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COLLEGE ESSAY Writing Unit: Personal Narrative Advice, Examples, & Assignment

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Updated for the 2024-2025 COMMON APP: This 30-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need to help your students write phenomenal college application essays. Here are some highlights from the 30-page curriculum: • How to Get Started (Handout

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass COMPLETE UNIT: Editable Lesson Plans

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UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 90-page EDITABLE unit has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick

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KINDRED Complete Unit | EDITABLE Discussion Questions, Quizzes, Writing | Butler

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 60-page EDITABLE unit has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Octavia Butler's Kindred!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without

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Writing Analytical Papers | How to Write Essays: Hook, Thesis, & Body Paragraphs

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NEW IN 2021: Rigorous! Inspiring! This 25-page EDITABLE writing curriculum has everything you'll need to help your students write high-quality analytical papers on any literary text. This unit was originally designed for 11th- and 12th-grade English

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AP Literature FRQ1: AP Lit Poetry Analysis Essay | Assignment, Models, & Rubric

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This 40-page EDITABLE resource will help your students write high-quality Poem Analysis Essays. Learning how to generate a formalist analysis of a poem will enable your students excel on Free Response Question #1 (FRQ1) from the AP Literature and

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE in POETRY: Analyze Poems w/ Metaphors, Similes, Symbols, etc

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This 50-page EDITABLE poetry unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The 12 poems in this unit pivot on the use of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole,

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Hamlet Complete Unit | Colorful Workbooks | Editable Worksheets for Every Scene!

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This 180-page complete unit has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly engaging lessons on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The colorful workbooks will enable you to capture and hold the attention of modern-day students. The higher-order

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IMAGERY IN POETRY: Poems with Vivid Sensory Images | 3-Day Lesson | High School

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This 40-page EDITABLE poetry unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The 10 poems in this unit all pivot on vivid and evocative SENSORY IMAGERY. Because even our strongest students

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American Literature YEAR-LONG BUNDLE: Personalized Curriculum for Natalie T.

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This special bundle was created for Natalie T. — though it is available for purchase by anyone.This bundle is very similar to my original year-long American Literature bundle. But this new bundle is intended for teachers who have already purchased

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Figurative Language CENTERS: 8 Stations & 120 Quotations | Worksheets & Quizzes!

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This FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE STATIONS activity is a fun and effective method for giving students practice at analyzing the most important types of figurative language. Students will develop the skills not only to identify types of figurative language

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Discussion-Based Toolkit | Socratic Seminar Grading Rubrics | Harkness Trackers

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NEW IN 2020: Toolkit for discussion-based teaching! This 10-page editable document includes participation evaluation worksheets, role-playing exercises, and discussion trackers that you might use to improve your Harkness discussions and socratic

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English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, For All Subject Areas

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The Great Gatsby LITERARY DEVICES EXERCISES

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 20-page EDITABLE document invites your students to analyze the literary devices used in The Great Gatsby. This activity promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without

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The Great Gatsby WRITING ASSIGNMENTS | Creative AND Analytical Writing | AP LIT!

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 10-page EDITABLE document will set your students up to write both creatively and critically about Fitzgerald's masterpiece. The three writing assignments promise to elicit thoughtful

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FAMILY DYNAMICS IN POETRY: Poems on Parent-Child Relationships | 3-Day Lesson

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This 45-page EDITABLE poetry curriculum promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The 12 poems in this mini-unit all focus on the complex nature of family dynamics and parent-child

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Sonnets: Poem Analysis, Quizzes, Writing | Shakespeare to the Harlem Renaissance

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This 45-page EDITABLE unit tracks the development of the sonnet from Shakespeare's day through by Harlem Renaissance. How are traditional sonnets written by English poets like Shakespeare and Keats similar to and/or different from modern sonnets

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The Great Gatsby VOCABULARY | Vocab Lists & Quizzes for All 9 Chapters

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 20-page EDITABLE document contains vocabulary lists for all 9 chapters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The document also contains a vocabulary and reading quiz for every chapter.

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Chapters 1-3 of The Great Gatsby | Discussion Questions, Vocab, Quizzes | FREE

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Get lit! I'm offering this resource for FREE to help you get an amazing start with teaching The Great Gatsby. This resource features discussion questions, reading quizzes, and vocabulary lists for Chapters 1-3 of The Great Gatsby — along with answer

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare | EDITABLE Worksheets & Lessons for Act 1 | FREE

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Get lit! I'm offering these worksheets for FREE to help you get an amazing start with teaching Macbeth. This resource features worksheets for all seven scenes in Act 1 of Macbeth — along with answer keys! This free 50-page resource is excerpted from

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Chapters 1-5 of The Kite Runner | Discussion Questions, Vocab, Quizzes | FREE

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Get lit! I'm offering this resource for FREE to help you get an amazing start with teaching The Kite Runner. This resource features discussion questions, reading quizzes, and vocabulary lists for Chapters 1-5 of The Kite Runner — along with answer

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adam Jernigan has been teaching English in high schools and universities for 25 years. After earning a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he taught English courses at one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. But because his real passion is for working with adolescents, he has devoted the last 15 years to teaching at top-ranked high schools. He has taught English courses in grades 9-12 and especially enjoys designing curricula for honors courses, specialized electives, and Advanced Placement courses such as AP Literature.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Adam holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. Trained as a specialist in American literature, he has published essays on American fiction and poetry in a range of scholarly and popular journals. He won the Margaret Church Award for the best academic essay published in the journal Modern Fiction Studies in 2014.

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