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High school informational text lessons for Easel under $5
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
NIGHT Elie Wiesel Biography Informational Texts Activities PRINT and EASEL
Teaching "Night" by Elie Wiesel? This resource would be a great way to introduce your students to the amazing man behind the book. The resource includes:- a pre-reading internet activity, and- four reading passages with questions (comprehension and language), and a page of short essay answer questions. Students do not have to be studying the memoir “Night” to complete the activities in this resource and of course its components can be used over more or less than five days, as it suits the tea
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Harper Lee, Orwell, Tolkien, Wiesel BUNDLE Biography PRINT and EASEL
Emancipation Proclamation Activity | Printable & Digital | Civil War Worksheets
Everything you need to teach Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is included in this comprehensive Civil War lesson. Tier-three vocabulary support, guided questioning, summary writing, and an extension activity will ensure student understanding of the Emancipation Proclamation. Printable PDF and Google Drive versions are included. **This resource is part of the Civil War Activities Unit Bundle. It includes 8 engaging Civil War resources at a 30% discount price! Click here to preview all 8 print
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: US History Primary Source Analysis BUNDLE | Printable & Digital
Thanksgiving Activities Nonfiction Lesson on Hot Topics: Black Friday
This informational text lesson for Thanksgiving is ready-to-go to engage your high school students this November. With leveled texts, standards-based questions, creative activity, and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate! Student Experience: The encroachment of Black Friday into Thanksgiving Thursday has been a trend years in the making. This mini unit is designed to get students not only thinking and questioning this topic, but also analyzi
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE
Henrietta Lacks and Bioethics CER Research Project - Black History Month Project
Looking to spark amazing discussion and engage your students in real-world debate, all while learning an important figure in Black History? Help your students learn about Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and the property rights of biological materials with this bioethics research project. Students will gather information from text and video sources. Then they will craft an argumentative essay using the CER format.The lesson meets science, reading, and writing standards. Students begin with gathering
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8th - 11th
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Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Rhetorical Device Annotation Activity
Whether you are using this speech to analyze rhetoric, tone, or diction, this annotating and highlighting activity will engage all learners. Print and digital options with optional rhetorical precis included. I recommend using paper and highlighters the "old-fashioned" way because it is far more kinesthetic, but the Google Slides file also allows for digital/paperless learning.This activity requires 5 different color highlighters. I recommend (1) blue (2) green (3) yellow (4) orange (5) pink to
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9th - 12th
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Paired Texts: Frederick Douglass & Malala Yousafzai - Close Reading Essay Lesson
This lesson connects three texts: Robert Hayden’s poem “Frederick Douglass,” an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom, and the New York Times article “Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N.” It also makes learning relevant for your students through real-world connections, while meeting ELA standards by employing nonfiction texts.Use this lesson to give your students practice with close reading and the synthesis of ideas. Activity handouts focus on b
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
The Crucible Arthur Miller's "Why I Wrote The Crucible" Article and Questions
Enhance your high school ELA students' critical reading skills with this interesting pre-reading activity for Arthur Miller's modern play, The Crucible, Miller's article "Why I Wrote The Crucible" and questions for students. Includes detailed answer key. No prep. In October of 1996, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Crucible, Arthur Miller wrote an essay for the New Yorker titled, “Why I Wrote The Crucible.” In this article, he recounts the terror of the Red Scare led by Senator
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9th - 12th
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Fishbowl Discussions: Grades 9-12 & CCSS Aligned
How many times have you sent your high school students home to read a few articles or a few chapters for homework and the following day, when it's time for discussion, the room is dead silent and lifeless?
This happened to me all of the time in my first few years of teaching. If you're looking for a way to make class discussion purposeful and student-led, then FISHBOWL DISCUSSIONS are a great structure to try!
A fishbowl discussion can be used for any level of students, but you need to know
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Dystopian Literature: Mega Bundle of All Resources
Paired Texts - A Midsummer Night's Dream & Newspaper Article
Make teaching Shakespeare relevant with connections to nonfiction texts. Students complete close readings of two texts: an excerpt from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The New York Times online article (link provided) “Modern Love--Breaking our Parents’ Rules for Love.” Using an excerpt from the play will make Shakespeare manageable and engaging for many of your students.In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for online learning with EASEL by TpT.Stu
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9th - 12th
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Evolution and Natural Selection Antibiotic Resistance Claim Evidence Reasoning
Are you looking for an engaging way to teach your students about evolution and natural selection? Make real-world connections, and learn about the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria! In this research project, your students will learn about selection pressures and the dangers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They will gather information from text and video sources and craft a CER response explaining why medical professionals are concerned about the rise of superbugs.The lesson meets scie
Grades:
7th - 10th
NGSS:
MS-LS4-5
, MS-LS4-4
, HS-LS4-5
5 Stages of Grief and Dealing with Loss Informational Text, Discussion Questions
Two-page article and 10 questions about Kubler-Ross's 5 Stages of Grief, John Bowlby's model of grief in waves, what grief looks like, and dealing with feelings of grief and loss. Questions are standards-based, but also dig deeper into students' thoughts and reflections about their personal experiences. Questions can also be used to facilitate robust classroom conversations. Perfect on its own or as a companion piece to supplement novels such as The Hate U Give, Thirteen Reasons Why, Bridge to
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: The Outsiders Novel Study BUNDLE - Over 200 Pages - Print & Digital Unit
World War II: Rationing, Victory Gardens, War Bonds, Rosie the Riveter
Students will read and do activities to aid in their understanding of what was done on the homefront during World War II to help win the war. There are short pieces to read and activities on rationing, Rosie the Riveter, Victory Gardens, Scrap Metal Drives, and War Bonds.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: World War II Bundle
EDGAR ALLAN POE Biography Informational Texts Activities PRINT and EASEL
Edgar Allan Poe biographical unit, five reading passages and activities.Teachers can use this set of activities in a number of ways, in class, as assignments, or as an independent study: there are 5 biographical passages about Edgar Allan Poe covering his background, his childhood, his life as a teen and young adult, his early writing career, and his last years. They average around 350 words in length. Each passage includes comprehension and vocabulary questions on the right panel. Each one st
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Poe Dickinson Whitman Hawthorne BUNDLE 19th Century Bios PRINT and EASEL
The History of Halloween Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Activities
Are you looking for a no-prep resource to help your students learn more about the history of Halloween? Save yourself precious prep time and guide your high school students (or middle school students with some support) through these easy-to-use activities that will enlighten your students to the ties that Halloween has to the past! Just print the student pages, and use the included reading passage as a whole class close reading or independent assignment. With easy-to-follow directions, this res
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9th - 11th
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Christmas Activities Winter Holiday Parody and Satire Song Exercise
CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW. Christmas and the winter holiday season have wonderful traditions, including festive holiday songs and carols. This unique, engaging lesson plan uses favorite Winter holiday songs to facilitate students' understanding of parody and satire. Students will listen and sing along with classic holiday songs and then analyze humorous parodies/satires of those original songs. After analyzing other satires, studens will create their own parodies/satires of holiday songs to shar
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7th - 12th
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MARK TWAIN Biography Gr 7-10 Texts and Activities PRINT and EASEL
Included in this resource are 5 biographical passages about Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and cover his background, his childhood, his life as a young adult, his early writing career, and his later years. -- They average around 350 words in length. Each passage stands alone and can be used individually or as bellringers for several periods. Comprehension questions and vocabulary work are on the right side of each text page.-- The
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7th - 10th
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Scientific Literacy Sub Plan Enrichment Activity - GMOs
When you're assembling your sub folder, choose a meaningful assignment that will help build scientific literacy. This resource addresses the NGSS standards of critical thinking and communication skills including scientific literacy which apply to all of the benchmarks. In addition to sub plans, this resource is a great early finisher activity or enrichment activity for students during a unit in DNA or genetics.This activity includes:2 page document about GMOs2 page worksheet including analysis q
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS1-4
, MS-ESS2-2
Also included in: Informational Text for MS Scientific literacy lesson plans Bundle #2
Paired Texts - Henry David Thoreau & Newspaper Article
In this lesson, students read and analyze nonfiction texts: excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and an online newspaper article “Tiny House Movement Thrives Amid Real Estate Bust." After close reading the texts, they select a writing activity from a choice board that makes relevant connections.In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for online learning with EASEL by TpT.Students begin by writing a journal about their most essential activities and consider how they
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Animal Farm GEORGE ORWELL Biography Texts Activities PRINT and EASEL
This biographical unit about the author of Animal Farm and 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) George Orwell, is designed as a multi-purpose reading and writing assignment for middle and high school English students (or History students studying the Cold War period).The resource includes:(1) a pre-reading vocabulary activity, (2) four reading passages with questions (comprehension and language), and (3) a page of short essay answer questions. Students do not have to have read Orwell’s novels to complet
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Harper Lee, Orwell, Tolkien, Wiesel BUNDLE Biography PRINT and EASEL
EARTH DAY History Informational Texts Activities Grades 8-11 PRINT and EASEL
This informational text resource is designed for both History and Science for grades 9-11 and strong grade 8 students. Included are:--- three texts on the history of Earth Day (An Idea is Born, Earth Day 1970, and Earth Day Since 1970)--- a page of comprehension/opinion questions for each text, as well as a vocabulary activity--- a video activity which has questions to accompany the 1970 ABC News broadcast on April 22nd (approximately 9 minutes in length) that is available here: http://abcnews.
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8th - 10th
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Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the 3 philosophies that influenced Chinese culture; Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism. They will also do close reads and use question starters from Bloom's taxonomy to write three different leveled questions about the influence of these philosophies on China.
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6th - 12th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Close Reading and Speech Writing Lesson
Make your study of Martin Luther King, Jr. a literacy lesson with a primary source. Students complete a close reading of Dr. King's prophetic speech “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” and use their reading as inspiration for their own writing. In pre-reading activities, students learn about the context of the speech and define vocabulary. Next, they complete an activity to understand allusions, and then after reading the speech, they analyze its structure using a graphic organizer. They use the sa
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in: Bundle: Writing with Mentor Texts - American Authors
Here's Why We Celebrate Labor Day - Reading Comprehension - Key Included
Non-fiction Article - Why We Celebrate Labor Day- 10 Comprehension Questions - Multiple Choice, Written Response, Compare/Contrast- Key IncludedHigh Interest - This article shares the history of Labor Day and gives additional insight to events most students have never heard of previously. Please "Follow Me" to receive updates or be aware of new resources!
Grades:
6th - 10th
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