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11th grade close reading resources for GATE
Assertion Journal Bundle #1: A Year of Quotations for Analysis and Response
Challenge your students to blend close reading and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the entire year. This product contains ten topical collections of quotations, presented attractively with unique pictures and bac
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Assertion Journal ULTIMATE Bundle: Rhetorical Analysis and Argumentation
This ever-growing bundle of Assertion Journals includes every quotation set from The Rhetor's Toolbox. Challenge your students to blend close reading, rhetorical analysis, and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the
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9th - 12th
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
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Americanah: Complete Unit Bundle [Distance Learning]
Americanah is one of my favorite novels, both to read and to teach; however when I first started teaching it four years ago, there were not many resources available, so I had to make pretty much everything I needed from scratch, and the result is this bundle. This unit bundle will take you completely from the beginning to the end of of the novel. It includes: Introductory unit notesTopic discussion guide and resourcesIndividual chapter close readsIndividual chapter quizzesA comprehensive charact
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9th - 12th
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Assertion Journal BUNDLE #2: A Year of Quotations for Analysis and Response
Challenge your students to blend close reading and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the entire year. This product contains a second collection of quotations, presented attractively with unique pictures and backgro
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Depth and Complexity Literature Discussion Prompts
Are you tired of flimsy book talks and group discussions? Bring focus, energy, and insight to your students' literature discussions with these prompts. Use them with any fiction text to facilitate thinking about characters, plot, theme, writing style, and real-world connections.What's IncludedYou’ll find a separate page for each element of the Depth & Complexity framework, filled with questions that students can address in discussion and/or writing. Print these out on colored paper or card s
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8th - 12th
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Halloween Collection of Stories and Poems with Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This collection includes the the poems "Annabel Lee" and "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem" and the short stories "Ruthless" and "Death by Scrabble." The poems and stories all have higher-level rather than content based questions, and there is a graphic organizer.
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8th - 11th
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The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions focus on the strategies that the author used to create the humor. The focus is on verbal irony, so it includes the definition and examples of verbal irony. This lesson requires higher-level thinking skills.
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8th - 11th
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Skin by Roald Dahl Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify and analyze the strategies used by the author to convey his message. It also includes a chart that asks students to discuss the flashback in the story. Answers are provided for all activities.
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8th - 11th
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Assertion Journal Bundle #3: A Year of Quotations for Analysis and Response
Challenge your students to blend close reading and argumentation skills as they broaden their world views! Assertion journals--written responses to pithy quotations--are an integral part of my classroom. Through them, students learn to think critically, analyze, and argue. They are frequently cited by my students as one of the most helpful and enjoyable assignments of the entire year. This product contains ten topical collections of quotations, presented attractively with unique pictures and bac
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9th - 12th
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Queen Elizabeth I Author's Purpose Questions
Facing an invasion of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Queen Elizabeth delivered this inspiring speech to her troops. The product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify literary strategies used and determine the author's purpose. There is a chart included which asks students to provide examples of literary devices and state the author's purpose and another chart which requires students to give the meaning of vocabulary based on context clues. Also, a short constru
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8th - 11th
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Symbolism | Comprehensive List of Literary Symbols and Their Meanings | Motifs
Use this extensive 8-page list of symbols and their meanings as reference pages with middle school and up--or simply for teacher reference only. Beware your students will quickly become experts at unpacking symbolism in movies, songs, and literature. I wanted something like this, so I created it. Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Build your writing toolbox. Make them feel brilliant!Scaffold the writing process.Citing Evidence Posters, Argument Essay Template, & Transitions BundleTh
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7th - 12th
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Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions explore the literary elements used in the story and ask students to determine for what purpose they were used. The higher-level thinking questions help students to determine the message and theme of the story.
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Valentine's Day Collection Stories of Love and Obsession
36 Undated Sentence Starters for Literature & Current Events
Hello Fellow Teacher, This activity can be done as a bell ringer activity once a week or as needed. The colorful PDF includes the beginning of 36 sentences. Students will complete them in their own words. These sentence starters are related to a literary quote, a theme from a novel, or a current event. This activity encourages students to think critically and express their ideas succinctly. They can answer the questions in a journal, with a partner, and/or in small groups.Since the questions are
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Lesson Plan: The Six Steps of Search for Self
This lesson is a multi-day curriculum that gives students tools to help them think about who they have already become as people and who they want to be. Some of the steps are ones students have made and are making, while others are in their future, and at least one is a level few of us ever achieve but many attempt. This is the SECOND lesson in a unit called “Search for Self”; however, it also can be a self-contained lesson. This lesson is appropriate for any time of the school year, but make
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6th - 12th
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Bayard Rustin: Back History, LGBT History-Part of Multicultural Curriculum
This lesson takes students through the following:
1. Anchor Text
2. Supplemental texts and videos
3. Terminology and definitions
4. Discussion Questions
5. Performance Tasks
6. Grading Rubric
7. Standards Alignment
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Hanging Stranger Author's Craft/Purpose Questions and Imagery Chart
The questions require students to identify the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The graphic organizer requires students to find examples of imagery and discuss what they describe and the author's purpose for using them.
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8th - 11th
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LGBT History-Language Arts Stonewall Riots (Cultural Advocacy)
This lesson includes an anchor text on the Stonewall Inn Riots, 4 supplementary excerpts, discussion questions, performance task, grading rubric, and standards alignments. It is a great resource for teaching about various cultures and supporting various groups of students within our school community.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
AP Lit and Comp Diction Assignments
This is a complete unit I teach in the second quarter with my AP Lit and Comp class. I think it is very important for students to be able to recognize diction before they move on to more difficult literary devices.This unit includes:Assignment 1: Introduction to DictionAssignment 2: Diction practice on The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeAnswer key for assignment 2Assignment 3: Diction practice on The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington IrvingAnswer key for assignment 3Assignment 4:
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11th - 12th
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The Scarlet Letter Excerpt Author's Craft/Purpose Analysis
This excerpt describes the setting of the novel and the contrast between the prison door and the rose bush. The activity includes questions which require students to identify and analyze the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level thinking rather then content based questions. The activity also comes with a key for annotating the passage.
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8th - 11th
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Rhetorical Analysis: Churchill "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"
In this assignment, students read and annotate Churchill's text, then examine his rhetoric for the rhetorical situation, rhetorical choices, and rhetorical appeals. I find this is a great assignment to introduce rhetorical analysis or review key concepts before the exam.This text is short, direct, and specific. My students typically feel more confident in rhetorical analysis after completing this assignment because the rhetorical situation is quite clear and tangible for them.I recommend allowin
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10th - 12th
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Explaining Hero vs. Villain Protagonist vs. Antagonist PowerPoint
This 14-slide presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.The fourteen slides include 15 images, dynamic and active presentation methods, and colorful representations.THIS ITEM is also available in a package that includes a lesso
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Frankenstein: Activity Bundle [Distance Learning]
Looking for activities to help with Frankenstein? This bundle is days worth of activities for students. It includes: An introductory lesson including a breakdown and tableau instructions for "Rime of the Ancient Mariner".A lesson on societal fears and creating a "monster" based on those current fears.A lesson that asks students to create a post card based on the landscape description in the novel.These activities cover close readings, text analysis, creation of mood, character analysis, thematic
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8th - 12th
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Sensationalism Informative Articles Paired Text Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These two articles discuss the negative impact of sensationalism. Each article has questions which require students to identify and examine the strategies the authors use to convey their message. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. This product also contains paired text questions.
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Sensationalism Collection with Informative Articles, Story, and Poem
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