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English language arts Common Core SL.9-10.4 handouts
Midsummer Night’s Dream Unit Plan, Four Weeks of MSND Materials/Activities, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into A Midsummer Night’s Dream? William Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of love and magic will engage your students when you use this MASSIVE bundle of fun and creative lessons. This package includes four weeks of complete materials designed to challenge and entertain middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this
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7th - 10th
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ELA Curriculum Bundle: The English Teacher's Life Preserver
This ginormous ELA bundle will solve a lot of your problems. You'll never have to stay up late trolling for lesson plan ideas again. You'll just dive into this folder, choose one of the dozens of activities and projects inside, and then hit the hay. Imagine the delicious smells of your own literary food truck festival. Imagine students fighting over your most popular reading library titles. Expect newly engaged writers when you roll out your first ever ELA maker space and guide your students in
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9th - 12th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Close Reading and Speech Writing Lesson
Make your study of Martin Luther King, Jr. a literacy lesson with a primary source. Students complete a close reading of Dr. King's prophetic speech “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” and use their reading as inspiration for their own writing. In pre-reading activities, students learn about the context of the speech and define vocabulary. Next, they complete an activity to understand allusions, and then after reading the speech, they analyze its structure using a graphic organizer. They use the sa
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Bundle: Writing with Mentor Texts - American Authors
Diagnostic Assignment Bundle for High School ELA
This series of diagnostic assignments assesses a HIGH SCHOOL student’s overall reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills at the beginning of the school in order to create a baseline for assessing student growth over the course of the year.This bundle includes:1. Diagnostic Reading Assignment: “The Tyger”2. Diagnostic Writing Assignment: Persuasive Paragraph3. Diagnostic Speaking Assignment: Introductory Speech4. Diagnostic Grammar Assignment: Sentence Structure5. Diagnostic Grammar Assign
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Hexagonal Thinking: One Pagers l one page templates l one pager for any novel
Hexagonal thinking is a creative way to get students making connections with one pagers. BUT, it's a lot of work for you, as the teacher, to create and cut out dozens of hexagons for your students to connect, arrange, and discuss. Why not get the students brainstorming and designing their own hexagons with hexagonal one-pagers?In this activity, groups of students use critical thinking, close reading, and design skills to create hexagonal one-pagers for characters, style elements, connections to
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7th - 12th
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Earth Day Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage - Plastic Waste & Pollution
Perfect for Earth Day! This reading comprehension passage explores the harmful effects of plastic pollution on the environment and our health. Teach students to write a nonfiction summary using the graphic organizers provided. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Activity:✏️ 2-Page Informational Article - Colour & Grayscale“Why is Plastic Harmful?: The Effects of Plastic on the Environment and Your Heal
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5th - 10th
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Literature Circles Activity Set for Any Book l high school literature circles
Literature circles are so promising. Giving students choice really helps inspire them to read. At the same time, traditional literature circles are prone to draaaaag. Students aren't always prepared to dive in and lead their own discussion, even when assigned to the classic literature circles roles. It's no fun racing from group to group, trying to inspire good conversation with your teacherly presence. That's why this literature circles unit for older kids skips the roles and the awkward silenc
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7th - 10th
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Breaking Down Stereotypes & Prejudices-Teaching Tolerance
Are you reading The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hate You Give, Dear Martin, or any other piece of literature dealing with tolerance, prejudices, racism and stereotyping? Are you teaching these topics in your history class? This social experiment will open your students’ eyes to the injustices that take place on a daily basis and why people need to be educated on these topics.We currently live in a world and country where social injustices, prejudices and stereotyping take place on a da
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8th - 12th
Mock Trial Assignment for Any Story or Novel - Script, Outline, Universal Rubric
Mock trials don’t need to be daunting! Your students will absolutely love this assignment for any short story or novel. It includes a mock trial script, 30+ mock trial roles, an objection cheat sheet, an editable mock trial rubric, and more. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Mock Trial Assignment for Any Story or Novel:✏️ Legal Trial Slideshow - Microsoft PowerPoint®, Google Slides®, and PDF✏️ Various Mock Trial Role Descriptions for up
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7th - 12th
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Shakespeare: The Tempest Unit Bundle. Top Ten Resources. Writing & Comprehension
This complete teaching scheme will save you many, many of hours of preparation. It contains 10 different tasks including work on comprehension, vocabulary, persuasive writing, figurative language and much more. Resources are provided both as a computer friendly presentation and in an easily printable black and white form.· Scene-by-scene questions break the play down into bite-size chunks· There are numerous creative tasks which will be enjoyed by students of all levels · There are beautifully c
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9th - 12th
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Night Elie Wiesel Close Read, Poetry, Art Theme Activities
Common Core Aligned. Great culminating or chapter by chapter progressive activity for the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. This adaptable activity can be done individually or in groups. Students will evaluate diction and figurative language in a variety of passages from Night, determine how these techniques are used to develop tone, mood, and theme. Students will then analyze poetry and art from Holocaust victims and evaluate how a common theme is expressed in each work (memoir, poem, and art).
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7th - 12th
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Area 51- Conspiracy Theory - Listen, Short Answer, & Paragraph
I used to hate it when students would bring up conspiracy theories like aliens and Area 51, as I thought it was my job to convince them why this was unreasonable, and I didn't always have the context or facts to do that! Sadly, I didn't realize that I was missing a major opportunity to engage their interest. Now, I have a plan and this assignment does the work for me. In addition, this assignment is further important because it is skill-based, and it targets evidence and analysis skills for the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Lamb to the Slaughter: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
*Updated 10/12/20: For each worksheet, I’ve created a png image of the worksheet and then put that image as the background in a Google Slide. The students can use all of the tools in Slides to mark their answers. The links are already set up to force students to make a copy so they each have their own version of the worksheet in their Google Drive. Copy and paste the links below to share with your students. Please don’t post these links on any websites that are not password protected. A whole ne
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8th - 12th
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Novel And Movie Comparison Activities, During the Movie, Movie Review Worksheets
Novel And Movie Comparison Activities, During the Movie, Movie Review WorksheetsThese worksheets and cooperative learning activity allow students to compare the book to the movie, write reviews, analyze the manner the book was adapted to the screen, and produce thoughtful, interesting things to say about the movie and book in class discussion. The act of showing the movie adaptation of a book can be a very enriching experience with the right materials. ★ Keep your students ENGAGED during the mov
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5th - 12th
TED Talk Presentations - Print and Digital
Teach public speaking and speech writing with this lesson that challenges students to present TED Talks. Existing TED Talks serve as mentor texts, which students view, analyze, and evaluate before using the writing process to create their own. Print-and-go handouts guide students through their discussion, planning, peer review, editing, and rehearsal. An editable slide and MS Word document is included for the final assignment, so you can customize the assessment for your students’ needs. This
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7th - 10th
Conversation Starters Package on Conspiracy Theories
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on conspiracy theories.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for high school students on the subject of conspiracy theoriesActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Speech Analysis Activity | Analyze Susan B. Anthony's On Women's Right to Vote
Teach Susan B. Anthony's famous speech "On Women's Right to Vote" with this speech analysis activity. This speech activity includes 10 analytical questions in both a PDF and an editable Word document.Teach an important piece of history and analyze a speech for students to apply pieces to their own speaking skills!Contents of this speech for rhetorical analysis activity:Students will answer questions concerning— • vocabulary• sentence structure• tone• logosThis speech lesson should take about an
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9th - 12th
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Titanic- Conspiracy Theory- Listen, Short Answer, & Paragraph
I thought I already knew a lot about the Titanic, but I learned a lot more in these two 40 minute podcast episodes. Podcast Episode 1 provides a detailed history lesson about the Titanic including the root causes and the actual crash and sinking event. Episode 2 provides three possible conspiracy theories, everything from insurance fraud, intentional sabotage, and even an evil mummy. My students buy into the task because it is so skeptical and questioning of everything. I buy into this task bec
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Advanced Argument Writing Unit: Counterargument, Voice, Sources, and more
Writing a quality argument is a creative process, but it can be hard when kids are spread across different levels. Some of your students leave their quotations hanging with no analysis, while others are ready for counterargument and bringing more of their voice into their writing - so what are you supposed to do?With this advanced argument unit, meet kids where they are. Through varied graphic organizers, mini-lessons, writing prompts, and argument hexagonal thinking, you can guide your students
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9th - 12th
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THE GREAT GATSBY Projects and Assignments
The Great Gatsby Projects and Assignments provides 18 engaging options for assessing and extending learning. Tasks include creative writing, debate, formal research, visual arts, performance, presentation, and more.The Great Gatsby Projects and Assignments:Judging a Cover by Its Book (original art)The American Nightmare (editorial)Point of View Shift (narrative writing)Prose Poetry & Poetry Pros Time Travel Briefing (historical context)Viewing Guide and Film Review (2013 version)Read-N-Share
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: THE GREAT GATSBY Final Assessments: Project Menu and Exam Bank
Romeo & Juliet Unit Bundle: Top 15 Resources Comprehension, Writing & Creativity
This complete teaching scheme will save you many, many of hours of preparation. It contains 15 different tasks including work on comprehension, vocabulary, persuasive writing, creative writing, figurative language, imagery and much more. Resources are provided both as a computer friendly presentation and in an easily printable black and white form.· Questions on every scene break the whole play down into bite-size chunks· Play Summary·Close Reading and Comprehension exercise - sixty pages of det
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9th - 12th
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The Declaration of Independence - Argument Analysis - Close Reading Lesson
This lesson is designed to engage students in critical thinking, historical understanding, and rhetorical analysis through an exploration of this foundational American document. By utilizing close reading strategies including annotation and modeling, students will uncover the rich language and meaning within The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. The structured handouts with pre-, during-, and post-reading strategies help them recognize persuasive techniques. This resource aligns
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
The Taming of the Shrew and Ten Things I Hate About You Scheme of Learning
A 14 page Scheme of Learning focussing on appropriation and comparing The Taming of the Shrew with the film Ten Things I Hate About You. This is written primarily for the 10th Grade though it could be easily adapted for another curriculum or age group. The scheme is fully differentiated for ESL, Learning Difficulties and Gifted and Talented students. Resources included are: a detailed table connecting all the main elements of the play and film, graphic organisers to aid student thinking and plan
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9th - 10th
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller - Full Unit (198 pages of resources!)
This comprehensive unit, oriented around essential questions related to identity, community, individuality, and her mentality includes 198 pages of well-organized, editable resources for reading and analyzing Arthur Miller’s thought-provoking and ever timely play The Crucible. The detailed unit plan lists numerous supplemental texts students can explore to build background about the historical context of both the setting (17th century Massachusetts) and Miller’s historical motivations for writi
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7th - 12th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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