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Common Core RL.7.2 thematic unit plans for homeschool
Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
The Elevator: A Lesson in Suspense
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off a unit - or an exhilarating lesson - of intense suspense with this all-inclusive 38-slide PowerPoint "The Elevator." Presentation includes the text, anticipatory questions, probable passage, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions where students can write their own conclusion. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you're not there!Teaching more suspense or gothic literature? Check out my other
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Substitute Literary Lesson Bundle
The Call of the Wild Unit Plan Bundle - 5 Weeks - Jack London, Novel Study, CCSS
This is a comprehensive 5-week unit plan for taking your class through The Call of the Wild, the classic novella by Jack London. In addition to the bundled resources there is a pacing guide, a full set of lesson plans, warm ups, exit tickets, and additional activities exclusive to this unit. Students will participate in an engaging PowerPoint session, research Jack London in a biography research organizer, work on vocabulary practice worksheets for each chapter, complete reading comprehension q
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7th - 10th
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Animal Farm Unit Plan - 4 Weeks - Novel Study of the George Orwell Classic, CCSS
This is a comprehensive 4-week unit plan for taking your class through Animal Farm, the classic novella by George Orwell. The complete bundled unit has a pacing guide, a full set of daily lesson plans, warm ups, exit tickets, and a variety of activities to engage students. Students will participate in an engaging PowerPoint session (includes background information of the Russian Revolution), research George Orwell in a research organizer, complete close reading questions and discussion questions
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7th - 10th
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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street PowerPoint
Teaching The Twilight Zone play, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street? Introduce this gripping play of suspense and conformity with an engaging, student-friendly 36-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on The Twilight Zone, pre-reading vocabulary, teleplay terms, anticipation questions, themes, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions that will take you through the entire unit.Click HERE for more amazing The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street products!Need more terrific teacher
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6th - 12th
Also included in: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Bundle
NO PREP Poetry Close Read Lessons
Having trouble teaching your students how to read complex text? Need help analyzing poetry? This product comes with step-by-step lesson plans and detailed teacher notes.
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- Close Read Part 1 (Detailed First & Second Reads w/ teacher notes)
- Close Read Part 2 (Third Read-Line by line analysis of the poem)
- Close Read Part 3 (Fourth Read-Discovering Figurative Language)
- Poem - Autumn, Emily Dickinson
- Student Thinking Sheets (Two pages of Student Reading Tasks)
- Figurative La
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5th - 8th
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Abuela Invents the Zero RACES Response Digital & Printable for Distance Learning
"Abuela Invents the Zero" is about a teenage girl that is conflicted between her American and Puerto Rican identities. When her grandmother visits from Puerto Rico she is faced with challenging circumstances. This short story teaches a lesson about how life experiences can shape our values. Students will practice their reading comprehension as they focus on theme and respond to the characters' actions. Students will also practice writing short answer responses using the RACE writing acronym a
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7th - 9th
Signs of Survival a memoir and oral history by Hartman for ELA and history
This product includes over 100 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the memoir, Signs of Survival, by Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene. This book is an inspiring narrative account of Renee and Herta Hartman's experiences as children in Czechoslovakia during WWII. This novel opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Courage,
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6th - 8th
Christopher P. Curtis's "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" - 30 Common Core Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 26 rigorous unit learning tasks for Christopher Paul Curtis’s, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded e
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6th - 8th
Famous Poets Analysis Bundle: Frost, Dickinson, Sandburg, & Stevenson
Is poetry hard to teach? Do your students struggle with understanding the meaning of poems? Here's a tool for you to use that will make teaching Frost, Dickinson, Stevenson and Sandburg a lot easier for you and your students!You will find each of my units on Robert Frost (6 poems, analysis sheets & posters), Emily Dickinson (5 poems & analysis sheets), Carl Sandburg (6 poems, analysis sheets, teaching guide for "Skyscraper," and posters), and Robert Louis Stevenson (6 poems & analy
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5th - 8th
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Thank You, M'am Reading Comprehension Printable & Digital
"Thank You M'am" is set in Harlem during the 1920's. The author, Langston Hughes, exposes the African American experience and the dignity of the common people against the backdrop of the city. This short historical fiction offers a great cross-curricular connection. Students will practice their reading comprehension as they focus on theme and respond to the characters' actions. Students will also practice writing short answer responses using the RACE writing acronym as a guide. The worksheet
Grades:
7th - 10th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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7th - 12th
Also included in: My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
Teach Theme BUNDLE | Lesson, Auto-Graded Quiz, Poster & Topic-Statement Template
THEME is my favourite lesson to get to as an English teacher; but I often find students (myself in high school, too) confuse THEME with "moral" or "topic", and they need support articulating innovative thematic messages.This comprehensive THEME bundle is designed to quickly and effectively teach and assess students' familiarity with identifying and articulating THEMEs in the texts they read, mainly literature. The bundle engages learners ages 13+ in ---learning what THEME is and is NOT, actively
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7th - 12th
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Ultimate "The Hunger Games" Study Unit
Maximize students' experience reading Suzanna Collins' classic dystopian novel, "The Hunger Games," with our extremely comprehensive study unit.1. Novel StudyThis core resource includes worksheets, discussion questions, written response questions, jeopardy games, as well as pre- and post-reading activities.2. Informational TextsFour texts on real-world issues such as the ethics of warfare, reality TV, and survival skills illuminate many of the issues explored in "The Hunger Games."3. The Lottery
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6th - 12th
Finding Langston Novel and Poetry Study
So, what we have created for you is a simple curriculum unit for teaching Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome. We know, we’re excited about it, too! We love listening to the audiobook with our students in February for two main reasons: to teach our students about the Great Migration and the Port Chicago Disaster, and because of Valentine’s Day, as this book is a sweet love letter to books, poetry, and mothers. May could likewise be a great month to read this book since it also focuses on moth
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4th - 8th
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Refugee Novel Study Book Unit
Refugee Novel Unit is a Common Core Standard Aligned book study to be used with the historical fiction novel, Refugee by Alan Gratz. This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ format for distance and digital learning.This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes Google Drive™ format files, additional writing activities, teacher plans, and CCSS alignment t
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Grades:
5th - 8th
The Hunger Games Novel Study - Worksheets, Jeopardy, Weekly Discussions + More!
This comprehensive resource is ready to print and will keep students engaged for up to two months.What's included:- Pre-reading: Students learn about the author and complete a survey to engage with themes they will encounter.- Worksheets: Seven worksheets (covering four chapters each) are perfect to keep students engaged and on track during independent reading.- Discussion Questions: Seven sets of discussion questions allow the class to expand understanding, make real-world connections, and broa
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Ultimate "The Hunger Games" Study Unit
A Christmas Carol - Unit Plan
This unit plan of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, has three purposes: to introduce early adolescent readers to the 19th century novel using an engaging, relatively accessible text, to use as a mentor text for exploration of literarcy devices and elements, and finally, as an introduction to an era that shaped the world we live in today. Included in this unit plan: Anticipatory set with all required materials, stave notes set-up sample, literary elements handout, characterization analysis
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6th - 9th
Ghost by Jason Reynolds Novel Study Book Unit Printable Version
Ghost Novel Unit is a Common Core Standard Aligned book study to be used with Ghost by Jason Reynolds. This download contains a printable format only. You can find this complete printable novel study combined with a Google Drive™ version here.This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes additional writing activities, teacher plans, and CCSS alignment that you cannot find in the individ
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5th - 8th
O. Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” – 18 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for O. Henry’s short story, "A Retrieved Reformation." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Refugee Novel Study Book Unit Printable Version
Refugee Novel Unit is a Common Core Standard Aligned book study to be used with Refugee by Alan Gratz. This download contains a printable format only. You can find this complete printable novel study combined with a Google Drive™ version here.*********************************************************************************This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes additional writing
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Grades:
5th - 8th
City of Ember Guided Viewing Movie Questions
This assignment is a guided movie document for the 2008 movie, City of Ember. City of Ember is a fictional movie based off Jeanne DuPrau's award winning novel. It portrays the story of societal survival and the myriad of issues that were faced after an underground city was constructed protect mankind from becoming completely extinct. With an unstable generator that has powered the city of Ember for over 200 years, it finally on its last leg and is beginning to shut down. If the generator comp
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4th - 12th
Projekt 1065 Novel Study Book Unit Printable Version
Projekt 1065 Novel Unit is a Common Core Standard Aligned book study to be used with Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz. This download contains a printable format only. You can find this complete printable novel study combined with a Google Drive™ version here.*********************************************************************************This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes additiona
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Edgar Allan Poe Unit PowerPoint Bundle
Kick off a unit on Edgar Allan Poe's world of suspense with this PowerPoint bundle on four classics at a reduced price. Product includes presentation on two poems, "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" and two short stories, "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Slides include anticipatory questions, informative facts on Edgar Allan Poe, pre-reading vocabulary, themes, character descriptions, and engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.Make connecting with text meaningful wit
Grades:
7th - 12th
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