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Middle school short stories thematic unit plans for Google Apps
Christmas Activities - Reading Passages - Story Elements - Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE - Upper Elementary December Christmas Passages that are CCSS aligned with the ELA literature and narrative writing standards. We've added a Google Classroom Option to our popular product. The unit focuses on the reading skill of story elements of inferring character traits, Plot Development, and Theme. This unit is great to use for teacher observation because of the included lesson plans and rigorous activities. You will keep your students engaged during this challengi
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4th - 6th
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Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Digital and Print Bundle
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Digital and Print Bundle: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling digital and print short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your st
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7th - 10th
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Unit for Google Drive™
My best-selling Monsters are Due on Maple Street Unit is now available in digital format! This unit is for use in Google Drive. Please make sure this is the version you would like to purchase! Click on the link above for my standard PDF version.You will get the following materials in this version:Pre-reading Group Questions/Discussion PromptsPre-Reading Vocabulary and Extension Activities with KeyCharting Plot: Two Types of Charts with KeyLiterary Elements Chart with KeyReader Response Questions
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7th - 9th
Also included in: Short Story Bundle for Middle and High School Google Drive™ Edition
Short Story Bundle - Literary Analysis Activities for Secondary - Digital, Print
This short story bundle features literary analysis worksheets and activities for classic short stories that students love! Enhance your narrative reading unit with these anchor charts, graphic organizers, pre-reading activities, comprehension questions, vocabulary worksheets, and assessments! Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 50% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Short stories included with this bundle:1. “The Lottery” by Shirley JacksonExamine conformity, supe
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7th - 12th
Les trois soeurs - Premières Nations, Légende, activités, unité complète
Google Slides document for late primary and Junior grades, 42 pagesLes trois soeurs: Une légende et une tradition agricole ancestrale des Premières Nations.This document provides in French an explanation of a First Nations legend of how corn, squash, and beans are known as the Three sisters. Integrate this document in your Social Studies and language units and infuse indigenous literature into your programming. Check out the PREVIEW FILE!This document is a stand alone resource that supports stor
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3rd - 6th
Analyzing Narrative Elements BUNDLE | Google Auto-Graded 6-Quiz Set & Theme Doc
Product Purpose: This bundle of 6 Google Form Auto-Graded quizzes asks learners over 90+ varied, rich questions to assesses their understanding of important/common narrative elements (literary terms) in story. Plus, this Bundle comes with a Google Doc all-in-one Theme Handout lesson and student worksheet (for theme statements).Timeline per Quiz: varies according to learner; approximately 15 minutes + Lesson TBDQuiz ListSymbols & Allegory (16)Analyzing Conflict (16)Exploring Irony (15)Charact
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Short Story Digital Unit Plan - Scary & Surprising Stories Lessons & Activities
Short Story Digital Unit Plan - Scary & Surprising Stories Lessons & Activities: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling digital short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your stud
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7th - 10th
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ESL/ ELL/ ESOL Halloween Story Mini-Unit
This product includes: a 5-day+ mini-unit with multiple activities for each daylesson plans for each daylistening, reading, speaking, and writing activitiesa Halloween story for newcomers+an editable Google Docs versiona PDF versionSo little prep, so much fun!
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1st - 12th
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London: Story or Movie?
This unit comes with lesson plans (8-9 days at 50/min a day) and student materials. Students will read the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London and watch the movie version. They will utilize the following cognitive skills:Theme/central ideaComparing/contrastingMaking connections and inferencesArgumentative claimSelection of evidenceNorms/active listeningActivities/assignments included:Book vs. Movie brainstormWords to Songs to Videos activityReading journalsStory vs. Film Compare/Contras
Grades:
7th - 12th
Bradbury and Technology Unit Plan
A loose lesson using Ray Bradbury's F451, There Will Come Soft Rains, and The Veldt.
Grades:
8th - 10th
"The Cask of Amontillado" Bundle of Lessons Unit
I've included my most celebrated lessons for Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". Enjoy this incredible cost saver!Bundle of Poe LessonsHere are my other Poe Lessons:The Raven 11 constructed responsescask of amontillado word wallEdgar A. Poe Literacy StationsEdgar A. Poe Coloring PagesThe Oval Portrait Short Story UnitThe Tell Tale Heart Short Story UnitPoe Common Core Cootie Catcher GameThe Cask of Amontillado CSIHave you seen my new easy to use lessons made with Google Apps™Jamboard Literary Backg
Grades:
8th - 11th
Brothers Grimm Research Project
This research project is a no-prep, Google Slide show that is perfect for a unit on fairy tales, literary elements, or just for fun! It includes 10 prompted slides, a rubric, and a choice board for early finishers or bonus points. Students will choose a fairy tale to research and analyze the characters, theme, and setting, while also comparing and contrasting different versions. There is even an opportunity for a creative writing prompt.
Grades:
5th - 6th
Plot Elements Unit | Story Elements | Instructional Slides | Middle School
Looking for a systematic, engaging, and routine based way to teach plot and story elements? and clear resources to enhance your plot and story elements unit? This Plot Elements Unit is the new teacher and the seasoned teacher's time saving dream come true! This 12 day minimum unit plan provides scaffolding necessary for students to gain mastery. This unit plan is created to save you time and requires very little prep. I provide notes to guide you through the minimal planning that is needed. Thes
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5th - 8th
The Bad Seed - Book Study & Reading Comprehension - Virtual Literacy Lesson
Hi there! Thank you for stopping by my page! This book is typically catered towards Grades K-2, but we did this with our Grade7-8 Spec Ed Class and they loved it!This resource includes 5 virtual lessons about The Bad Seed:Lesson 1: What they liked/not liked about the storyBook Study questions: Characters, Problem, Solution, EndingLesson 2:Reading Comprehension QuestionsInteractive Slide: Sequencing events of the storyLesson 3:Plot summary QuestionReading Comprehension QuestionsInteractive Slide:
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3rd - 6th
Classroom Culture Unit
This unit is intended to build your classroom culture by reading and watching videos that are culturally relevant to your student's lives. The activities allow for students to share about who they are. Make sure you have teacher examples for each activity for you to share about yourself too.
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6th - 8th
Understanding Plot Structure with "My Favorite Chaperone"
Designed to correspond with HMH Collections Grade 8 Unit 1 anchor text "My Favorite Chaperone" by Jean Okimoto Davies, this hyperdoc is an all in one! Students are asked some pre-reading questions that spark interest in the topic of culture and belonging, the theme of the unit. Students then watch a powerpoint with video clips to popular movies to introduce them to the elements of plot. They must complete a plot foldable activity (included). Students must then read the text (link included) and r
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8th
Alice in Wonderland: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole of Identity
Alice in Wonderland Unit of InstructionLength: 7 lessons (+ optional 3 lessons); 4-6 weeksInstructor Guide: Students can read an in-print version of this book provided by the district, or they can access a free, online version here. Students may also listen to the book being read to them on Youtube here. The start and stop times of chapters in the video are located below after each reading assignment. This is a GREAT unit whether you are in the classroom or doing virtual/distance learning. Stude
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7th - 12th
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Music Unit
This mini-unit is packaged into three days, but it can be stretched into a week or longer. This lesson encourages students to be inspired by music in their writing and then enter into either lyric writing or focus in on the stories that songs tell. Unit includes a multi-media intro into the topic of music with a writing exercise set to a modern classical piece, warm-up prompts for each day, a choice song analysis prompt, and an expand the narrative prompt that invites narrative writing practice
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6th - 12th
"The Necklace" Reading Guide/ Google Slide Notebook
I created this Google Slides Interactive Notebook while we are all virtual.All slides are fully editable to your liking."The Necklace"Slides 1-5 are vocabulary slides for "The Necklace." This is easily deleted if you don't want that for your unit. It made a nice quick homework before we started the story.Slides 6-14 are the text and reading guide questions for "The Necklace." I made the reading guide questions myself. Feel free to add, edit, or delete any for your copy/classes.Slide 15 is a Cons
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7th - 12th
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury - Hyperdoc
This Google Slides Hyperdoc will lead students through discovering & completing pre-reading activities: What is science-fiction as a genreBackground author study information (Ray Bradbury)Agree/Disagree about subjects/topics/themes found in the story & charactersAudio/reading of the text (by me!)Media comparison of 2 versions of short storyLiterary Terms applicationReal-world article about traveling & living on another planet (NYTimes article)Creative writing extension assignment**Hy
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6th - 12th
High School Grade Select An Adventure Story Writing Unit Google Slides
This story writing exercise uses Google Slides to provide a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style story. Not a Google Slides user? No problem. This file can easily be downloaded as a PowerPoint from Slides, and then sent out to students that way. All links and page connections to make this a true "Choose Your Own Adventure" story are made already - students just add information, edit button titles and put their story together.It has been a huge success with all the students that have tried it. Stude
Grades:
5th - 12th
Tell-Tale Heart summary and Response to Literature, Poe Biography
Student will complete a short research about Edgar Allan Poe's life and complete a short Biography summary. They will then use what they have learned to determine what songs Poe would have on his playlist (they can totally have fun with this as long as they can explain with evidence). They will then summarize the Tell-Tale Heart and provide a short explanation as too what they think about the narrator of the story.
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7th - 12th
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Irony Short Stories Unit - Google Slides
This is a slideshow for a short stories unit for middle years or high school students.Introduces typical six part plot structure, characterization, mood, point of view, figurative language, theme, and irony.Students study:- Edgar Allen Poe and his "The Cask of Amontillado" with relevant spelling words for testing and comprehension questions;- The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson with relevant spelling words and comprehension questions;- Poison, by Roald Dahl with spelling words and comprehension ques
Grades:
7th - 10th
Harrison Bergeron Short Quiz Google Form
This is a short quiz to go along with Harrison Bergeron after reading the text. Whether just a quick review or check for understanding, it is easily an exit ticket or next day review. Check out the other Harrison Bergeron activities. Harrison Bergeron Close Reading Analysis Set OneHarrison Bergeron Close Reading Analysis Set TwoHarrison Bergeron Vocabulary QuizHarrison Bergeron Socrative
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Harrison Bergeron Unit Set
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