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Common Core RL.11-12.5 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 Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo - Complete Novel Study
(Link available to editable file that allows instructor to easily differentiate novel study material as well as make any other necessary changes.)This novel study is opens with a brief overview of key poetic terms (in general, but esp. for this novel) to help students become more familiar with the poetic form of the novel, There is a brief history about slam poetry (and some links at the end of the presentation, if the instructor wants this to be a research topic). After that, there's an inquir
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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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
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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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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A Thousand Splendid Suns - Writing Prompts and Reading Guide
These reading questions cover all of Khaled Hosseini's popular work of contemporary fiction, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and concern plot details and thematic development, especially the novel's portrayal of historical changes in 20th century Afghanistan and gender roles. There are 5-7 questions per section (each of which covers 40 or so pages of the novel), suitable for homework or in-class discussion. I have also included a research project students carry out while reading the novel to deepen th
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
BLACK LIVES MATTER, Current Events, Common Core Unit
Great for Black History Month! This full unit covers multiple perspectives on the "Black Lives Matter" debate and allows students to find their own point of view on the issue. The unit includes a literary connection, background, historical connections, an implicit argument, arguments across multimedia, photographic connections, a class debate planning system, a research guide, and space for an argumentative essay.
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9th - 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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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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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
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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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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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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Structure - Beginnings and Endings
These lessons look at the importance of beginnings and endings for the structure of a story. They look at the choices you can make in beginning and ending a story and each choice is accompanied by an activity which reinforces the technique. Tasks include continued editing of previously developed stories with the new information in mind, discussion and analysis of existing fictional texts in terms of beginnings and endings, research tasks leading to writing activities, and discussion with a gui
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
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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Araby by Joyce: Comprehensive Short Story Guide & Lesson for Students
Engage high school English Language Arts students with James Joyce's Modernist coming-of-age short story "Araby."Joyce's short story is a somber, tender telling of the inner emotional life of a working-class boy in early twentieth-century Dublin. The story treats themes of dark and light, spiritual blindness, innocence and experience, and more. In the story, an unnamed boy is infatuated with a barely-known girl. We follow him on his "epic journey" to a bazaar, where he finds disappointment and t
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9th - 11th
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" Worksheet, Test, or Homework and Detailed Answer Key
knowledge of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as they complete this worksheet! This "star" of a handout offers a series of critical-thinking questions about America's national anthem and incorporates literary terminology to provide readers with a full understanding of one of this country's most famous songs. A copy of the lyrics and a detailed answer key are included.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Researched Literary Analysis Essay Assignment Using an Eriksonian Critical Lens
Description:In my AP Literature class, I have a unit in which I ask students to analyze a character from a novel of their choosing through the critical lens of Erik Erikson's psychosocial stages of development. Personally, I provide students with four novel options: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Another good option is Don DeLillo's Libra. However, any novel where characters develop si
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11th - 12th
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein
These are my detailed (FIVE FULL SINGLE SPACED PAGES) lecture notes comparing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Frankenstein based on the following similarities: supernatural fiction, themes ( good versus evil and isolation), Promethean personality, use of epistolary structure, boundaries of science, idea of "monster", and doppelganger.Related ResourcesFrankenstein and Literary TheoryFrankenstein Resource BundleFrankenstein Extension Research ActivityFrankenstein Characterization ActivityFrankenstein
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10th - 12th
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Julius Caesar Project Options with Detailed Rubric
Teachers can encourage participants to be the "masters of their own grade" as they review this popular play through creative measures. Utilizing artistic and innovative practices, students can "come, see, and conquer" this assignment by showcasing their knowledge of Julius Caesar. Students will have the chance to choose from a list of 15 projects to research, produce, and present. A detailed rubric is attached.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Common Core Unit on The Great Gatsby
This unit contains a chart correlating activities to Common Core Learning Standards for grade 11. There is also vocabulary, study guides, quizzes and a culminating research project. I have recently added a Point of View lesson that is in "module" format.
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11th
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