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Literary Analysis with Sticky Notes - Short Story Unit w/ Activities, Writing
Teaching literary analysis can be fun, engaging, and accessible for all students! Increase student engagement and understanding in your next literary analysis unit (whether it be short stories or novels) with interactive and hands-on close reading organizers and scaffolded writing responses. Students will enjoy using sticky notes in class as they analyze the author's use of various literary devices in complex short stories and novels. This is a complete literature unit in itself!This sticky note
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry
"Examination Day" Short Story Escape Room Activity: Practice Plot & Theme
Practice comprehension, plot structure, textual evidence, theme, and more with this engaging escape room for the short story "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar. If you've never read or heard of this dystopian/sci-fi story, check it out - it's the PERFECT accessible, high-interest, twist-ending story for middle schoolers. This activity can be facilitated traditionally, digitally (aka NO prep), or with a blended hybrid approach. During this escape room, students will answer questions, identify elem
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6th - 9th
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The Masque of the Red Death - Poe - ESCAPE ROOM - Engaging Activity
Engage your students and practice literary analysis with this engaging, elaborate ESCAPE ROOM for Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death. This escape room activity can be facilitated virtually, traditionally, or with a blended/hybrid approach. Get ready to creep your students out even more as they attempt to escape the Red Death at Prince Prospero's masquerade!This sequential escape room takes students through 7 "rooms" (like the story) or challenges. The challenges start simple, with reading
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Resource Bundle: Engaging Activities
Edgar Allan Poe- A CSI Activity! Was he MURDERED??
Edgar Allan Poe- A CSI Activity!***************************************************BUNDLE WITH THE Edgar Allan Poe SUPER PACK and SAVE BIG!******************************************************************************The mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's death is investigated with this exciting CSI activity! Start with the exploration through Poe's troubled past in original handouts and a Background Information Sheet. Then go through a powerpoint presentation with specific (strange!) information abou
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Monkey's Paw Close Reading & Literary Analysis Assignment - PRINT & DIGITAL
Engage your students in close reading and literary analysis with this The Monkey's Paw Close Reading Literary Analysis Unit! This digital and traditional print close reading activity for "The Monkey's Paw" requires students to go back to carefully-selected passages from the text to read and closely analyze specific literary elements: figurative language, foreshadowing, and mood.With an emphasis placed on close reading and literary analysis, students will gain a better understanding of W. W. Jaco
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Stories Close Reading Literary Analysis Bundle - PRINT + DIGITAL
The Yellow Wallpaper Mini-Unit - Engaging, Complete Print and Digital Resource
“The Yellow Wallpaper Mini-Unit” is perfect for teaching students to analyze literature in a meaningful way. All of the prep work and thinking have been done for you. This truly is a print-and-go resource. The mini-unit includes 5 lesson plans, an interactive PowerPoint presentation to introduce the story’s historical context, student activities, as well as a detailed answer key. The mini-unit also includes a creative writing piece that allows students to play around with voice and situate thems
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Interactive Flip Book, 10 Activities
This interactive resource contains everything you need to engage students with Edgar Allan Poe's creepy classic, "The Tell Tale Heart." Perfect in October (or any time of year!) this resource can be used alone, with Interactive Notebooks, or with Interactive File Folders.THIS "TELL-TALE HEART" RESOURCE INCLUDES:full text of “The Tell-Tale Heart” in easy-to-read font, with especially difficult vocabulary terms definedlesson plananticipation guidetext-dependent questions10 activities9 writing prom
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7th - 9th
The Cask of Amontillado Close Reading & Analysis Assignment - PRINT & DIGITAL
Engage your students in close reading and literary analysis with this The Cask of Amontillado Close Reading Literary Analysis Unit! This digital and traditional print close reading activity for "The Cask of Amontillado" requires students to go back to carefully-selected passages from the text to read and closely analyze specific literary elements: conflict and mood.With an emphasis placed on close reading and literary analysis, students will gain a better understanding of Edgar Allan Poe's short
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Stories Close Reading Literary Analysis Bundle - PRINT + DIGITAL
Spanish story: Tener expressions | el verbo tener | irregular verb in Spanish
This is a silly TPRS story, written entirely in the Spanish present tense, about a family who goes hiking and complains about everything - being cold, hot, tired, hungry and scared. Students will receive repetition and high quality input of the tener expressions in Spanish.This story is action packed and most fun when acted out, but the new interactive, choose-your-own-ending picture book also makes it comprehensible for independent reading as well. I use it after I have pre-taught the "tener"
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5th - 10th
Literature: Writing a Literary Essay Unit
Writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach literary analysis writing we need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive literature essay writing pack you will get step-by-step lesson plans, engaging worksheets, helpful handouts and more. ** NOTE: You can now buy this as part of my BUNDLED WRITING PACK and save 20%**OVERVIEW:Think of this as literary analysis boot-camp: over the course of the unit, students will be introduced to the concept of anal
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8th - 11th
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The Fall of the House of Usher Escape Room
This activity features an engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 puzzles covering plot, vocabulary, figurative language and quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-len
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Escape Room MEGA Bundle
Short Story Unit - Mystery and Suspense - Scary Stories Horror - Suspenseful
The Suspenseful Short Story Unit supplements mystery stories, the horror genre, and provides scary stories to fright and delight your students! This short story unit focuses on identifying and analyzing the element of suspense. This pairs perfectly with Edgar Allan Poe!How will this resource benefit your classroom? The activities reinforce the knowledge students need to analyze a story's suspenseful mood and setting. The Suspenseful Stories Short Story Unit could additionally be utilized as a s
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8th - 11th
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"The Gift of the Magi" and "The Necklace" Lessons & Activities
"The Gift of the Magi" and "The Necklace" are two short stories with a lot in common, and a lot of differences as well. This short story unit is designed to help students uncover those as they come up with an overall theme that covers them both. Students will need to do close reading, critical thinking, collaboration, speaking, listening, and writing. It's a great unit to work on many language arts skills -- and to teach your students valuable lessons about love and sacrifice as well. In this pa
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9th - 12th
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Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz
Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz: Prepare your students for reading short stories or novels with this ready-to-use resource. This comprehensive lesson prepares students with a solid understanding of essential story elements and literary elements crucial for analyzing fiction. The included short story elements presentation, engaging review game, and quiz create an excellent introductory lesson that lays the groundwork for insightful literary analy
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7th - 10th
SHORT STORY UNIT - Indigenous Theme (FNMI) - Bundle of Lesson Plans
This Bundle includes 21 lessons, including printables and PowerPoint presentations (details below).PART 1:This bundle of 7 lesson plans explores Canadian Indigenous themes using reading workshop and writing workshop.Lesson Overview:Dancer by Vickie Sears (short story) - Activities used: story reading, characterization mini-lesson, writer's craft discussion, character analysis activity (printable included), large group discussion, writer's notebook prompt, poetry reading.Borders by Thomas King (s
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7th - 12th
The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM (Shirley Jackson)
Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for Th
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: The Lottery Activity Bundle (Shirley Jackson)
Short Story Unit Ruthless by William De Mille
The perfect short story for any class, Ruthless by William de Mille tells a story of revenge gone wrong. If you are looking for a short story that is gripping, with a twist in its tale. Then this short story is for you.Interested in distance learning activities? See my digital unit on Ruthless here.This activity contains a full version of the short story itself, numerous pre-reading activities, comprehension questions for during, a Socratic seminar lesson with 6 discussion prompts, a FREE previ
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Short Story Bundle
The Elevator, Click-clack the Rattlebag & The Feather Pillow Short Story Bundle
Looking to teach a creepy and eerie unit with students? This BUNDLE contains units for The Feather Pillow, The Elevator and Click-clack the Rattlebag! Three creepy stories to engage students all while working their critical thinking skills and hitting Common Core standards! This bundle is particularly excellent during the first part of the school year as fall approaches and the scary stories begin to make their rounds! These are delightfully horrifying short stories for Halloween time, but also
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7th - 10th
What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish? Short Story Analysis Unit
Etgar Keret’s short story, “What, of this Goldfish, Would you Wish?” is an excellent story for exploring multi-cultural points of view as well as complex characters and how they develop over the course of a text. This 71-page short story unit will help your students connect to and analyze the story with TONS of fun and rigorous activities they will love.This unit includes 1-7 days of lessons plans with step-by-step instructions, plenty of activity handouts for easy print-and-go convenience, an a
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8th - 12th
Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" Activity Bundle
You need this packet of 4 activities to help your students read like detectives as they tackle Edgar Allan Poe's challenging short story "The Fall of the House of Usher!" For pre-reading, your students will think about or research mental illness and response to death from the 1830s.As students read the story, they complete the Active Reading Guide so they are focusing on the symbolism and duplicity in the story. After reading the story, students complete the close reading activity which focus
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9th - 12th
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The Gift of the Magi Close Reading & Analysis Assignment - PRINT & DIGITAL
Engage your students in close reading and literary analysis with this Gift of the Magi Close Reading Literary Analysis Unit! This digital and traditional print close reading activity for "The Gift of the Magi" requires students to go back to carefully-selected passages from the text to read and closely analyze specific literary elements: characterization, tone, and theme. With an emphasis placed on close reading and literary analysis, students will gain a better understanding of O. Henry's shor
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Stories Close Reading Literary Analysis Bundle - PRINT + DIGITAL
The Necklace Close Reading Assignment Literary Analysis - PRINT & DIGITAL
Engage your students in close reading and literary analysis with this The Necklace Close Reading Literary Analysis Unit! This digital and traditional print close reading activity for "The Necklace" requires students to go back to carefully-selected passages from the text to read and closely analyze specific literary elements: conflict and theme.With an emphasis placed on close reading and literary analysis, students will gain a better understanding of Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklac
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Stories Close Reading Literary Analysis Bundle - PRINT + DIGITAL
All Summer in A Day Resource Bundle: Question Trail, Foldable, & Organizers
Engage your students with these resources for Ray Bradbury's "All Summer In A Day." This bundle includes the following:Plot Foldable: Review plot structure with this student-friendly plot foldable resource!Question Trail: Engage students in a kinesthetic review of figurative language with this unique, high-interest activity your students will LOVE!Theme Organizers: Guide students through the process of identifying & explaining a theme with these helpful graphic organizers.For more informatio
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6th - 9th
Holiday or Winter Short Story The Greatest Gift -- It's a Wonderful Life
Engage students before winter break and work on skills with "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern, the short story that It's a Wonderful Life is based upon. It takes place at Christmas but is less religious than the movie. Virtually no-prep and works for independent close reading or to hold attention for a read-aloud.What you get:A short fill-in with a word bank provides surprising and interesting background information for an introduction. A variety of comprehension questions: interpr
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6th - 9th
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