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Informational text Common Core L.11-12.5 resources
Serial Podcast Season One Unit Plan: True Crime Lesson Plans, AP ELA Activities
Serial Podcast Season One by Sarah Koenig is a fantastic way to teach literary nonfiction, rhetoric, bias, and the power of storytelling. This podcast is so engaging that even your most reluctant students will be enthralled with the true crime content! This Serial unit plan will provide you with literary nonfiction activities that help students analyze the production of the podcast, discuss bias from multiple angles, examine rhetoric from a real-world perspective, and so much more. All of these
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Main Idea Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing
Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing Activities - NO PREP - Just print and go!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Summarizing is a life-long skill. Our students will enter the real world soon and will find themselves having to summarize many different types of work for employers, employees, and even clients. It's essential that we teach them this valuable skill.
This pack focuses on summarizing nonfiction pieces. Students
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Lizzie Borden: Infamous Murder Case Nonfiction Unit, Tone, Bias, Persuasion
Lizzie Borden was tried and ultimately acquitted for the MURDER of her PARENTS in the 1890s. The trial was controversial. How could a WOMAN possibly hack her parents to death and why? How could this have happened while she was HOME if she didn't do it? In this nonfiction unit, students will read articles about the case and then decide for themselves if they think Lizzie Borden is INNOCENT or GUILTY. If your students like this nonfiction unit, be sure to check out the Bespoke ELA activity on
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Games for Secondary ELA
This bundle of argument and rhetoric games for secondary ELA contains SEVEN unique games that target the skills of argumentation in a fun and high-interest format.The games included in this bundle are:Rhetorical Devices BINGO GameIn this game, students fill out BINGO cards with rhetorical devices, and they have to identify devices used in quotations read by the teacher. Five in row WINS the round! This game tests students' ability to identify rhetorical devices in texts.Would You Rather? Card
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Farewell to Manzanar, Japanese Internment, Chapter Questions, PDF & Google Drive
Use this package of chapter-by-chapter questions as you take your class through Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s compelling true story, Farewell to Manzanar. As we work to pull more non-fiction materials into our Common Core-aligned classrooms, this autobiographical account of life in a Japanese internment camp during WWII is an important title to include. The worksheet questions (both printable PDF & interactive Google Drive versions included) were designed to pull your students into the Wakatsuk
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8th - 11th
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Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion Unit
Provide your students with a more complete understanding of rhetorical analysis with a variety of concept overviews, practice activities, complementary assignments and assessments. This product is included in my AP Language and Composition Bundle for a reduced price. Please don’t buy this item in addition to the bundle as it is already included.
This resource is organized in the following sections:
Rhetorical Analysis with an overview of rhetoric using the SOAPSTone method, a practice activit
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9th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Argumentation & Persuasive Writing Rhetoric BUNDLE
One-stop rhetorical analysis resources of argumentative texts! Teaching rhetoric and persuasion can be fun!! And you can teach argumentative writing, rhetorical devices, & rhetorical appeals to any student with confidence, given the right rhetoric activities! This persuasion bundle encourages student engagement, critical thinking, and rhetorical analysis of multimedia and print nonfiction texts.There is more here than you'll need, and that's the plan. Options create flexibility and freedom.
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8th - 11th
Transcendentalism Bundle (5 resources, 45 pgs, 130+ questions) / Print + Digital
American Transcendentalism is part of my school's junior-level English class. Our curriculum doesn't give us a tremendous amount of time to study Transcendentalism, so I have focused my instruction on three specific texts. Unit Pacing Guide"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David ThoreauTranscendentalism Notes Pages and Anticipation GuideOver the years, I have put together excerpts for these three texts with guiding questions, backg
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11th - 12th
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The Devil in the White City Lesson Plans and Teaching Guide
A twenty-day unit designed by The Pedantic Project with a nod to the 11-12 ELA Common Core Standards. The unit begins with a gallery walk that requires students to make predictions and form opinions. After that, the students will divide into groups and use technology to research six components of the late 1800s, including the Gilded Age. Each topic has a graphic organizer (with a teacher key). Students will complete the research and prepare presentations for the class. Rubrics are provided.
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9th - 12th
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Instructional Pack: "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendentalist essays are staples in many American literature classrooms. "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" became the foundation of Emerson's philosophical view and values. These informational texts can be tools in analyzing argument, figurative language, text structure, author's purpose, main idea, and historical context. To facilitate this study, I've also included fillable .pdfs, Google Forms, and Google Slides. And to help students synthesize these texts, I've included 1
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11th - 12th
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ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 12th
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American Enlightenment Literature Bundle (9 resources, 100 pgs, 100 questions)
The American Enlightenment is the second unit for my juniors. In this unit, we focus on close reading, analyzing rhetoric, and synthesizing texts. This is also the first time my students venture into American literary movements. For these reasons, this is one of my favorite units, so I wanted to share my best texts and activities. As a bundle exclusive, I’ve also included synthesis writing prompts and rubrics that help students connect texts and see themes across texts. Includes 20 writing promp
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9th - 12th
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Media Literacy: Fact, Opinion, and Bias
This 2-3 day, editable Word document mini-unit is geared toward high school students, specifically in language arts, but also for any class in which students will be researching. We assume that older students can easily distinguish between fact and opinion and detect bias in sources, but that is not necessarily the case, especially in today's confusing multimedia landscape. This unit includes a pre-assessment to introduce students to the subtleties of distinguishing fact from opinion and determi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Media Literacy Complete, No-Prep Unit Bundle
340 High School Reading and ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1
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9th - 12th
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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3 Aphorism Activities with Ben Franklin's Aphorisms (Matching and Inquiry Cards)
Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac is a seminal American text, perhaps best known for its use of aphorisms. In order to help my students understand aphorism, I designed three activities. First, I built a matching worksheet. Included in this resource you will find a paper-pencil version and a fully editable, self-grading Google Form. This worksheet is perfect for checking for understanding, independent practice, or homework. I also use this with visual and verbal learners. For my tactile,
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9th - 12th
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"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson Analysis Questions / Print + Digital
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendentalist essays are staples in many American literature classrooms. "Self-Reliance" became the clarion cry of the Transcendentalist movement and provides students with the opportunity to interact with argumentative writing, including practicing paraphrasing, analyzing text structure and point of view, identifying and analyzing figurative language and literary devices, making inferences, determining tone, analyzing author's purpose, analyzing historical context, and
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: Ralph Waldo Emerson Instructional Pack: "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"
6 Tools for Teaching FDR's Four Freedoms Speech / Print + Digital / 68 questions
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union is best remembered as the Four Freedoms Speech. The historical context of this speech coupled with Roosevelt's vision for a better world make the speech memorable, teachable, and relevant. As an English language arts teacher, I am always looking for opportunities to help students analyze rhetoric, work with informational and nonfiction texts, and focus on complex texts that still resonate with modern readers. The Four Freedoms Speech acco
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11th - 12th
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"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau Analysis Questions / Print + Digital
In recent years, Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" has been at the front of my mind more and more often. From the March for Science to March for Our Lives, civil disobedience has been in the news regularly. For this reason, this is a text that often resonates with my students.At the same time, "Civil Disobedience" is a dense text that challenges my students. With this in mind, I have chosen an excerpt from Thoreau's essay and paired it with questions designed to guide students as they r
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11th - 12th
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JFK's Inaugural Address Instructional Pack / Print + Digital / 45+ questions
Before students ever read President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, they know: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."Building on this prior knowledge is a great way to engage students in reading and analyzing this speech. Because of its brevity, rhetoric, and continued relevance, this is a great text for close reading in the classroom. As an English language arts teacher, I am always looking for opportunities to help students analyze rhetoric, work
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11th - 12th
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Ambrose Bierce's “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – 15 Common Core Tasks
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Ambrose Bierce’s short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, ar
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9th - 12th
11th Grade Reading Passages & Comprehension Tasks | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST one-page reading comprehension passages 11th grade students enjoy paired with tasks targeted to specific standards in an engaging, relevant way! Gets students reading, writing, identifying nuances in language, listening and viewing, exploring both historical and scientific primary sources, interpreting charts and diagrams, analyzing seminal U.S. documents, plus a job description with practice writing a cover letter, memoirs, multiple perspectives on the renewable energy topic, a co
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11th
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Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour” – 15 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Kate Chopin’s short story, "The Story of an Hour." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, articles, and othe
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9th - 12th
The Souls of Black Folk Chapter 1 Reading Analysis Questions and Prompts
In an effort to make my teaching more responsive and representative for my students, I decided to pair Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" with an excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk. For this reason, I chose this excerpt from Chapter 1 "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," which explains the idea of "double consciousness." Since it's a difficult passage, here's everything you need to help students make sense of this excerpt. A pre-reading guide with a section About the Author. Th
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9th - 12th
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