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Holidays writing-expository study guides for Microsoft Word
I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Discussion Guide
This speech analysis discussion guide highlights the rhetorical devices used by King with margin annotations and correlating color coded lines underlined in the text. I use this key to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading). Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: Discussion Questions/Prompts
This series of 46 questions asks students to analyze the rhetorical strategies, themes, and literary techniques used by Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale. Questions also include prompts regarding characterization, imagery, themes, mood, and symbolism.
Questions are broken into four sections for reading assignments appropriate for grades 10-12 or college-level analysis.
Also look for my quiz packets for classics and contemporaries, such as Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Khaled Hosseini's T
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Butler - Movie Guide
The Butler is a film based on the life of Eugene Allen, who worked as a waiter and butler in the White House for 34 years. He started working in the White House in 1952 and retired in 1986 (as the head butler). This discussion guide is made up of 50 questions and is intended to help make viewing the film more meaningful for your students.
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7th - 12th
Warriors Don't Cry Teaching Unit
This teaching unit is designed to accompany a classroom study of Warriors Don't Cry, Young Readers Edition, by Melba Patillo Beals. This nonfiction memoir chronicles the experiences of one of the Little Rock Nine in her battle to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. This unit contains reading logs, study questions, vocabulary,quizzes, discussion questions, a test, a movie viewing assignment, and an essay assignment with rubric. This book is an excellent resource for st
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6th - 9th
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Into the Wild Krakauer Student Study Guide
This 35-page document contains the materials necessary for a great discussion on perspectives and viewpoints. Who was Chris McCandless? Was he wise beyond his years? Was he an arrogant upper class young 20 something? Was he a messiah? Was he plain stupid and unprepared? There are so many unanswered questions, and the student packet will take the upper level student through this intellectual discovery. The document includes a student study guide, some teacher materials, essay topics, and a
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Baseball in April by Gary Soto: Writing Prompts/Discussion Questions
This 3-page download includes written response and discussion questions for Gary Soto's short story collection "Baseball in April."
With open-ended writing and discussion prompts--18 prompts covering all 11 short stories--this set of questions is ideal for in-class seminars, small group discussions, literature circles, quick writes, or providing a starting point for formal essays or in-class responses.
Designed for students in grades 5 through 8, these prompts require students to reflect upon
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5th - 8th
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Horror Genre Study Guide- Film Terminology & Techniques
This spooktacular 4-page guide is a comprehensive study source -including clips, links, and examples with descriptions- of how film techniques (diegetic/nondiegetic sound, cross-cutting, stedicam, lighting, etc.) affect and influence a scene. Although the handout incorporates horror film clips to present these techniques, the material serves as a wonderful foundation for any film studies curriculum, and can be used with the other items (Psycho analysis, German Expressionism notes) for sale.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Study Guide for "Sing A Song" by Kelly Starling Lyons
The book, Sing A Song written by Kelly Starling Lyons and illustrated by Keith Mallett, is a visually beautiful introduction to the Negro National Anthem. Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson is the iconic song performed by school children and church choirs all over America. This study guide will serve as a guide for studying the lyrics and connecting the song to African American history through the eyes of a young child. The child grows up and readers follow the passage of time.
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Not Grade Specific
A Generic Five Paragraph Essay Template and Example
Look, formulaic writing isn't the ideal scenario, especially when we work so hard to empower students and their expression through writing, but the fact remains that some students have to start with structure before they know what to do or where to go next in their writing. This five paragraph essay explains the purpose for each individual sentence in an essay and stylistic suggestions for those left-brained students who have to see how it all could fit together.
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9th - 12th
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Chocolat Movie Viewing Questions
19 questions for the Johnny Depp/Juliette Binoche movie "Chocolat". Do you want to have your students watch a movie, but you are afraid that they won't pay attention, especially if you are having them watch it with a substitute teacher in charge? Have them answer these questions as they watch the movie and then turn them in for you to check that they've paid attention and understood what they've watched.
Grades:
9th - 12th
CH 2 "Black and White " A Young People's History of the United States by Zinn
14 questions for the student to answer while reading CH 2 of the book. Includes an Essential Question with space at the end to answer. SAVE YOURSELF the time to create the questions and get this resource! I'm in the process of creating questions for the while book -- if you need questions for a chapter not listed, email me and I'll do it w/n 24 hours.
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7th - 12th
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Study Guide and Essay Handout for the movie "Glory" US History, Civil War Wksht
These materials are intended for use during and after showing the movie "Glory" in class. The movie is from 1989 and stars Matthew Broderick and Morgan Freeman. It tells the story of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Infantry Unit of Union soldiers, comprised of African Americans soldiers who were fighting for their country's freedom, but suffered many injustices, inequalities, and maltreatment themselves. The film covers an important time in history, both militarily and socially. This down
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7th - 12th
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I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Student Copy
This is a student copy for Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a Dream". I use this activity to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading).
Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Bud, Not Buddy Battle of the Books Questions
This file contains Battle of the Books style questions for the book, Bud, Not Buddy.
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3rd - 8th
Looking for Alibrandi - Study Guide and Workbook
This 24 page Study Guide and Workbook examines and explores the themes of Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. It has various activities to engage and motivate students with challenging issues to debate, discuss and explore the cultural differences, evident through dialogue and the various themes, such as identity, rules, pressure, destiny, leadership, respect, school social life etc. Opportunities for character studies, and various journal writing activities and assessment tasks. Fully ed
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10th - 12th
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Spanish 1 CFE (Common Final Exam) Interactive Study Guide.
Spanish 1 CFE (Common Final Exam) Interactive Study Guide.This Spanish 1 CFE Study Guide is based on the FL standards. With the purchase of this product, you will receive an entire PDF file copy. On the 2nd page of the product (Thank you and Terms of use page), you will also receive the Google Drive link where you can make your own copy of the product. (Please refer to the Terms of use). This interactive study guide includes some of the following topics: Los países Hispanohablantes y geograf
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Psycho (1960): Trivia, Notes Viewing Activity, Quiz, Teacher Answers
This 7-page guide for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Psycho” (1960) contains key background information and trivia about the film, followed by an in-depth analysis three scenes, asking the students to consider how the director employs traits of German Expressionism and the horror genre. An excellent supplement to pair following either the German Expressionism notes, or Psycho PowerPoint notes. Students can review the notes on the horror genre, followed by learning interesting notes of trivia, and
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Question Exploration: What Processes Are Involved in the Water Cycle?
What Processes Are Involved in the Water Cycle? This Question Exploration helps Ss explain the water cycle -- the existence and movement of water on, in, and above the Earth. At its core, the hydrologic cycle is water (either as a liquid or solid), changing into water vapor (a gas) and back into a liquid or solid. This change of state of water as the water cycle is divided into three main parts:Moisture moving into the atmosphereMoisture moving through the atmosphereMoisture returning to the ea
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6th - 12th
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HS-ESS2-5
Also included in: StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: The Atmosphere (air)
Into the Wild Movie-Book Comparison Essay
This upper-level essay packet requires students to relate criticism of Sean Penn's movie version to Krakauer's book version of "Into the Wild." The process begins by finding evidence to support the statements from the New York Times review of the movie directly from the movie. Once the students have collected their data, they use a graphic organizer to make some concrete determinations about the movie vs. the book. From there, the students begin writing a comparison essay based completely on
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Frame for Book Report
This writing frames provides a guide for students writing a book report. It includes major parts of the book report and should be used after reviewing all of the important elements of the book report process - Main Characters - protagonist, antagonist, plot development - exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and setting. Please view my other products that also cover the book report.
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6th - 9th
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Synthesis and Argument Templates and Tips
You can access all of my material for free by going here: GardenofEnglishresources.weebly.com I do ask, however, that you consider donating. There you can donate as you see fit. This is a quick guide designed to give students quick templates and tips to answer primarily synthesis prompts; however, the tips and templates do lend themselves to argument as well. This is designed for the AP or Pre-AP English classroom.
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9th - 12th
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The Biggest Little Farm Content & Critical Thinking Questions Worksheet
This is a sheet of critical thinking questions that students can fill out as they watch the documentary film The Biggest Little Farm. This documentary is an excellent introduction to a soils unit, giving students both large and small scale views of how soil is important to storage of water and a major repository in the carbon and nutrient cycles. The film takes more than one period to finish, but it's well worth it; students always come away moved!
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9th - 12th
AP Seminar 2022-23 Performance Task 2 Reading and Reflection Questions Packet
This packet was developed to help students in AP Seminar classes better understand the key themes of the College Board's stimulus materials. Public domain images have been used to enliven these questions, and open-ended, reflective prompts allow students to engage in higher-order thinking.
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10th - 12th
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How to Guide for Writing Essays! Highly Detailed!
This is a great "How to Guide" for writing essays! I distribute this every year to all my classes (9-12) and review the information in detail at the beginning of year and then briefly before each paper is due. It reminds all my students of what is expect of them.
The guide includes examples and explanations for each aspect of an essay including:
- Introduction
- Thesis Statement
- Topic Sentence
- Imbedding and Using Textual Support/ Citation (with a GREAT list of active verbs to replace "sa
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7th - 12th
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