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Writing-expository Common Core RL.11-12.3 resources
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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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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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 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!
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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Mockingjay Book vs. Movie Activities - Common Core
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" and "Mockingjay: Part 2" Movie vs. The Book Common Core Activities
Mockingjay: Part 1 and Mockingjay Part 2 activities, printables, and critical-thinking exercises bundle: If you plan to take your students to see it OR wish to give them a homework or extra credit assignment, this download has numerous activities that are ready to go right now! My packet is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, so it will be easy to justify the lessons, as well.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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!
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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
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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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
Othello Motif Analysis
Students have difficulty understanding how patterned motifs become themes. This assignment breaks down important quotes in all five acts that reveal these patterns. This 34 page document includes a DETAILED answer key. Each act builds off the previous and students begin to see the purpose behind Shakespeare's connections. I use this activity with my college prep seniors after each act. The students work in pairs or groups to examine the quotes and how they connect to each other. Then I use t
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9th - 12th
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The Importance of Being Earnest Satire Study
This two page activity includes a detailed answer key. Working with a partner or as a homework assignment, students will work through the play to analyze the satirical targets of Wilde's play. Skills include: citing textual evidence, relating author's purpose to comedic devices and making a larger connection to Aestheticism and to Victorian society as a whole. Though a challenging activity, students begin to recognize how comedy can question societal norms as much as tragedy can.Related Reso
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Importance of Being Earnest Resource Bundle
11th & 12th Grade Writing Prompts
Using these writing prompts in a high school class can provide students with valuable opportunities to develop critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills across a variety of genres. By incorporating prompts that align with Common Core State Standards, educators can ensure that students are meeting academic benchmarks while engaging in meaningful writing tasks. These prompts encourage students to explore complex issues, conduct research, and express their ideas effectively through ar
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11th - 12th
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Looking for Alibrandi - Study Guide and Workbook
This 24 page Study Guide and Workbook examines and explores the themes of Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. It has various activities to engage and motivate students with challenging issues to debate, discuss and explore the cultural differences, evident through dialogue and the various themes, such as identity, rules, pressure, destiny, leadership, respect, school social life etc. Opportunities for character studies, and various journal writing activities and assessment tasks. Fully ed
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10th - 12th
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Hamlet Final Essay Prompts - Editable with Scoring Rubric - Three Choices
Concluding discussion of Shakespeare's Hamlet with your high school English lit students? Check out these engaging final essay prompts. The resource is editable and includes a scoring rubric. No prep.There are three prompts to be assigned after completion of Hamlet. Topics: Hamlet's preoccupation with death Hamlet's procrastination Hamlet's mental stabilityDirections call for students to ---choose one prompt, ---develop discussion with illustrative text, ---provide three quotes from each act (o
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9th - 12th
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Text Based Evidence Analysis Writing
Teaching how to write a literary analysis essay citing text evidence for "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe has never been easier! This in-depth text dependent analysis (TDA) writing prompt resource guides students through a step-by-step process of writing an expository essay with textual evidence as support. It includes an expository writing graphic organizer, rubric, expository writing quiz, and an expository writing template.All aspects of text evidence writing are covered in this
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9th - 12th
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The Tell Tale Heart Literary Analysis Character Development Short Story PDF
This Literary Analysis Character Development 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 characters develop from the beginning to the end of a story. This development leads to the discovery of different themes! Plus, activities can be used with ANY text!This product includes the following:My Traits ActivityCharacter Development Graphic Organizer & Teacher Worksheet for "The Tell-T
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9th - 12th
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A Comparative Study of Martin Luther King Jr & Malcolm X
A complete unit of instruction - include ALL answer documents - comparing and contrasting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X's early lives & speeches.This unit of study, which can be taught as a complete unit, or separated into 13 distinct activities gives students an opportunity to take a deeper look into each man and one of his influential speeches. It is created with ease in mind for the instructor, whether an experienced certified teacher or a home-educator new on the job. Everything
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9th - 12th
Argument Composition unit
This comprehensive composition unit on argument is aligned with the common core learning outcomes and includes intensive instruction, critical thinking, problem solving, research and writing activities on the components of argument which include: logos, ethos, pathos, inductive and deductive logic, syllogisms, fallacies, composition analysis and writing. It has well over 20 hours of content and activities for your classroom. The materials include: an instructional PDF powerpoint, creative acti
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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