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12th grade close reading interactive notebooks
Critical Lenses to use with ANY Fictional Text!
Sometimes it takes a little tactile learning to grasp difficult concepts. This lesson uses fun props as a way to teach students how to analyze literature through critical lenses. This lesson also includes examples for each lens from Harry Potter.
You will get:
8 Critical lenses with explanations for each lens
*Religious Connection Lens
*Psychoanalytical Lens
*Feminist or Gender Lens
*Historian Lens
*Archetype or Narratology Lens
*Marxist Lens
*Reader Response Lens
*New Criticism Lens
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Elements of Poetry Unit High School: Poetry Terms & Elements, Literary Analysis
Need your students to understand how poetic elements create meaning in a text? So often, students are able to identify and define, but they don’t fully understand why literary elements are important or why they are such an essential part of literature. The kind of instruction that focuses on memorizing definitions kills the joy in literature and only serves to make students see English class as a boring waste of time.But when students understand that literary devices are a wonderful way to add
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9th - 12th
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Twelfth Night Bullying, Deception, & Love | Shakespeare Unit | Editable Handouts
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever they hear the word “Shakespeare”? Reading a Shakespeare play is challenging for students—but flashy handouts and cute classroom decor will not teach your students the skills they need to read, understand, or enjoy the Bard's work independently.When students misbehave, put their heads on their desks, or just stare vacantly into the distance, it’s not because they aren’t capable of understanding the Bard—it’s because they are aren’t given
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9th - 12th
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Monster (Walter Dean Myers) Unit Interactive Notebook
Interactive notebook activities for Monster by Walter Dean Myers!These activities were designed to allow students to explore the world of Monster on a deeper level while also working on key concepts and skills such as argumentation, close reading, theme, plot structure, setting, theme, and creative writing.This bundle includes:- Character Chart- Courtroom Diagram Activity- Poetry Analysis Foldable (three tiers)- Instagram Summarizing Activity- Labels and Stereotypes Activities- Setting Activity
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6th - 12th
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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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Lord of the Flies Full Unit w/ Interactive Notebook, Close Readings, and MORE
This is the ultimate Lord of the Flies teaching unit to bring student engagement and critical thinking to William Golding's classic. There are close readings for most chapters of the novel, historical connections, notes, text-to-text connections, and so much more. These resources are fully editable and available as digital or printable resources.This resource includes:Background NotesInteractive notebooksTeacher discussion notesCreative group projectLiterary Analysis OutlineMLA Citation Guidean
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8th - 12th
Halloween Close Reading: Digital Interactive Activity, "The Raven"
Looking for something academic, but fun to do for Halloween? This close reading and analysis is a great, digital and interactive activity for use with Google Slides for the holiday. Students focus on "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is what they do:- Listen to the poem recited by James Earl Jones. They then write their thoughts on what they heard.- Read the poem, highlighted and commenting on specific reading/writing skills. (These can be edited to your liking).- Watch "The Simpsons" episode
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: CUSTOM BUNDLE for Jessie S.
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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Figurative Language in Songs: Fight Song Activities Editable
Use "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten to help your students understand figurative language, poetic devices, speaker's tone, theme, and author's purpose. (Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Reading Literature, Language, and Writing)
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
"Fight Song" is an uplifting song with a positive message for students: be strong, never give up, and don't let others bring you down. This is a perfect song to get students ex
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7th - 12th
A Modest Proposal Protest Visual Note Guide
Support close reading and improve students’ understanding of “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift. In addition, a project-based assessment with real-world implications is included. In this lesson, students will learn about the historical context of the work and apply those meanings to civil protest and satire.This resource comes with print pamphlet option, a print packet option, or a digital option.* An answer key is included.This resource works well with both print and digital options.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Harlem Renaissance | Zora Neale Hurston "Sweat" | High School Short Story Unit
This widely-anthologized story of a hardworking washerwoman and her abusive husband is a deceptively simple tale of good and evil, suffering and redemption, and reaping what you sow. However, when read in the context of the many biblical allusions in the story as well as the African American Spiritual, the seemingly-straightforward story becomes much more nuanced and complex. This fascinating mini unit will take your students through recordings of Zora Neale Hurston singing songs she learned th
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9th - 12th
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The Glass Castle Full Teaching Unit Printable Workbook for Novel Study (9-12)
This is your stopping place if you are teaching The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls; we've got you covered! This interactive workbook will keep students engaged with challenging close readings, memorable connections, and lots of creative writing! Everything you need to teach a unit on the novel The Glass Castle is included in this comprehensive unit.This PDF student notebook includes:11 close readings of passages from The Glass Castle5 Reflective Journal Writing Opportunities1 set of notes (Jour
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9th - 12th
The Danger of a Single Story TED Talk & World Literature Short Story | Adichie
Want your students to learn real empathy? All over the world, people are becoming more divided, more fractured, and more out of touch with other human beings. If we want to go forward together to solve the problems that we face, we need to come to a deeper understanding of others as full human beings. Now more than ever, it is vitally important encourage your students to become more compassionate citizens who will take care of one another in the future.Studying Adichie’s fabulous TED Talk wit
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9th - 12th
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Great Gatsby Unit - Hands-on Activities, Quizzes, Vocabulary, Test
This Great Gatsby Unit is a complete set of plans designed to use with interactive notebooks, but these activities can be done on their own without using a notebook if you wish. Chapter quizzes and a final test is included as well. You may have never even taught The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald before, but you will teach it like you have been doing it for years with this unit!The Great Gatsby Unit includes:► Step-by-step and day-by-day lesson plans► Specific instructions on how to set up
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8th - 12th
Also included in: American Literature Full Year Curriculum Plus Writing & More BUNDLE
Figurative Language in Song Lyrics Growing BUNDLE
Song lyrics are perfect for practicing difficult skills and teaching tough concepts. Students respond to music, so use it to your advantage!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
This growing bundle includes all my resources that utilize music to teach different skills. Those skills are:
• Identifying and analyzing figurative language devices such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, idiom, irony, and personification.
• Identifying and analyzing poetic (so
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8th - 12th
Native American Literature | Sherman Alexie | Indigenous Poetry | Stereotypes
Why are stereotypes dangerous? What is our role in breaking down stereotypes? Students might know some of the stereotypes surrounding Indigenous people, but they likely don’t fully understand where they come from, why they are harmful, or why positive stereotypes can be equally painful as negative ones. This 90-minute lesson will get them examining some of those assumptions when they explore videos featuring teens talking about stereotypes, a powerful slam poem performance, an accessible and
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9th - 12th
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A Raisin in the Sun: Digital Interactive Notebook {Close Reading & Analysis}
Whether you're teaching virtually or in-person, this digital interactive notebook designed for the play A Raisin in the Sun will keep your students thinking critically and creatively throughout your unit. Designed for teachers to fully customize and adjust to their teaching schedule and desired outcomes, this notebook serves as a spine for connecting the many important skills, themes, and concepts in the study of this play.HOW DOES IT WORK?The digital interactive notebook is designed using Goog
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: A Raisin in the Sun: Complete Unit Bundle {Digital & Print Included}
Salem Witch Trials Unit Bundle | Puritan Primary Source | Colonial America
Want to teach a Puritan literature unit that will get your students engaging independently with texts, making connections to contemporary issues, and excited to discuss essential questions that really matter? From their world view to their religious beliefs to their daily life, the people of the early colonial period lived lives very different from those of contemporary Americans. The texts included in this unit will give students a glimpse into those lives. Three of the pieces included in this
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9th - 12th
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Introduction to Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 & Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Looking for engaging lessons that will give your students the confidence and skills they need to read Shakespeare independently? So often, teachers think that the only way they can introduce their classes to the Bard is by working through the same old boring power point lectures on when Shakespeare was born, when he died, and where he lived.But Shakespeare’s work is popular 500 years after he died for a reason. The universal themes and questions of his poetry and plays are still very much relev
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9th - 12th
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Christmas Close Reading: DIGITAL Activity, "Gift of the Magi"
Looking for something academic, but fun to do for Christmas? This close reading and analysis is a great, digital and interactive activity for use with Google Slides for the holiday. Students focus on "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. Here is what they do:- Listen and follow along to the story read aloud. They then write their thoughts on what they heard.- Read the story, highlighting and commenting on specific reading/writing skills. (These can be edited to your liking).- Watch a "Sesame Stree
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Joy
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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Fun Introduction to Shakespeare Sonnets Unit: Sonnets 18, 130, 73, & Love Songs
Looking for engaging lessons that will give your students the confidence and skills they need to read Shakespeare independently? So often, teachers think that the only way they can introduce their classes to the Bard is by working through the same old boring power point lectures on when Shakespeare was born, when he died, and where he lived.But Shakespeare’s work is popular 500 years after he died for a reason. The universal themes and questions of his poetry and plays are still very much relev
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9th - 12th
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Langston Hughes "I Too Sing America" and Walt Whitman Paired Texts Poetry Lesson
Looking for poems to explore the American experience on a deeper level? While Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" is joyful and celebratory, Langston Hughes' poem is more questioning of America's history--though it too is not without hope. Exploring themes of class, race, privilege, and point of view, these two poems are well worth examination.When you teach these timeless and important poems with this unit you will:Start your class period with bellringer freewrite prompts that will h
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11th - 12th
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