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Common Core RL.9-10.10 internet activities
The Gift of the Magi Short Story Unit - Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages
This "The Gift of the Magi" Short Story Unit contains a 50 page close reading unit on “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. Perfect for a short story interactive notebook, this Gift of the Magi teacher guide contains Gift of the Magi comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, Gift of the Magi activities, vocabulary words, foldables, close reading resources, graphic organizers, creative writing, and essay activities are all included. All activities are classroom tested and include creat
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6th - 9th
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The Outsiders Digital Escape Room
Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in this spectacularly themed, The Outsiders 360° digital escape room. This activity is designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Students will solve a series of clues based on the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton in order to crack the master lock and escape the Socs! This game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences. It's the perfect addition to your novel study, whether
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: The Outsiders Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Harlem Renaissance Activities: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Art & Music
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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American Literature Full Year ELA Curriculum for High School English | Secondary
Looking for a full-year American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? Spanning American literature from Puritans to young authors writing today, this truly diverse curriculum has differentiated plans for honors and standard level classes. From the Puritan worldview to YOLO culture, from love and lies to the Iraq war, and from the everyday pains of growing up to the unique experience of the contemporary immigran
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9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance | Zora Neale Hurston "Sweat" | High School Short Story Unit
This widely-anthologized story of a hardworking washerwoman and her abusive husband is a deceptively simple tale of good and evil, suffering and redemption, and reaping what you sow. However, when read in the context of the many biblical allusions in the story as well as the African American Spiritual, the seemingly-straightforward story becomes much more nuanced and complex. This fascinating mini unit will take your students through recordings of Zora Neale Hurston singing songs she learned th
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9th - 12th
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Thank You Ma'am Digital Escape Room
Students will solve a series of clues based on the short story “Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes in order to crack the master lock and escape the room.This digital game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences! It's the perfect review game to engage students in studying elements of a short story and finding key ideas and details from the text.Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in this 360° digital escape room. This act
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Thank You Ma'am — Short Story Bundle
Native American Literature | Sherman Alexie | Indigenous Poetry | Stereotypes
Why are stereotypes dangerous? What is our role in breaking down stereotypes? Students might know some of the stereotypes surrounding Indigenous people, but they likely don’t fully understand where they come from, why they are harmful, or why positive stereotypes can be equally painful as negative ones. This 90-minute lesson will get them examining some of those assumptions when they explore videos featuring teens talking about stereotypes, a powerful slam poem performance, an accessible and
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9th - 12th
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Salem Witch Trials Unit Bundle | Puritan Primary Source | Colonial America
Want to teach a Puritan literature unit that will get your students engaging independently with texts, making connections to contemporary issues, and excited to discuss essential questions that really matter? From their world view to their religious beliefs to their daily life, the people of the early colonial period lived lives very different from those of contemporary Americans. The texts included in this unit will give students a glimpse into those lives. Three of the pieces included in this
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9th - 12th
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Oedipus Rex the King Digital Escape Room 360° Activity INTRODUCTION PRE-READING
Teaching Oedipus Rex? Generate anticipation and build background information with this digital escape room, a great way to hook your students in a high interest way and engage them BEFORE reading Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Review the main Greek gods and learn about the author, the Oedipus myth, and ancient Greek theatre.No prep. Just post the link and go. (Unless you want to print the lock notes sheet.) ⚠️ While this resources is designated as "no prep," teachers will definitely want to prev
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9th - 12th
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The Yellow Wallpaper Unit Bundle
This bundle includes 3 products for the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman:1. Literary Analysis: includes an activating strategy, background info, and reading comprehension questions.3. 360° Digital Escape Room: Students will solve a series of clues based on the story. This game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences.4. One Pager Project: Students imaginatively blend their written ideas with colorful images based on infor
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Dystopian Short Story: The Lottery Shirley Jackson | Lesson Plans | Bullying
Looking for a complete unit on “The Lottery” that will challenge and inspire your students to make a difference in today's troubled times? By making connections among bullying, genocide, the Nuremberg trials, Stanley Milgrim’s obedience study, and a classic poem about the Holocaust, your students will be inspired to take their study of Jackson’s powerful story past the pages of the text.When you teach “The Lottery” with this unit you will:be sure that your students won’t miss any of the importa
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9th - 12th
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Tuck Everlasting Novel Study Unit Projects Activities Reading Writing Digital
Tuck Everlasting Reading Comprehension & Literary Element Novel Study For Upper Elementary and Middle School. Keep students engaged and eager to read with these activities that are designed to get students to think deeply about the story and its theme, as well as how the author uses literary techniques and devices to build this beautiful novel. This unit is packed with CCSS aligned questions, activities, and writing prompts for each chapter, along with sample answers for everything.EDITIONS:
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
Edgar Allan Poe Digital Escape Room Bundle — 5 Digital Escape Rooms
Save money and get FIVE DIFFERENT digital escape rooms!This purchase includes the bundle of 5 Awesome Edgar Allan Poe Digital Escape Rooms. Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in these dark and creepy, 360° digital escape rooms. All 5 escape rooms are designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Students will solve a series of clues based on the texts. The clues require comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences.The 5 pieces of Poe
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7th - 12th
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Macbeth by Shakespeare Web Quest | Context | Background | Pre-Reading
Tired of showing a PowerPoint and having students take notes about Shakespeare's language, Elizabethan society, and other necessary contextual topics for Macbeth? Same! I created this WebQuest to provide students with an inquiry- based activity to build the background necessary for students to understand all of the contextual aspects of Macbeth. This activity has multiple entry points and is naturally scaffolded so that every student, IEP, ELL, 504, etc. can all see success! This activity can be
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9th - 12th
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The Veldt Digital Escape Room | Ray Bradbury | Reading Comprehension Game
Your students are going to love The Veldt Escape Room! Students will decipher and solve puzzles in this ominous, 360° digital escape room. This activity is designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Students will solve a series of clues based on the story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury in order to crack the master lock and escape the room. This game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences. Watch the preview video to look inside the room!Incl
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: The Veldt Bundle - The Veldt Escape Room and Reading Comprehension Guide
10th & 11th Grade English: American Dream Poems | High School Poetry | Vol 1
Want to immerse your students in the diversity of this country by studying engaging poetry together? Your students will learn so much when they explore the essential questions of American Literature with these ready-to-go lessons.A collection of questions on 27 poems, spanning from Puritan poetry to the 20th century, this bundle will provide you with over a month of rigorous, engaging, and ready-to-go lessons. The themes explored in these units--materialism, love, race, family dynamics, class,
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9th - 12th
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53 High School Poems: Literary Analysis, Poetry Close Reading, ELA Lesson Plans
Want to be done planning your high school poetry lessons for the rest of your career? A collection of close reading and discussion questions, activities, and writing prompts on 53 poems that I have taught multiple times over the years, this bundle will provide you with over three months of rigorous, engaging and ready-to-go lessons to teach your students to analyze poetry on their own. The worksheets included here are great choices for supplementing a thematic unit, for adding more voices and p
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9th - 12th
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"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston | Figurative Language Lesson
Looking for a unit on this classic essay that will get your students engaging independently with the text, discussing big ideas, and sharpening their close reading and critical thinking skills?“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great choice for engaging your classes in discussions around race, identity, gender, and artistic expression. It’s also a wonderful essay for exploring figurative language and how writers create meaning through comparisons. When you teach “How it F
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9th - 12th
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The Odyssey Unit Plan for Middle and High School with Intro to Greek Mythology
It’s time to start thinking about your unit plan for The Odyssey. You know you need some background activities for an introduction to Greek mythology, something to keep your students engaged with a difficult text, some way to help them access this difficult task, and an essay prompt to round it all out. Sound familiar? This was where we found ourselves when we started planning to teach The Odyssey for the first time. A whole lot of “some of this” and “some of that,” and not a lot of clear direct
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7th - 9th
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The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost | Poetry Analysis & Close Reading High School
The close reading questions on Robert Frost’s iconic poem “The Road Not Taken” will get your students thinking about big ideas and questions that matter, as well as noticing how the smallest details of a poem contribute to meaning.This poem is one that everyone thinks they know, but they don’t really. It is likely that your students know the title of the poem and the last three lines—which have been quoted in everything from graduation speeches to needlepointed pillows. In fact, the title of t
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9th - 12th
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ELA OCTOBER: Bell Ringers Would You Rather The Landlady Alma Halloween
Make learning a blast with this Halloween bundle of fun! Pixar-like short film workshop: ALMA, WOULD YOU RATHER HALLOWEEN EDITION, THE LANDLADY by ROALD DAHL, and October writing prompts! This bundle is the perfect way to engage your students in literary elements and RACE writing, whether in class or through distance learning. ❤PIXAR WORKSHOP INCLUDES: Link to ALMA: a spooky short film about a little girl who is lured into a doll shop only to discover, too late, that the dolls capture the soul
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5th - 8th
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The Fall of the House of Usher Digital Escape Room — Edgar Allan Poe Escape Room
Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in this creepy and suspenseful 360° digital escape room. Students must escape the house of Usher before the whole mansion collapses on them!This activity is designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Students will solve a series of clues based on the story “The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe in order to crack the master lock and escape the room. This game requires reading comprehension skills; students mu
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: The Fall of the House of Usher Unit Bundle
The Veldt Bundle - The Veldt Escape Room and Reading Comprehension Guide
This bundle includes 3 products for the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury.1. Literary Analysis: Academic vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, plot diagram, and creative writing options. Answer keys included.2. Digital Escape Room: Students solve a series of clues based on the story to crack the master lock and escape the room. 3. One Pager Project: Students imaginatively blend their written ideas with colorful illustrations based on information from the text.PLEASE READ: In order t
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7th - 12th
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Fun Independent Projects: End of the Year English Activities for High School
Want to have a low-stress end of the year without sacrificing rigor? The last few weeks before summer vacation can be a slow, miserable countdown, just waiting for the days to pass while students get more and more unruly. You might try to make it through by showing movies or doing other meaningless activities, but that never really works as students realize that these strategies are wasting everyone’s time.Instead of just trying to survive, you need to take this opportunity to try new and exci
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9th - 12th
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