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Common Core RL.11-12.3 scaffolded notes
High School Poetry Unit | 4 Weeks | Poetry Bundle | Analyzing & Writing Poems
This resource is a FULL POETRY UNIT for High School English, Grades 9-12!You will get a collection of various lessons, activities, and projects, plus an awesome digital escape room, and final test! I've also included a schedule for teachers to follow day-by-day! This bundle is so diverse and your students will read at least 18 different poems within this unit!Included in this high school poetry unit bundle:Introduction Poetry Lesson & Guided NotesThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Poem Close Readi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fiction Notice & Note Signposts Doodle Notes
Engage students' whole brain while teaching this fun reading strategy! Doodle notes engage verbal and visual centers in the brain which helps students retain information longer.
Notice & Note Signposts are engaging reading tools that send students on a scavenger hunt through a text to make deeper meaning. These notes would be a great way to introduce the topic to your students.
Each signpost has its own notes sheet:
- Tough Questions
- Again & Again
- Words of the Wiser
- Memory Mom
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4th - 12th
HOLES Differentiated Unit Activity Pack | Louis Sachar | Novel Companion
These three differentiated activity packs for your unit on Holes by Louis Sachar each feature 12 activities for the novel. Check out the detailed preview, which shows ONE of the booklets, a sample of the spelling, punctuation and grammar tasksIncludes:Fill in the Holes - pre-reading poetry taskImpressions of Camp Green Lake - close reading taskYellow Spotted Lizards - visualization taskA New Reptile - imaginative taskStanley's Letter Home - planning and writing taskFiguratively Speaking - figura
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6th - 9th
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Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle
The Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle has everything you need to help your students dive deep into Gothic short stories! This bundle is meant to be paired with any Gothic short story you choose! In this bundle you will find...1 Fear Survey: (4 pages) Students will take an extensive survey to figure out which innate fear is the strongest in them! Once students have completed the fear survey, they will read about their fear and then answer reflective questions. This survey is a great tool to he
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Background Information — 1920s Background Info & Author Bio
This resource includes guided notes for Background Information for the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby background info is essential for students to learn and be familiar with before reading the novel!The focus of this lesson entails a brief history of the 1920s to include the following topics: author background, setting of The Great Gatsby, 1920s culture, the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, the economic boom, gender roles, racism, prohibition, modernism, art deco,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Reading Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Virtual Learning GROWING BUNDLE
In this READING ANCHOR CHART GROWING BUNDLE, you will find mini-anchor charts or notes for notebooks, folders, and student binders. Each READING ANCHOR CHART concept includes a definition, examples, and various other details students would need for that concept. You can use theses products to teach and review concepts with students.Included in this bundle are mini-anchor charts/notes for: AlliterationAllusionAuthor's PurposeCentral IdeaConnotation and DenotationHyperboleIdiomIronyMetaphorOnomato
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5th - 8th
Romeo & Juliet Hexagonal Thinking Diagram | Character, Theme, Context, Motif
Create hexagonal thinking diagrams for Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet by matching the sides and explaining the connections! 116 hexagon pieces provided to choose from - simply print, cut and go.Students draw links between characters, themes, motifs, symbols, context and devices. Each hexagon piece has the information and a visual prompt clearly displayed. Fast finishers can color or embellish their hexagons!UPDATE: Now includes duplicate pages allowing for spellings of Friar Laurence or Fri
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Romeo & Juliet BUNDLE of Creative ELA Activities to Study Shakespeare
Differentiated Character Hexagonal Thinking Diagram Templates for Any Book
Coach your students through discussion and note-taking for the characters of any novel, short story or play, and then instruct them in the creation of a hexagonal thinking diagram by matching the sides, drawing links between characters and explaining their reasons.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.Allow more able students to work independently on the hexagon diagram pieces.Now includes three differentiated versions - one baseline, one
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8th - 11th
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BODEGA DREAMS - ELA UNIT (10th - 12th)
This Common Core-aligned, 17-Lesson Unit on the novel Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez is everything you need to put your students through a captivating and rigorous learning experience. The Unit is taught through the lens of social issues and themes posing questions about the author’s purpose in the depiction of the novel. Lessons 1-2 include pre-reading activities to help students establish prior knowledge and relate/engage with the text. Lessons 3-17 include skill-building activities relat
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9th - 12th
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Editable ANY TEXT Hexagonal Thinking Diagram | Character, Theme, Context, Motif
Create hexagonal thinking diagrams for any studied text - novel, short story, play, or even movie - by adding the details to these editable hexagon pieces! Simply edit, print, cut and go.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE. Students draw links between characters, themes, context, motifs, symbols, devices and quotations by matching the sides and explaining the connections. Spare blank hexagons included for you to create your own elements.
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented ELA BUNDLE | Ambitious Reading, Writing and Analysis
Introducing Historical and Biographical Literary Criticism (PDF & Google Ready)
Literary criticism is not part of every high school English curriculum, so it can be hard to find high-quality resources for introducing these complicated concepts to students. For this reason, I started making my own resources. That’s how this set was born: a think sheet I use to introduce the concept of literary criticism, a notes page to guide students through the basics of historical and biographical criticism, and an application of these lenses to poem. The poem students use to practice app
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Kite Runner Guided Reading Notes
These slideshow notes help students get the most out of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. The notes balance explaining and posing discussion questions, so students can fully grasp the difficult reading materials. It also provides trigger warnings for chapters with difficult thematic material. The editable slideshow notes are broken up into the following reading chunks, yielding between 25-40 pages per section: Chapters 1-3Chapters 4-5Chapters 6-7Chapters 8-9Chapters 10-11Chapter 12Chapters 13-1
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Course Year Long Bundle | 3500+ Pages!
The Great Gatsby Hexagonal Thinking Diagram for Character, Theme, Context, Motif
Create hexagonal thinking diagrams for Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby by matching the sides and explaining the connections! 42 hexagon pieces provided in multiple sizes - simply print, cut and go.Students draw links between characters, themes, motifs, symbols, context and devices. Each hexagon piece has the information and a visual prompt clearly displayed. Fast finishers can color or embellish their hexagons!UPDATE: Now includes printable reverse sides for taking notes, and giant single-pa
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8th - 11th
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Growing *MEGA-LITERATURE BUNDLE!* Cornell Notes, Graphic Orgs., MS/HS!
Everything you need to teach Reading: Literature across grades 6-12!Most products in this bundle come with their own lesson plans, answer keys, digital and printable PDF and DOCX versions, and are in both A4 and letter sizes, but if you need anything, let me know!Added 9/1/2023: “Literary Crash Course” one-pager—only available in my bundles! It was a super-useful way to help students review for unit tests and big exams related to literature. It includes nearly all relevant terms: plot structure,
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7th - 12th
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng | Unit Bundle | End of Novel Study
This easy to follow 2-week unit on Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng will keep your students focused and excited to discover the novel on their own or in groups. The unit contains whole-novel activities that will help you organize your unit by meaningful, relevant topics instead of chapters and allow you to easily differentiate activities. It contains a unit plan with questions, and activities for 8 topics, a writing prompt, and 11 possible activities for each topic including directions
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9th - 12th
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Pride and Prejudice AP Analysis Packet
This packet contains activities for analyzing Austen's use of characterization, tone, diction, characters, and character development. There are pages to keep track of important characters, places, and events, as well as close reads with guided notes and questions designed to lead to higher-level analysis. This packet was designed to be used with AP courses, but would work for any class reading Pride and Prejudice!
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10th - 12th
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Unit Bundle | Afterlife | Julia Alvarez | End of Novel Study | Activities
This easy to follow unit on Afterlife by Julia Alvarez will keep your students focused and excited to discover the novel on their own or in groups. It contains:a unit plan with questions and activities for 11 topics,a writing prompt, and 10 possible activities for each topic including directions for a one-pager,examples of one pagers and group activities from my classroom. The topics include:Language (15 passages)Literature (30 passages)Religion (9 passages)Afterlife (40 passages)Therapy (16 pas
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9th - 12th
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Hero and Antihero Think Sheet / Fillable .PDF and Google Slides
Getting ready to introduce heroes and antiheroes? Working with archetypes? Getting ready to teach John Gardner's Grendel or Jack Kerouac's On the Road? Whatever hero or antihero you are preparing to introduce, this think sheet will help you scaffold from the heroic archetype into the antihero! Guide students through notes, compare archetypes, and discuss the connection between heroes and the times in which they exist! Includes a fillable .pdf and Google Slides. (Since this resource includes a Go
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: Beowulf Bundle with 3 Leveled Text Options + Side-by-Side Questions
Literary Criticism and Critical Lens Theory PowerPoint and Guided Notes
This PowerPoint presentation is perfect for introducing students to the concept of literary criticism and using critical lens theory. This presentation provides definitions for literary criticism, critical lens theory, and multiple different types of critical lenses. It also includes questions for each lens to help guide students through the process of analyzing using lenses. At the end of the PowerPoint, there are three pop culture examples (Shrek, The Lion King, and Spongebob) that prompts stu
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: "The Great Gatsby" Full Unit Bundle
Analyzing Setting Lesson Set (Presentation + Doodle Notes + Practice + Quiz)
This resource is also part of the following bundles!Analyzing Setting BundleAnalyzing Literary Elements BundleIdentifying and Analyzing Literary Elements MEGA BundleThis set includes everything needed for direct instruction on analyzing setting. . . A presentation with thorough, but concise, information about how setting can impact a story by building mood and theme, and what questions to ask to think about these connections.1 or more checkpoints titled “Wait, so what did that mean?” are include
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Analyzing Literary Elements Mini-Unit BUNDLE
Of Mice & Men Hexagonal Thinking Diagram | Character, Theme, Context, Motif
Create hexagonal thinking diagrams for Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men by matching the sides and explaining the connections! 35 hexagon pieces provided - simply print, cut and go.Students draw links between characters, themes, motifs, symbols, context and devices. Each hexagon piece has the information and a visual prompt clearly displayed. Fast finishers can color or embellish their hexagons!UPDATE: Repeated word typo fixed.Want the editable version for any text? Check out Editable ANY TEXT H
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8th - 11th
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Antigone Character Analysis Essay Writing Pack | Worksheets & Graphic Organizers
Make approaching Antigone accessible and engaging with this great tool for character analysis and crafting character analysis essays. If you're aiming to show students the intricate dynamics and moral dilemmas contained within Sophocle's tragedy, this resource saves you time and energy. The prep work is done!What's In This Resource?This resource guides students towards an in-depth discovery of the characters with a 3-page graphic organizer for each main character and then a full 7-page graphic o
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9th - 12th
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Elements of Gothic Literature PowerPoint
Looking for a way to introduce Gothic short stories to your students? This extensive PowerPoint discusses all of the main Gothic elements and more! Easily incorporate this PowerPoint into any Gothic short story unit or Gothic novel unit!In this product you will find...Elements of Gothic Literature PowerPoint:Version 1: This PowerPoint discusses Gothic Romanticism in-depth(19 slides) This Elements of Gothic Literature PowerPoint discusses What makes a story Gothic, Common Settings, Common Gothic
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle
Hatchet Novel Hexagonal Thinking Diagram | Character, Theme, Context, Motif
Create hexagonal thinking diagrams for Gary Paulsen's much-loved novel Hatchet by matching the sides and explaining the connections! 44 pre-made hexagon pieces provided - simply print, cut and go.Want to add extra hexagons, set your own selections, or ask students to create their own hexagon set? An editable full set of slides is also provided.Students draw links between characters, themes, motifs, symbols, context, formats and devices. Each hexagon piece has the information and a visual prompt
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6th - 9th
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