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Free high school literature assessments
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!This includes Week 1 of my Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading. Purchase the full product here.Full Product Description:6 original reading passages for teaching and reviewing figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and allusion.Each of the 6 passages includes 4 activities. Please view the preview file for the first passage and tasks in their entirety.Task A
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3rd - 9th
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FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe Reading Test with Answer Key
A 25 question test to accompany the classic short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. The test consists of 15 multiple choice questions, 3 short constructed response questions, and 7 vocabulary fill in the blank questions. An answer key is included.
Items include comprehension questions, figurative language devices, character analysis, story elements, and tier-two vocabulary words. The short response questions ask students to cite evidence to justify their responses.
The zip file
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7th - 12th
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Plot Arc Diagram Blank Graphic Organizer for Note-taking
Plot Arc Diagram Blank Graphic Organizer for Note-taking
The organizer can be used with the plot of any short story, novel, play, or movie.
This graphic organizer will help students analyze the parts of any story's plot. Just fill in the story's title, and you're ready to roll!
Parts of Plot included:
Exposition (setting and main characters)
Rising Action (conflict)
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Super easy to follow and take notes along with any work.
Enjoy Studying Plot!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Character Analysis One Pager for ANY Novel!
Looking for a creative alternative to the standard end of novel test or literary analysis essay? Enter one pagers! A one pager is a visual response to literature that gets students creative juices flowing while analyzing and synthesizing information from a novel or short story. In the character analysis one pager activity, students will create a one pager to analyze the protagonist of a story. Students will consider the character's development, traits, motivations, and more. Students will demon
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Literary Analysis One Pager Bundle for ANY Novel
FREE Grammar in Literature Activity: Use for Any Novel!
Ready to show students that grammar is not just necessary, but beautiful? Use this multi-purpose activity to collect and examine grammar “in the wild” while reading!Use any of the three different versions/templates of this activity as:• Diagnostic: pre-assess what concepts students know (and can identify) in writing• Practice: formatively assess if students can identify a concept once you have taught it, OR provide sentences that students must label.• Focus: Look at just one grammar concept at a
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Grammar Projects Bundle: Creative Activities for Secondary ELA
The TQE Method: Discussion Stems
This slide deck is ready to support your students as they discuss everything from pieces of art, texts, and topics!The TQE Method is used in classrooms around the world from kindergarten to grad school. For more information about the TQE Method, start with the We're Killing the Love of Reading, But Here's an Easy Fix Unlimited Teacher post and the Cult of Pedagogy podcast episode. Then search the hashtags #TQE and #UnlimitedTeacher to see examples of how teachers are tailoring it to their studen
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Proactive Planning: Potential Solutions for (Distance) Learning BUNDLE
Chapter 1 Digital Activities - The Great Gatsby - Free Resource
The Great Gatsby has never been so easy to teach. This bundle includes a student activity for chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these resources perfect for centers, group work, or substitute days, too! Lead your students through the analysis of chapter 1 with this engaging student activity. They will love the easy to use format and clear directions. Here's what you'll get:· A complete student activity resource filled with engaging activities (
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9th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol - Complete Teaching Unit
A full teaching unit on A Christmas Carol. Includes background notes, vocabulary (lists and quizzes), study questions, group work, allegory work (and answers), a final test and answer sheet and a final project.
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9th - 12th
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Socratic Seminar Rubric (Editable) — Expectations and Guidelines
This resource includes a rubric, guidelines, discussion prompts, and student reflection for a Socratic Seminar based on ANY text. A Socratic seminar is a student-led, formal discussion, based on a text. The conversation focuses on rigorous and thoughtful dialogue amongst classmates. Students must prepare by reading and annotating the text. Then during the seminar, they will listen closely to the comments of others while thinking critically for themselves. They must talk to EACH OTHER, not the te
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7th - 12th
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The Lottery Short Story and Tone, Mood, Foreshadow, Irony Questions
Answer the questions as you read the short story as a class. In addition to plot, questions involve recognizing irony, tone, mood, setting, and foreshadowing.
Feedback appreciated!!!
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7th - 11th
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Figurative Language in Popular Music Lyrics
Student identify the figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole) presented within popular song lyrics. They'll be engaged with the lyrics of their favorite music by artists such as Adele, Shawn Mendes, One Direction, and more.
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4th - 9th
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Language Arts Comprehension Check:Ten Sentence Format CCSS
Should educators tweet, "Good Bye" to proper paragraphs? Are these backbones of formal and informal writing becoming an endangered specie? Do students need to reinforce their basic understanding of the elements of a good paragraph in order to write and develop more in-depth essays? Do students need to learn how to write about the literature that they are reading?This Ten Sentence Format will accomplish all of that. It is perfect for clarifying and reinforcing the parts of an essay, for using a
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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6 Parts of a Story- PLOT quiz
This short quiz asks students to identify the 6 parts of a story- Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution. The first part is a fill in the blank diagram, where they fill in the plot chart each of the 6 elements. The second part is a fill in the blank, where they use each of the 6 plot elements to match them to the correct definition. I am also including the answer key!
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3rd - 12th
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The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald - FREE Project Outline and Assignment Rubric
This free project outline for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an assignment to evaluate students’ understanding of the “Roaring 20s.” Includes instructions, supplementary resources with examples, and a 4-level rubric for assessment. Included with this Free Project Outline for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby:✏️ Visual Text Assignment Outline and Instructions✏️ Hyperlinks to Supplementary Resources with ExamplesFeaturing the artwork and Illustrations of John Held Jr.✏️ 4-Leve
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8th - 11th
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Macbeth FREEBIE: Three Levels of Questioning with 145 Questions for Inquiry
If you like this freebie, click the green star to follow Bespoke ELA for product alerts, more freebies, and giveaways! This FREE PRODUCT by Bespoke ELA contains 145 questions for studying Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The questions are divided into the three different levels of questioning: recall, interpretation & analysis, and synthesis. These questions can serve a variety of uses for your Macbeth unit including:--Reading Checks & Quizzes--Discussion Stems--Essay PromptsWith 145 ques
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Literary Term Reference Sheet for Advanced Middle School + High School English
This quick list provides the more common of the advanced terms needed by advanced middle and high school students. Use this convenient reference sheet to support your secondary students as they analyze an author's use of literary devices in poetry, short stories, novels, and drama. Love it? Yay! Spread those beautiful vibes on the Feedback area below and get TpT credits!Found a typo? Have a recommendation? Email me right away at TGInspiredELA@gmail.comThanks!TG
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
The Outsiders: Free Final Project (Create an App to Connect People)
This final project for The Outsiders invites students to create an app to help Ponyboy in his mission to foster more understanding and less judgment in the world. Watch as your students bring the positive messages of The Outsiders into a creative brainstorming process that will get them thinking creatively about how to change the world. Students will brainstorm an idea, do rough and final storyboard drafts for the app, and then write a reflection connecting their app to Ponyboy’s dreams for a be
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7th - 10th
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Irony Worksheet (Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic)
This product is designed to be given after introducing students to the three types of irony. This worksheet asks students to classify 20 statements as examples as either verbal, situational, or dramatic irony. Answer key provided.
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6th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet TEST / Unit Examination with Answer Key
True/False, Matching, Short Answer, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, Passage Identificaiton, Essay. This is a comprehension test and does not test poetic devices found in the play. The answer key covers everything but the essay as the responses could greatly vary. Please let me know if you have any questions! Thank you.
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8th - 11th
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Genre Mystery Mix-Up
If you’re looking for an engaging and rigorous way to check your students’ understanding of genre, you’ve come to the right place! This lesson will have you setting up a crime scene in your classroom where someone has broken in and mixed up all the genres in your classroom library. Students will follow clues around the school to determine the genres of books the culprit has left around using evidence based terms. This activity is a great follow up to a study of genres or a quick brush up to revi
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2nd - 10th
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Beowulf Journal Prompts
These Beowulf journal prompts contain writing tasks for all three levels of writing. They are excellent to use as warm-up/ bell-ringer tasks at the beginning of class periods or as more developed writing assignments. They also lend themselves to small group and/or whole class discussions. This listing is included in the MEGA BEOWULF BUNDLE with 25 lessons and activities plus answer keys! You can find the ENTIRE BUNDLE HERE.PERKS FOR YOU*Join the Bespoke ELA Blog to gain access to 100+ FREE r
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8th - 12th
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Act 1 Quiz: The Crucible
This 30-question quiz includes 15 matching questions about characters encountered in Act 1 of The Crucible, and 15 multiple choice questions addressing plot, setting, and analysis of Act 1. An answer key is provided at the bottom of the document.
This work by Rebecca Malone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Most Dangerous Game Test/Quiz With Answer Key
This Test/Quiz is to assess student's comprehension with "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. It has a total of 35 questions and a total possible points of 40 (if short answer is 2 points each). The test/quiz is comprised of:- 20 Reading Comprehension ?'s including 3 True/False- 5 Literary Devices Applied ?'s - 5 Character ?'s- 5 Short Answer ?'sI tried making the test/quiz not too hard, but there are some questions are that stupidly easy. This Test/Quiz is in .docx format or word forma
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6th - 12th
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