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Common Core RI.11-12.7 resources for Microsoft Word
High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Cormac McCarthy's The Road: Doomsday Scenarios
This activity's objective is to build schema and interest in reading The Road. Students are assigned 1 of 6 Doomsday scenarios. Each scenario is a realistic explanation for the incident that sparked McCarthy's apocalyptic world and is detailed in about 1.5 pages of reading. Students read, take notes, write responses, group together, and present information. I've found this to be a great activity because students continue to bring up these scenarios while reading The Road, using the text as suppo
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9th - 12th
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Annotation Chart with Sentence Starters / Stems - Annotating Documents
Useful chart that helps students categorize and write 5 different types of annotations (reading strategies) for any class. They are clarify, question, connect, infer & predict, and evaluate annotations. ► The chart explains to students what the annotation is (a definition), how to do it, and how to start it (sentence starters). The sentence starters have really helped my students understand the different types of annotations they can make as wells as how to practice them. ► This chart can be
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Purposeful Annotation - Printable Chart & Bookmark
AP Literature and Composition Mythology Unit
This unit has been compiled for my AP Literature and Composition class for the beginning of the school year to review or introduce them to Greek Mythology, which is often alluded to in literature and some of the questions on the AP Literature exam refer to these allusions.
In order to gain a better understanding of mythology, students begin by discussing the importance of studying Greek mythology before creating group projects that include choices. Students learn about creating and giving prof
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Synthesis Bundle for AP Lang
The most important skill AP English Language teachers can impart is how to read, assess, and manipulate resources to synthesize information. The College Board's AP English exam counts a synthesis essay task as a third of its free response score. College-bound students benefit from learning how to research, retrieve and evaluate sources to form an original thesis to support their argument. The skills of annotation, directly quoting a source, paraphrasing, and summarizing are covered as well as cr
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11th - 12th
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"The Perils of Indifference" Analysis Text-Dependent Questions and Activities
This resource packet contains questions and activities that guide students through a close analysis of Elie Wiesel's speech "The Perils of Indifference: Lessons Learned from a Violent Century" and a brief comparison with Wiesel's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. The analysis activities are in three parts: close analysis text-dependent questions for the first half of the speech (paragraphs 1-17), instructions for student groups to analyze the second half of the speech independently (paragraphs 18-3
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9th - 12th
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Renaissance Literary Period Webquest and Test
This activity contains questions and charts that lead the student through an interactive history lesson of the Renaissance Period. It is a concise guide through the historical events which shaped the literature of the period and includes questions about the time period's prominent figures, Humanism, the English monarchs (Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, etc.), the Reformation, and the changing beliefs and values of the people. The packet also includes a multiple-choice test that ma
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone High School Curriculum
Put together makes up my 7week Harry Potter Unit, written/ used for a group of 11th & 12th grade high school students but easily adaptable for all high schoolers. Included is our 8 week pacing guide following the 2024 fall calendar
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9th - 12th
Dolly the Sheep WebQuest: a Pre-reading Activity for Frankenstein
This no-prep, inquiry-based activity, designed for use in the virtual classroom or face-to-face, introduces students to Dolly the Sheep, cloning, and the theme of creation found in the novel Frankenstein. Working independently, students will use the provided website hyperlinks to answer a series of question about Dolly and cloning. At the end of the assignment, the students will have a basic understanding of the process and ethical implications of cloning. While this activity was created as a pr
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Frankenstein Complete Unit Bundle
MACBETH PRE-READING GALLERY WALK
Note: This is also included in my Macbeth Complete Unit Bundle- where I include all pre-reading, while reading and post reading lesson plans and worksheets.***UPDATED JANUARY 2024This is a Gallery Walk to be conducted prior to reading Shakespeare. I usually print out each of the stations, and in addition I keep a laptop or iPad at each station to also play the videos I have included. This allows for all types of learning and literacies to be included. I teach general education, student with IEPs
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10th - 12th
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Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" & ALS WebQuest (Intro to Tuesdays With Morrie)
To introduce students to Tuesdays With Morrie, here is a great resource!This resource includes: Notes on the "Last Lecture" given by Randy Pausch, who was battling pancreatic cancer. "The Last Lecture" recap clip, which can be found on YouTube (click here), shares a synopsis of Pausch's lecture on topics of life and death, death, dying, cancer, faith, family, mentors, and love. [The full version of the lecture can be found here to supplement/extend learning]ALS Web Quest to help students dive in
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9th - 12th
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Teaching the Argument: Sample Argument Response
This document is a color-coded sample response of the previously posted sample argument task for the NYS English Regents exam. The colors correlate with the cheat sheet, which is the third document needed to fully teach students how to successfully compose a Part 2 response to the NYS English Regents exam.
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9th - 12th
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Effective Prompting and Ethical Use of AI - Part 4
This is Part 4 of 4. These assignments can be stand alone or the bundle of all 4 assignments is available. This assignment is about students developing ethical guidelines for AI use and their reflections on what they learned during the process..A lecture is included with multiple resources.Students have a worksheet to create an introduction to their ethical framework and from that will create guidelines to present. Reflective essay directions with additional sourcesClass discussion to wrap up as
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Effective Prompting and Ethical Use of AI
Teaching the Argument: Argument Cheat Sheet
This document is the crux of teaching the argument response for the NYS English Regents exam, as it breaks down each component of the response to lead students to success on the Part 2 response.
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9th - 12th
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Teaching the Argument: Sample Argument Task
This file provides teachers with a sample argument task for the English Regents.
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9th - 12th
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AP Language Synthesis Essay with Bully Documentary
This prompt is an AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay question. It contains six reviews of the documentary BULLY that students must use to defend, qualify, or challenge a statement provided. I have limited the number of pages students may write to two, but it is an editable Word document. Likewise, this is a take-home assignment and would need to be modified slightly if done in a timed-situation. Modified AP Synthesis Rubric provided.
It obviously requires that students have watc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fahrenheit 451- Beatty's Speech- Truth or Fiction
Beatty's speech at the end of Part I of Fahrenheit 451 has a lot of interesting claims. This activity will require your students to figure out if his statements hold any truth today. Students will be presented a quote, research the truth or falsehood behind it, and then cite their sources.
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9th - 12th
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Modeling Meiosis Stop Motion Activity
Introduce the process of meiosis through this stop motion modeling activity! This is a great way for students to explore the phases and unique events in meiosis on their own before direct instruction from the teacher. Students will use the descriptions provided to create their own sketch of each phase. Important vocabulary for this activity is provided on the first page for the students to reference as they create their sketches. Once the sketch for each phase is approved by an instructor, the
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9th - 12th
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HS-LS3-1
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Into the Wild: Indigenous Voices
In this activity, students will read three poems from Indigenous authors. They will engage in a class discussion around elements of Transcendentalism, Romanticism, and Naturalism present in the poems. Also, students will discuss how the poems connect to McCandless and his journey. Next, students will write an analysis paragraph on one of the poems. Finally, an extension activity offers students the opportunity to create an artistic representation of how the open they analyzed represents huma
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9th - 12th
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My American Dream Sounds Like...
This lesson plan is a personal-narrative synthesis, multimodal project in which students express how they interpret the American Dream through music. The inspiration for this came from an NPR program.
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10th - 12th
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La Vida Robot article vs. SPARE PARTs compare/contrast lesson plans
Comparing/Contrasting the movie SPARE PARTS (George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marisa Tomei) with the article in WIRED MAGAZINE and in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL PRESS textbook, EDGE LEVEL C. Page 1: Graphic organizer for comparing/contrasting different elements of the movie/article. Pages 2 & 3: Writing prompt for one comparison paragraph and one contrast paragraph
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9th - 12th
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"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell: Writing Project Assessment
The students will examine a chapter or section of their choosing of the text Outliers.The assignment provides brainstorming, questions, a rubric, grading criteria, two formative progress checks and an overall submission checklist. This is designed to be an assessment of student comprehension of at least one self-selected Outliers passage.The assignment requires students to create a project in a style of their choice and to adhere to criteria including direct quotes and textual evidence, outside
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9th - 12th
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Taylor Swift #Swifttok Activity Theories, Thesis, Rhetorical & Literary Analysis
For years, Taylor Swift fans, Swifties, have identified Easter Eggs in the artist’s work to determine messages and meaning and come up with theories about the style of her different eras, messages she’s trying to send the public, album and track lists, and release dates. For this assignment, students will do the same, but with their favorite artist. Students will review and analyze different forms of media to justify a theory they have about their favorite singer. Just like a Swiftie, they will
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Saavedra & Silverman Activity Sheet
This activity sheet will help students evaluate the Saavedra & Silverman study on button phobia, including the applicable debates in psychology. It is intended to be used when teaching the Cambridge AS Psychology syllabus but has the potential for wider usage. If this resource was useful, please leave a review.
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11th - 12th
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