In this accessible but sophisticated poem, Margaret Atwood takes the classic story of the mythical sirens and turns it on its head. When you teach Atwood's sad and lovely poem with this innovative and rigorous unit you will:Start your class period with bellringer freewrite prompts that will help students to focus, get ready to work, and begin to explore the essential questions of the text.Strengthen your stud
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9th - 12th
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Romeo & Juliet Unit Plan: Prologue & Act 1 Activities to Final Project, Analysis
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 and understand a Shakespeare play 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 the
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9th - 12th
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Margaret Atwood Poem: Half-Hanged Mary | Poetry Close Reading Lesson
A modern feminist retelling of the Salem Witch Hunts of the Puritan period, this contemporary poem by Margaret Atwood is a great choice for teaching poetic devices as well as for exploring some of the major themes of American Literature. “Half-Hanged Mary” is based on the true story of Mary Webster who was probably one of Margaret Atwood’s ancestors. This poem is long and challenging for sure, but it is also a fascinating tale of a real-life phenomena. While students might need a few class perio
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9th - 12th
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Short Story Sketch Note Template, Graphic Organizers Digital Activity
I've created a sketch note style template for eight popular short stories: "The Most Dangerous Game", "The Necklace", "The Interlopers","Lamb to the Slaughter", "The Gift of the Magi", "A Sound of Thunder", "The Cask of Amontillado",and "The Story of an Hour". When you add the visual element to note taking (sketch, color) you increase the understanding and analysis of students with many different learning styles. We interpret information in so many different ways, and our students do as well. M
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle of Lessons Use Digital or Printable
Fun Independent Poetry Projects: End of the Year English Activities High School
Want your students to have fun and work independently at the end of the year without sacrificing rigor?After a full year of analyzing literature from different times, it’s great to wrap it all up with a unit on poets who are writing about the world we live in today. Students often believe that literature is something that exists for another time and another place, but with these pieces, they’ll learn how relevant poetry is to their own lives. All of these poems are by respected, well-known poets
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9th - 12th
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