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8th grade study skills short stories projects
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Response Book Report
Short Story and Novel Assignments - Fiction Reading Response Book Report: Gone are the days of boring book reports and reading responses! This multi-faceted resource provides fun ready-to-use assignments that will work for any novel or short story that your students are reading. Each of the one-page assignments can be printed and handed to your students – it’s that easy!What’s great about these activities is they can be used at any of the middle and high school grades, but have also been succes
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5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCE BUNDLE
Editable Spanish Project | Spanish 1 Tener Expressions
This editable project is perfect for a Spanish 1 class in middle or high school. Students are prompted to create a visual presentation about the uses of the verb tener. Students will review their school schedule, school supplies, tener idioms, and more!Topics covered:*Uses and forms of the verb*Description of daily class schedule (Primero todos los dÃas yo tengo...)*Description of class supplies for each class (Para la clase de historia yo tengo...)*Tener idioms (Tengo calor, tengo sueño...)*Ten
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8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Spanish 1 Mega Activity Bundle
Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension Passages | Activities & Projects
This resource includes activities for 33 short stories and poems. The goal of this reading literature journal is prepare students to recall, understand, apply, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts while also using creative mini-projects to help encourage deeper thinking! This resource has everything you'll need to teach a short story or poem once a week for the ENTIRE school year. ZERO prep necessary! Answer keys for the short stories ARE INCLUDED in this resource. NOTE 2: This resource ha
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5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â All Things Reading Literature BUNDLE: Middle + High School Reading Resources
Characterization Creative Novel Project for Any Novel or Story Character Head
Includes rubric with 15 check points.
Rubric guides students to a high quality product.
Includes character head template.
Includes pictures of
10+ student examples.
Great for summer reading projects.
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6th - 12th
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Secondary ELA Curriculum - Full Year of Interactive Notebooks (grades 7-10)
These units for Interactive Notebooks create a whole year of Secondary ELA lessons. Your students will create organized reference tools to show their learning, all while maintaining creativity and choice. These lessons, activities, and assessments are perfect for grades 7-10.Key takeaways of this full year of Secondary ELA:✅ Short Story Unit✅ Novel Study ✅ Drama Unit ✅ Poetry UnitUse this resource as you read any texts! The Short Story Unit and the Poetry Unit come with plenty of suggestions, bu
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7th - 10th
Summer Reading Creative Novel Project for Any Novel or Story Character Head
Includes rubric with 15 check points.
Rubric guides students to a high quality product.
Includes character head template.
Includes pictures of
10+ student examples.
Great for summer reading projects.
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6th - 12th
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Flowers for Algernon Multiple Intelligence Projects and Rubrics
It was such a great resource to give my students choice on their projects. They enjoyed creating and sharing them with the class. The rubrics made grading a breeze. Thanks!" - Teaching with Motherbird"Loved this resource! We had our students take the multiple intelligences quiz and then choose activities that aligned with their results." - Stephanie B.This multiple intelligences project list is designed for use with Daniel Keyes's short story, "Flowers for Algernon."The project list is based on
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7th - 10th
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Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Book Report (Vol 2)
Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Book Report (Vol 2): Gone are the days of boring book reports and reading responses! This multi-faceted resource provides fun ready-to-use assignments that will work for any novel or short story that your students are reading. Each of the one-page assignments can be printed and handed to your students – it’s that easy!What’s great about these activities is they can be used at any of the middle and high school grades, but have also been s
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5th - 9th
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The Cask of Amontillado Fun Creative Project | Create an Original Coat of Arms
This is a fun, creative project to use before, during, or after reading "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Montresor mentions his family's coat of arms on several occasions in the story, which reinforces the story's theme of revenge. This project gives your students an opportunity to create their own using Montresor's coat of arms as a model. There are 7 different blank templates provided in the document for you and your students to choose from. On the back of their coat of arms, ha
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7th - 10th
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The Monkey's Paw Owner's Manual - Halloween Short Story Activity - W.W. Jacobs
Wrap up your thrilling journey through "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs with a bang! This is the perfect activity to not only ensure your students truly grasp the short story, but also unleash their boundless creativity. Your students dive back into the text, but this time, it's a whole new adventure. It's a fantastic way to reinforce their comprehension and at the same time, supercharge their creative writing skills! Here’s what you’ll get:✅ Teacher guide✅ Student directions + rubric✅ Booklet
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7th - 10th
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The Elevator Short Story Units - Middle School Short Story - Reading Task Cards
The Elevator by William Sleator - Complete Short Stories with Reading Comprehension Questions and Task Cards - This package contains everything you need to teach this spooky short story, including The Elevator comprehension questions, answer keys, short story annotations activities, biography, task cards, and graphic organizers. These elevator activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts templates, and detailed instructions. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and
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5th - 8th
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Civil War Project Menu- No prep, share and go!
This no prep, share or print and go, highly engaging Civil War project menu gives students the opportunity to be engaged in activities which deepen their understanding of the American Civil War while sharpening their critical thinking, writing, research, and even artistic skills. Since this is a PDF file, this product may be easily shared with students so that they may view directions virtually and complete project activities either virtually or on paper. The project menu includes 9 project opt
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4th - 8th
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi WANTED Poster Final Project
This final project requires students to read and reflect upon the classic short story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," by Rudyard Kipling. The focus of this assignment is CONFLICT and CHARACTERIZATION. It allows students the freedom to "become" whichever character they wish, while analyzing that character's interactions with everyone else in the story.
This assignment is differentiated for all levels of students, and includes a teacher example as well as student examples.
There are several pages to this d
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6th - 8th
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"Masque of the Red Death" Symbolism & Color Analysis + Masquerade Mask Project
This product includes:Color Symbolism Chart with pre-filled meanings, perfect to use as a handout or for students to place in a journalColor Symbolism Chart with blank column for meanings, enabling students to do their own research for each color, or to fill in as they take notes"Masque of the Red Death" symbolism analysis assignment + teacher keyMasquerade Mask Project w/ instructions + rubric"Masque of the Red Death" is the perfect story to use when teaching symbolism. The assignments in this
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8th - 12th
"Masque of the Red Death" Symbolism Analysis Floor Plan Activity
Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Masque of the Red Death" is an allegory, so the focus is on symbolism and setting in this post-reading floor plan activity. To begin, students work in small groups to decode the symbolism of characters, colors, and features of the castle as they closely examine descriptions from the text. This activity is also a good opportunity to discuss the link to Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" and other historical texts with information included in this activity. Next, th
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8th - 12th
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Flash Fiction: Art of The Short, Short Story - High School Creative Writing Unit
Flash fiction, the shortest of the short story, is perfect for teens to write. But difficult, at the same time. They struggle with compacting their many ideas into one coherent, creative, powerful piece...and that's the beauty of constructive struggle. In the process of writing these very personal short short stories, students are able to create plot maps, characters, conflicts, work with others, give and receive feedback, and present their creations. Included in this newly updated bundle: **31-
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8th - 12th
Narrative Writing Graphic Organizers, Worksheets, Responses, and Activities
These graphic organizers and writing papers are great to have on hand and are easy to implement into your classroom! These are great to have to accompany your narrative writing unit and will easily teach your students the steps of writing a narrative. There are a variety of strategies to use in this product to allow for differentiated learning and to make it suitable for students from 4th to 9th grade.
How to use:
-Photocopy the graphic organizers you wish to use and provide them for your stud
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5th - 8th
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Fiction One Pagers - One-Pager Templates and Rubrics for Any Text - Analysis
These Fiction One Pagers bring fun and creativity to literary analysis for any fiction text. There are eight One Pager options, each with an individualized focus, directions, and rubric. The rubrics are designed for quick, easy grading and saves you from grading a mountain of essays. They also look great hanging in your classroom. One Pagers are projects that students enjoy! There is no prep for you. Everything is ready to print and go.Save 20% when you buy the One Pager Bundle! Click here to c
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â One Pager Bundle - Templates and Rubrics for Fiction, Poetry, and Vocabulary
Writing a Reader's Theater Script Project
This project guides students through the process of writing and performing a Reader's Theater scene, based on a short story. The materials can be used with any fiction text, so it can be differentiated for leveled small groups or adapted for any grade level!
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1. Three different graphic organizers for students to record information about the setting, characters, and plot of their text. (These really helped my students focus on the important details from the story that needed to be i
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2nd - 8th
Short Story Writing Rubric for Project Based Learning
Use this rubric to evaluate short story writing. Have your students write a short story for a fun hands-on learning project. They can use PowerPoint slides to get creative, using this rubric as a guide for including the literary elements, and making it easy for you to grade. Print or go digital. This rubric specifies the requirements needed, and addresses the writing process, introduction, organization, problem or conflict, characters, setting, resolution/solution, and spelling and punctuation.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE
Write Your Own Short Story Narrative Creative Writing Project: Distance Learning
Now digital and printable!!This digital and printable product is the perfect writing activity/project for your students in any short story unit! I spent about 2 and a half weeks (block classes) teaching my students short story elements/terms such as plot development, theme, conflict types, indirect/direct characterization etc. in mini lesson form alongside about 5 short stories. As a summative assessment, students were to create their own 2-page short story about anything they wanted (Go student
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Engaging Short Story Unit GROWING Bundle - Distance Learning
College Career Research Projects Avid Study Skill Middle Junior High School Edit
This is a great bundle of TWO research projects to prepare for college and career. It is perfect for an Avid study skills class, an elective, asb, student council, or ELA. Both guide kids to research and analyze data in a different way. My students love both of these! College Research Project can be purchased alone HERE:This is a FUN and different way to look at a college. It is perfect for an avid study skills class, an elective, ELA, student council, asb... you name it! This resource encourage
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6th - 12th
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Coming of Age Creative Novel Project - Characterization
Includes one page rubric, template, and two student examples.
Encourages students to be creative and thoroughly characterize the protagonist of the student.
Template works for any coming of age novel or story.
Perfect for back to school summer reading project.
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6th - 12th
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