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Writing-expository Common Core RL.8.4 resources for homeschool
Poetry Analysis - Emily Dickinson - Emergency Sub Plan (paper + digital)
Are you looking for a poetry analysis lesson students can complete on their own? In this poetry activity, students analyze Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty.” This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson or during National Poetry Month! Use this analyzing poetry activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency Plans Do your students need a skills review?✅ Use textual evidence to support inferences (RL.7.1)✅ Determine
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7th - 9th
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Christmas Reading Comprehension Paired Passages
What kid hasn't wished Christmas, their birthday, Hanuka, or the Fourth of July could come around more than once a year? This wonderful, classic short story reminds us that too much of a sweet thing can quickly turn sour!
The story is paired with an article about the waste generated during the holiday season and a video about holiday recycling. This rigorous unit includes guided practice on how to closely read a complex text, as well as how to answer multiple choice, sh
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6th - 8th
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I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Novel Study Unit
Discussion and analytic questions for the novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name are primary to this unit. These questions will have students analyzing and understanding the concepts Craven weaves into her plot.In addition there are vocabulary worksheets and puzzles.An essay assignment derived from a topic specific journal (attached), with detailed student handout is included in this file. There are half-page quizzes for Ch. 1 to 5, and Ch 18 & 19, plus a full-page test and an essay for the to
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7th - 10th
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Night by Elie Wiesel, Instructional Unit, Includes Quizzes & 2 Research Projects
This engaging and easy-to-use unit for Night has recently been expanded and improved. A second, entirely different, research paper assignment has been added. An answer key for the quizzes, as well as self-grading Easel assessments have been added.This is a unit I have used to teach the novel Night by Elie Wiesel to 8th, 9th, and 10th-grade students with great success. Obviously, it has evolved and improved over the years. The students learn not only about Elie Wiesel and his family but also are
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
DESCRIPTIVE WRITING USING IMAGERY LESSON PLAN + READING AND WRITING ACTIVITIES
The file contains:DESCRIPTIVE WRITING LESSON PLAN - USING IMAGERY AND SENSORY DETAILS TODESCRIBE SNOW AND SNOW LADEN WITHERED TREESINCLUDES: - 6 printable pages+FOR READING, AN EXCERPT FROM YURI NAGIBIN'S BOOK (DESCRIBING SNOW)+A COMPLETE 40 MINUTE LESSON PLAN WITH DETAILED DIRECTIONS FOR STARTER, MAIN ACTIVITY, PLENARY AND DIFFERENTIATION +PICTURE PROMPTS+WRITING PAPERS +APPROPRIATE WORD BANKINCORPORATES MENTOR TEXT READING, HIGHER-ORDER THINKING QUESTIONING, VOCABULARY BUILDING, VISUALISING AN
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5th - 9th
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Complete Common Core Aligned Novel Unit for The Outsiders
Comprehensive Unit Plan with Common Core focus standards, learning objectives and instructional activities. Chapter-by Chapter activities and both an objective test and an essay test as well as an alternate culminating activity
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7th - 8th
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Analyzing Author’s Use of Irony in Commercials and Political Cartoons
This PARCC-style assessment merges commercials, political cartoons, and literary texts into a performance assessment. Students will construct an explanatory essay to justify their explanations. Students will analyze 2 modern commercials and 2 political cartoons that use situational and verbal irony and analyze. In the second section of the performance task, students will analyze the development of irony in a literary text and discuss similarities and differences between the author’s approache
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6th - 10th
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Invisible Novella Study
Invisible, is a novella written for grades eight through ten about a young girl who runs away from home to get away from an abusive dad. She leaves behind her friends, her school and all that is familiar. What she becomes entangled in, however, is even more impossible than what she is running from. Included in this package is a novella study based on the book. For each chapter there are vocabulary exercises, comprehension/discussion questions and a think and write activity. This is followed by a
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8th - 10th
Close Reading, Inference-The Lottery by Shirley Jackson-No Prep Writing Activity
Description of ProductThis is a writing prompt requiring students to practice close reading and inference. This assignment focuses on The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, and an excerpt from the text is provided. This is a great addition to your literary lessons regarding extrapolating from literary text. This is a no-prep assignment that you can use before, during, or after your class reads The Lottery. It's a great composition prompt for middle school, high school, or college-level English Languag
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Assessment, Prose and Poetry: Perfect Together! (M) Patsy's Paradise
With the natural world shrinking at an alarming rate, and almost non-existent in urban areas, it's nice to read a passage in which a character takes a pro-active role in restoring one small part of nature. This story, Patsy's Paradise, which is filled with figures of speech and is content rich, is partly autobiographical, so it is close to my heart. 25 professionally written multiple choice, evidence based questions and a writing prompt are included for assessment. Enjoy! My students did! (C) 20
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7th - 10th
Poems about Diversity from Dragon University! #2: Creature Features
It's OK to be different! It's OK to celebrate our differences! it's good to understand that diversity is and always has been the catalyst that moves life forward! These and others are the themes found in this second edition of Poems about Diversity from Dragon University. Each poem is carefully constructed to be of poetic, literary, and educational value, and to be used for remote learning if necessary. Ten professionally written, open-ended questions are included for assessment. Copyright 2021
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6th - 10th
Poems About Diversity from Dragon University! (#1): Not Fire, but Ice
Diversity is a crucial topic with which all students should be familiar, and fluency is a reading skill that all students should master for academic success, so this new series, Poems about Diversity from Dragon University, accomplishes both goals in one unit. The poems are engaging, challenging and relevant, and who doesn't like the topic of dragons? This first poem, Not Fire but Ice, explores the treatment of one dragon who blows ice and not fire, and how he wins the respect, acceptance and ad
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5th - 10th
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