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Common Core SL.9-10.1d interactive notebooks
Harlem Renaissance Activities: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Art & Music
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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American Literature Full Year ELA Curriculum for High School English | Secondary
Looking for a full-year American Literature curriculum that will engage your most reluctant learners while still challenging your most advanced students? Spanning American literature from Puritans to young authors writing today, this truly diverse curriculum has differentiated plans for honors and standard level classes. From the Puritan worldview to YOLO culture, from love and lies to the Iraq war, and from the everyday pains of growing up to the unique experience of the contemporary immigran
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9th - 12th
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Dystopian Short Story: The Lottery Shirley Jackson | Lesson Plans | Bullying
Looking for a complete unit on “The Lottery” that will challenge and inspire your students to make a difference in today's troubled times? By making connections among bullying, genocide, the Nuremberg trials, Stanley Milgrim’s obedience study, and a classic poem about the Holocaust, your students will be inspired to take their study of Jackson’s powerful story past the pages of the text.When you teach “The Lottery” with this unit you will:be sure that your students won’t miss any of the importa
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9th - 12th
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10th & 11th Grade English: American Dream Poems | High School Poetry | Vol 1
Want to immerse your students in the diversity of this country by studying engaging poetry together? Your students will learn so much when they explore the essential questions of American Literature with these ready-to-go lessons.A collection of questions on 27 poems, spanning from Puritan poetry to the 20th century, this bundle will provide you with over a month of rigorous, engaging, and ready-to-go lessons. The themes explored in these units--materialism, love, race, family dynamics, class,
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9th - 12th
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53 High School Poems: Literary Analysis, Poetry Close Reading, ELA Lesson Plans
Want to be done planning your high school poetry lessons for the rest of your career? A collection of close reading and discussion questions, activities, and writing prompts on 53 poems that I have taught multiple times over the years, this bundle will provide you with over three months of rigorous, engaging and ready-to-go lessons to teach your students to analyze poetry on their own. The worksheets included here are great choices for supplementing a thematic unit, for adding more voices and p
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9th - 12th
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Literature Circles | Book Clubs | Student Led | Project-Based ELA
Literature circles and book clubs are an empowering way to keep up reading and discussion practices. Lit circles are a highly effective way to allow students to connect socially and intellectually and hold each other accountable. With this student-led unit, students will create their own reading calendar and pacing plan, prepare independently for weekly book clubs, schedule and run their own weekly meetings and assess their own work. The teaching philosophy incorporated here is “Student as Worke
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8th - 11th
Shakespeare's The Tempest Complete Unit: Race, Gender, Class, & Colonialism
With themes ranging from colonial oppression to romantic love, from art to slavery, and from family betrayal to the beauty of nature—this play offers so much to explore. But if you want your classes to get excited about reading this challenging text, your students will need to be excited to delve into the book and feel empowered to tackle the difficult language on their own. You’ll also need to help your classes to make connections between their own lives and those of these fictional characters
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9th - 12th
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Harrison Bergeron Lesson Plans | Kurt Vonnegut Dystopian Short Story Unit Plan
Want to inspire your classes to engage in healthy discussion and speak out against injustices? Students are bombarded on a daily basis with the message that it’s better to go along to get along, and that conflict is scary and to be avoided. They are led to believe that their voice isn’t important, especially when fighting against forces that are more powerful than they are. Believing this message can lead to a generation of future leaders who feel powerless and hopeless and do nothing to make t
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9th - 12th
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AP Literature and Composition Short Story Unit 1 | AP Lit & Comp Curriculum
Looking for an engaging, rigorous, and fun AP short story unit? The beginning of the school year is so essential to setting the tone for the rest of the year, yet AP teachers also feel so much pressure to get everything right from the get-go. With limited time and so many requirements, it’s easy to feel like you don’t have time for fun or engagement. But when your most driven students get the message that literary analysis is all about dry questions and memorizing inane terms, they’ll quickly
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9th - 12th
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High School Short Story Units Bundle: Murder, Family Love, Dystopias, & Dreams
Want to empower your students to take charge of their own educations? So many short story resources involve nothing more than checking boxes or filling out pages of meaningless worksheets. This kind of busywork might seem convenient, but it doesn’t teach students any skills that they need. In fact, when students are lead to believe that reading literature means answering pages of meaningless questions, they are taught to see English class as a boring chore and to hate reading of any kind. Even
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9th - 12th
American Literature Curriculum Units: Short Story Lesson Plans for American Lit.
Are you worried your American Literature curriculum doesn’t give your students the challenges and support they need to reach their full potential? So many ready-to-go curriculum packages involve meaningless busywork that is both boring and irrelevant for your classes. It might seem convenient, but it fails to challenge students and ultimately teaches them nothing more than how miserable it is to slog through texts.Worse, when students are lead to believe that studying great literature means fil
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9th - 12th
Hamlet Activities for Acts 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 | Revenge, Lies, & Depression
Worried that your students will fail to make connections between Hamlet and issues that matter to their own lives? Shakespeare’s classic play has so much to offer a contemporary audience, but it isn’t always easy for students to make those connections. If your students don’t understand how his work relates to problems and questions that matter to them, they won’t be excited to study the play. Even worse, when students are forced to read a book that they see as a dead text, they’ll be bored and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Spoken Word Poetry | Slam Poetry | Emtithal Mahmoud | Writing Prompts & Analysis
Encourage your students to find their voices, tell their stories, and speak out about what matters to them. With creative writing prompts, poetry questions, and a final creative writing project, this unit has everything you need to get your students excited about poetry, discussing big questions, and experimenting with writing some poetry of their own.The unit focuses mainly on Emtithal Mahmoud, an award-winning poet, an activist, and a survivor of the genocide in Darfur. She is also the winner
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9th - 12th
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9th or 10th Grade English Curriculum | Full Year ELA | High School | Yearlong
Looking for a full-year curriculum that will support your students to improve their writing and critical thinking? It’s so challenging to figure out yearly plans. Deciding on the best time to schedule assessments, slogging through multiple texts, trying to come up with activities and questions so that your classes aren’t bored all while you’re dealing with grading, faculty meetings, study halls, parent communication, and keeping up with the latest requirements and standards. It’s impossible for
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9th - 12th
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Native American Literature: Storytelling Thematic Unit | Indigenous Film, Poetry
Ready to integrate more Native voices into your curriculum this year? While trickster tales, creation myths, and other traditional stories definitely have their place in an American literature curriculum, it’s important that your students don’t get the message that Indigenous literature is only something from the past or something to read about in their history books. In fact, if you’re not intentionally integrating current writers in your plans, you might be inadvertently giving your classes t
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9th - 12th
Literary Nonfiction Units for High School English Curriculum | Literary Analysis
Do you want to include more nonfiction in your plans but struggle to find units that are both challenging and engaging?As an English teacher, you know that it’s important to incorporate different kinds of texts in your plans, but it’s not easy to find nonfiction that isn’t boring, dry, or totally irrelevant to students. If a piece is challenging, it likely doesn’t relate to students’ lives, and if it feels relevant, it’s probably dumbed down or badly written.When you’ve felt the pain of giving a
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9th - 12th
10th & 11th Grade English: American Dream Poems | High School Poetry | Vol 2
Want to immerse your students in the diversity of this country by studying engaging poetry together? Your students will learn so much when they explore the essential questions of American Literature with these ready-to-go lessons.A collection of questions on 24 poems, from the mid 20th century to the present, this bundle will provide you with over a month of rigorous, engaging, and ready-to-go lessons. The themes explored in these units--materialism, love, race, family dynamics, class, immigrat
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9th - 12th
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston | Unit Plan Bundle | AP Lit
Looking for a complete no-prep unit on Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece that is both rigorous and fun? How do we chase our own dreams and not those that we inherit? What do people need to have in their lives in order to feel free? How do we deal with outward expectations when they don’t match our inner desires? What does it mean to live a good life? Their Eyes Were Watching God offers so many great questions, but the text can be challenging for students, and if you don’t have a system in place
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9th - 12th
Sherman Alexie "Smoke Signals" High School Film Studies Unit | Native American
Get your classes to dig deeper in their study of Native American Literature, Culture, and History with a powerful unit on this sad, lovely, and hilarious film. Created by a largely Native cast and crew and based on the book of short stories The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur D’Alene), “Smoke Signals” is such a great film! The themes of Native life, storytelling, family, forgiveness, and the past will give you lots to discuss with your students. Besid
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9th - 12th
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High School Anti-Bullying Unit: TED Talks, Stories | Social Emotional Skills
Tired of searching through anti-bullying and social emotional learning units that are appropriate for elementary and middle school but would never be effective for high school students? You know that the wellbeing of your students is important—if they are too stressed to learn, then there’s no amount or prepping or planning that will help them retain information or develop skills. But you also know what the research shows—that SEL anti-bullying programs designed for younger students will never
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Hamlet Unit Plan | Discussion Questions & Literary Analysis | British Literature
Are struggling to teach a unit on Hamlet that is both rigorous and fun?If your students’ experience of Shakespeare's classic play involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the play to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves and creating passive, apathetic, disempowered learners.Students today can learn so much from Hamlet
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Romeo and Juliet Full Unit Interactive Flip Book (Google Drive)
Make Romeo & Juliet more fun with this interactive, unit-long flipbook made for Google Drive. This activity has a large range of activities to hit all the essentials when studying Shakespeare’s tragedy. Students will practice identifying literary and poetic devices, break down and decipher archaic language, follow character interactions, plot out the main events in the play, and follow along with reading comprehension questions. Each section is ready for you to line up and assemble with inst
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9th - 12th
Shakespeare Curriculum: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Tempest, Twelfth Night, Sonnets
Looking for Shakespeare resources that are rigorous for your students but no-prep and low-key for you? Every year, I look forward to teaching my Shakespeare units because I know that my students will get so much out of the unit without a ton of work on my part. This is because I have tweaked and adjusted my methods for teaching over the past 24 years, and I have found a system for supporting even my most reluctant learners to feel empowered to read these challenging texts on their own.When you
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Jimmy Santiago Baca: Literary Nonfiction | Chicano & Native American Literature
Looking for a compelling unit on contemporary Chicano nonfiction? This powerful essay by Jimmy Santiago Baca is a great choice for exploring why literature matters. Telling the story of how Baca first found his love for reading and writing, this essay is also a great choice for discussing themes around identity, self expression, metaphor, and the American prison system. In this lesson, students will start off by freewriting on engaging bellringer prompts and trying their hand at writing figurat
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9th - 12th
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