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Free high school writing-essays literature circles
Writer's Checklists
Here are 3 Writer's Checklists for you to use with your class.
1. Checklist for Wonderful Writing
2. Check for Editing and Proofreading
3. Checklist for Revising
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3rd - 9th
Fever1793 Socratic Circle Questions
Use this handout to guide students through a Socratic Circle or Socratic Seminar using the novel, Fever 1793. I typically give this to students at the beginning of reading the novel so they can begin thinking about their responses as they read. As the teacher, you should have already set up how to do Socratic Circles in your classroom. If you have not, this is a good sheet to use to begin the process. This sheet can also be used for the discussion questions as open-ended writing prompts or conv
Grades:
5th - 9th
Romeo and Juliet Foil Characters Graphic Organizer Activity
This is a graphic organizer that compares and contrasts foil traits for characters from Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet. This activity is perfect for online, in person, or hybrid small groups to collaborate while comparing and contrasting foil characters. Its main use was to prepare students for a foil character analysis essay. This file is editable and printable!Includes the following characters: Romeo, Tybalt, Juliet, Mercutio, Paris, the Nurse, Lady Capulet, and Benvolio.*Pictures included in
Grades:
9th - 12th
How to Write a Literary Analysis Paragraph
I designed this checklist to help students who struggle with answering a literature response question well. It is formulaic for students who need specific steps as they write a solid answer. The checklist includes directing students to use two pieces of textual evidence in their answers to ensure all sub-questions are addressed. I've had experience seeing this work with students who struggle to use quotations in their answers to support their answers.
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 1-2 Questions
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 1 and 2 QuestionsOne week of chapter questions are included free. Check out my page for the full suite of resources for this unit, including step-by-step directions on how to write a thematic essay on novel.
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8th - 12th
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My Sister the Serial Killer Extra Credit Post-Reading
This is an extra credit assignment I use post-reading the novel My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. They are mostly creative prompts, but I try to make most of my assignments UDL -- or at least a with some choices.
Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Vocabulary Choice Board
Want to really get your students engaged in learning new vocabulary? Then put learning in their hands with this choice board resource that will allow students to master their vocabulary words in a way that is meaningful to them. Tasks involve creating games, comic strips, short stories, and skits to name a few! Easily adapted and fun for all age groups in a face to face or digital learning environment. Comes with colorful copy and black and white for printing purposes.
Grades:
6th - 12th
TANGERINE by Edward Bloor Book Club Tickets
Tangerine is a high-interest novel for middle grades girls and boys alike!
These FREE book club “tickets” are the perfect addition to my Tangerine novel study guide!
After students read each part of the book, I have them fill out one of these tickets so that their book club group and I would know they are ready for their discussion. These tickets really help keep kids accountable for their reading, and makes them accountable to their book club teammates! Enjoy this FREEBIE as my gift to
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5th - 9th
Juxtaposition in Tim O'Brien's "On the Rainy River" from The Things They Carried
When we read Tim O'Brien's "On the Rainy River" from The Things They Carried, I decided that this chapter is an ideal opportunity to teach the literary technique of Juxtaposition. This is a flexible assignment that can be used as a group activity followed by a class discussion, a "during-reading" assignment, a reading assessment / check for understanding, an essay prompt, or even simply a reading check.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing Task Cards to Celebrate Our American Warriors
These task cards could be used in daily writing centers in grades 6-12. They could also be adapted for younger students. These prompts could be used for daily journaling for Veterans’ Day or Memorial Day—or any other time you need a thought-provoking writing activity! These are excellent for connecting language arts with social studies, possibly through a unit on wars. These prompts will also give our
military children a chance to share their stories, particularly if their parent
or parents are
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6th - 12th
Non-Fiction Literature Circles and Persuasive Essay Outline
Are you having trouble getting your kids talking in class? This Non-Fiction Literature Circle Activity is perfect to get classes of all grade levels chatting and discussing. Wrap up this unit with a fantastic persuasive essay that uses all the articles from the discussions!Getting students to engage in rich dialogue can be a hassle. Students read an article, they get into groups and then they're staring at their feet unsure how to proceed, or they aren't comfortable with the other students in th
Grades:
8th - 12th
Taking a closer look at technical writing
Resource designed for discussions on differentiating conversational prose from technical writing.
Suggested use: High school science classes, writing classes, and senior thesis projects where technical writing skills are emphasized.
Taking a closer look at Technical Writing by RT Slider is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Literary Analysis Rubric
This is an essay writing rubric to guide elementary, middle school, and high school students in writing the proper literary essay format. It allows convenient scoring for the teacher, act as a thumb sketch guideline for the students to follow, and to have a reference for the students and parents who question the final score.
Grades:
4th - 10th
The Turn of the Screw Study Prompts
This 14-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter and build up a full understanding of what Henry James is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revisi
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9th - 12th
AP Language Collaborative Activity Rhetorical Essay Google Lou Gehrig Speech
(1939) Lou Gehrig Speech - Farewell to Baseball Address AP Collaborative Activity Group Rhetorical EssayDirections: After you have read over “Lou Gehrig Speech”. You and your group will collaborate to write a Rhetorical Analysis essay via this Google Docs [COPY SHARE DOC] template. Please use the “Rhetorical Analysis: Writing Tools & Tips'' to help you before you begin writing. Prompt: Write an essay in which you analyze how Lou Gehrig uses rhetorical devices to better persuade his audience.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Character Analysis Essay: Guided Writing
Template to help with short essay creation with fill-in-the-blank paragraphs
Grades:
6th - 12th
A Tale of Two Cities Slide Presentation
These slides include pictures, introductions, and chapter summaries- as well as a short survey of the themes, symbols, motifs, etc. in the book, a few essay topics, and a link to a helpful documentary on the French Revolution.
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7th - 11th
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Of Mice and Men Argumentative Essay Workshop
Students can use this Step by Step guide to write an AP English Language/CLEP College Composition Style argumentative essay to go along with John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men. The assignment includes an AP-Style prompt, brainstorming ideas, and peer review instructions. The rubric is included for the workshop alone. I would suggest using an AP or CLEP aligned rubric if you want students to complete a final draft. It works well for a literature circle, other cooperative learning, or whole g
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Common Core Writing Assessment Practice Prompt-1
Looking for prompts that students can practice that are correlated to the Common Core State Standards and new rubrics for the fifth, eight, and eleventh grade writing tests. If so, then this is the place for you. The first prompt in this series will be FREE. It takes a story that should be familiar to all students, The Three Little Pigs, and helps them transition from writing a fictional story to writing that is text-dependent. If you would like more prompts, become a follower so that you will
Grades:
5th - 11th
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin: AP Lit Roundtable & Composition Skills
General OverviewFinding an engaging way to teach short stories in your AP Classroom is tough sometimes, as they are so self contained, terse, and packed with meaning. Here is a Roundtable meant to help hone specific AP Skills while preparing students to analyze and discuss the short autobiograhical story Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin from an array of perspectives, strategies, and contexts. This activity should take about 1-3 classes depending on how you want to move through the text, us
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9th - 12th
Adjectives Gumball Machine
Easy to print activities to display at Home, literacy centres, classroom etc. Print on Large A3 laminated and keep adding gumballs (laminated) with velcro as many adjectives as you can, keep rotating and changing around.
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PreK - 9th
Macbeth Essay Prompts-Compare/Contrast
Engage your students into thinking and analyzing Macbeth. The 3 essay prompts ask the student to compare and contrast Macbeth or ideas found in Macbeth to other texts, historical and religious features, and a pop culture hero.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Literary Devices - Juxtaposition
Defines and demonstrates juxtaposition in Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Picnic in the Grass) by Edouard Manet to make clear that emphasizing an image or mood to get the audience to think beyond the obvious is just what juxtaposition should do. Great for the students that memorize the definition but don't really get what a lit device is or what it does.
Grades:
7th - 12th
English 3U Persuasive Essay Rubric
A comprehensive persuasive essay rubric that evaluates all four competencies for an essay geared to an advanced grade 11 English class.
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11th - 12th
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