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Close reading Common Core W.11-12.5 resources
Frankenstein COMPLETE UNIT | Discussion Questions, Quizzes, & Writing | EDITABLE
Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 100-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, daily quizzes, and analytical writing assignments will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! This unit wa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Paired Texts Lesson with Short Stories - The Most Dangerous Game and The Lottery
This "paired passages" lesson encourages students to practice annotation, story analysis, synthesis, and essay writing. Students complete close readings of Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game” and Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery.” Then, they synthesize their understanding of the readings, consider and compare themes, and write a short literary analysis essay. The lesson includes handouts with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies, which provide scaffolding for diverse
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9th - 12th
Dystopian Short Stories Unit: The Lottery Shirley Jackson, Harrison Bergeron
Want to utilize your students’ love of dystopian fiction to keep them engaged and get them thinking about how they can make a difference in their worlds?Dystopian fiction is lots of fun—it’s imaginative, creative, and innovative. But when your classes read these texts as pure fiction that doesn’t relate to real life, they won’t make the connections to their own worlds, and they won’t feel the responsibility to make a difference in their lives. Even worse, students might use this kind of fantasti
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9th - 12th
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American Literature Full Year ELA Curriculum for High School English | Secondary
Looking for a full-year American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? Spanning American literature from Puritans to young authors writing today, this truly diverse curriculum has differentiated plans for honors and standard level classes. From the Puritan worldview to YOLO culture, from love and lies to the Iraq war, and from the everyday pains of growing up to the unique experience of the contemporary immigran
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9th - 12th
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards: Activities, Writing, Test
Are you frustrated with trying to make the Puritan sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" exciting and enjoyable for today's teens? This happens to be one of my favorite literary works to teach because of the engaging lessons I have crafted over the years. This unit takes a topic that many students find cumbersome and turns it into something challenging and fun. They will be talking about this sermon, and other classes will be asking when they get to do the sculpture activity!What's inclu
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9th - 12th
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Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience & Walden Excerpts, Close Reading, & More
Looking for an engaging way to introduce your students to transcendental thinker and writer Henry David Thoreau's works? This unit on excerpts from Walden and "Civil Disobedience" has everything you need!What's Included . . .► Step-by-step instructions for each day.► Common Core English Standards aligned to daily tasks.► Defining Transcendentalism group synthesis task.► Fun activity with Thoreau quotes to get the unit started. You should definitely hear some laughter from students as they compet
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Transcendental Bundle
MY ÁNTONIA Complete Unit: Fully EDITABLE Lessons on Willa Cather's Classic Novel
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 135-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Willa Cather's My Ántonia!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, daily quizzes, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and gener
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Complete Classroom Activity Kit
This bundle includes a variety of classroom activities for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Ericka L. Sanchez. * A web search activity and background article on undocumented immigrants.* Chapter questions for each chapter to guide reading. * Critical analysis questions which ask students to create a claim and to support that claim with textual evidence. * Thematic activities around the themes of mental health, gender roles, sex education, growing up, and family* A guided
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9th - 12th
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American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
Are you new to American Literature or tired of boring worksheets? Engage students with texts by American authors in lessons that use real-world learning connections, an appreciation for cultural diversity, and critical thinking skills. These activities for your American Literature Curriculum are organized thematically and include a variety of lessons that meet the expectations of all Common Core ELA Standards. Classic American authors in the units include Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Maya Ang
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Transcendental Bundle
Looking for an engaging way to introduce your students to famous transcendentalist thinkers and writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau? This bundle includes plenty to challenge your students with excerpts from "Self-Reliance,” "The American Scholar,“ “Nature,” Walden, and "Civil Disobedience."What's Included . . .► Step-by-step instructions for each day.► Common Core English Standards aligned to daily tasks.► Understanding Transcendentalism group synthesis task.EMERSON:► Viewing gui
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9th - 12th
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A Separate Peace Close Reading Bundle All Chapters Notes Quizzes Essay Project
This is a challenging, thorough close reading bundle for students reading John Knowles' A Separate Peace. You will receive the following:Chapters 1-4 Close Reading NotesChapters 1-4 Reading QuizChapters 5-10 Close Reading NotesChapters 5-10 Reading QuizChapters 11-13 Close Reading NotesChapters 11-13 Reading QuizFinal Group ProjectEssay Prompts with RubricKeys provided for close reading notes and quizzes. Essay prompts come with rubric only. These are PDF (printable; non-editable) resources. The
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9th - 12th
Literary Analysis Essay Writing Practice and Paragraph Writing Activities
Finally, a tried-and-true process for teaching literary analysis essay skills! Students will focus on connotation and denotation, use literary analysis graphic organizers, apply inferential thinking to text analysis of images & quotations, and analyze paired-texts (no-prep lesson plans), all while practicing important written text analysis skills needed for literary analysis paragraph & essay writing. Assess student learning with Google Form quizzes and writing tasks!********************
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8th - 11th
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Shakespeare's The Tempest Complete Unit: Race, Gender, Class, & Colonialism
With themes ranging from colonial oppression to romantic love, from art to slavery, and from family betrayal to the beauty of nature—this play offers so much to explore. But if you want your classes to get excited about reading this challenging text, your students will need to be excited to delve into the book and feel empowered to tackle the difficult language on their own. You’ll also need to help your classes to make connections between their own lives and those of these fictional characters
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9th - 12th
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AP Literature Poetry Bundle
****SAVE 25%**** The 2019 Updates to the AP curriculum has made it pretty clear that poetry is equally important as full length texts. This is a bundle that includes units for teaching poetry at the AP level.This bundle includes****NEW*** What is Poetry--Introduction to Poetry BootcampThis unit includes:Hook Lesson: What is Poetry? An Introduction to Poetry for AP LiteratureLesson 1: Speaker & Title--Langston Hughes's "Aunt Sue's Stories"Lesson 2: Character--Edgar Lee Master's "Theodore the
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11th - 12th
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Hamlet
This 189 PAGE HAMLET COMPREHENSIVE UNIT PLAN includes anticipation guides, making inferences activities, socratic seminars, discussion activities, chapter analyses, reading guides, reading quizzes, group activities, web-quests, graphic organizers, classroom debates, vocabulary lists, quizzes, writing assignments, acting it out projects, presentations, a culminating project, an act by act study guide and a comprehensive unit test. This complete unit plan uses a "backwards design" model to help st
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Night by Elie Wiesel Unit Plan: Projects, Activities, Chapter Questions, Writing
Are struggling to teach a unit on Night that is both rigorous and engaging? If your students’ experience of Elie Wiesel’s classic novel involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the novel to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves. In fact, by giving your classes the message that their ideas don't matter, you're helping
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9th - 12th
AP Literature and Composition Poetry Unit 1 | AP Lit. & Comp. Poems | Curriculum
Worried that your AP poetry unit won’t teach your students to analyze literature independently? Like many people in the history of reading poetry, your students might not quite understand the point of it all. Why does poetry have to be so hard to understand? Why so many comparing of things to other things? Why can’t they just say what they mean?And when students are lead to believe that reading poetry means listening to lectures and parroting a teacher’s analysis, they become even more disempowe
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9th - 12th
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AP Literature and Composition Short Story Unit 1 | AP Lit & Comp Curriculum
Looking for an engaging, rigorous, and fun AP short story unit? The beginning of the school year is so essential to setting the tone for the rest of the year, yet AP teachers also feel so much pressure to get everything right from the get-go. With limited time and so many requirements, it’s easy to feel like you don’t have time for fun or engagement. But when your most driven students get the message that literary analysis is all about dry questions and memorizing inane terms, they’ll quickly
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9th - 12th
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MyPerspectives 10th Grade Unit 1: Inside the Nightmare
This comprehensive and engaging resource comprises OVER 180 SLIDES of short stories, poems, and videos, of gothic literature. Slides contain activities, prompts, assessments, discussion questions, mini-lessons, and more to make teaching and learning fun, educational, and creative!
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8th - 12th
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High School Short Story Units Bundle: Murder, Family Love, Dystopias, & Dreams
Want to empower your students to take charge of their own educations? So many short story resources involve nothing more than checking boxes or filling out pages of meaningless worksheets. This kind of busywork might seem convenient, but it doesn’t teach students any skills that they need. In fact, when students are lead to believe that reading literature means answering pages of meaningless questions, they are taught to see English class as a boring chore and to hate reading of any kind. Even
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9th - 12th
Unbroken Unit Plan and Materials - UBD
35 pages of materials:-UBD-style Unit plan aligned to Common Core Standards-30-question study guide-2 close reading activities with rubric-6 separate reading quizzes (mixed multiple choice and open-ended)-final essay with guidelines, brainstorming worksheet, and peer editing materials-50-question multiple choice final exam focused on close reading-journal/discussion questions
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10th - 12th
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American Literature Curriculum Units: Short Story Lesson Plans for American Lit.
Are you worried your American Literature curriculum doesn’t give your students the challenges and support they need to reach their full potential? So many ready-to-go curriculum packages involve meaningless busywork that is both boring and irrelevant for your classes. It might seem convenient, but it fails to challenge students and ultimately teaches them nothing more than how miserable it is to slog through texts.Worse, when students are lead to believe that studying great literature means fil
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9th - 12th
The Things They Carried Novel Study + Stations + Narrative Project English AP
Huge Bundle that goes WAY BEYOND a typical novel study. Ditch the boring quizzes and vocabulary fill-in-the-blanks in favor of this unique and engaging unit that has been approved by my NYC high school students, who aren't easy to please!This complete, no prep unit includes:**36-slide editable PowerPoint **14-page Unit Plan (editable Word) including: Essential questionsEnduring understandingsCCSS (grades 11-12)Focus on Author's StyleDaily step-by-step lesson plans with teacher and student direct
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Paired Texts - Civil Disobedience and The Great Debaters - Essay Writing Lesson
In this lesson, which incorporates science of reading strategies, students complete close readings of an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and the debate scene “Wiley College vs. Harvard University” from the movie The Great Debaters (which can be used with or without viewing the movie). Then, they synthesize their understanding of the readings and write a short analytical essay requiring them to analyze the arguments in the texts. This 30-page resource includes the followi
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9th - 12th
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