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Free high school literature songs for GATE
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3rd - 10th
Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" Student Workbook Short Story Mini-Unit
Teaching Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" can be a really exciting time in a high school classroom with the potential for powerful discussions and a new distaste for the idea of conformity. Student favorite! This short story student workbook makes your life and the lives of your students easier. Students love having their own little workbook and teachers have zero prep to do!This short story student workbook includes:-Author bio and quiz-Pre-reading discussion guide-Vocabulary organizer with
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7th - 12th
Animation and Critical Thinking for GATE and Generation Z -- The Piano FREE
4th Graders through adults find this video and activity fascinating. Let's try it FREE!Maybe your students will ask the same question mine did, "When can we do this again?"Using a short 2 minute video and an accompanying "Visual Inference Guide," students quickly become engaged in a critical analysis as they share insights with classmates--connecting video and literature.This format works for upper elementary through high school honors classes because students respond according to their abilit
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Poetic Devices with Taylor Swift
This worksheet provides examples of alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, and repetition using lyrics from Taylor Swift songs.
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5th - 11th
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THEME PowerPoint: Notes & Activities using Songs
This PowerPoint presentation on THEME includes notes on theme as well as engaging activities that help students identify themes in literature. I have included the lyrics of three songs, as well as the short story, "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs," by Jon Sciezska.
This could be used as an introduction or refresher lesson for students on the topic of THEME.
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7th - 10th
Figurative Language in Music
This is a fun and engaging way to review figurative language devices and sound devices. It also helps students understand why writers use figurative language to enhance their songs. It includes a series of figurative language questions over songs from different genres: You will need to provide song lyrics for students.
Literary devices covered: Metaphor, Simile, Allusion, Symbolism, Theme, Assonance, Rhyme scheme, Internal Rhyme, Hyperbole, Alliteration
BONUS!! Follow up activity included! T
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8th - 11th
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Taylor Swift Literary Terms Posters
As a Swiftie, I felt it was necessary to share my love of Taylor Swift with my students and add some sparkle to my classroom!Included are 4 8.5 X 11 inch (copy paper size) posters to deck your walls with all the best! These can be printed with any printer and resize with high-resolution if using a poster printer.Literary terms included: Juxtaposition, Hyperbole, Repetition, and Personification.I hope you enjoy these free posters! The full collection is available for purchase!
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6th - 12th
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Lyrics to "Mean" by Taylor Swift
These are the lyrics to 'Mean' by Taylor Swift. It is a great song to use during bullying awareness week. I had students listen to the song while highlighting different words that stuck out to them. We then discussed how we think Taylor was feeling when she wrote this song.
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4th - 12th
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The Veldt: Creating a Graphic Novel
After reading Ray Bradbury's short story entitled "The Veldt", students will create a graphic novel version of the story that incorporates dialogue taken directly from the text. This assignment provides students with a creative outlet to illustrate their understanding and comprehension. Playing the song "The Veldt" by the artist Deadmau5 while students work provides some other stimulation and motivation to students. The song is based directly on the story!
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7th - 10th
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Poetry vs. Prose Lecture Notes
This resource will serve as an excellent tool for students to easily identify the similarities and differences between prose and poetry.
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6th - 10th
Theme Song Assignment/Mini Project (Extra Credit)
A great extra credit literature assignment or project opportunity! Focuses on close reading and analysis by having your students assign a theme song to a character of their choice in your book. Example provided.
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4th - 12th
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Macbeth Soundtrack Activity & Assessment
Creative and fun assignment!! Criteria sheet for Macbeth Soundtrack assignment. This is a very cool assignment that students really love. Students are forced to think critcally about their song choices and defend them in the liner notes. This can be used with any text and can also be used as a group project. I have used this successfully with several grade levels: 9th, 9th GATE, 12th,& 12th honors.
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9th - 12th
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Generating Literature Discussion Questions
When students generate their own questions for literary discussions, they are moving beyond passive consumers of information. This routine prompts students to ask questions, moving from basic comprehension to higher order thinking. Students move from creating individual questions on a selection (potentially done before class in flipped instruction), to working with a group to create and evaluate questions, then returning to individual work to answer a question of their choice. Like all routine
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5th - 12th
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AWESOME Greek mythology song (superb "hook")
This is the best and most engaging "hook" for any unit involving teaching Greek mythology to teenagers that you will ever find. SAMPLE PREVIEW VERSES:
For instance, the story of Cronus is strange:
He murders his father and becomes deranged.
After marrying his sister Rhea for fun,
He eats all his children – all except one.
Zeus escapes swallowing and one day comes home –
Cronus pukes up the five kids, now fully grown –
Then Zeus kills his dad, sealing Cronus’ fate.
Murder, incest, and cannibalis
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Figurative Language: Idioms Chant Lyrics and Video by L2TB with Rita Malone
Unleash the Power of Chants: Achieve 100% Student Engagement! Are you ready to transform your classroom into a dynamic hub of learning where every student is not just present but actively engaged? Look no further! With my proven teaching resource, you can achieve a remarkable 100% student engagement rate using the magic of chants.Free Resources: To get you started, this FREE resource for learning idioms in under 30 seconds will be a hit in your classroom! Experience firsthand the power of chant
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Chant Lyrics & Video Bundle by L2TB with Rita Malone
Kendrick Lamar Music Analysis
This lesson is a part of a larger unit on music as literature. The purpose is to help students understand how music can be viewed as serious literature. This lesson will eventually segue into a unit on poetry; however, this unit does not focus on “music as poetry.” Through this lesson, students will understand Kendrick Lamar’s music (specifically his album To Pimp A Butterfly, and several songs from his latest album DAMN.) to represent a serious work of African-American literature. This lesson i
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Walt Whitman. O Captain! My Captain! Performed as a Rap to beat.
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman Performed as a Rap to a backing beat.
Background video features the sea and Abraham Lincoln.
Engage your class and make this poem memorable.
Poems performed as raps and plot raps added frequently to store.
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7th - 12th
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Taylor Swift Free Ebook for Swiftie Readers! - "The Last Great American Dynasty"
Dear Reader, Inspired by the collision of characters, imagery, and lore of Taylor Swift’s song lyrics, this coming-of-age story is for every Swiftie who can relate to the unbearable feelings of love and loss - all too well.Thirteen-year-old Betty has just lost her grandma, got dumped by her best friend, was ghosted by her summer crush James, and suddenly finds herself all alone in her new high school. Seeking refuge in the approval of her favorite teacher, Betty reluctantly agrees to help write
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Dialectical Journal Double-Entry Journal The Outsiders
This 3-page PDF includes:
1) A beginner level template with an MLA-formatted example on the left side of the page and sentence starters/sentence stems for responses on the right side of the page.
2) An intermediate–advanced level template with an MLA-formatted example (including a lead-in to the quotation) on the left side of the page and sentence starters/sentence stems for responses on the right side of the page.
3) An example of lead-in construction- deciding the most important 5Ws/H to giv
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6th - 9th
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Taunting Tombstones: Halloween Creative Writing Activity
If you love Spooky Season and a little dark humor, this creative writing activity will be perfect as Halloween approaches. Taunting Tombstones would be a quick and engaging activity to open your suspense unit. In this activity, students will pick a trend, saying, place, etc. that was once popular but is no longer in vogue. I have provided very specific instructions for the front of the tombstone. Then they will write an epitaph to the deceased on the back–also with specific instructions for lite
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Halloween Bundle: Literary Analysis and Creative Writing AP & Honors
Close Reading GATE or Advanced Character's Actions vs. Words
I am always looking for specific, student-friendly ways to help students dive into a deeper reading—a more analytical and critical thinking view—of any text.
This activity (and discussion) works well in my 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade GATE literacy groups, but there’s no reason it cannot be used up through 10th grade. The students will simply think at different levels; however, the format remains the same (see Common Core Standards below).
We need this in my school to help students move to “advanc
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3rd - 10th
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![Preview of "Sherlock Holmes & the Deathly Howl" [*New Book Trailer]](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/-Sherlock-Holmes-the-Deathly-Howl-New-Book-Trailer--132369-1646330462/750f-132369-1.jpg)
"Sherlock Holmes & the Deathly Howl" [*New Book Trailer]
Check out the New Book Trailer (+13 Rating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7yE0KDIeo&t=4sAll profits from this work go to the Homeless.] This is a script that is about 30 minutes long give or take a few. It is very friendly to produce, and should be quite enjoyable for your acting group. It is based upon the radio script, "The Tolling Bell" (in association with Gerald Murphy). A significant amount of notes are available that should be helpful to you. ["Aids Orphans Remembered"]
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Never Home: Personal Narrative & Song to Explore Cross-cultural Identity
Mi tierra–Homeland is a multimedia project designed to engage your students in informed discussions on immigration, cultural identity, Spanish in the United States, and human dignity through music, narrative, and innovative classroom activities.The work consists of 8 chapters, each containing a personal narrative by writer and singer-songwriter David Lindes that explores a facet of his experience as a first-generation Guatemalan immigrant. Each chapter is included in both Spanish and English, a
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Oxymoron Song to the Tune of "Royals" by Lorde - Use What Works!
Students love music, and as teachers, we must use what they love to help us teach! This song is all about oxymoron, and it's sung to the popular tune of "Royals" by Lorde.
Impress your students by singing the song to them, or have your students sing along with you. You may even try finding an instrumental or karaoke version of the song online to sing along to. Once you’re done, challenge students to find each oxymoron in the song. There are 17 of them in the song! As an enrichment ac
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6th - 12th
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