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Writing-expository Common Core RL.11-12.1 resources
Things Fall Apart Complete Unit | Lesson Plans | Chinua Achebe | Nigeria
Looking for a comprehensive unit for Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart? This thorough resource includes everything a teacher would need. Included are three differentiated types of reading assessments. For weaker readers or students who need a high level of accountability, there is a half-page quiz for each of the 25 chapters. For the average student who can manage several chapters at a time, there are four longer quizzes on chapter sets 1-6, 7-13, 14-19, and 20-25. For students who may be
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9th - 12th
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MENDING WALL by Robert Frost - Close Reading & Text
For Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" this Close Reading lesson gives students the opportunity to read, react, read again, and reflect on the deeper meanings. Included are -- First Impression graphic response page- Close Focus Questions, side-by-side with the text of the poem- Instructions for students to mark as they reread- Analysis page for the structure of the poem- Analysis page for underlying messages and theme- Essential Question, with room for student responses- Teacher Suggestions-
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8th - 11th
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Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Analysis, Team Activity, CCSS
Make the words of Transcendental philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson come alive for your students with breath-taking photography in this two-day class group activity with optional independent writing supplement.This packet includes visually stunning images from nature coupled with quotations from Nature and Self-Reliance, two of Emerson's most-noted works. This 17-page PDF also includes a detailed suggested lesson procedure along with 10 half-sheet student handouts for teams to use as the
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9th - 12th
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The Importance of Being Earnest Unit Bundle for Upper Level ELA & AP Lit
This bundle contains materials for teaching Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest to AP English Literature ® and advanced literature students. This unit aligns with Unit 3 (Long Fiction I) and aligns with the essential skills of that unit. It contains the following:Introductory notes on theme, author, and period notesAP® Lit focused skill sheets (1 per act)Discussion notes handoutDifferentiated project optionsA mini-lesson on one of Oscar Wilde's poemsUnit test and answer keySummative ti
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11th - 12th
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New Year 2023 | Close Reading and Poetry Analysis | Print and Google Slides
Redesigned to make your life easier! Now with Google SlidesTM! Use this activity for a new calendar year or a new school year. Ideal for Back to School or welcoming the new year. The poem “Burning the Old Year” hooks students by first asking them to think of their own lives—and what they would burn from the past year if they could—before they begin closely reading the poem stanza-by-stanza and analyzing it as they annotate. Hits Common Core standards and engages students at the same time. Great
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8th - 11th
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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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Antigone Common Core Unit Learning Tasks - 15 Rigorous Activities!!
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sophocles’s "Antigone." 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. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informationa
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9th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
The Things They Carried Chapter 4 Activities Unit - On the Rainy River
This two-lesson mini unit is designed for Tim O'Brien's fourth chapter of The Things They Carried, "On the Rainy River." All materials are provided in both PDF and Google Slides.Contents◈Lesson 7: Theme in Creative Non-FictionAccountability Quiz: “On the Rainy River”Student Handout Q: Background Knowledge Builder: The Draft and DefermentsStudent Handout R: Found Poetry Instructions (Plus Found Poetry Example)◈Lesson 8
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: The Things They Carried Activities Unit BUNDLE - Vietnam War Projects
The Crucible FIVE Culminating Activities with Independent and Group Projects
Are you looking for effective and engaging ways to assess your high school ELA students' understanding of The Crucible? Give students choices with these FIVE differentiated culminating activities: researched speech, collaborative research presentation, creative writing Puritan tabloid, movie guide for Good night and Good Luck, and a one-pager activity. Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity ✺PROJECT #1 DANGEROUS IDEOLOGY THROUGHOUT HISTORY--GROUP RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION PROJECTStudents re
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9th - 12th
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The Importance of Being Earnest Unit Test | Editable | Answer Key Included
This forty-point test assesses AP® Lit and advanced literature students' knowledge of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The test contains: 10 multiple choice questions4 paragraph responses, analyzing themes and their satirical impact on the playa character mapping activity, showing familial, work, and romantic relationshipsThis resource is fully editable and includes a detailed answer key. It also includes access to Google Forms for online learners. Looking for more Earnest resource
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Course Year Long Bundle | 3500+ Pages!
The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury - Short Story Unit Bundle - Digital and Print
This short story unit for Ray Bradbury’s "The Pedestrian" includes comprehension questions, literary analysis activities, assessment tools, an author biography, and informational handouts. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 35% with the bundled discount!⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Short Story Unit for “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury:✏️ Ray Bradbury Author Biography Informational Handout - Digital & Print✏️ Author Biography Vocabulary Worksheet - Digital &
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9th - 12th
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Literary Analysis Essay Outline Rubric Activities Characterization Worksheet PDF
This Literary Analysis Pack encourages students to begin their journey into writing a literary analysis essay. It takes students step by step through the literary analysis process by encouraging them to examine how characterization leads to theme within "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe OR in ANY text!Just PRINT, PRESENT, and TEACH!This product includes the following:2 Characterization Worksheets with Differentiated Options: Character Traits and Character AnalysisPowerPoint that introduce
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9th - 12th
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The Canterbury Tales Prologue - Characterization Activity - The Pilgrim's Phone
This “Character’s Phone” creative characterization activity for The Canterbury Tales prologue is a fabulous, and relevant way to assess your high school ELA students' understanding of characterization! Kids love their phones! This activity has them imagine a character’s phone’s apps, their favorite entertainment, shopping, news, social media, and other indulgences. Scoring rubric is included. No-prep! Includes a completed example. The instructions for the activity are as follows: CHOOSE A PILGRI
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Canterbury Tales Prologue - Creative and Analytical Activities
"I.C.E." Quote Sandwich Lesson and Worksheets - ENDLESS BUNDLE
With these resources, your students learn and practice the "I.C.E. Cream Sandwich" approach, a simple and effective way to integrate quotations into a paragraph of writing! My "I.C.E. Quote Sandwich" materials are among the most popular items I've shared on TpT, so I decided to combine them all into an endless bundle at a 10% discount!What is an "Endless Bundle?"This bundle contains EVERY resource I have shared on TpT related to the "I.C.E. Quote Sandwich" approach to paragraph-writing. The bund
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6th - 12th
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ANIMAL FARM Novel Study
This file contains Focus Questions for every chapter in Animal Farm. All are classroom tested with success. Answers are included.There are tests for the novel as follows: Ch. 1 to 3; Ch. 4 to 6; Ch. 7 to 10. Answers included.Writing and discussion topics are placed within the Focus Questions to engender hearty analysis and deeper understanding of the allegorical intent.Vocabulary study worksheets with puzzles, a glossary, and a worksheet for the breakdown of character traits for the main chara
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9th - 12th
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Animal Farm Chapter Quizzes and Unit Test
Each of the quizzes in this file contains 10 multiple choice questions designed to check for literal comprehension. Each also ends with an essay prompt that goes up the critical thinking ladder and asks students to explain or analyze, using supporting evidence from the chapter. The first three quizzes cover chapters 1 - 6 in two-chapter combinations. Each of the remaining chapters (7 - 10) has its own quiz.
The unit test contains 10 multiple choice questions, carefully designed to require criti
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9th - 12th
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Of Mice and Men Constructed Responses and Higher Order Thinking Questions
These 10 Constructed Response writing assignments ask your students to engage in Higher Order Thinking and respond in writing to a standards-based prompt. Included are 10 printable handouts that you can use TODAY!
What's Included:
Chapters 1 and 2: Three prompts on lined handouts based on these standards: CCSS RL11-12.6 (Point of View, Literal vs. Figurative Meanings), RL11-12.3 (Elements of a Story), and RL 11-12.1 (Inference/Explicit Textual Evidence)
Chapters 3 and 4: Three prompts on line
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Activities Bundle
Context Clue Practice with SAT Words!
Test-prep isn't just content review. Students need to practice their critical reading skills, and this mini-lesson is perfect for that.
This set has:
--Projector ready PPT to teach/review types of context clues, and practice the skills. PPT also has all the sentences from the worksheet!
--Fifteen challenging sentences to practice context clue skills on; the worksheet asks students to define the words AND identify the type of clue used. Some have more than one type, so discussions and debat
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Tell Tale Heart Literary Analysis Character Traits Graphic Organizer PDF
This Literary Analysis Character Traits Activity Pack for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe encourages students to begin their journey into literary analysis by beginning to think about how characterization leads to different themes!This product includes the following:Character Traits Graphic Organizer Options & Teacher Worksheet for The Tell-Tale HeartCharacter Traits Excerpt Analysis Options & Teacher Worksheet for The Tell-Tale HeartCharacter Traits Evidence Organizer Options t
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9th - 12th
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"I.C.E." Quote Sandwich - Quotation Integration Lesson Bundle
With this bundle of resources, your students learn and practice the "I.C.E. Cream Sandwich" approach, a simple and effective way to integrate quotations into a paragraph of writing!Being able to cite information is such an important skill that it is the first point listed in the secondary Common Core standards for reading literature and informational texts. However, many students struggle with integrating quotations effectively into their paragraphs. This bundle helps students learn to integrate
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6th - 12th
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The Story of an Hour Constructed Response, Close Reading, & Inference Statements
The Story of an Hour Constructed Response, Close Reading, & Inference Statements
This 3-part lesson engages students and meets Common Core standards with the close reading of the classic tale “The Story of an Hour.” While reading the story, students will complete a graphic organizer as they identify Explicit Information and Implied Meanings. After reading, they will create Inference Statements, give and receive feedback on those statements, and write a Constructed Response.
This lesson
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8th - 11th
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The Great Gatsby Literature Circle with CCSS
The Great Gatsby – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over The Great Gatsby i s included in this lesson. The unit will require 9 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 3 days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required to do du
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10th - 12th
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The Iliad Books 22 & 24: Comprehension and Analysis Lesson
**Links to Google Drive files now available in PDF!Finish the greatest epic of all time with this comprehensive package of lecture notes, pre and post-reading discussion activities, comprehension questions and formative assessments for both Books 22 and 24 (with rubrics included). Guide your students through the final sections of this complicated and rewarding classic with a focus on Achilles' rage and his encounters with both Hektor and King Priam. This ready-to-print package gives you the flex
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Iliad Resource Bundle
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