Common Core RL.11-12.4 scaffolded notes

Use this Connotation and Denotation Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager to teach Connotation and Denotation or to review Connotation and Denotation with your students! Connotation and Denotation is a difficult topic for students to grasp. This Connotation and Denotation Anchor Chart and Notes Page is perfect for students' notebooks, folders, or binders. Connotation and Denotation can be difficult to master! Give your students this aid!Includes definition of connotation and denotation, how to tell t

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Printables, Scaffolded Notes

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.4

, RL.6.1

, RL.7.1

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Also included in: Reading Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Virtual Learning GROWING BUNDLE

Tone and Mood Anchor Chart | Digital Notes | One Pager | Google Slides

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Use this Tone and Mood Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager to teach Tone and Mood or to review Tone and Mood with your students! Tone and Mood is a difficult topic for students to grasp. This Tone and Mood Anchor Chart and Notes page is perfect for students' notebooks, folders, or binders. Tone and Mood can be difficult to master! Give your students this aid!Includes definitions of tone and mood, how to identify each concept, and even example words to describe tone and mood!This product can be used

Subjects:

Printables, Scaffolded Notes

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.4

, RL.5.6

, RL.6.1

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Also included in: Reading Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Virtual Learning GROWING BUNDLE

HOLES Differentiated Unit Activity Pack | Louis Sachar | Novel Companion

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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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Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Literature

CCSS:

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Also included in: Literature ENDLESS BUNDLE | Multiple Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Poems

Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle

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Lit with Leah

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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Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Scaffolded Notes

CCSS:

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Reading Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Virtual Learning GROWING BUNDLE

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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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Handouts, Printables, Scaffolded Notes

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.4.2

, RL.4.4

, RL.4.6

, RL.5.1

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Differentiated Character Hexagonal Thinking Diagram Templates for Any Book

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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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Graphic Organizers, Scaffolded Notes

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: MEGA BUNDLE for Any Novel | Activities and Tasks | Any Literary or Fiction Text

Comparing Poetry for Gifted & Talented Students with Any Poems - Guided Practice

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Gifted and Talented, Literature, Poetry

Use this PowerPoint and modelling worksheets with any poems!Aimed at middle and high school gifted and talented students, this is a full lesson guide for comparing several areas of poetry for two or more poems chosen by the teacher. This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.The slideshow includes built-in discussion prompts and a quick 'language of comparison' starter task to draw students in. The sheets can be used as a cloze activity with st

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Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Scaffolded Notes, Lesson

CCSS:

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Also included in: Gifted and Talented ELA BUNDLE | Ambitious Reading, Writing and Analysis

Introduction to Shakespeare Escape Room + Shakespeare's Language Sonnet Activity

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Three Heads Works

Shakespeare is hard. Reading Shakespeare is challenging. Teaching Shakespeare can be difficult. But getting Shakespeare? Really getting it? That’s such a powerful reward. You and your students feel like you’ve summited Everest on that day. Everything else? Mere foothills. We all do the obligatory introduction to Shakespeare. Hands up if you’ve got that Introduction to Shakespeare PPT/Google Slides deck in a folder on your computer. ✋ We’ve got a few. Each one, we thought, more engaging than the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Scaffolded Notes

CCSS:

RL.9-10.4

, RL.11-12.4

Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Unit Plan with Fun Introduction to Shakespeare Escape Room

Romeo & Juliet Hexagonal Thinking Diagram | Character, Theme, Context, Motif

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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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Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Romeo & Juliet BUNDLE of Creative ELA Activities to Study Shakespeare

BODEGA DREAMS - ELA UNIT (10th - 12th)

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Urban High School ELA

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

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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The Kite Runner Guided Reading Notes

Created by

Lit and More

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

Subjects:

Literature

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Course Year Long Bundle | 3500+ Pages!

Editable ANY TEXT Hexagonal Thinking Diagram | Character, Theme, Context, Motif

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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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Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Gifted and Talented ELA BUNDLE | Ambitious Reading, Writing and Analysis

The Great Gatsby Hexagonal Thinking Diagram for Character, Theme, Context, Motif

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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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Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: ENDLESS ELA BUNDLE | Middle & High School | Reading, Writing, Communication

Irony | Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Distance Learning | Google Slides

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Use this Irony Anchor Chart | Irony Notes | One Pager | Google Slides to teach Irony or to review Irony with your students! This includes all three types of irony! This Irony Anchor Chart and Irony Notes is perfect for students' notebooks, folders, or binders. Irony can be difficult to master! Give your students this aid!Includes the definition of irony, the definitions of the three different types of irony (verbal, situational, dramatic), examples of the three different types of irony! Included

Subjects:

Handouts, Scaffolded Notes

Grades:

8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.4

, RL.5.5

, RL.6.5

, RL.7.4

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Also included in: Reading Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Virtual Learning GROWING BUNDLE

Growing MEGA-LITERATURE BUNDLE! Cornell Notes, Graphic Orgs., MS/HS!

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Abby Abroad

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,

Subjects:

Handouts, Graphic Organizers, Scaffolded Notes

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.6.2

, RL.6.3

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading

, RL.6.5

, RL.6.6

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Pride and Prejudice AP Analysis Packet

Created by

Wesley Pena

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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Grades:

10th - 12th

Types:

Handouts, Printables, Scaffolded Notes

CCSS:

Literary Criticism and Critical Lens Theory PowerPoint and Guided Notes

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TeachEasy English

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

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Visual Thinking Classroom

CCSS:

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Also included in: "The Great Gatsby" Full Unit Bundle

Hamlet analysis one pager for any act

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A hamlet one pager activity that is more rigor and less art! Simplify the way you teach Hamlet with this creative & critical one pager activity! You can add this resource to your existing unit! Imagine ONE handout for each act of the play that scaffolds all of the important skills & strategies that you want students to develop! Use this resource in your Secondary or high school classroom!I have been using Visual Thinking Notes in my classroom for 5 years - and each semester I've tweaked

Subjects:

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

10th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Graphic Organizers, Scaffolded Notes

CCSS:

Also included in: Hamlet Lesson Plan Bundle with Character, Theme and Symbolism Visuals

Allusion Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Distance Learning

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Use this Allusion Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager to teach Allusions or to review Allusion with your students! This Allusion Anchor Chart and Notes Page is perfect for students' notebooks, folders, or binders. Allusions can be difficult to master! Give your students this aid!Includes definition of allusion, the most common allusions, and even the different categories of allusions!This product can be used as a notes page, anchor chart, or wall decor in the classroom! Students will use these note

Subjects:

Word Walls, Scaffolded Notes, Posters

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.4

, RL.7.4

, RL.8.4

, RL.9-10.4

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Also included in: Reading Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager | Virtual Learning GROWING BUNDLE

Of Mice & Men Hexagonal Thinking Diagram | Character, Theme, Context, Motif

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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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Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Teaching to the Core Made Easy

CCSS:

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Also included in: Of Mice and Men BUNDLE | Differentiated Close Study | Activities | Novel Tasks

Paradise Lost Book One Reading Guide

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This graphic organizer guides students who would otherwise have great difficulty explicating the epic. It covers an excerpt of Book One from The Argument through line 270. It provides guidance for the background of the story and for comprehension of the literary allusions within the poem.

Subjects:

Literature, Poetry, Reading Strategies

Grades:

11th - 12th

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers, Scaffolded Notes

CCSS:

RL.11-12.4

, RL.11-12.6

, RL.11-12.10

5 Female Poets of the Harlem Renaissance - Poet Bios and Poetry Analysis Lesson

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Lit with Liz

This lesson focuses on 5 extraordinary female poets from the Harlem Renaissance: Jessie Redmon FausetGwendolyn BennettGeorgia Douglas JohnsonAngelina Weld GrimkeAlice Moore Dunbar NelsonIn this lesson your students will:Learn about each poet's life, background, and cultural/political contributionsRead and annotate 1 poem from each of the 5 poets Engage in discussions about tone, themes, figurative language and more!This lesson can be taught all at once, divided into 2-3 days, or taught as 5 mini

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

11th - 12th

Types: