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Informational text Common Core SL.9-10.3 resources
Steve Jobs & Real World Rhetoric Analysis, Grad Speech, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Show your students a real-world application of the tools of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, and logos) as they examine the 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address given by Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs. The speech, which is filled with warmth, humor, and meaning, is a high-interest way to add the non-fiction analysis skills emphasized by the Common Core to your classroom.Students will learn the components of Aristotle’s rhetorical devices, view Jobs’ speech via a 14-minute video clip, and use a ful
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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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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Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech Rhetorical Analysis PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Use Oprah Winfrey’s headline-grabbing speech from the 2018 Golden Globes to show your students the power of a well-constructed presentation. In this one class period activity, students will discuss the #metoo movement, view Oprah Winfrey’s 10-minute speech, and deconstruct/discuss her use of rhetorical devices. Questions focus on audience, metaphor, parallelism, pathos, and symbolism. These materials can serve as a stand-alone lesson or as a solid supplement to a study of Jim Crow laws or SAT-st
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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10th Grade Reading Passages & Comprehension Tasks | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 10th 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 slave narratives, memoirs, and arguments. Students practice ELA skills aligned to ALL 10 TENTH GRADE Reading Informational T
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10th
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Mega Podcast Bundle
This podcast bundle has a little bit of everything with many opportunities to use the resources throughout the year! Some lessons take weeks, while others can be completed in one or two days - whatever works best for you!Here are the products included:Scary Podcasts for High School Students - one of my best-sellers! Students analyze what makes urban legends so spooky with a Myths and Legends podcast that features five clean, well-known urban legends. A fun extension - they make up their own usin
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9th - 12th
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
Nonfiction Boot Camp for Informational Texts
This 3-4 week unit exposes students to narrative nonfiction and informational texts, emphasizing close reading, finding logical fallacies, denotative vs. connotative meanings, technical writing, and more!⭐ Each lesson includes: A warm-up video, introducing concepts to studentsA slideshow guiding teachers and students through the lesson and teaching vocabulary words (editable)A student handout for annotation and close reading responses (editable with Canva access, included)Exit slips, homework, o
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9th - 12th
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The Outsiders: Non-Fiction Video Jigsaw Activity
Need to add non-fiction into your unit on The Outsiders? Ready to make modern-day connections with engaging videos and discussion? Use this 2-3 day lesson connecting literature and modern articles to assess CCSS SL.2 and SL.3 in your ELA classroom. Themed around topics like empathy, prejudice, stereotypes, race, and biases, the videos and corresponding questions ask students to think critically about the what the theme of the novel might be.Though I used this activity as a pre-reading introducti
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7th - 10th
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Full Year High School English Curriculum: Secondary ELA 9-12 Common Core Aligned
If you are teaching a new high school English course this year, or you're looking to upgrade your current high school English class curriculum, this full year ELA curriculum is for YOU! This Common Core Standards aligned English Language Arts curriculum will help you create meaningful learning experiences for your secondary English students AND protect your time outside of contract hours.This English curriculum is perfect for you if are looking for...creative, effective activities for you and yo
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9th - 12th
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9th Grade Reading Passages & Comprehension Tasks | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 9th grade students enjoy paired with ELA 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 slave narratives, memoirs, and arguments. Students practice ELA skills aligned to ALL 10 Ninth Grade Reading Informationa
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9th - 10th
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True Crime Podcast Intro Worksheets & Graphic Organizers - 9th-12th Grade ELA
Want to try true crime podcasts but don't have an entire unit to devote to it? This mini-unit is perfect for you. This product includes graphic organizers for the first episodes of Serial and A Very Fatal Murder. Update: I've included Google Slides versions of each graphic organizer to help with distance learning. The graphic organizers are the background of the slides and students create text boxes to input their answers.Non-fiction podcast: SerialStudents focus on how people and events are des
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Mega Podcast Bundle
Introduction to Debate
This four lesson unit is designed to be a comprehensive debate tutorial for teachers who are new to debate or who want to implement debate into their current curriculum. I tried to design these materials with lots of explanation where necessary and minimal prep work to finish. I have taught debate for over ten years in the classroom and online and the knowledge and expertise I have gained have gone into these lessons to make them a perfect gateway to argumentation and debate. All lessons are onl
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3rd - 12th
Social Media Shaming Podcast Worksheets
This is a teacher's guide and worksheet to accompany the TED Radio Hour segment with Jon Ronson titled “How Can Our Real Lives Be Ruined By Our Digital Ones?” Students see online shaming first-hand, so this lesson was created to help them understand how and why relatively nice people can get caught up in malicious social media shaming.UPDATE: Now includes links to Google Slides. Each worksheet is placed as the background on the Google Slide and the students create textboxes to input their answer
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Mega Podcast Bundle
10th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 10th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE 10th GRADE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT STANDARD (ALL 10) PLUS ones aligned to Language, Speaking/Listening/Viewing, and Writing standards. A TRULY ENGAGING ELA RESOURCE!Gets students reading, writing, identifying nuances in language, listening and viewing, exploring both historical and scien
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10th
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Fishbowl Discussions: Grades 9-12 & CCSS Aligned
How many times have you sent your high school students home to read a few articles or a few chapters for homework and the following day, when it's time for discussion, the room is dead silent and lifeless?
This happened to me all of the time in my first few years of teaching. If you're looking for a way to make class discussion purposeful and student-led, then FISHBOWL DISCUSSIONS are a great structure to try!
A fishbowl discussion can be used for any level of students, but you need to know
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Dystopian Literature: Mega Bundle of All Resources
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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ELA Curriculum Q2 9th 10th Grade English – Rhetorical Analysis, Argument Writing
This Quarter 2 ELA Curriculum for 9th and 10th grade English has ALL the materials you need—lessons, materials, texts, and pacing guide—to teach a full 9-week quarter of high school English, with a focus on argument, rhetorical analysis, speech, and argumentative writing.The Quarter 2 high school English bundle includes a free curriculum map pacing guide you can find here. Whether you are a new ELA teacher, or teaching a new ELA class or grade level, or a veteran teacher looking for some engagin
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8th - 11th
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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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Power and Corruption Thematic Literary Unit Bundle - High School ELA
This Power and Corruption Thematic Literary Unit Bundle provides everything you need to do a thematic study of literature for your high school ELA course. I use this unit in my Honors English 10 class, but it can be used in any core or Pre-AP® class for 9-12 ELA. Studying literature in a thematic unit keeps students engaged and offers a variety of examples and voices for students to examine the selected theme. In this thematic unit, students will study power and corruption, with the opportunity
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9th - 12th
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TED Talk Presentations - Print and Digital
Teach public speaking and speech writing with this lesson that challenges students to present TED Talks. Existing TED Talks serve as mentor texts, which students view, analyze, and evaluate before using the writing process to create their own. Print-and-go handouts guide students through their discussion, planning, peer review, editing, and rehearsal. An editable slide and MS Word document is included for the final assignment, so you can customize the assessment for your students’ needs. This
Grades:
7th - 10th
Serial Season One - Complete Printable Unit and Plans
One of the most popular podcasts ever made, Serial is such a powerful tool in the classroom. Your students will love the engaging and provoking use of this podcast. This unit is based in core standards such as analyzing non-fiction text, note-taking, and persuasive writing and speaking. My high school students LOVE this unit! They really enjoy being able to form their own opinion on who is really guilty. I usually move through this unit in under two weeks, and the kids are always engaged. In
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9th - 12th
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Speech Analysis Venn Diagram: I Have a Dream and The Ballot or the Bullet, CCSS
Help your students master their rhetorical analysis skills while analyzing and comparing two famous speeches from history: Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet." The two rhetorical analysis worksheets are designed to help your students analyze the message and rhetoric of these two historical speeches, including their ethos, pathos, and logos. Additionally, a compare and contrast Venn diagram will engage your students with higher-level questio
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9th - 12th
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Unbiased Sources vs. Fake News | Informational Reading Editable Mini-Unit
Just in time for election season, this differentiated and engaging resource will help you teach your students to think critically and evaluate sources. You'll teach your students to understand bias and to spot fake news and disinformation, then challenge them to see the "other side" of a story. Includes articles, research, worksheets, activities, and reflections. Some essential questions of this introduction to journalism mini-unit include: What makes a story newsworthy? How do I analyze bias an
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8th - 11th
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Rhetoric Meets Social Justice Speech Unit (NO PREP)
Empower Your Students with the Voices of Change! Looking to inspire your students to become advocates for justice and equality? My comprehensive multi-lesson unit is the perfect resource to engage students in meaningful discussions and critical analysis of speeches by Dr. King, Bryan Stevenson, Amanda Gorman, and John Lewis. Dive into History: Explore the historical context surrounding Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech and Bryan Stevenson's TED talk on mass incarceration. With engaging Google S
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9th - 12th
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