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High school writing-essays literature circles for Google Apps
Urban Legends and Myths Unit
Want a fun mini unit that is engaging, informative and a little spooky? This unit examines the origins of modern myths and legends, their impact on our society and television and movies. This Unit Includes the Following:Editable handouts that can be made into an asynchronous packet, OR facilitated as lessonsLessons and tasks that are common core standards aligned Direct Instruction tasks that are current and relevant Mid Unit Project: Urban Legends informative PosterCopies of Urban Legends (the
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9th - 12th
Reflective Writing Essay Response to Literature, High School Book Review, 6 Days
Use this Reflective Writing Assignment at the end of any book! Perfect for literature circles or any classroom novel in high school, this assignment makes a great alternative to a literary analysis essays. Over 6 days, students create a 3-5 paragraph reflective response to any piece of literature. The finished product is similar to a book review, but contains a formal structure and objective tone. Students are led through the entire writing process with six days of lesson plans. Includes a link
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9th - 12th
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ERWC 11 - Zoot Suit Unit
Streamline your Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC) instruction for 11th grade with this comprehensive unit bundle! As an experienced high school English teacher, I understand the importance of providing educators with resources that promote collaboration, engagement, and effective teaching.This unit bundle includes a detailed pacing guide, allowing you to plan exactly how long each lesson will take to teach. With clear learning objectives and essential questions guiding each activi
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11th
The Most Dangerous Game ELA Unit: A Full Week of Engaging Lessons (PDF)
Immerse your students in the thrilling world of "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell with this comprehensive, end-of-year ELA unit, perfect for middle school humanities teachers! This meticulously designed resource offers a full week of engaging, scaffolded lessons, culminating in a dynamic Socratic seminar and creative choice board activities.What's Included:Fully Detailed Lesson Plans: Each day is carefully planned with clear objectives, standards alignment, and step-by-step instructio
Grades:
6th - 9th
ERWC 11 - The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos Unit
Simplify your Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC) instruction for 11th grade with this comprehensive unit package! As an experienced high school English teacher, I understand the importance of providing educators with resources that promote collaboration, engagement, and effective teaching.This unit package includes a detailed pacing guide, allowing you to plan exactly how long each lesson will take to teach. With clear learning objectives and essential questions guiding each activi
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11th
Complete Literary Analysis Note Taking and Essay Outlining (Works for Any Book)
Are you looking for ways to help students organize their thinking surrounding their reading and then to translate that thinking into an analytical essay? This template will help with all of the steps from note taking to brainstorming to outlining. We suggest teaching each part of the template separately using a different text, but you know your students best!This template includes:1. Character Analysis Note Guidance: traits, motivations, interactions + prompts to include supporting evidence2. So
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Landlady: Unit Work-Packet
The content inside this Unit-Packet goes with Roald Dahl's: The Landlady. Google holds a FREE Springboard TEXT Version of Roald Dalh's The Landlady that anyone can access. This is what I used and had students access the story on their own Laptops & School Computers. I reccomend using the Spingboard Version of the text as well if you buy my Unit-Packet. The goal is to lead the students into creating & writing a well-detailed Argumentative Essay based from Roald Dahl's: The Landlady. Using
Grades:
9th - 11th
Bradbury and Technology Unit Plan
A loose lesson using Ray Bradbury's F451, There Will Come Soft Rains, and The Veldt.
Grades:
8th - 10th
Literature Circle Discussion Questions: Where the Crawdads Sing
This resource offers over 30 analysis questions to prompt students to discuss key themes, characterization, and symbols within Where the Crawdads Sing and is meant to be paired with another free resource containing three carefully chosen College Board essay prompts from the AP Literature & Composition Exam that have been modified for this novel. I have designed the unit to split the reading of the novel into thirds with one class day for discussion and one day for timed essay writing after e
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9th - 12th
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The Outsiders - FULL NOVEL STUDY w/ ASSESSMENTS + ESSAYS
S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is a middle-school classic! Engulf your scholars in this unit which consists of the following: Google Docs chapter by chapter reading guides with Common Core aligned questions ranging from comprehension to personal connectionsTWO Google Docs summative essays--complete with planning materialsVocabularyGroup work roles/activitiesGoogle Forms assessments for groups of chapters and an end of unit summative assessment& more!
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6th - 10th
All the Light We Cannot See Essay, Anthony Doerr, End of Unit Essay with rubric
Teach literary analysis skills with this end-of-unit essay for Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See. In this essay, students explore the diverse perspectives of multiple characters from the novel and craft a five-paragraph literary analysis essay. This past school year was the first time I taught this novel and I found this essay really meaningful in my classroom. Anthony Doerr is remarkable at creating real and authentic characters who we connect deeply with, so my students really enjoye
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â All the Light We Cannot See Novel Study, Bundle, Unit Plan, Anthony Doerr
Amazon Book Review
The Amazon Book Review is a generic timed-write template that can be used in 9th-12th grades with ease. It is meant to be an end-of-book writing assessment through which students reflect on the development of both the protagonist and a motif/theme.
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9th - 12th
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ERWC 11 - Teenage Sleepers Unit
Simplify your Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC) instruction for 11th grade with this comprehensive unit package! As an experienced high school English teacher, I understand the importance of providing educators with resources that promote collaboration, engagement, and effective teaching.This unit package includes a detailed pacing guide, allowing you to plan exactly how long each lesson will take to teach. With clear learning objectives and essential questions guiding each activi
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11th
The Outsiders: Character Analysis through Critical Quotations
This product is the perfect complement to a novel study with The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Have your students practice citing evidence from the text to support their inferences about five major characters in the novel: Ponyboy, Johnny, Dally, Sodapop, and Darry. Two printable versions are included as well as links to editable Google slides that can be assigned in classroom. This assignment is great on its own or is the perfect introduction to a character analysis essay or paragraph.
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6th - 10th
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Spooktober Literature Circles - Choice Reading
This is a plan for literature circles for the moth of October. The novel choices included are classical horror stories. I have not included Frankenstein as I teach it separately. Fell free to add or change the novel choices based on where you are.
Grades:
10th - 12th
Macbeth Sample Literary Analysis
This sample literary analysis of Macbeth can serve as a helpful blueprint for students.
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9th - 12th
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The Things They Carried Sample Literary Analysis
This example of a literary analysis for The Things They Carried can be a helpful model for students.
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10th - 12th
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Learn from the Masters: Essay Deconstruction & Analysis
This comprehensive assignment encourages higher order thinking in advanced learners. Students can choose an essay from one of the three Prose Masters that are offered through embedded links: Malcolm Gladwell, Joan Didion, and David Foster Wallace. However, teachers can also use this analysis for ANY essay, as it focuses on structure and style, rather than content. This is a great task for differentiation-- as students could also seek out their own appropriate essay online.Students will identify
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Interactive Notes on Literary Archetypes
Want to introduce your students to literary archetypes in a fun, interactive way? Use this file and just add your own Bitmojis to personalize! Embed in Canvas, Google Classroom, or your school's LMS of choice and you have a clickable interactive note set. Students can take notes at their own pace. Works well in flipped classroom settings as well.
Grades:
9th - 12th
ORBITING JUPITER - Literary Devices
Your students can use these Google Slides to collect examples of various literary devices found in Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt. Students will collect examples of alliteration, imagery, personification, repetition, foreshadowing, and characterization. As the teacher, you can easily add another element or take some away before you assign the work. (With the exception of characterization, each element/slide includes a page number where an example can be found to help them get started.) This ca
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6th - 9th
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"Punching the Air" Choice Board
Examine the novel "Punching the Air" by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam through a choice board of 6 different activities.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Mystery Story Ending Essay Directions, Rubric, and Outline | Drawing Inferences
Are your students reading a mystery? Before they get to the big reveal, have them practice their inference, close reading, and formal writing skills with this essay.Students engage in the writing process to answer the question "Given the clues you have noticed so far, what do you think is the solution to the mystery in the story you are reading?"Included in this resource is a page of instructions for students, including the prompt, more specific questions to think through, and technical elements
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9th - 12th
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Digital Worst Moments Writing Prompt: FAHRENHEIT 451
This can be used as a formative assessment or writing prompt for teaching Fahrenheit 451. Using the moment when Montag witnesses the woman burn with her books and watching the TEDTalk "How the Worst Moments Make Us Who We Are" students make a comparison between the two.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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