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High school literature games under $5
Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan: Fun Worksheets, Question Examples, Discussion Tips
Get students talking with this Socratic Seminar Talking Toolkit! When done right, Socratic Seminars can be the best low prep, high impact activity you will ever do. They can cut down on your grading without sacrificing rigor. They can build classroom community without being cheesy. They can lead to exceptional classroom experiences without students (or admin) knowing you put it together a few minutes before class. Nevertheless, without a few tips and tricks, Socratic Seminars can also easily go
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7th - 12th
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The Giver Ceremony of Twelve Activity - Novel Simulation of the Ceremony of 12
The Giver Ceremony of Twelve Activity is an interactive classroom activity that your students will never forget! In The Giver by Lois Lowry, children are assigned their careers during The Ceremony of 12. Bring this into your classroom and allow your students to empathize with Jonas and the rest of the community by taking on the role of Chief Elder and assigning roles to each of your students! The resource includes absolutely everything you need to successfully facilitate a mock Ceremony of Twelv
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7th - 10th
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The Giver Activity - Seeing Beyond Optical Illusion Activity for the Novel
The Giver Seeing Beyond Activity is a creative classroom activity that will spark discussion about Jonas' ability to see beyond in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In the novel, Jonas can see color when his friends and family cannot. Use this fun and interactive class activity to help your students empathize with Jonas' experience and consider how he and the community members feel. How The Giver Seeing Beyond Activity Works: Students will be welcomed to the Seeing Beyond activity with an eye-catching po
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7th - 10th
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Symbolism Game for Making Connections in Literature
Many great literary and poetic works contain enriching symbolism, but these symbols are useless unless students know how to actively search and find connections between the concrete world and abstract ideas. This game gives students the chance to practice and strengthen that skill.In this game, the class is divided into groups of 3 or 4 students each, and each group is given a random “Concrete Object Card,” along with an “Abstract Idea Card.” Groups must then find and explain connections betwe
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Literary Yoga: ELA Activities, Review, Brain Breaks, + Movement in the Classroom
This lesson matches yoga poses to literary elements so that you can add movement and promote critical thinking in your English class. Research shows that sitting for long periods of time is horrible for both our brains and bodies. While we know that movement in the classroom is important, due to the nature of English classes, ELA students often find themselves needing to sit to read or write for long periods of time. Therefore, finding ways to add movement in your English literature class can be
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6th - 12th
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Literary Terms Review Game Powerpoint
Literary Terms Review Powerpoint Game (like Jeopardy™)
Review important literary terms in a fun format. This Jeopardy-style game features 31 questions/answers: six categories of five questions plus a final round question. Everything is fully editable if you need to make any changes.
Terms covered: Antagonist, Character, Complication, Conflict (Internal and External Conflict; Character vs. Himself/Herself and Character vs. Character/Nature/Society/Circumstances/Fate), Connotation, Dialect, Dial
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Literature & Nonfiction Creative Reading Activities, Vol 2 Bundle
Halloween Figurative Language Task Cards for Bell-Ringers, Quizzes, Discussion
Celebrate Halloween and Fall in your classroom with this set of 24 figurative language task cards. Featuring classic and contemporary Halloween themed literature and poetry, each card prompts students to identify a specific element of figurative language and explain its use.
Passages on the cards feature writing from Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Stephanie Meyer.
Elements of figurative language included are:
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Personification
• H
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7th - 12th
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Hamlet Quote Review Worksheet, Review Game/Race for Shakespeare's Play
Looking for a fun activity that will challenge students and help them review for your unit exam? This two-page quotation race features 30 quotations taken from William Shakespeare’s classic tale, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. From main characters, such as Claudius and Polonius, to supporting cast members, such as Horatio and Marcellus, many roles are included on the worksheet. The answer key is here, too, of course.Students can work solo on the handout, but it’s more fun to have them
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Outsiders Bingo: Instructions, Game Boards, and Call Sheets
The Outsiders Bingo: Instructions, Game Boards, and Call Sheet
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This differentiated activity is intended to get students excited about literature in a creative way.
PREPARE: Print out the BINGO cards sheets enough for each child plus one call sheet for the teacher.
Cut out the bingo cards (6).
You have a blank card to make your own.
--the purpose of playing is to review. The students will find the answer on their bingo board. This will create competition, ensur
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Witch Hunt: A Salem Witch Trials Game
Want a surefire way to interest your students in the Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible? Use this social-deduction game to immerse your students in the hysteria that shook Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692. Soon they will be wondering, "Who is a witch? And who is an innocent villager?"Setup: In the Salem Witch Trials there was little substantial evidence for the wild accusations that the Salem villagers brought against one another, yet this game takes you inside the hysteria by presenting t
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Teaching Resources Bundle
"Hunger Games" Arena Map Board Game Review Activity Project
Based on Suzanne Collins novel "The Hunger Games," this board game activity is fun for all levels of students. It comes with the printable game board, rules of the game & directions for printing, 60 cards, mockingjay tokens, and templates for dice and player pawns.
Each player (or tribute) takes the same path Katniss took around the arena. All of the events and content in the cards stays true to the novel, so it is a great review activity before the test. Or just fun to play anytime!
It ca
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Characterization and Literary Elements Crossword Puzzle
Language Arts Literary Terms and Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle
This is a crossword puzzle which focuses on characterization and includes
A) The five qualities of characterization
B) Diferent types of characters
C) Different kinds of characterization
It also covers
D) The elements of a short story
E) Diffenr kinds of figurative language
F) Different kinds of conflict
. It is also a great lesson for a substitute teacher in a Language Arts class. .I think you will find
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Millionare Game: STAAR Review for Literary Elements
This is a great way to review or prepare for state tests!
This game is designed to give examples AND definitions of common literary elements that are seen in novels, stories, articles, cartoons, and state tests.
Break your students into groups and let them have fun in learning!!
Music is embedded on question slides that will have students feel as if they were on tv!
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4th - 12th
Symbolism Matching Game for Traditional Symbols in Literature
In this fun symbolism game, middle school students race to match common literary symbols with their traditional meanings.Symbols have appeared throughout literature for thousands of years. Students will understand classic literature (and modern texts) much more fully if they can recognize traditional symbols and their meanings. And as we all know, understanding these conventional symbols leads to more advanced analysis of the literature they read! This matching activity gives students the opp
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Crucible, Arthur Miller, Quote Race Review – Great End-of-Unit Game
Looking for a fun review activity that will challenge students and help them review for your unit exam? This two-page quotation race features 32 important quotations taken from Arthur Miller's classic American play. From main characters, such as Abigail Williams and John Proctor, to supporting cast members Giles Corey and Mary Warren, many roles are included on the worksheet. The answer key is here, too, of course.Students can work solo on the handout, but it's more fun to have them compete in t
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9th - 12th
Hunger Games Drama Circle Novel Study Culminating Activity
Bring The Hunger Games to life in your class with this fun drama activity. Drama Circles are such an engaging way to practice the elements of drama, oral reading fluency, reading with expression, listening skills, following instructions, and performance skills, all in one cooperative learning activity! This fun drama activity will keep your students moving, and is perfect to finish your Hunger Games novel study. It has a similar format to the “I Have / Who Has” Games and will have your students
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Drama Circle Activity Year Long Bundle
The Odyssey Review Game, Fun Review Activity for Homer's Poem PDF & Google Drive
Want your students to dig deeply into the text of Homer’s classic tale, The Odyssey? Use this 25-question game/race as a review activity after they’ve completed their long journey across the Mediterranean Sea with our hero, Odysseus.The two-page worksheet downloads as both a printable PDF and interactive Google Drive version. An answer key is also included, of course.Please note: I use Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's epic poem with my students and the quotes and character spellings in
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7th - 10th
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Poetry Terms - Figurative Language - Literary Devices Trashketball Game
Have fun reviewing poetic devices in the context of lines from classic poems with this interactive game! Types of figurative language reviewed are metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, and hyperbole. Sound devices reviewed are alliteration, caesura, couplet, onomatopoeia, and iambic pentameter. All that you need to play is the ability to project a PowerPoint presentation, a soft ball, dark tape, and a trash can. Students compete to shoot baskets into your classroom trash can!There are f
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7th - 11th
Also included in: Poetry Reading and Writing Activity Bundle
Who Said It: Taylor Swift or Shakespeare?
A wonderful way to introduce William Shakespeare to students or play a fun game in class if you have some extra time allotted. Directions: MUST BE IN PRESENTATION MODE. Each slide contains a quote from one of the two, I make students stand on the "Swift Side" or "Shakespeare Side," and then reveal the answer to them. All slides contain the answer that is revealed through a text transition.
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9th - 12th
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Introduction to Shakespeare's Macbeth Breakout - Engaging Digital Escape Room
The introduction to “Macbeth” Breakout Room is the perfect way to introduce the play.According to research, using games when teaching increases student participation, comprehension, as well as fostering emotional and social learning.Today's 21st- century student needs to be fully engaged in learning to gain knowledge and then apply it in meaningful ways. Many teachers find that traditional comprehension questions are not engaging and often do not reinforce understanding. Both teacher and student
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9th - 12th
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Themes in Literature Game for Middle School ELA
This engaging game gives middle school students valuable -- and fun -- practice with finding universal themes in literature. First, the class reads a poem together, and the teacher reminds the students that a universal theme is a repeated concept that can apply to any people at any time. Then the teacher gives one letter of the alphabet and sets a timer. The students must list as many universal themes starting with that letter as they can find in that poem. Then the students read their unive
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Literary Categories ELA and School-Themed Game #elasummervibes
Your students will have so much fun playing Literary Categories they won’t even realize that they’re using critical thinking skills and learning about literary devices! This ELA game challenges students to come up with unique answers to categories about literary concepts and school. Better yet, you and your students can play this game over and over again by using different letters for different rounds. Here's what is included:Six Editable Literary Categories*Student Player PapersInstructions and
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7th - 12th
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Author's Tone Game for Middle School ELA
Students need to learn the important skill of analyzing texts to determine the author's tone, but terms like author's tone can sound intimidating to students at first. This fun game gives them the opportunity to act out a variety of literary tones with their peers.First, the teacher divides the classroom into several groups and gives each character a tone card. The teacher then reads a situation from the situation sheet, and the students have a couple of minutes (or no time at all for true imp
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Holiday Figurative Language Task Cards: Christmas Activity, Bell-Ringers
Celebrate Christmas and the winter holidays in your classroom with this set of 32 figurative language task cards. Featuring classic and contemporary holiday themed literature and poetry, each card prompts students to identify a specific element of figurative language and explain the function of its use within the passage.
Passages on the cards feature writing from Charles Dickens, Dr. Seuss, William Shakespeare, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Elements of figurative language included are:
• Metaphor
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8th - 12th
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