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Adult education short stories worksheets
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson Unit with Hunger Games Comparison
"The Lottery" Short Story Literature GuideThis package of documents features numerous materials for teaching Shirley Jackson's 1948 short story "The Lottery." Includes an introduction activity (using real stones), guided reading questions (for recall/comprehension, analysis, applying, critical thinking), discussion questions, a character chart, extended activities, a 26-question quiz (15 multiple choice, 9 vocabulary matching, 2 short answer essay), and a theme comparison with the novel The Hung
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Hunger Games Teaching Unit Mega Growing Bundle
Short Story Unit, Eng. 11/12 Short Stories + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Short Story Unit for Older TeensTired of teaching the same old short stories? Did a teacher in the earlier grades steal your thunder by already teaching some of the short stories you were planning to use in your classroom? This bundle of modern and classic short stories (all with multimedia add-ons) is for you! Designed for high school junior and senior English classes, this unit plan includes a wide variety of lesser-known high-interest short works that will entertain and challenge your uppercl
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Fall of the House of Usher: A Mini-Unit! *Snapchat Activity Included!*
#TheFalloftheHouseofUsher #EdgarAllanPoe #Snapchat #AmericanLiterature
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Need a lesson that lasts in your students' minds for more than 10 seconds? This Edgar Allan Poe mini-unit can help students understand "The Fall of the House of Usher" with a modern twist! This activity pack hits many standards: h
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Devil and Tom Walker: Mini Unit! ~ *MEME* Activity Included!
This product is a mini-unit on The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving.
#TheDevilAndTomWalker #WashingtonIrving #AmericanRomanticism #Romanticism #MemeActivity
This Washington Irving classic is updated for the current classroom! This lesson helps with understanding the author, reading comprehension, and understanding literary devices (satire) with a creative MEME worksheet! Help your students understand Tom's dealings with the devil with this mini-unit!
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*Washington Irving B
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Minister's Black Veil: A Mini-Unit!
In need of materials that will compliment your unit on The Minister's Black Veil? This *Mini-Unit* can help fulfill many Common Core standards with a variety of activities!
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography! (With check questions!)
Vocabulary Worksheet! (**KEY INCLUDED!**)
Quickwrite Activity- A glance into the past!
Study Questions (**KEY INCLUDED!*)
Connecting the literature graphic organizer! (Example response included!)
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories — BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Activities
This Edgar Allan Poe Gothic Short Stories Bundle includes a literary analysis for the following 5 short stories:The Tell-Tale HeartThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Black CatThe Masque of the Red DeathEach product includes an in-depth look at each piece of literature with corresponding activities and reading comprehension questions. All stories form a perfect gothic literature unit, Edgar Allan Poe unit, or short story unit during Halloween season!This BUNDLE also includes
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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3 Reading Comprehension Stories & Activities Level: Beginner + ESL Newcomer
This English comprehensible input story set features high frequency verbs in the present tense. This ESL / ELL short story set is accompanied by various reading comprehension check activities. Students will receive lots of comprehensible input with the super 7 verb target structures is /are, has / have, goes, wants, likes, and there is as they read. This English short stories set is perfect for ESL / ELL classes for both young and adult students. This short stories set would also be a great addi
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" 25-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 25-question multiple choice quiz is on Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt." This quiz contains questions that assess students' knowledge of the characterization, color symbolism, conflict, dialogue, figurative language, foreshadowing, inferences, irony, plot, setting, subtext, symbolism, and themes.A study guide that can be used to prepare students for this quiz is available here.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Roald Dahl's "The Landlady" 20-Question Matching and Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 20-question multiple choice quiz is on Roald Dahl's short story "The Landlady." This quiz contains questions that assess students' knowledge of the characterization, conflict, dialogue, foreshadowing, inferences, irony, plot, subtext, and themes.A study guide that can be used to prepare students for this quiz is available here.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" 25-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 25-question multiple choice quiz is on Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder." This quiz contains questions that assess students' knowledge of the character archetypes, characterization, conflict, connotation, figurative language, foreshadowing, imagery, inferences, irony, morals, plot, setting, subtext, and themes.A study guide that can be used to prepare students for this quiz is available here.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ken Liu's "The Paper Menagerie" Anticipation Guide and Comprehension Questions
The following seven worksheets/handouts are an anticipation guide, comprehension questions, and discussion questions to guide readers through and after Ken Liu's 2011 award-winning short story "The Paper Menagerie." The first page is an anticipation guide and ask students to agree or disagree with statements that relate to the conflicts and themes of the work. Pages two, three, and four contain comprehension questions or short answer questions that guide students to actively analyze the work's c
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Narrative Paragraph Graphic Organizer
I thought I would share this graphic organizer because I have used it with a lot of success as a tutor.
This graphic organizer meets these 3rd and 4th grade Common Core Standards:
3rd Grade
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3a Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
The Yellow Wallpaper PowerPoint, handout, and vocab quiz
This is a zip file containing:
1. A 15-slide PowerPoint introduction to The Yellow Wallpaper, with good basic information for launching a Victorian Women's literature unit, should you choose to use it that way. The PowerPoint includes details about the life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the "rest cure" popular in her time, and the "Feminine Ideal." There are some great pictures on the PPt! The final slide shows a ten-word unit of SAT-level vocabulary words found in The Yellow Wallpaper.
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
Reading Comprehension Passages Questions Worksheets Summer School ESL Homework
Reading Comprehension Passages Questions Worksheets Summer School ESL HomeworkThis 175 page PDF file includes 100 Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice and Fill in the Blank questions.The reading comprehension ranges from stories, paragraphs, texts, and passages to give your students a variety to read about. Topics include, but are not limited to: animals, food, family, sports, and science.These worksheets have many uses:1. Home school2. Substitute teacher3. Snow days4. Busy work5.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Female Authors Collection — 15 Short Stories | Women's History Month Activities
The Female Authors Collection — 15 Short Stories Written by Women, perfect for Women's History Month!1) The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher 2) Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan3) Geraldine Moore the Poet by Toni Cade Bambara4) The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salinas5) The Third Wish by Joan Aiken6) The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 7) Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin8) The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara9) Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston10) The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin11) The
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Figurative Language Short Passage | Set 1 | Close Reading | ELA Writing Activity
This Figurative Language Short Passage Set is a no-prep, printable close reading activity that's perfect for middle school and high school. This is a 205-word passage filled with 14 examples of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and personification. I’ve found that although my students can tell me the definition of these terms, simile is the only one they can truly pick out in a text. As a result, their writing is filled with overused similes that need work! This figurati
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Fall of the House of Usher—Reading Comprehension, Gothic Literature Analysis
This product is for Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher” and consists of reading comprehension questions and a gothic literature analysis graphic organizer.1) To activate students' prior knowledge on gothic literature, students will participate in a carousel brainstorming activity. 2) Students will define academic vocabulary for the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher."3) Students will read the full story “The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe and complete the
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories — BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Activities
ESL / ELL Short Reading + Task Cards | Level: Beginner Newcomer
This English Language Learner reading comprehension short story is perfect for ESL / ELL / ESOL learners in all classrooms. This comprehensible input story features early, common English words: this is, animal, person, is called, there is, says, is not, and I am alongside many cognates. This story is accompanied by 6 task / question cards for reading comprehension practice. Task cards include: multiple choice, matching, cognate recognition, drawing, & meaning association. This short story is
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: ESL / ELL Short Reading + Boom Cards Bundle | Level: Beginner Newcomer
Spanish Novel "Las sombras" Student Activity Book 40 activities/ Picture Talk
Student Activity Book/Teaching Materials for the level 3+ novel: Las sombras Check out the trailer for this book: Las sombras book trailer preview Book SynopsisAndrés is throwing the party of the century! But, it is quickly upstaged by the weird, mysterious, and threatening events taking place in the forest surrounding his house. Dark clouds blanket the sky and an ominous atmosphere grips the town of Buena Vista. Secrets are peeled by back layer by layer, exposing sinister plots soaked in paran
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
Evan Hunter's "On the Sidewalk Bleeding" 20-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 20-question multiple choice quiz is on Evan Hunter's short story "On the Sidewalk Bleeding." This quiz contains questions that assess students' knowledge of the characterization, color symbolism, conflict, imagery, inferences, irony, plot, setting, subtext, suspense, symbolism, and themes.A study guide that can be used to prepare students for this quiz is available here.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rip Van Winkle, A Mini Unit!
#RipVanWinkle #WashintonIrving #AmericanRomanticism
When your students indulge in the story that put American Romanticism on the map, this Rip Van Winkle Mini-Unit can help with comprehension and real-world relations that grasp your students' attention!
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~City-Living vs. Country Living- Where do YOU stand Activity
~An Activity in Cost of Living changes (KEY INCLUDED!)
~Study Questions (KEY INCLUDED!)
~Short Check Test (KEY INCLUDED!)
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian" 20-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 20-question multiple choice quiz is on Ray Bradbury's short story "The Pedestrian." This quiz contains questions that assess students' knowledge of the character archetypes, characterization, conflict, figurative language, inferences, irony, plot, subtext, symbolism, and themes.A study guide that can be used to prepare students for this quiz is available here.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sherlock Holmes THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE Close Reading Study Guide | Worksheets
“The Red-Headed League” Sherlock Holmes Close Reading Study Guide is ready so your students can enjoy a trip to Holmes’s flat at 221B Baker Street, London. Here’s what you’ll find in your 33-page printable study guide:• introductory information about the story, along with links if you prefer to read the story online• a reproducible copy of the story• questions and vocabulary to use as students read the story• a vocabulary test based on vocabulary highlighted in the study guide• a test on the sto
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Sherlock Holmes: Conan Doyle Biography and The Red-Headed League
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, A Short Story Lesson
This classic short story about revenge and murder will raise the hair on the back of your students’ necks! This lesson will take one-two class periods to complete depending on if you do the pre-reading vocabulary the class before you read the story or not.
There are nine activities of which you can do as many or as few as you choose to do. Several graphic organizers are included as well as all KEYs. Some can be assigned as homework.
The unit contains:
• Pre-reading vocabulary worksheet
• Quiz
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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