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Common Core RL.11-12.3 research
The Crucible Engaging Activities - 12 Pre-Reading & Post-Reading Tasks
Looking for some fun, unique, and engaging activities to supplement The Crucible? These activities are perfect for learning background information before reading the play and assessing students' understanding after studying the play.Pre-reading activities include:❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history
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9th - 12th
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
MONTH LONG, 70-PAGE UNITAdvantages • Every single product has been tested in my classroom—no corporate fluff.• Tests are deliberately written in the tone of the author’s novel under study.• Students must demonstrate knowledge-level information.• Students must interpret high-level test prompts.• All materials are designed to meet the rigors of AP and Common Core.This novel unit contains an original exam, including 40 multiple-choice items, 5 essay tests, and keys, along with a research guide, fil
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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9 RESEARCH ESSAY Prompts on Literature for AP Dual Enrollment or Honors English
Are you tired of reading the SAME paper in your advanced English courses? I am too. Because of that, I spent countless hours writing 9 ORIGINAL prompts that fulfill the researched literary analysis paper requirement guidelines for my 12th grade Dual Enrollment Composition II class. These are ADVANCED, original prompts appropriate for AP, Dual Enrollment, or Honors courses.
I have found that while my students were not plagiarizing, they had been regurgitating analysis available on the internet,
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Unpacking 'A Good Man is Hard to Find': Short Story Discussion & Lesson
Engage Adolescent English Language Arts students (Grades 10-12) with Flannery O'Connor's classic short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find."O'Connor's short story is compelling, dealing with issues related to class, race, moral hypocrisy, and violence. In the story, a woman from the American South goes on a family vacation to Florida. But not everything turns out as expected . . .Use this Digital Download for a Two-day English Language Arts Lesson Using my tested-in-the-classroom resources, teenag
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Orwell's 1984 - Compare 1984 to Today - Group Research Presentation Project
George Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to demonstrate what our world could become based on practices of his 1948 society. Assess your high school ELA students' recognition of the importance of 1984 to them, today. Engage students with this detailed research and presentation activity. This activity guides students through researching, organizing, and performing a creative presentation comparing the society depicted in Orwell's 1984 to today's world. No prep.Each group chooses one of the f
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9th - 12th
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Song Interpretations: Project Based Learning Lesson Plan {Printable & Digital}
Resource Description: Students will choose one song to interpret. They will break down the song using an organizer provided in the student section of this project. Students will summarize/defend their interpretation, drawing on specific lyrics, metaphors, symbols, motifs, the mood of the song, scene, theme, etc. to make their case. They will produce a final product to go along with their summary that demonstrates learning in an innovative way. This is a student-led project where learners are giv
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Mid-Level Experience High School Project-Based Learning Bundle
THE HUNGER GAMES Character Names & Meanings Activity COLLINS Characterization
Hunger Games learners will enjoy the rigor of this 21-slide, 20-character PowerPoint and organizer to take notes. This will help illuminate some of the meanings of the characters names in the novel. From plants to Roman leaders to lots of clever wordplay, there's little question that Suzanne Collins named her characters with much purpose. Characters Included:* Katniss Everdeen* Gale Hawthorne* Peeta Mellark* Primrose Everdeen* Haymitch Abernathy* Effie Trinket* Coriolanus Snow* Alma Coin* Caesar
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7th - 9th
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Comparing "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with Swift's "The Albatross" (TTPD)
This assignment asks students to construct an essay that compares Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with Taylor Swift's song "The Albatross." Students must explore themes, literary devices, and the emotional responses they invoke. This assignment could be used to assess student learning after reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I have also included 3 learning extension activities that relate to this assignment.
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9th - 12th
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Charles Dickens: Social Activist
This lesson uses four videos and a Google doc to analyze how Charles Dickens was a social activist during his life. This pairs well with any movie version of his stories and can be useful around Christmas time if you are reading or showing "A Christmas Carol".
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8th - 11th
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Feed by M.T. Anderson Bundle of Quizzes, Worksheets, Research Project, and Keys
This low-prep bundle covering Feed by M.T. Anderson contains all the formative and summative assessments teachers need to assess general reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, facilitate student research on a range of relevant topics, and greatly reduce take-home lesson planning responsibilities. Included are four multiple choice quizzes; four short answer alternate quiz options; four close reading worksheets covering fifteen substantive novel passages;
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9th - 12th
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Of Mice and Men Lens Analysis Reading Activity and Essay
This assignment provides students with different analysis lenses to use while reading Of Mice and Men. The different analytical lenses help students to develop a deeper understanding of the text and its underlying themes by offering diverse and nuanced perspectives. This product includes: -an activity sheet depicting the essay assignment and requirements-a slideshow providing descriptions of every lens and how they apply to the story-a quote tracker chart for students to fill out while they are
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8th - 12th
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The Crucible Essay Questions and Rubric
Finding a perfect essay prompt for this popular play need not be a "crucible." Here it is! A multitude of topics are found on this handout which allow students to explore a character's motives, a particular theme, various conflicts, or integral vocabulary (irony, paradox, and allegory). Using notes, handouts, and The Crucible book as well as supplemental material, students will be able to write an essay that explains specific components of the book. This is the ideal companion piece for any
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Author Introduction: Ray Bradbury Biography, Bio, All Summer in a Day, CCSS
This Ray Bradbury intro lesson bundle includes two great activities for teaching students about the life and biography of Ray Bradbury and helping them analyze his famous short story, "All Summer in a Day." The highly engaging, CCSS aligned Ray Bradbury biography activity is designed to look like an Instagram profile/post that students fill out using their own research on the author. The short story analysis activity (a digital or printable gallery walk) helps students collaboratively discuss im
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8th - 11th
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Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party': 3-Day HS ELA Lesson | Digital & Print
Engage high school English Language Arts students with Katherine Mansfield's Modernist short story "The Garden Party."Mansfield's short story is a funny, absurd, vibrant read, treating themes such as class division, innocence and experience, and more. In the story, a young girl plans a Garden Party with her upper-middle-class family. But when a poor worker who lives down the lane dies in a tragic accident, some things stay the same, but the young girl is changed forever.Note — this resource come
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10th - 11th
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THE GREAT GATSBY-color walk-engaging activity to encourage critical thinking
Get students up and moving- display these colorful charts around the room and have students go from one to another, while thinking about symbolism in THE GREAT GATSBY. Use as directed or take it in your own direction!Included is 4 "BASE" sheets for each color station4 corresponding worksheets for students to take notes and answer questionsMake copies of each set of worksheets for as many students as you teachActivity encourages the use of the novel while students search for text examplesTake the
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9th - 12th
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Mental Health Unit - The Yellow Wall-Paper
This is a unit that looks at different mental illnesses and incorporates the short story The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (included). It includes: research, group activities, discussion questions, supplementary readings and materials, analysis, essay writing, and reflecting. It can also be used in conjunction with the movie It's Kind of a Funny Story (discussion questions for the movie included), which can be rented or bought on Amazon Prime (this unit does NOT include the movie
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9th - 12th
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Research Project and Speech Materials
This low-prep, standards-based project helps high school students investigate topics and deliver informative speeches related to Michael Crichton's science fiction novel Jurassic Park. It also helps students contextualize the events of the novel by calling attention to 30 relevant topics—from scientific advancements (such as the cloning of Dolly the sheep and the sequencing of human genes) to scientific theories (such as those involving efforts to achieve de-extinction and those seeking to under
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9th - 12th
Shakespeare's Macbeth Interdisciplinary Research Presentation Project
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Interdisciplinary Research Presentation Project: This resource includes 11 pages that are the perfect, no-prep way to have your students research deep and meaningful connections between themes from the play and historical events. This Common Core Aligned resource will guide your students to connect themes of power and corruption in Macbeth to examples from history of political insurgencies or corporate corruption scandals. They will then design and present slides o
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7th - 12th
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St. Lucy's Home: Karen Russell Short Story Guide for Students
Engage high school English Language Arts students with Karen Russell's contemporary short story "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves."Russell's short story is a fantastic, coming-of-age boarding school read with a twist. With wolves. The story treats home, friendship, conformity, and culture shock themes. In the story, Claudette and her sisters cope with living at an all-girls boarding and finishing school run by Catholic nuns. But when tension arises between the wolf girls, Claudette has
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9th - 11th
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Lord of the Flies - Arg. Res. Essay - Summative/Final Assess - Social Justice
This includes a research-based argumentative essay prompt connected to Lord of the Flies (in my classroom I also include Hamlet as my students have read that although you could edit that out or include your own secondary novel) along with an outline that labels and describes each sentence in an essay. The nature of the prompt requires students to have a deep understanding of the story and characters so that they can synthesize an opinion and find textual support. The prompt also requires student
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8th - 12th
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Shakespeare's Elizabethan Worldview Introduction (GOOGLE SLIDES)
An introductory presentation on William Shakespeare and the Great Chain of Being in Elizabethan England. Includes an overview of terms and definitions, how the structure related to Shakespeare’s writings, along with video content and note-taking graphic organizers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Literature Lessons: Edgar Allan Poe, Biography, Bio, Tell Tale Heart Lesson CCSS
This Edgar Allan Poe lesson bundle includes three great activities for teaching students about the life and biography of Edgar Allan Poe and helping them analyze his famous short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." The highly engaging, CCSS aligned Edgar Allan Poe biography activity is designed to look like an Instagram profile/post that students fill out using their own research on the author. The short story worksheet helps students analyze basic literary elements of Poe's story as well as his use o
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8th - 11th
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Don DeLillo's Libra Bundle: Reading accountability quizzes and activities!
Description:This bundle of activities and quizzes is helpful for developing a unit on Don DeLillo's Libra. Consider it to be a starter pack! The reading accountability / assessment quizzes are cheat-proof, and the activities are rigorous and engaging. Students will read high-level writing, analyze the plot structure of the novel, and perhaps even write a researched literary analysis. These materials are great for high school honors classes or AP Literature (grades 11-12)!In This Bundle:An introd
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11th - 12th
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Superhero Research Project - Distance learning friendly
This project is one that will encourage cross-curricular learning. There is a blend of history, art, and literature within this research project. Students will research a superhero, how they changed overtime, and what those changes show about the society they were created in. This has the project instructions, rubric, and example included. I would link this to King Arthur legends as I teach mostly British literature but it could be used without linking it.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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