22 results
High school literature activities for Microsoft Excel
List of Character Traits in Spanish
This list is great when teaching character traits. Saying, "bueno, malo, triste" is not enough! This will help build their vocabulary and get them ready for those standardized tests!
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 12th
Literary Sweet 16 Blank Bracket
Have your students vote on their favorite texts from the year by using this bracket. After narrowing down the selections, students will be able to choose the top text or thematic unit of the year. This activity also works as a review before finals and as a way for teachers to receive student feedback about the text choices they read during the year.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 12th
Types:
Poetry Unit AP Literature
Title: March Madness Poetry: Engaging AP Literature ActivityDescription:Transform your AP Literature classroom into an exhilarating arena of literary analysis with our March Madness Poetry activity! This innovative and dynamic approach infuses energy and excitement into the study of poetry while sharpening critical thinking skills and fostering collaborative learning.In this engaging activity, students will explore a curated selection of poems carefully chosen to represent a diverse range of sty
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
The Giver (Lois Lowry) Whole Book Kahoot! Blooket & Gimkit Questions
Reward your students for doing their reading, assess their reading comprehension, and have FUN in the classroom with these human-written questions about the WHOLE BOOK of The Giver by Lois Lowry.The questions break the novel down into THREE SECTIONS, with additional files for sections 1-2 and for the whole book (for review).These questions were lovingly written and tested in a real G7 language arts classroom by a working teacher. The questions are designed to be easy to answer for students who h
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Lord of the Flies - Are we innocent? or Guilty sheet
This is a score sheet for the Lord of the Flies activity Are we Innocent? or Are we Guilty?
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 11th
Types:
Also included in:Â LOTF Are we Innocent? or Are we Guilty?
Georgia 9-10 ELA Standards, Learning Targets, and Defined Vocabulary
Putting everything in one spot makes this resource is handy for PLC days! The Georgia GSE 9-10th grade English standards, Learning Targets crafted from the GSE Teacher Guidance for all standards AND elements, standards related vocabulary (with definitions), and even a couple of resources (Quizlet and Blooket) are combined into a single Excel spreadsheet.It is best viewed on your computer rather than a small device because there are three tabs at the bottom. Enjoy!#LearningTargets #SecondaryEngl
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 10th
WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Chart Comparing Two Settings
What better way to delve into WUTHERING HEIGHTS than to compare and contrast Wuthering Heights to Thrushcross Grange! This chart on Excel sets up the compare/contrast between these two settings--settings so powerful that they take on the role of characters in Emily Bronte's masterpiece. This is a 7-page chart because it includes contributions from 4 AP classes. Directions are included at the beginning of the spreadsheet. In all the years I have taught this novel, I have found this to be a ver
Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Types:
Twelfth Night Character Crossword (With Answer Key!!)
Are your students struggling to remember who all the characters are in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night? Use this handy worksheet to help them to better understand characters and their descriptions. Included in this is a character crossword puzzle and an answer key!
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
Direct vs. Indirect Characterization Card Sort
I did not include a key for either of these card sorts. In many cases, it depends on the level of the anlaysis the students are thinking at. I am more interested in the text evidence and explanation they give for their sorting.This card sort includes 2 levels of determining direct versus indirect characterization. Level one is simple direct and indirect. Level 2 looks more specifically at how the characterization was developed: action, affect, thoughts, words...
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Types:
Independent Reading Implementation
Included:
Reading Log with Directions
Excel Spreadsheet for 500-Page Reading Challenge
Grading Converter for 500-Page Reading Challenge
Independent reading is important for all ages. I have found that making independent reading a competitive challenge triggers my students' interest.
The students must complete a reading log, with signatures. Once they've turned this in, the book's length goes next to their name on the excel spreadsheet. I display this chart over the course of the marking perio
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 12th
Types:
Macbeth Scavenger Hunt
Before reading the play, students go on a scavenger hunt for items that represent symbols/characters/themes/quotes/etc. from the play. All items must fit in a paper bag. They present their items to the class, explaining their significance.
Subjects:
Grades:
10th - 12th
Types:
Analyzing & Comparing Types of Texts
With this Sheets document, your students will have the ability to analyze and compare/contrast elements across multiple texts within both the Fiction and Nonfiction genres, such as Literary and Informational Texts, among others. The document focuses on concepts such as genre, author's purpose, and audience, and provides opportunities for summary writing as well. This will give students valuable practice in understanding differences between text types after they've been introduced to them through
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
Discovering Theme for Grades 8-12
This Graphic Organizer asks the student questions about the title, setting, character development, symbolism, emotions, narrator and message of the writer to help move the student toward discovering the theme of the story. A definition and some examples of theme are given.
Theme
English Language Arts
Graphic Organizer
Gale Johnson
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
CCSS:
The Scarlet Letter Crossword Puzzle with Answers
I made an easy review for The Scarlet Letter using Google Sheets. One slide on the spreadsheet has the puzzle that I printed for students, and then on the other tab I have the answers. This served as a good review before we took the summative test.
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
Also included in:Â The Scarlet Letter Bundle
Literature Circle / Book Club Reading Response Activities and Rubric (Editable)
This is a great Literature Circle/Book Club Job description. There are 6 jobs that the students rotate between each week.
The jobs to choose from are:
Artful Artist
Discussion Director
Summarizer
Passage Picker
Word Finder
Character Interviewer
Each job has a description of what is expected and how many points they can earn for each element. (Rubric)
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 12th
Theme, Characterization, Figurative Language, Vocab,... TrackingTool Excel/Sheet
We have used this tracking tool in our English class. If you want to use technology in keeping track of all the information from the text, you can use this tracking tool.It can be used for any text. I just happened to use it for The Adventure of Huck FinnDirections for teachers:1. Download and open in Google Sheets2 Assign and make a copy for each student via Google Classroom3. Grade it each week
Grades:
7th - 12th
Novel Project Ideas
Here are three project ideas after reading a novel. This was designed to replace the usual book report paper or poster board.
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
Romeo and Julitet Acitivity
This activity is a way of creatively allowing the student to show their comprehension of what they have read.
Grades:
11th - 12th
Types:
Antigone epigrams Great Writers Galbraith Kennedy Chomsky Plato Camus
50 epigrams by everybody from Plato to Cesar Chavez for students to draw connections to Antigone. Introduces students informally to some intriguing ideas.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Read Aloud Sketches Form
When doing any oral reading in class, especially with narrative text, use this form to help your student visualize the scenes. Instruct the students to listen closely and try to picture the scene as it is read aloud. Instruct the students to imagine they are in a movie theater and this is the movie they are watching. Activate imagination and reading comprehension abilities. Use with any grade level.
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 12th
Types:
Short Story Analysis Chart
This chart is used to help students review a short story that has been studied either independently or as a whole class review. Because it is a Word file, it can be altered or modified to include different literary elements or to include multiple columns to allow students to compare and contrast multiple stories. It works well as a story-by-story review activity to assess comprehension of one story before moving on to other stories in a unit. It also works well as a final review activity befo
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
Anonymous Privilege or Advantage Walk: Digital Form
The questions and original lesson plan came from The National Association of Independent Schools; People of Color Conference: https://pocc.nais.org/PoCC/media/documents/Privilege-Walk-Activity-for-the-Classroom.pdfThe questions provided by the PoCC have been put into a google spreadsheet where students can anonymously calculate the number of steps they would take in an advantage walk. You can print it and have students do the math themselves or copy the digital form, which will calculate the ste
Grades:
9th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
Also included in:Â Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
Showing 1-22 of 22 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands