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Critical thinking Common Core RL.11-12.2 study guides
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 7: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 7 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Short Story Analysis
This is a complete lesson plan for Ernest Hemingway’s story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”. A variety of activities will guide students through close reading and help them manage the length and detail of this exciting, dramatic episode. The plan includes graphic organizers and constructed response questions to boost comprehension and inferencing skills. The background notes will help students process connections between the author’s style and the story’s elements. A quiz and detai
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10th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 4: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 4 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 8: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 8 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 5: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 5 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 2: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 2 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 6: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 6 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 3: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 3 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Persuasive Writing, Critical Thinking Activities, Informationtional text, AP ELA
Persuasive Writing, Critical Thinking Activities, Informationtional text, AP ELAThe Great BooksNietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra (small extract only)Critical Reading and WritingThis is a self-contained product on higher-order thinking skills/textual analysis. Everything you need is here.TEACHER TIP:You don’t need to teach entire works, just short excerpts of the Great Books, to engage students in complex, higher-order thinking and other skills deemed essential in the new CCSS guidelines.ANALYZI
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Epic of Gilgamesh Focus Questions
These Epic of Gilgamesh critical thinking & chapter questions were created for senior honors students, but can be adapted to other levels. These focus/chapter questions promote critical thinking, close textual analysis, and are also excellent Socratic discussion questions. Can be used as a student study guide, class discussion questions, or quiz/test questions. Please note that these are the same questions included in the Epic of Gilgamesh Study Guide. NO ANSWER KEY INCLUDED--OPEN--ENDED QUE
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Not Grade Specific
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Philosophy, critical thinking, reading comprehension in Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Philosophy, critical thinking, and reading comprehension in Nietzsche's Zarathustra Nietzsche is everywhere – especially in popular culture and he is an incredibly engaging thinker! Still, most teachers don't have the time to prepare lessons beyond the core texts they are supposed to study. For this reason, I have created this Textual Analysis product on one of Nietzsche's most famous works: Thus Spake Zarathustra This product covers part of the Prologue - please see the preview!Thus Spake Zara
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Bet (1889) by Anton Chekhov Literature Guide | Literary Analysis | Theme
This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what your class will do:Analyze Anton Chekhov's famous short story The BetEngage with 10 high-level, short answer questionsExplore setting, theme, symbolism, irony, and foreshadowingInsert themselves into the narrative, make decisions and defend their opinionsDiscuss multiple interpretations of the short storyExplore the protagonist's change in outlook and personal beliefWhat's in the download?A 15 page PDF with:Links to Google Formats -
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7th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 1 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939) by James Thurber | Literary Analysis
This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what your class will do:Analyze James Thurber's famous short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Engage with 10 high-level, short answer questionsExplore rising action, climax and resolutionDiscuss symbolism, irony, and foreshadowingExplore how the author's choice of words reveal Walter's character traitsInsert themselves into the narrative, make decisions and defend their opinionsDiscuss multiple interpretations of the short storyEval
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7th - 12th
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A Jury of Her Peers (1917) by Susan Glaspell | Lit Guide | Literary Analysis
This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what your class will do:Analyze Susan Glaspell's famous short story, A Jury of Her Peers (1917) Engage with 10 high-level, short answer questionsExplore rising action, antagonist, protagonist, symbolism, irony, and foreshadowingInsert themselves into the narrative, make decisions and defend their opinionsDiscuss multiple interpretations of the short storyExplore bias based on how the male investigators behavedDebate what 'true justice' me
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7th - 12th
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A Modest Proposal (1729) by Jonathan Swift | Satire | Literary Analysis & Guide
This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what your class will do:Analyze Jonathan Swift's famous short story, A Modest Proposal Engage with 10 high-level, short answer questionsExplore rising action, climax, symbolism, irony, and foreshadowingAnalyze specific word choice and discuss how it contributes to the tone and meaning of the storyInsert themselves into the narrative, make decisions and defend their opinionsDiscuss multiple interpretations of the short storyDebate the appr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Frankenstein (adapted from the story by Mary Shelley)
A complete study guide.Questions. Reflections. Writing. Creative tasks.
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7th - 11th
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Post Pandemic - Grade 6, 7, 8, and 11 ELA Planning Guide - Accelerate Learning
This guide provides grade 6, 7, 8, and 11 teachers with a list of the most essential standards' based comprehension, writing and research skills that students in their grade level should have firmly in place by the end of the school year. By using the lists of queries and Smarter Balanced ELA item stems as language arts lessons are developed, teachers can be assured that they are providing their students with regular practice on higher-levels skills designated by the state as most essential
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6th - 11th
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ch 37-43 Close Reading Critical Thinking
These activities cover the final chapters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Forty guided reading questions will create a complete study guide and the detailed key will aid class discussion or help with assessing your students' comprehension. Four graphic organizers with carefully selected quotes will guide students past the commotion of Tom’s outrageous plans to an understanding of the final messages developed in the story. The constructed response questions prompt students to discuss thei
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8th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby_Chapter 1_Visual Map_Close-Reading and Discussion Guide
These color-coded visual chapter maps guide students through a close-reading and analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's poetic prose in The Great Gatsby by deconstructing the structural and stylistic "layers" of each chapter:narrationsettingstructuresymbols and motifsthemes and conflictssocial commentarylanguage and styleStudents will use these chapter maps and work through the accompanying interpretive and evaluative questions to Develop their reader’s instinct, the ability to notice moments of sign
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10th - 12th
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The Veldt VS ChatGPT Comparative Analysis | Bradbury vs OpenAI
Please Note: This comparative analysis requires access to an OpenAI account in which students, or a guided lesson by the teacher, can interact with ChatGPT.This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what your class will do:Compare the 'Nursery' in The Veldt with ChatGPTEngage with 6 high-level, short answer questionsExplore the the terminology of ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer)Ask a series of questions to ChatGPT and compare its answers with how the Nursery answered t
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Bundle | Lit & Comparative Analysis | ChatGPT
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