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Close reading Common Core CCRA.W.6 rubrics
Debate Kit for The Kite Runner - Rubric, Speech Guidelines, & Topic Suggestions
Description: Elevate your classroom debates on The Kite Runner with our comprehensive Debate Preparation Kit. This resource equips you and your students with everything needed for engaging and structured debates, including a detailed rubric, speech guidelines, and a selection of thought-provoking debate topics.Key Features:Structured Guidelines: Our kit provides clear directions for each phase of the debate, from crafting opening statements to delivering closing remarks. Students will understand
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8th - 12th
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"The Lady, or the Tiger" Quickwrites EOC test prep RL.10.1 ACES digital resource
I developed this product for use in an Honors English II class. Students first respond to the common prompt before we read. I gave them ten minutes to write, and then they volunteered to share their responses. Then, after we read, I had students complete the remaining prompts. They then chose a peer group for peer review after they completed a self-assessment/editing session.--Reviews the ACES writing strategy--Teaches students to analyze literature, particularly characterizationI have also d
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9th - 10th
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Current Event Analysis: Exploring Social Justice Themes in Literature
Description: Enhance your students' understanding of social justice themes in literature with our Current Event Summary and Analysis assignment! Designed specifically for books focusing on social justice issues, this assignment empowers students to connect real-world events to the broader themes discussed in their novels, fostering critical thinking and deeper engagement with social justice topics.Key Features:1. Relevant and Engaging Content: Encourage students to choose a current event related
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6th - 12th
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"This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable" Poetry Analysis Close Reading FALL EOC
With this assignment, students read John Keat's "This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable" and complete the graphic organizer to aid in their understanding of the poem. Then follow the ritual of close reading to consider what the title means and the impact of the figurative language and imagery in the poem, as well as to determine tone and theme. Finally, students are asked to select a theme to explore in the text, and use the ACES writing method to analyze the author's development of that theme
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Halloween-Themed Suspense Resources Secondary ELA Standards based fun
Non-Fiction Pumpkin Research Writing Project
Pumpkin Non-Fiction Research Writing Project. This curriculum was designed as a differentiated non-fiction research writing project!! Mostly used for grade levels 1st-3rd (Aligned to Common Core Oregon State Standards).Possible Curriculum Uses:*As a Non-fiction Research/Informational Writing Project *Shared reading/Creative Writing*Close ReadDifferentiated Learning Levels-DLL:Including 3 learning levels with varied scaffolding to support all learns.*DLL-1/Emergent: with many scaffold supports*D
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1st - 3rd
The Necklace Summative Essay Task (Great for Distance Learning)
After reading “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, challenge students to apply what they have read to answer the question, “Can money Buy Happiness?” In this summative essay task, students will select text evidence from the short story and a video to justify and support their opinions. A great way to connect this classic tale of irony with authentic real-life experiences.Included is a set of differentiated argument essay templates and grading rubrics (based on VanCleave, 2018). Scaffold stude
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6th - 12th
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Oedipus the King Quickwrites: Constructed Responses EOC test prep RL.10.1
I developed this product for use in an Honors English II class. Students chose a prompt to respond to at the start of each class. I gave them ten minutes to write, and then they volunteered to share their responses to each prompt. These were perfect bellringers or warmups for our Oedipus and tragic heroes unit. Students have choice, it helps all students to discuss the text, make connections, and deepen their understandings. On day 5 of reading, my students had to choose two prompts to resp
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9th - 10th
George Washington Biography Writing and Research Report
Curriculum Focus:This curriculum was designed as a non-fiction biography research unit study!! Mostly used for grade levels 3-5th. (Aligned to Common Core Oregon State Standards)Possible Curriculum Uses:*As a Non-fiction/Biography/Informational Research Writing Project *Share reading/Creative Writing/Informational Writing/Research Writing Project*Close ReadItems Included: Non-fiction Biography Research Unit Study*Informational Biography Bulletin Board Posters/ (Can be used as digital power poin
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3rd - 5th
The House on Mango Street Analytical Essay Rubric
This rubric coincides with the The House on Mango Street Analytical Essay assignment that asks students to write an analytical essay concerning identity, culture, or gender as it is present in The House on Mango Street. This essay assignment is only 3 paragraphs in length but this document can be easily modified to make the essay large and more involved for higher level and older students. In this essay, students are required to utilize MLA format in order to analyze one of these themes and inte
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7th - 12th
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What Body Part is Most Important to a Beaver’s Survival? A Guided Opinion Lesson
Teaching primary students how to write an Opinion paragraph is not an easy task! Use this product to teach students how to write an opinion paragraph based on content area reading. In this packet you will find: Instructions on how to use this product and guide your students through the lessonsFacts Vs Opinion Activities with Student Response CardsStructure of Opinion Writing Posters for Primary Grades Opinion ESSAY Structure (This is for 3rd graders ready for a 3-paragraph essay, or a 5-paragrap
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1st - 3rd
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Main Idea Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan designed to introduce what a Main Idea is in a fun way! It scaffolds the process of identifying the main idea through gradual release of responsibility. My favorite aspect of the lesson is how it allows students the chance to read real news going on in a world today and begin to start analyzinging it as they look for the main idea in it! This is a fun lesson that incorporates videos, class discussions, and group work as students learn a method to identify the main idea.
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1st - 3rd
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WRITE AP Lang Review
This resource has been designed to serve as a review of competencies taught throughout AP Language & Composition.Competencies covered in this review project pertain to rhetorical analysis, argument, visual analysis, and synthesis, as well as a reflection of the skills they have developed in this course.Set up like a BINGO board, each square contains a task that will reinforce and strengthen the skills and strategies students will need to demonstrate to be prepared for the AP exam.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: WRITE AP Lang Review Bundle
Hamlet Mock Trial
Is Hamlet really insane? At the start of the play he says he will only pretend to be mad in order to get Claudius to reveal his part in his father's murder. Many critics contend that the pressure Hamlet feels to avenge his father makes him go authentically insane, while many believe Hamlet to be stark-raving sane throughout the entire play. This assignment asks students to put Hamlet on trial. Is he sane or insane? If insane, can he be held responsible for the blood on his hands? If found sane,
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Hamlet Complete Unit
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