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Middle school literature thematic unit plans for Microsoft Word under $5
Fences lesson plans, Unit Plan, August Wilson, 54 pages.
Completely rewritten & expanded July 2011
This is a complete, loosely-structured Drama unit. There is no strict schedule or pacing guide here, though the activities, the concluding essay, the Socratic seminar, and the chapter quizzes and study guides would logically dictate the order of lesson delivery. You may find that you skip some activities, alter some activities and documents, and change the order of delivery year by year,based on your scheduling, teaching style, and type of students.
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8th - 12th
The Joy Luck Club Unit Plan. 89 pages of activities and handouts
Completely rewritten and expanded July 2011
This is a complete, loosely-structured novel unit, with 89 pages of handouts and activities. There are no strict schedules or pacing guides here-though the quizzes, study guides, the concluding essay, the Socratic seminar, and the chapter quizzes and study guides would logically dictate the order of lesson delivery. You may find that you skip some activities, alter some activities and documents, and change the order of delivery year by year-based on y
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8th - 12th
Tall Tale Lesson: John Henry +10 Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice Questions
In this mini-lesson students read a selection to see why a folk song was written about the tall tale hero, John Henry. Then they answer ten multiple choice questions by putting a circle around each correct answer. Along with two colorful drawings of John Henry being a steel driving man, you get two pages of informational text and three stanzas of the John Henry folk song. Multiple choice questions make up two pages and then the fifth page is the answer key. The reading skills the ten questions
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5th - 7th
The House on Mango Street - Creative Writing Book Project
This is a great "Back to School" introductory creative writing project intended to help you, as the teacher, get to know your students, and introduce them to the elements of plot in literature and instill a passion for creative writing in them!
Students enjoy reading selected stories from Sandra Cisneros's novel, The House on Mango Street, and creating their very own book called, "The House on (Student's Street)", which includes stories and poetry about their lives and neighborhoods.
Throughou
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6th - 10th
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La Casa en Mango Street Chapter Guide- SPANISH
This is a student journal for the first vignette in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, called La Casa en Mango St. This is ALL IN SPANISH. Has a focus strategy of visualizing, comprehension questions, and then a text dependent open response!
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6th - 12th
Chains Novel Test ( Laurie Halse Anderson) - Digital Plus Print
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of 13-year old Isabel. As the Revolutionary War begins, Isabel is fighting a battle for her own freedom and that of her sister Ruth. After being sold to the cruel Lockton family, and then being approached to spy for the Patriots, Isabel must decide what freedom really is, and what kind of freedom is worth fighting for. To check reading before a class discussion or composition, use this 20-question multiple choice test that covers the whole book.
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Chains Bundle - Test, Mid-point Quiz, Vocabulary List & Quiz, Enrichment
Myths, Legends and Folktales Cooperative Unit
In this unit students will identify the characteristics of myths, legends, and folktales, apply thinking skills to reading, listening, and writing, and demonstrate knowledge of plots and major characters of myths, legends and folktales.
Students work in cooperative groups to read Native American and Japanese myths and legends. They learn about trickster tales and the characteristics of them.
Included is the unit test.
Grades:
4th - 8th
The Odyssey Adapted Unit for English Language Learners
An adapted version of Homer's epic that will help English Language Learners to understand the major themes and plot points of the original text. This unit includes a final writing assessment aligned to the New York State Common Core Grade 9 Curriculum, as well as a student- friendly rubric for grading.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Of Mice and Men Chapter Annotations and Written Assessment Prompts
This packet includes things for students to focus on when annotating John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men. These annotations are meant to reinforce the students’ understanding of how characterization, setting, motif, plot, and conflict contribute to Steinbeck’s overall theme, specifically his arguments about human nature and society.
Each chapter has its own annotation requirements as well as a written assessment of the student’s reading, annotating, and understanding of the chapter. The an
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8th - 12th
Multicultural Book List
This multicultural book list includes 48 book title with genre and type of book, reading level, main idea, a short description, why you should read it and some examples of curriculum integration. The different cultures represented include African American, Asian, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Native American, and Latino. This is a great resource for any teacher and encompasses all grade levels. If you have any questions just send me a message! Thanks!
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1st - 12th
Facts and Opinions: Unit Materials All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students grasp the concept of facts versus opinions with the Facts and Opinions: Unit Materials All-in-One DEAL for less than it would cost to purchase each document separately. The following are included: Notes Advanced/Basic/Answers, Check Facts with Resources Advanced/Basic/Answers, Five Facts/Five Opinions Advanced Plus Answers, Five Facts/Five Opinions Basic Plus Answers, Recognizing Opinions Basic, Recognizing Opinions Advanced, and Recognizing Opinions Answers.
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6th - 12th
Tolkien's, The Hobbit Storybook Project
This project anchors a literary unit based on the reading of J.R.R.Tolkien's, The Hobbit. I have other related assignments available separately.
This Storybook Project has students work in groups to put together a mini-adventure picture book. Students study and use the elements of plot, characterization, and setting to write 5 brief chapters, accompanied with illustrations and a map of the setting. File includes directions, grading criteria, & a grading sheet.
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4th - 12th
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Siddhartha (by Hermann Hesse) Study Guide: Complete (All Chapters)
Siddhartha: All Chapters
A study guide for all three parts of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse with the following:
- Background information (definitions of culture-specific words)
- Vocabulary list of important vocabulary found in Chapter One (see vocabulary in context for list, definitions, practice, and quiz)
- Questions
- Important quotations
- Small projects at the end of each part (jigsaw reading, imagery, etc.)
Created by Kyle Czarcinski for use in middle and high school English classes
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8th - 12th
Westing Game Unit: Inferencing and Author's Craft
This unit is to be used with Ellen Raskin's 1978 novel, The Westing Game. It focuses on inferencing and author's craft. Contains high-level questions to provoke student metacognition
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6th - 8th
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Socratic Seminar - Wonder - Common Core Aligned
This Socratic Seminar allows teachers to have students focus on broad themes and undercurrents that surrounded the events covered. By providing teachers and students with the option to cover overarching discussion points, such discussions allow for more breadth than a typical Socratic Seminar, but still give teachers the option of selecting specific text excerpts for inclusion in the seminar as well. In this way, the discussion works more as a Thematic Seminar.
The thematic seminar outlined in
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5th - 8th
"Who Was Dr. Seuss?" by Janet B. Pascal Unit
Kids love reading Dr. Seuss books, and now they are able to read about Dr. Seuss - one of the most important authors and illustrators children's books. This unit includes the following: vocabulary/spelling words and activities, discussion questions, vocabulary tests, modified vocabulary/spelling tests, writing prompts, activities/worksheets, reading comprehension test, and answer key.This unit would also be ideal for homeschool instruction, independent study, and/or differentiating reading ins
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4th - 6th
Tone and Mood MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
A real deal! You get all items that address both tone and mood together for less than it would cost you to purchase each document separately (this is the mini unit). Includes the following: Warm Up, Guided Notes Plus Answers, Chart to Compare Texts, and Texts for Comparison Chart. This mini unit is also available in the Tone and Mood MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL.
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6th - 12th
TOM SAWYER RETOLD! (PACKET, TESTS, FUN, EASY, COMMON CORE)
This is a whole learning packet resource. Since The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer is in words now relatively hard to understand by so many students, this learning packet begins with Tom Sawyer Retold In Brief With Easy English which is a reading section retelling the famous story in easily understood English. (Note also that this resource includes some Spanish parts to help any Spanish speaking ESL/ELL students in Spanish too.) After the reading component comes:
Tom Sawyer Summary – similar to t
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6th - 12th
CALL OF THE WILD LEARNING PACK
This learning resource has a Reading section in English with the Spanish and some pictures. That makes it also extra great for ESL/ELLs of Spanish background or Spanish students whom you might now have now but may later. Then come:
A Matching Test with Answers Key;
“How To Practice Common Core State Standards With This Material (practical and clear);”
FUN GAME ACTIVITIES. Just print and hand them out. My students of normal ability level have always readily figured out strategies to decode
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5th - 12th
Peak Novel Text Triangulation Activity
Students will compare and analyze quotes about mountains, lyrics to Miley Cyrus's song "The Climb", a non-fiction article about Mt. Everest and a YouTube video about reaching the summit of Mt. Everest, to the novel, Peak, by Roland Smith.
Students will answer questions after each of these texts/sources of media in order to make connections to the novel, Peak.
This is a multi-media activity called text triangulation which unites various types of text around a similar theme. The theme of this
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6th - 9th
Socratic Seminar - Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - Common Core Aligned
This Socratic Seminar allows teachers to have students focus on broad themes and undercurrents that surrounded the events covered. By providing teachers and students with the option to cover overarching discussion points, such discussions allow for more breadth than a typical Socratic Seminar, but still give teachers the option of selecting specific text excerpts for inclusion in the seminar as well. In this way, the discussion works more as a Thematic Seminar.
The thematic seminar outlined in
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7th - 10th
Holes: Digging Deeper into Novel - -- Symbolism, Irony and Plot Elements
Higher-level lessons and quizzes on the novel Holes... This is series of lessons on the novel Holes featuring higher-level elements. It contains lessons on Symbolism, Irony, and Plot elements; each lesson ties these terms specifically into examples from Holes. There is a student quiz or short writing assignment after each lesson that you can use as an assessment. Key is included. Holes by Louis Sachar is a fun mystery/adventure novel with lots of plot twists and turns, lots of humorous epi
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6th - 8th
Prisoner B-3087 Thematic Text to Text Connection
This activity explores the theme of finding hope in difficult situations and connects a poem - "Hope" by Emily Dickinson to the non-fiction novel, Prisoner B-3087 and has students analyze the text to text connections.
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5th - 9th
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Making Generalizations: Unit Materials All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students grasp the concept of Making Generalizations with the Generalization: Unit Materials All-in-One DEAL for less than it would cost to purchase each document separately. The following are included: Graphic Organizer Chart, Graphic Organizer Chart Basic Plus Answers, Practice with forming Generalizations Advanced with Answers, and Practice with forming Generalizations Basic with Answers. Note: Documents are in the landscape orientation since the charts were created that way and
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6th - 12th
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