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Common Core W.9-10.5 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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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
10th Grade ELA Curriculum: High School Poetry Unit | Literary Analysis | English
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever they hear the word “poetry”? You can’t really be surprised they act this way when they’ve been lead to believe that reading poetry means trying to figure out some inane, irrelevant puzzle. And when they’ve only experienced poetry 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, poetry units that are billed as fun and entertaining are often just flashy, vac
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9th - 10th
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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
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
9th Grade Poetry Unit: Analysis & Writing | Lesson Plans | No-Prep Worksheets
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever they hear the word “poetry”? You can’t really be surprised they act this way when they’ve been lead to believe that reading poetry means trying to figure out some inane, irrelevant puzzle. And when they’ve only experienced poetry 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, poetry units that are billed as fun and entertaining are often just flashy, vac
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9th
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
DIGITAL Personal/Fictional Narrative Writing Unit - Notebook - EDITABLE
Narrative Writing Unit: This notebook walks students through the process of writing a narrative. Students will brainstorm ideas for both personal and fictional narratives. They will create a story map to organize their thoughts. Most class periods are spent with a mini lesson (or two) and writing the next element in their narrative. The notebook includes the following mini lessons: types of narratives, point of view, hooks to start a story, creating characters, using transitions, dialogue, senso
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6th - 9th
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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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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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Multigenre Research & Creative Writing Project w/ mini-lessons {7-12} {EDITABLE}
Heighten student engagement and critical thinking with your next student-centered multi-genre project! This interactive slideshow scaffolds the research process--which can be daunting for many students. Students have the choice to pick a well-known person and then, they conduct research and write pieces that surround the chosen person's life and experience. We use The Glass Castle as a mentor memoir for whole-class discussion and examples. This can be used as a full project or as creative writin
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7th - 12th
Writing Blocks: 1st 6 Weeks 9th and 10th Grade Writing Program
This is the 1st 6 weeks of a year long common-core aligned interactive notebook writing program for 9th and 10th grades that improves student writing through the deliberate practice of sentence imitation (generative grammar). Each day, the teacher guides students through a scaffolded imitation of a sentence. At the end of the week, students will use the sentence patterns they’ve experimented with to construct a paragraph. At the end of the six weeks, students will construct an essay using a vari
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9th - 10th
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
Essay Writing: Literary Analysis Interactive Graphic Outline {ANY TEXT} {7-12}
Heighten engagement and understanding with your next student-centered literary analysis! This interactive graphic organizer is a step-by-step guide to help scaffold student writing. This will help students gain confidence while being able to analyze a complex text. It guides students through writing a cohesive thesis statement, supporting body paragraphs, and more!This outline can be used for any novel or short story. All resources are fully-editable!This resource includes: 11-slide Interactive
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9th - 12th
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