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Adult education close reading projects
One Pagers Bundle — 8 One-Pager Projects and Templates
This One Pager Bundle is a great deal if you are a fan of the one-pager project like me!One-pagers are the highlight reel of a student’s analysis regarding a particular subject. It requires them to really asses what is the most essential information, such as the most important quotes, symbols, themes, or connections... among many other things.One Pagers are awesome for so many reasons... here's a few:They are an appealing alternative to the traditional worksheets.They make great summative tools
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Tiny House Design for ANY Character: Reading project for inferences, symbolism
Tap into the popularity of the growing Tiny House Movement by assigning a literary analysis that students will LOVE. This is a hands-on assignment that brings STEM into the English classroom! This Tiny House lesson can be used with ANY character, author, historical figure, or student! You will get: ⭐1 Exemplar tiny house design for Harry Potter's tiny house⭐1 Student planning guide for evidence-based answers ⭐1 set of instructions for using the free website Floorplanner.com ⭐1 Youtube video with
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Julius Caesar and Mean Girls Comparison Analysis Activity Answers Keys Rubric
There are some clear parallels between Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and 2004's hit Mean Girls. Though Mean Girls is not an adaptation of Julius Caesar, it is an excellent way to engage students and get them thinking critically by connecting themes, characters and motives. This lesson for Julius Caesar and Mean Girls requires students to think creatively and outside of the box in order to identify the commonalities of the two mediums. This lesson plan is a ZIP file with two PDFs and includes the
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Feed by M.T. Anderson Novel Workbook
This product will assist teachers and students in understanding analyzing, the novel, Feed. If you have never checked this book out - do it now! It's a hilarious, yet mind-boggling and tragic exploration into the future where all people have a "feed" in their brain which helps them communicate and acts as their internet. This unit was designed for a 10th grade classroom; however, any grade 9-12 could read this book.This product includes:- Title page- Multi-Genre Project with Rubric- Notes and ac
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Gender Roles Unit AP Language High School English 11th 12th BIGGER THAN EVER!
This huge unit is now even more massive! A compendium of canonical and modern gender-focused texts that span many perspectives, time periods, and arguments.Original questions and prompts for writing and discussion PLUSEngaging and creative critical thinking tasks EQUALS Weeks and weeks of fun and challenging content and activities.This unit is designed for AP English Language and Composition course, but is easily suitable to upper-level high school English classes, as well.OVER 25 TEXTS! OVER 80
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Performing Poetry: Creating an Oral Interpretation of a Poem
REVISED AND UPDATED August 3rd 2019!Performing Poetry is a one-to-two week long assignment that takes students through the process of finding and developing an interpretation of a poem for performance in the classroom. It contains the lesson, students handouts, a performance rubric, a student seld-evaluation, suggestions for poems to use, and several great vocal warm ups that I use extensively in my drama classes. One of the nice things about teaching students to create an oral interpretation of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Word Problems Censorship 2020 AP Language Rhetorical Analysis Rubric Journalism
In this extensive and engaging unit, students will explore the idea of freedom of speech (and censorship) in the past and present United States. By reading and analyzing numerous articles, an image, and two anchor texts, Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" and George Carlin's "Parental Advisory", students will explore and defend opinions about free speech and censorship. In a summative assessment, students will write a speech assuming the voice of Carlin or Henry. This unit was ta
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Beowulf AP Literature
This fun and creative unit is packed full of different activities that keep things fresh and keep the learning flowing. Students are first introduced to the time period and complete a couple of assignments to familiarize themselves with any necessary background information. For different sections of this poem, students have different projects to complete that will require them to use close reading skills. At the end of the unit, students look at exemplar essays and then produce their own essay i
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Symbolism and Mask Creation in the Masque of the Red Death
This is a great 2-3 day mini lesson looking at the symbolism in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death". This lesson culminates with an awesome hands on activity where students create their own masks. Included in this product are:
Copy of "The Masque of the Red Death" broken into parts for close reading in groups
Reading comprehension questions
In text vocabulary
In text examples of symbolism
Power point on symbolism in the story
Detailed explanations of room/color symbolism
Create your own mask ac
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Lightning Thief - Camp Half Blood Cabin Project
Are you looking for a way to assess your ELLs while reading The Lightning Thief? This is the perfect way to do it!Students will each be given a short description of a cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Using the description from the text, along with their knowledge of the Greek god that goes along with that cabin, students will create the cabin. This is a no-prep project! Just print and distribute! Students must read closely and pay attention to detail in order to create an accurate representation of t
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4th - 7th, Adult Education, Staff
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Collage-Essays | Multimedia (Frankenstein) Project | Prompt + Mentor Texts
Looking for a final project for your Frankenstein unit? Need something to teach annotated bibliographies or appendicies that isn't tedious and boring? Just looking for something fun that sparks your students creative neck nodes and brings them back to life? The culminating project in this lesson plan (with up to 3 days of activities) provides: a fun, experimental essay prompt, an awesome hip-hop remix of Paul Hindemith's Viola concerto by instagram sensation and Juliard graduate, thatviolakid,
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Shakespeare Independent Study Project
An independent project, perfect for Project-Based Learning, opening a Shakespeare unit, or offering an extension, this lesson takes students through a quick intro to Shakespeare, a study of one of his sonnets, a language analysis, and an intro to one of Shakespeare's plays. You can adapt the study to focus on one specific play or let student's explore various works by the Bard.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Fault In Our Stars: Rage Room Activity
In this activity students will create a box of their own to destroy similar to a "rage room." If you purchase the product, you will get a slide with instructions to the assignment and example pictures of the boxes my students created for this rage room.*please preview the video and/or preview pdf of the document before purchase in order to see if this will work well in your classroom.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Fault In Our Stars: Make-A-Wish Activity
After reading chapter 5 and 6 of The Fault in Our Stars, students will complete a Make-A-Wish project where they present what wish they would grant if they were in Gus and Hazel's position. I don't currently have any examples uploaded of this, but I will upload some as soon as I teach this with my own students.*please preview the video and/or preview pdf of the document before purchase in order to see if this will work well in your classroom.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Argumentative text, NIETZSCHE, SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE, argumentative writing
Argumentative text, NIETZSCHE, SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE, argumentative writingJust added Tinker v. Des Moines so page numbers have changedNEW PRODUCTS ADDED SO NOW 1070 PAGES and 464 SLIDESNOW 34 productsAre you looking to inspire intellectual curiosity in your students and teach them the works of some of the most influential philosophers? My Philosophy Products make it easy to bring complex ideas from Nietzsche, Socrates, and Aristotle into your classroom. With teacher guides, lecture notes, engagin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Signpost Mind Map Activity, Annotation, Close Reading, Literary Analysis
Looking for an effective close reading activity that pushes students to think critically about literary text AND provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate their reading in a unique way? The Fiction Signpost Mind Map is a visual thinking strategy that teaches students to analyze literary text with purpose, make strong connections between reasoning and evidence, and extend writing--all without "writing" an essay! The Mind Map utilizes Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst's Signpost annotat
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Rhetorical Analysis Greta Thunberg Speeches Essay Organizer + Slides + AP Lang
Greta Thunberg offers rich analysis in understatement, sarcasm, irony, litotes, and parallelism. I've included 2 speeches that pair nicely: "The House is on Fire" and "The House is Still on Fire." This material is visual, colorful, and includes lots of stems for rhetorical analysis writing.What's included: 42-slides / lesson on parallelism and the overall structure of the Rhetorical Analysis essay28-slides / lesson specific to rhetorical devices within Thunberg's speeches: understatement, sarcas
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Antigone Assessments Project & Quizzes
Perfect to assess student comprehension, and mastery of, Antigone. Includes multiple types of assessments, including quizzes and a project.Includes/Covers:*2 Google Form quizzes (may be printed as PDF)--includes keys*Review sheets (note: no key for review sheets)*Quote identification*Plot*Characterization*Basics of Greek Theater*Collage of character quotes -Project sheet -Examples -Rubrics (1 blank, 1 prefilled)Works very well with my other Greek Tragedy & Rhetoric products!Rhetorical Es
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Book Report "Non Report" Project for AP Lang or any ELA/Reading course
This creative project will work for any novel. I use it while teaching a unit on Memoirs and Identity, and students are reading their own choice of memoir. In this document I explain the assignment and have a super detailed 100 point rubric, divided into 5 categories. I have it organized into insufficient, developing, accomplished and advanced. In each box I have the precise wording for how to earn points there. I use this for AP, as part of the project asks them to find and analyze rhetoric
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Catcher in the Rye 5 - 6 Week Unit
Hello Fellow Teacher,Thank you for considering this 5-6 week unit for the novel The Catcher in the Rye. You have many options for each week, so you can pick and choose what you want to do with your students based on your own pacing. Here is what this unit plan includes: Unit Plan IntroductionWeek 1-2: Introduction and BackgroundWeek 3-4: Literary Elements and ThemesWeek 5: Discussion and ReflectionWeek 6: Culminating ActivitiesActivities, Instructions, and MoreTrue/False QuestionsTrue/False Ques
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: BUNDLE: Lord of the Flies, 1984, & Catcher in the Rye Units c
BROCHURE TEMPLATE FOR ANY NOVEL BOOK REPORT OR PROJECT
Templates save us time! For teachers that’s always a good thing. This” No Prep” brochure template for novel study is perfect for assessing as a culminating activity or serving as a writing project that students work on during the novel study.
I’m including two outside pages for the brochure and two inside pages. They work together in any of the four combinations.
If you find this template useful, I have three other templates. One is a newspaper template for any subject. Another is a bro
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
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Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 | Ghost's Message | Detective Evidence Sort Activity
Looking for a way to get students hyped about Hamlet? Do you want to hear students debating, discussing, and invested in higher-order questions about Hamlet? This activity offers engagement and a reading purpose. Students are detectives searching for clues to 4 specific questions about Hamlet, Queen Gertrude, King Claudius, and The Ghost. The evidence: Act 1, Scene 5 - "The Ghost's Message." Take this scene "off the page" for students to literally manipulate text. This is a hands-on simulation.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Carousel Writing Text Analysis - Literary + Informational - Activity, Lessons
Looking for a new way to bring excitement (dare I say fun?) into critical thinking and argument writing? Teach your students how to "think like a lawyer" when evaluating either literary or nonfiction text to make arguments and counter-arguments and build reasoning. This activity is high engagement, organized into 6 timed rounds, mimicking a relay race. This activity raises the bar on high cognitive demand, pushing students to focus on claims the author makes, rather than claims students make the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TRIAL, QUESTIONS, TEACHER NOTES | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TRIAL, QUESTIONS, TEACHER NOTES | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDHere are a few comments from teachers like you:• I LOVED this resource! I have been trying to think of a way to get students to discuss Atticus Finch's comments about the courts and this is such a great activity. I used it after the trial and it worked great for remote learners and in-person learners. Thanks! • This was very unique and fun to use. Students were engaged. Highly recommend! Thanks!• Great! great! great!DIL
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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Also included in: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | TEACHER NOTES, ANSWERS, LOW PREP
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