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Writing-essays Common Core L.11-12.5 resources
The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" EDITABLE UNIT AP Style
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! All Tests are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 170 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * over 140 READING/ANALYSIS SHOR
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10th - 12th
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,AP Style
68 page unit on the poem! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 14 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 4 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 2 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS* 2 FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS* 1 AP STYLE PROMPT* 14 VOCABULARY
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Bell-Ringers for the ENTIRE Year-40 WEEKS - EDITABLE PROMPTS w/ Mentor Sentences
This bundle of EDITABLE bell-ringers for the entire school year contains 40 weeks worth of prompts (323 SLIDES)!Each day of the week is assigned to a specific type of prompt to challenge students with various skills tasks. Here is the weekly key of prompts in this bundle:Mondays = Vocabulary TasksTuesdays = Debate TopicsWednesday = Mentor SentencesThursday = Literary Analysis ActivitiesFridays = Creative Writing Prompts Use these bell-ringers at the beginning of each class period throughout the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Bell-Ringers & Mentor Sentences: A Bundle for the Beginning of Class
"Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?"COMPLETE UNITActivities,Tests,APStyle
74 page unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 17 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 8 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 12 VOCABULARY WORDS (handout and quiz
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
The Handmaid's Tale Test and Answer Key for High School (Printable)
Conclude a unit on The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood with this printable summative assessment. Delivered in Word Document and PDF formats, this test includes 55 multiple choice questions. In addition to objective questions on character, plot, literary devices, and quote/passage analysis, an essay section is featured, requiring high school students to explore the author's warnings about totalitarianism and its influence on ordinary people. An answer key and sample essay response are provided
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9th - 12th
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Pride and Prejudice Study Guide and Reading Tests-CCSS
Pride and Prejudice Study Guide and Essay Tests
A list of applicable Common Core State Standards for Reading, Writing, and Language are included.
Included are comprehensive study guides and reading quizzes for Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice.
Study Guide I includes 152 questions from Chapters 1-16
Study Guide II includes 132 questions from Chapters 17-31
Study Guide III includes 164 questions form Chapters 32-47
Study Guide IV includes 173 questions from Chapters 48-61
Part I Test ha
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9th - 12th
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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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How to Analyze Anything: Asserting vs. Summarizing vs. Analyzing
These lessons were designed to help high school students understand what analysis is and to help them be able to recognize the difference between simply asserting an idea or summarizing a concept or text and actually analyzing it. The lessons can be modified according to the teacher’s needs to be one quick mini-lesson or a multi-day lesson with practice and formative assessments. The document includes: 1. A student handout defining asserting, summarizing, and analysis in a simple chart. 2. A 2-
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: How to Analyze Anything ELA
Writer's mini-lessons for student-led grammar and writing instruction
Students are the teachers in this assignment, which serves as my grammar/writing instruction for my seniors in English 12 and in dual-credit English 12 and college Composition I. Students partner up and choose a topic to teach the rest of the class about. The mini-lessons are intended to be 10-15 minutes long with instruction and a short activity, and we start class with them on Wednesdays.
Topics are based on grades 11-12 Common Core grammar and writing concepts, though the topics are relevant
Research Projects- Questions and Guided Organization Worksheets
This file includes the following documents:
#1- Explanation of what a Research Paper is about: 8 page paper that is based on the answer to a question. The students are required to read through the directions, then read through 50 dynamic, interesting questions and highlight 5 that seem interesting to them. The topics range from changing the draft age, to mandatory recycling, to the transition from pagan celebrations into Christian holidays. These are not your typical Research topics!
Once stu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"A Clean,Well-Lighted Place" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests, AP Style
46 page COMPLETE unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 14 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 2 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 2 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUES
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
"The Black Cat" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities, Tests, AP Style
69 page COMPLETE unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay.* 13 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 7 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 13 VOCABULARY WORDS (handout
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Pre AP and APLang Persuasive Writing Bundle
This Pre-AP & APLang Persuasive Writing Bundle includes everything you need to engage your students and prepare them for the argument and synthesis essays for the AP Language and Composition exam. Teaching line of reasoning, writing style, evidence in an essay, and precise language CAN be easy, engaging, and interactive! Increase your students’ confidence and competence the whole year, and inject some energy and fun into your review week with three APLang review games. All materials incl
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10th - 12th
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6 Trait 9 Point Rubric Bundle (compatible with AP Language & Composition
This bundle includes three separate rubrics for the three different essays on the AP Language and Composition exam:
1. Argument (response to short quote/topic)
2. Synthesis (argument using provided sources)
3. Rhetorical Analysis (analysis of text excerpt)
Each rubric breaks down the holistic description on the essay rubrics provided by the College Board for the AP Language and Composition exam essays into a 6 trait rubric. This allows students to see more specifically where they are doing well
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11th - 12th
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Demystifying Close Reading
One of the most difficult skills to teach is close reading. Even older students and advanced students are often baffled by it. Over the years teaching seniors and AP students, I have developed these handouts to break down the process and scaffold the thinking and skills.
This bundle contains three student handouts designed to guide students through a close reading of a passage, forming a thesis for a paper about the passage, and considering possible paper organizations. In addition, there are t
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Teaching the Argument: Sample Argument Response
This document is a color-coded sample response of the previously posted sample argument task for the NYS English Regents exam. The colors correlate with the cheat sheet, which is the third document needed to fully teach students how to successfully compose a Part 2 response to the NYS English Regents exam.
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9th - 12th
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The War of the Worlds Test and Answer Key (Printable)
Conclude a unit on The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells with this printable summative assessment. Delivered in Word Document and PDF formats, this test includes 46 multiple choice questions. In addition to objective questions on character, plot, literary devices, and quote/passage analysis, an essay section is featured, requiring high school students to explore how the author incorporated verisimilitude into the plot. An answer key and standards-based essay scoring rubric are provided. (Alternat
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7th - 12th
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Teaching the Argument: Breaking Down Part 2 of the NYS English Regents Exam
This array will provide you with instant handouts for your learners and includes:Sample Argument TaskArgument Cheat SheetSample Argument Response
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9th - 12th
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CCSS:
The Handmaid's Tale Test and Answer Key for High School (Google Drive)
Conclude a unit on The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood with this digital summative assessment. Made for Google Drive, this test is delivered as a Google Doc and a Google Form with self-grading functionality for 55 multiple choice questions. In addition to objective questions on character, plot, literary devices, and quote/passage analysis, an essay section is featured, requiring high school students to explore the author's warnings about totalitarianism and its influence on ordinary people. A
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9th - 12th
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Paired Texts - Theme for English B and We Are Many - Essay Writing
In this lesson, which incorporates science of reading skills, students complete close readings of the poems, "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes and " We Are Many" by Pablo Neruda in this lesson. Then, they write a literary analysis essay requiring them to synthesize and discuss the themes in the poetry.This 22-page printable resource includes the following:-explicit lesson plan with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standards-anticipation guide-contextual reading guides-think aloud with sa
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8th - 12th
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AP Lang- "Bring Back Christmas" Song Rhetorical Analysis and Response
Let your AP Lang students have a blast analyzing the rhetoric in this little Christmas ditty! This song has everything you could want in a rhetorical challenge: connotative language choices, manipulation, logical fallacies, shameless pandering, shifts in tone, and one heck of a catchy tune!Included: One 7 page PDF with the song lyrics to annotate, one annotated exemplar, two FRQ practice responses, directions how to format a rhetorical analysis intro and body paragraphs, a link to the music vide
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10th - 12th
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Teaching the Argument: Argument Cheat Sheet
This document is the crux of teaching the argument response for the NYS English Regents exam, as it breaks down each component of the response to lead students to success on the Part 2 response.
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9th - 12th
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Teaching the Argument: Sample Argument Task
This file provides teachers with a sample argument task for the English Regents.
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9th - 12th
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