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Common Core W.11-12.5 interactive notebooks
Dystopian Short Stories Unit: The Lottery Shirley Jackson, Harrison Bergeron
Want to utilize your students’ love of dystopian fiction to keep them engaged and get them thinking about how they can make a difference in their worlds?Dystopian fiction is lots of fun—it’s imaginative, creative, and innovative. But when your classes read these texts as pure fiction that doesn’t relate to real life, they won’t make the connections to their own worlds, and they won’t feel the responsibility to make a difference in their lives. Even worse, students might use this kind of fantasti
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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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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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Common Core Writing Bundle: Argument, Research, & Narrative Workbooks
Empower your students to develop as writers and master the Common Core Standards for Writing Grades 9-12. This resource includes three writing workbooks that align to the Common Core Writing Standards for narrative writing (personal narrative essay), explanatory/informative (research paper), and argument (argumentative essay). All three resources come with editable print and digital versions with PowerPoint and Google Slides. Teacher's directions are included with all resources.Save by purchasin
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9th - 12th
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Fun Independent Projects: End of the Year English Activities for High School
Want to have a low-stress end of the year without sacrificing rigor? The last few weeks before summer vacation can be a slow, miserable countdown, just waiting for the days to pass while students get more and more unruly. You might try to make it through by showing movies or doing other meaningless activities, but that never really works as students realize that these strategies are wasting everyone’s time.Instead of just trying to survive, you need to take this opportunity to try new and exci
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9th - 12th
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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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Night by Elie Wiesel Unit Plan: Projects, Activities, Chapter Questions, Writing
Are struggling to teach a unit on Night that is both rigorous and engaging? If your students’ experience of Elie Wiesel’s classic novel involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the novel to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves. In fact, by giving your classes the message that their ideas don't matter, you're helping
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9th - 12th
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
62 Short Stories & Poems High School American Lit. | 11th & 12th Grade English
Are you worried your American Literature curriculum doesn’t give your high school 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 literatu
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9th - 12th
Their Eyes Were Watching God Writing Prompts: 151 Bellringers, Literary Analysis
With everything from reading response handouts to engaging bell ringers, from literary analysis essays to a fun memoir writing project, this resource will get your students writing better, thinking deeper, and analyzing the bigger ideas and themes of the novel.When you teach with these writing prompts you will:• get your students past writer’s block• have 151 engaging, rigorous, and text-specific bellringers to choose from each day• have a no-prep opener for the beginning of class• be able to gi
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9th - 12th
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Six-Word Memoir Writing High School | Narrative Writing Activity | Mentor Texts
Looking for a standards-aligned low-key activity that will help you get to know your students while sharpening their writing skills? This six-word memoir lesson will get your classes analyzing mentor texts, reflecting on their own lives, utilizing scaffolding to bring their writing to the next level, and experimenting with revision—all while having fun.These lessons make great choices for starting a unit on narrative writing, personal writing, or non-fiction. Books that pair well with these les
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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
9th Grade Short Story Unit: High School Creative Writing & Literary Analysis
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever you mention literary analysis? You can’t really be surprised they act this way when they’ve been lead to believe that reading great literature means trying to figure out some inane, irrelevant puzzle. And when they’ve only experienced texts written by old white men who died one hundred years ago, it’s no wonder that they are bored out of their minds. On the other hand, literature units that are billed as fun and entertaining are often j
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9th - 12th
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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College Admission Essay: Common App Personal Statement Essay Workbook
Updated 2020-2021The Common App, Personal Statement Essay Workbook is a 45 page Editable GoogleDoc Workbook. This workbook includes hyperlinks to 19 editable Google Documents that guide students, step-by-step, through crafting an effective personal statement essay. I have used the 22 Activities and 12 Supplemental Resources that are within the workbook, and linked throughout, both in-person and remotely. I have used this workbook in English Class, in College Prep Class, and for private tutori
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Native American Literature | Simon Ortiz | Indigenous Poetry Unit
Looking for poem by a contemporary Native American writer that will both engage your most reluctant learners and challenge your more advanced classes?Telling the story of a Native American who witnesses a Black boy get arrested at a bus station, Simon Ortiz’s powerful and accessible poem is a great choice for teaching diction, imagery, syntax, enjambment, and point of view. It is also a wonderful choice for discussing themes of race, power, and the American experience.When you teach Ortiz’s sad
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9th - 12th
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The Man to Send Rainclouds by Leslie Marmon Silko | Short Story Unit Plan
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? These lessons on “The Man to Send Rainclouds” by Leslie Marmon Silko will push your students to dig deep, get creative, and fully appreciate Silko’s wonderful writing.This seemingly simple story by acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo Indian, tells the story of the peaceful de
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Process and Editing Marks Bookmark
Writing process anchor chart and writing process and editing bookmark. Perfect for a secondary classroom!
The anchor chart is perfect as a handout for a student's binder or an interactive notebook. It focuses on the writing process as well as what editing marks students should be using, either on their own paper or during peer editing sessions.
The bookmark is a condensed version of the anchor chart, which is front and back. This would be ideally laminated. Very useful for students to use when
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5th - 12th
Issue Module, Juvenile Justice / Youth Justice
This Juvenile Justice Unit seamlessly blends writing and collaboration. For 4-6 weeks, your students will embark on a journey of exploration, diving deep into the complexities of the juvenile justice system.The unit features a compelling writing component, challenging students to form and defend their opinions through thorough research. But that's not all – the project piece adds an engaging twist. Students collaborate to delve into real-world applications of juvenile justice concepts, fostering
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9th - 12th
Zora Neale Hurston Short Stories & Essay | Sweat, Spunk, How It Feels to Be...
Looking for powerful and engaging units on one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century? Zora Neale Hurston’s work is popular for a reason—her writing is both challenging and accessible, her themes are both universal and unique to time and place, and her literary voice is like no other. The units in this bundle will make her work come alive for your classes. Focusing on three short stories and one essay, these innovative units will help your classes to fully appreciate this masterfu
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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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Nonfiction Texts, Poetry Activities, Critical Thinking, Socratic Seminars Bundle
Want to challenge your students to analyze more deeply, write about and discuss big ideas, and think outside the box? Covering themes from love metaphors in Shakespeare’s sonnets to gang violence on the Chicago streets, from the Salem Witch Trials to the current refugee crisis, and from revenge in the 17th century to resistance movements during the Holocaust, these units will take your students far and wide.Some of my favorite units to teach, these lesson plans inspire students to explore atypi
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9th - 12th
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