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High school literature dbqs for Microsoft Word
A Modest Proposal quiz, key commentary, text, and rhetorical analysis prompts
26 rigorous, AP-exam style quiz questions, formative or summative. Includes notes and suggestions for use (I use a nontraditional approach to quizzes of this type). Key and commentary with notes for discussion of questions. Includes a Word doc version of the text (public domain) with graphics from the original frontispiece. Includes a series of rhetorical analysis prompts and suggestions for composing AP Exam FRQ responses.
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11th - 12th
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The Treasure of Lemon Brown Test EBT, Common Core Aligned, Online Test
Multiple Choice, Evidence-Based Test with Part A and Part B questions. There are 20 multiple choice/select questions in Part I and 3 essay questions in Part II. I created this test to go with the Christmas Carol unit of the Louisiana Guidebook 2.0.Microsoft Form duplication link included at the end of the document for virtual/online testing.
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6th - 9th
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President's Day Themed High School ELA & Social Studies Test Prep Unit
Looking for a rigorous, engaging, and history-rooted ELA test prep unit covering two of the most influential presidents in United States history – George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?This highly cross-curricular unit seamlessly blends together ELA with History, challenging students through a wide range of text-based test prep questions surrounding both historical and foundational works, as well as even the personal works and poems of our founding fathers. Hone your students' close reading skil
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9th - 12th
Valentine's Day Love Poems & Song Lyrics Analysis – Original Taylor Swift Songs
Item: Valentine's Day Unit – Love Poems & Song Lyrics AnalysisVery Engaging and Rigorous Valentine's Day Unit! This resource is really unique in that it even includes originally crafted songs out of the voice of Taylor Swift about her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs' Tight End Travis Kelce.Overall, this 43-page unit consists of 7 multiple choice quizzes and 70 carefully crafted reading comprehension quiz questions surrounding a blend of classic and modern love poems and songs.These mult
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9th - 12th
A Christmas Carol Stave II Test EBT, Common Core Aligned
Multiple Choice, Evidence-Based Test with Part A and Part B questions and constructive response.
I created this test to go with the Christmas Carol unit of the Louisiana Guidebook 2.0.
I've used an adapted version of the Louisiana LEAP 2025 Literary Analysis Rubric for the constructive response.
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6th - 9th
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A Christmas Carol Stave I Test EBT, Common Core Aligned
Multiple Choice, Evidence-Based Test with Part A and Part B questions and constructive response.
I created this test to go with the Christmas Carol unit of the Louisiana Guidebook 2.0.
I've used an adapted version of the Louisiana LEAP 2025 Literary Analysis Rubric for the constructive response.
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6th - 9th
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A Christmas Carol Stave V Test EBT, Common Core Aligned
Multiple Choice, Evidence-Based Test with Part A and Part B questions, short answer, and constructive response.
I created this test to go with the Christmas Carol unit of the Louisiana Guidebook 2.0.
I've used an adapted version of the Louisiana LEAP 2025 Literary Analysis Rubric for the constructive response.
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6th - 9th
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A Christmas Carol Stave III Test EBT, Common Core Aligned
Multiple Choice, Evidence-Based Test with Part A and Part B questions and constructive response.
I created this test to go with the Christmas Carol unit of the Louisiana Guidebook 2.0.
I've used an adapted version of the Louisiana LEAP 2025 Literary Analysis Rubric for the constructive response.
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6th - 9th
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Mayflower Compact
This activity on The Mayflower Compact includes a brief background/overview essay, maps, a document manuscript, and several related paintings along with a set of questions and an answer key.
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9th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol Stave IV Test EBT, Common Core Aligned
Multiple Choice, Evidence-Based Test with Part A and Part B questions and constructive response.
I created this test to go with the Christmas Carol unit of the Louisiana Guidebook 2.0.
I've used an adapted version of the Louisiana LEAP 2025 Literary Analysis Rubric for the constructive response.
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6th - 9th
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Fences Discussion Questions
Three discussion questions for the play, Fences, by August Wilson. These questions deal with character complexity, conflict, and literary elements.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Reading and DBQ
Thomas Paine's Common Sense is one of the most prolific American works of literature in history and it's important for students to understand why. This activity includes the following:1.) A reading on Thomas Paine's Common Sense with Comprehension Questions.2.) A Document Based Questions Activity with 5 strategies that students should utilize when completing a DBQ. *This activity can be modified for online learning by posting the reading and questions on google classroom and having students comp
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: U.S. History Revolutionary War Unit 2 Bundle
"The Masque of the Red Death" Unmasked: 3-Day Close-Read, DBQs & Stations
This fun resource featuring Edgar Allan Poe's seminal short story is comprised of the following, all editable in Microsoft Word. It's the perfect way to get spooky for October or a thematic Halloween Unit, and can be adapted into an Escape Room if desired. This resource is meant to be used in close reading, with each day built around an additional read-through. I recommend students annotating the text and listening to the YouTube audio while reading. (Note - thumbnails don't show the fonts and s
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7th - 10th
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The Stranger test
A fully-editable and in-depth exam on Albert Camus' The Stranger as well as his famous essay "The Myth of Sisyphus". Forty multiple-choice questions with a creative writing prompt. The test focuses primarily on symbolism, archetype, themes and existentialist thought.
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Lady, or the Tiger? Text Dependent Questions
Excerpts from Frank Stockton's "The Lady, or the Tiger" are paired with text-dependent questions (TDQs) and tasks that further student's understanding of the text. The document is editable, so feel free to modify/adjust/differentiate the questions to fit the needs of your students.
Standards Addressed/Assessed:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to supp
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9th - 12th
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1984 Totalitarian Government Comparison - Source and Discussion
Introduce totalitarian states (Germany, Russia, Italy, Cuba, etc.) using this excerpt from 1984 and discussion questions. The kids really enjoy this novel and it is a way to integrate literature into your Social Studies curriculum.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Inferences and Predictions with "The Splendid Cannibals" by Ransom Riggs
This product contains the short story "The Splendid Cannibals" by Ransom Riggs (author of the popular, YA"Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children" series) with built in inference and prediction questions. Additionally, there are three end-of reading assessment activities dealing with mood, tone, and theme. Each activity appeals to a different type of learner: linguistic, visual, and auditory.
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8th - 12th
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Communism and Communist Manifesto DBQ
This is a day-long DBQ that goes through excerpts of the Communist Manifesto. It includes explanation of vocabulary for the students, and provides them with valuable experience in reading primary sources. It also teaches them about the philosophy of Karl Marx. I use this in World History right before talking about the Bolshevik Revolution.
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Communism DBQ Bundle
Reading for Meaning "I, Too, Sing America"
This close reading is prepared for the use of the gradual release model and a close reading.
The first page features the poem while the second page has a reading for meaning chart, a strategy from The Core Six Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core.
The chart has a statement in the middle which students must prove to be either true or false by providing evidence for or against the statement. The evidence should be quoted from the text.
Under the chart are two Think
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6th - 9th
"The Raven" Questions
This product contains text-dependent questions to utilize after reading "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Additionally, there are analysis questions to answer after watching "The Simpsons" parody of "The Raven."
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8th - 12th
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Animal Farm Chapter Discussion Questions Unit
This set of chapter-by-chapter, discussion-based questions is designed to be used with George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm. The students read each chapter and then answer the questions in either digital or print format using complete sentences and paragraphs. These pages can be edited for the needs of the teacher and classroom. Included in this set: - Discussion Question Sets for Chapters 1-10 (8-9 combined)- Blank, pre-MLA Formatted page for student answers for each set- Teacher Answer
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9th - 12th
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Reading for Meaning "I Hear America Singing"
**Goes along with another Reading for Meaning, "I, Too, Sing America."
This close reading is prepared for the use of the gradual release model and a close reading.
The first page features the poem while the second page has a reading for meaning chart, a strategy from The Core Six Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core.
The chart has a statement in the middle which students must prove to be either true or false by providing evidence for or against the statement. The
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Chopin & Chesnutt, Désirée's Baby & The Wife of His Youth Short Story Assignment
The download includes a pdf link to both short stories: "Désirée's Baby" by Kate Chopin and "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt. The download also comes with eleven response questions about the text. Also includes 11, pre-made hexagonal thinking cut outs with themes related to the stories such as marriage, love, truth, prejudice, race, denial, social status, etc. You can use the download to teach the texts together or separately. Great for literature classes and/or American history stude
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9th - 12th
American Dream Writing Prompt: Ben Franklin + The Great Gatsby RL9-10.9
This product contains short, contextualized excerpts from The Great Gatsby and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. An accompanying prompt asks students to think about how theme and characterization are developed in each text and to explain how F. Scott Fitzgerald modeled aspects of his novel on Benjamin Franklin's example.
This can be used along with a study of The Great Gatsby or as a stand alone exercise to meet the following standard.
See my novel study on The Great Gatsby that includes this
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9th - 12th
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