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12th grade short stories pdfs
The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, Digital Escape Room, Escape By The Morning
Escape by the Morning! This Tell-Tale Heart Digital Escape Room is an innovative breakout game that allows teachers and students to engage in escape room fun, enjoy the 360° view, and have the VR option. Your students will feel like they are actually in the boarding house chambers! You should definitely watch the preview video for this cutting-edge classroom experience! When my students begin, what will they experience?By clicking on “VIEW 360°” the virtual escape room opens. There is a "heartb
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7th - 12th
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The Most Dangerous Game Close Reading Assignment - PRINT & DIGITAL
Engage your students in close reading and literary analysis with this The Most Dangerous Game Close Reading Unit! This digital and traditional print close reading activity for "The Most Dangerous Game" requires students to go back to carefully-selected passages from the text to read and closely analyze specific literary elements: conflict, suspense, and theme.With an emphasis placed on close reading and literary analysis, students will gain a better understanding of Richard Connell's short story
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Short Stories Close Reading Literary Analysis Bundle - PRINT + DIGITAL
Character Traits Graphic Organizers
16 fun and creative character profile worksheets that students can use to create their own character profiles for a story, or to analyze characters in novels or film. Due to the differing style of these templates and lines for note-taking OR white spaces for doodling/drawing, you can easily differentiate for your students!Contents#1: This character profile template allows students to draw their character and note information about their character (name, age, gender, hobbies etc). [Two versions,
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Creative Writing Organizers & Activities Bundle
The Masque of the Red Death - Poe - ESCAPE ROOM - Engaging Activity
Engage your students and practice literary analysis with this engaging, elaborate ESCAPE ROOM for Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death. This escape room activity can be facilitated virtually, traditionally, or with a blended/hybrid approach. Get ready to creep your students out even more as they attempt to escape the Red Death at Prince Prospero's masquerade!This sequential escape room takes students through 7 "rooms" (like the story) or challenges. The challenges start simple, with reading
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Resource Bundle: Engaging Activities
Characterization Creative Novel Project for Any Novel or Story Character Head
Includes rubric with 15 check points.
Rubric guides students to a high quality product.
Includes character head template.
Includes pictures of
10+ student examples.
Great for summer reading projects.
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6th - 12th
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The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs, Digital Escape Room, Escape The Three Wishes!
Escape the three wishes! The Monkey's Paw Digital Escape Room is an innovative breakout game that allows teachers and students to engage in escape room fun, enjoy the 360° view, and have the VR option. Your students will feel like they are actually in the White family's villa! You should definitely watch the preview video for this cutting-edge classroom experience! When my students begin, what will they experience?By clicking on “VIEW 360°” the digital escape room opens. There is a "wind and sn
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5th - 12th
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Summer Reading Creative Novel Project for Any Novel or Story Character Head
Includes rubric with 15 check points.
Rubric guides students to a high quality product.
Includes character head template.
Includes pictures of
10+ student examples.
Great for summer reading projects.
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6th - 12th
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Theme Activities - Learning Stations for discovering theme of any text
Teaching theme can be difficult because it's something students struggle to understand. These learning stations can change that as they are designed to teach students a process of understanding theme that they can apply to any text they read.In the texts students read, there is rarely a clearly stated "moral at the end of the story." Instead, there are steps that must be followed so they can discover the author's message or theme. These learning stations take students through these steps, and t
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Theme lessons, graphic organizers, activities, and anchor chart
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" 15-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following document contains two quizzes on Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery." The first quiz is a revised quiz with higher critical thinking questions than the low comprehension questions in the second quiz. Feel free to use either or to pick and choose which questions to offer your students. The first quiz assesses a student's analysis of character name inferences, conflict, foreshadowing, indirect characterization, inferences, irony, plot (especially the implied resolution), sett
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6th - 12th
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Digital Escape Room, Escape The Woods, Halloween
Escape the Woods with Ichabod Crane! This Legend of Sleepy Hollow Digital Escape Room is an innovative breakout game that allows teachers and students to engage in escape room fun, enjoy the 360° view, and have the VR option. Your students will feel like they are actually in the woods! You should definitely watch the preview video for this cutting-edge classroom experience! Are you ready to experience why digital escape activities are great for your classroom and your students?When my students b
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7th - 12th
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Hero's Journey Identifying Stages
An "ordinary" boy who makes things happen when he is angry or scared, the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a Polynesian village and our friendly neighborhood high school student bitten by a radioactive spider – they’re all heroes of their own narratives, or if you like, protagonists within a Hero’s Journey. Identifying and analyzing the acts and stages of the Hero’s Journey can be difficult for students if not modeled first. This resource includes plot summaries from the above three well-kno
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Hero's Journey Presentation, Writing Prompts & Graphic Organizers Bundle
Literary Analysis Collaborative Poster for Novels, Short Stories, Fables
This Literary Analysis Collaborative Poster Activity will have your students working together on analyzing a text. Are you working on short stories or a novel study with your students? Would you like your students to look deeper into the novel, chapter, short story, myth or fable? This is just the resource for you! This worksheet and collaborative poster give your students an opportunity to work together. Each of your students can work on a piece of the collaborative poster-protagonist and a
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Literature Activities Bundle, Oh My!
To Build a Fire by Jack London Short Story Anticipation Guide & Pre-Reading
The *BEST* ANTICIPATION GUIDE EVER. In the past, this story always used to put my students to sleep. I came up with this pre-reading activity, and my students really got into it. They even stayed awake for the story! It allows them to connect with the man and imitate the difficulties of starting a fire with cold, frostbitten hands and recognize the struggles the man faces. Through a couple different simple written cues, students must work without the use of their fingers and/or hands. ✏️ Buyer
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7th - 12th
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MEGA (85) Decodable Passages Bundle: Morphology Stories Included!
UPDATED 4/8/24:This product is 85 different decodable stories to support phonics and morphology instruction. Comprehension questions are included for each story.This product is GROWING, and I'll periodically add stories and prompt you to re-download.I created this product to reflect phonics, reading, and spelling lessons focusing on the following phonics/spelling rules:1. Digraph –ck story 2. Glued/welded sound(s) story: -ing, -ang, -ank, etc.3. FLSZ Rule Story4. Digraph ch story 5. Digraph sh
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K - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Orton-Gillingham: Complete Bundle, 700+ Pages! ($200 value)
The Pedestrian Ray Bradbury Close Reading & Analysis Dystopian Short Story Unit
"The Pedestrian" is a very accessible dystopian short story that students will find intriguing and worthy of discussion. Its brief length (around 500 words) provides the perfect opportunity to have students "dig deeply" into a complete text, improving their reading comprehension and literary analysis skills without feeling overwhelmed. If you are simply looking for an accessible story, a way to expose students to Bradbury's poetic and descriptive style, or a way to introduce them to the widely c
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8th - 12th
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The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry Short Story Literature Guide Flip Book
The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry: Layered Flip Book Reading LiteratureFeatures images of Della with really long hair, Jim's pocket watch, hair combs, and holiday holly (have your students color them all in)Each flap is ready for you to easily line up by using the directions on how to assemble the organizer.Includes:Writing Prompt and answer keyQuestions and answer keyComprehension and answer keyhematic Response and answer keyAligned and Outlined ELA Common Core State Standards, 6-12 Reading, Wr
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4th - 12th, Staff
The Fall of the House of Usher Escape Room
This activity features an engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 puzzles covering plot, vocabulary, figurative language and quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-len
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Escape Room MEGA Bundle
Hero's Journey Presentation, Teacher Notes & Handout
Teach the Hero's Journey (or Monomyth) with these background teacher notes, student presentation, and fun handout quiz!1. PresentationThe presentation (PDF file) explains the stages and parts of the Hero's Journey and breaks them down in step-by-step analysis in 50 full-color slides. Examples of each stage are included, highlighting four well-known narratives.2. Student Handout/WorksheetUse this fun handout/worksheet accompaniment alongside the presentation for students to note-take during your
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Hero's Journey Presentation, Writing Prompts & Graphic Organizers Bundle
MURDER MYSTERY I. - 5 MURDER MYSTERIES TO SOLVE
Five murder mysteries for the students to solve. Students need to solve the mysteries by analyzing clues and testimonies. Fun activities that the whole class can enjoy when learning about detective stories or at any time during the school year. Solution and the instruction to each case included.
It can be purchased as a bundle together with my other murder mysteries:
MURDER MYSTERY BUNDLE
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM (Shirley Jackson)
Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for Th
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: The Lottery Activity Bundle (Shirley Jackson)
Writing Workshop Narratives/Short Stories as Mentor Texts
Writer's Workshop Narratives/Short Stories as Mentor TextsIn this writing workshop, students will examine the literary elements in short stories and then use these mentor texts as models to brainstorm, draft, and revise their own narratives. The literary elements included in the narrative criteria are: dialogue, blocking, character and setting description, figurative language, interior monologue, and flashback.The three suggested short stories are "Thank You M'am" by Langston Hughes, "The Jacket
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6th - 12th
Best Short Stories for Middle School: 182 Pages of Highly-Engaging Lesson Plans
All of the sixteen stories for these lesson plans can be downloaded from our website for free in a reader-friendly PDF that we've created.Or check out our massive middle/high school bundle of 28 stories which combines our two bestselling resources at 20% off. Lesson plans are for the following stories:The Most Dangerous Game by Richard ConnellThe Monkey's Paw by WW JacobsThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Hitch-Hiker by Lucille FletcherThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonLamb to the Slaughter by Roal
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Murder mystery - Solve the original case of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band
Students work with the Doyle’s story in a fun and engaging way. It has been written out in the form of clues. There are 25 clues to solve this mystery. Students can get them all at once and then they try to solve the case or you can make it more fun and for example hide the clues around the classroom or them away as some kind of reward – I do that when we are reviewing some area we have already covered – when the group answer the question (from the area that is being reviewed) correctly they wil
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Raven- Edgar Allan Poe- A Mini-Unit!
Raven: "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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This lesson is can also be paired with Edgar Allan Poe- A CSI Activity!
In need of extra activities and resources to enhance your Edgar Allan Poe unit? The Raven- A Mini-Unit activity pack will help you guide your students in a better un
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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