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Close reading resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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Locomotive by Brian Floca - Primary GATE Unit with Caldecott STEAM!
Another amazing Caldecott book and another load of opportunities across the curriculum for our primary GATE kids: hands-on and participatory activities, critical thinking, creativity, art and graphic design, and always best practices in gifted education. I’ve used this unit with 2nd graders, and it will definitely stretch to 3rd grade GATE.
You get 35+ pages of instructions, critical thinking questions and activities, and ready-to-print student activity sheets—assuredly more than you’ll ever
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2nd - 4th
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Afternoon of the Elves GATE Unit for Independent Study or Whole Class
Haven’t read this book yet? It is masterfully written!
This is a full GATE unit for Janet Taylor Lisle’s Newbery Honor Book, Afternoon of the Elves. This unit is much more thorough and different from the “STAX” independent reading unit for the same novel available in my store.
This unit includes instructions for independent study, small group, and whole class instruction. The focus for all options is decidedly higher order thinking skills, creativity, extension of the novel’s ideas and them
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4th - 7th
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AP Lit and Comp Diction Assignments
This is a complete unit I teach in the second quarter with my AP Lit and Comp class. I think it is very important for students to be able to recognize diction before they move on to more difficult literary devices.This unit includes:Assignment 1: Introduction to DictionAssignment 2: Diction practice on The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeAnswer key for assignment 2Assignment 3: Diction practice on The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington IrvingAnswer key for assignment 3Assignment 4:
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11th - 12th
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POETRY like a PRO - Analysis and Writing for 4th through 8th and GATE
You will find yourself going home and bragging about the results to whoever will listen. Everything is right here so you can begin today!
Poetry analysis and writing are two of the most difficult and elusive areas to teach. But there is method to the madness. I’ve found a method that works, and you don’t have to be a passionate poet to pull it off.
If you are a good listener, if you keep asking questions, if you show you value students’ comments and insights, this analysis and writing tec
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4th - 8th
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Compare/Contrast "Tell Tale Heart" and "Lamb to the Slaughter"
This product includes analysis questions for both the short stories "Tell Tale Heart" and "Lamb to the Slaughter". Also, there is a compare/contrast chart and a text-dependent compare/contrast response assignment. The answer key for the multiple choice questions are included.
Grades:
8th - 11th
AP Lit Format for Analyzing Poetry.
Analyzing poetry is difficult for students to master and difficult for teachers to teach, especially at the level the AP Lit exam expects of students. Here is a format to help students efficiently analyze poetry so they can quickly gain the information needed to be successful on the multiple choice and poetry essay of the AP Lit Exam.I have also included the handwritten answer keys (please see thumbnail for example) to some of the poems I cover in my AP Lit class: I Dream I'm the Death of Orphe
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10th - 12th
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AP Lit and Comp Detail Assignments
This is a complete unit I teach in the second quarter with my AP Lit and Comp class. I think it is very important for students to be able to recognize detail before they move on to more difficult literary devices.This unit includes:Assignment 1: Detail practice on Chickamauga by Ambrose BierceAnswer key for assignment 1Assignment 2: Detail practice on Jane Eyre by Charlotte BronteAnswer key for assignment 2Assignment 3: Detail practice on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAnswer ke
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11th - 12th
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Active/Passive Voice Essay Editing Practice and Quiz
Original essay written with intentional passive voice for student detection and correction provides students the opportunity to practice their active/passive skills within writing. Includes corrected essay and active/passive quiz which teacher can administer before essay activity to check for basic comprehension. Essay also challenges students to evaluate the usefulness of passive voice in certain scenarios. Essay compares and contrasts two short stories which students may benefit from reading.
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9th - 12th
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Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room Close Poetry Analysis for Younger Students
Close Reading Poetry Analysis of "Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room" by Nancy Willard. Analyzing poetry is an art. How do you get better at it? Practice. Here is an easy way to teach close reading with self-guided questions that help the student gain understanding of breaking down lines of poetry.This poem pairs well with poems such as "Ah! Sun-flower" by William Blake This lends to analyzing and researching the actual author of the poem. Another theme direction could also be examining the
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2nd - 8th
Monroe Doctrine Close Reading and Socratic Seminar
Advanced level and text-dependent questions for "The Monroe Doctrine." Ideal for US History classes. Basic level text-dependent questions are included, followed by a more advanced level Socratic Seminar.
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5th - 12th
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Critical response instructions and rubric
This is the directions sheet for a response to Shakespeare criticism. This assignment was pared down to be a bite size paper where the focus was on reading and understanding literary criticism.
Originally used for a sophomore class after reading "A Midsummer Night's Dream", but it can easily be used for an assignment during any Shakespeare Unit; simply select articles which fit your content.
Suggestion: I chose 2-3 articles which were applicable to the content and distributed them to the stude
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Shakespeare Bundle
early finisher's choice board
Have students done with work early all the time? Print and put this choice board in their seatwork folder. Students choose something to do from the menu instead of telling the teacher they have nothing to do.
Editable for your own class needs. :)
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1st - 6th
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AP Lit and Comp Prose essay prompt on "The Street" by Ann Petry
An excerpt from Ann Petry's novel The Street was used on the 2009 prose essay for the AP Lit and Comp exam.I assigned the 2009 prose prompt to my students.I attached my thesis statement practice and outline as well as my handwritten annotations of the prompt and my outline for the essay. These are my handwritten notes. They are not meant to be copied/printed but meant to guide you in teaching/grading.Please refer to the new grading rubrics College Board changed in 2019. I have a reformatted pro
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11th - 12th
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Johnny Tremain RL5.1 Point of View Response
This tool may be used as a formative assessment after reading the book (or an excerpt) of Johnny Tremain, and studying character analysis and point of view.
The standard addressed, prompt, and rubric are all included on this page, as well as space for the student to respond.
* This document is editable. However, please do not remove my copyright. A hard teacher at work; I would appreciate the credit :) Thank you for downloading and/or purchasing my work. I hope you find it useful and please
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4th - 6th
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Sticky Note Literature Project
I created this project while teaching gifted students. I wanted something beyond a standard book report. This is an individual project that students complete while reading their literature group book. So, students come to class and discuss the novel they are reading with their groups, and then they complete this project individually as they read the book.
The purpose of this project is to make students slow down while they are reading and to think about their reading. It's called a Sticky Note P
Grades:
4th - 8th
Tuck Everlasting Book Report Choice Board
Tuck Everlasting Book Report project choice board students can choose the final project they will do after reading the novel Tuck Everlasting.
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4th - 5th
Declaration of Conscience questions
These seven questions allow students to delve deep into Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech from 1950. These questions focus on rhetorical devices, controlling idea, applying those concepts to current events, and ask the students to make their own Declaration of Conscience. This is a quick and easy assignment that your students will love.
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9th - 11th
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