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Problem solving Common Core RL.9-10.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
"Life of Pi" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests,Essays,AP Style,Keys
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! Tests and quizzes are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 269 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. Original photographs of
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" EDITABLE UNIT AP Style
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! All Tests are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 170 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * over 140 READING/ANALYSIS SHOR
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10th - 12th
Comparing Poetry for Gifted & Talented Students with Any Poems - Guided Practice
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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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented ELA BUNDLE | Ambitious Reading, Writing and Analysis
Logic Grid Puzzles - Intermediate
Work on literacy skills without anyone knowing with these logic grid puzzles from Ms. Merry Mac!
Logic grid puzzles are an addicting way for students to practice deductive reasoning and inferring without having to read longer texts. They encourage readers to look carefully at evidence in the text and draw conclusions based on that information. They can even freshen up interventions for students in need of moving beyond literal interpretations in reading comprehension work. Plus, making a mod
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5th - 12th
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"A Clean,Well-Lighted Place" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests, AP Style
46 page COMPLETE unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 14 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 2 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 2 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUES
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
A Separate Peace Quizzes | Differentiated | High-Level Thinking | With Keys
Are you looking for quality quizzes for “A Separate Peace”? This package contains knowledge and comprehension quizzes for each of the thirteen chapters. In addition, it includes “challenge” quizzes for differentiated instruction.The first set of quizzes are the standard “Did you read this?” kind of quiz. The second is a more challenging quiz that queries quote attribution, the use of figurative language and asks higher-level questions.You can either make a master set of copies, or you can displa
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8th - 12th
Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices utilizing evidence, reasoning, and argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER). This unit can also be used to teach the concept of Line of Reasoning for the AP Lang and AP Seminar Classes. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore the murder of a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a mystery to solve, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics for presentations and writing, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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Character Study Book Report (Includes Summary and "Wanted" Poster Assignment)
This Character Study book report includes instructions for students, a sample summary and sample project, as well as an optional grading rubric for the teacher to simply pick and choose from listed choices to grade the student on writing (effective expression), grammar (conventions), and drawing (visual arts).The assignment requires students to write a one-page summary broken down into a beginning, middle, and end. The students must also complete a "Wanted" poster project, focusing on the main c
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3rd - 12th
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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
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Complete and Editable Unit
Whether you are looking to introduce mystery, suspense, and tension into the classroom or you are an Agatha Christie enthusiastic like me, this unit has it all. Dame Agatha Christie's beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, is the perfect main character to use with students of all ages. All of her short stories are brisk and to the point. Furthermore, a great deal of the short tales have been remade into TV movies. These quick contrasting viewpoints will allow the students to explore author motivation
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: End of the Year Grade 12 Bundle (Agatha Christie Edition)
Claim Evidence Reasoning: CER Mini Whodunit Bundle - Gnome Swimmer
This is a bundle of three mini lessons on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes and general education classes. It contains graphic organizers, whodunit mysteries to solve with my original character, and the solutions. (Whodunit mysteries are also available to purchase separately.)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Claim Evidence Reasoning: CER Mini Whodunit Bundle - Herpetologist Actor
This is a bundle of three mini lessons on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes and general education classes. It contains graphic organizers, whodunit mysteries to solve with my original character, and the solutions. (Whodunit mysteries are also available to purchase separately.)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Lamb to the Slaughter Anticipatory Murder Mystery Activity
This activity will engage your students by requiring them to think like detectives!
Oriented around the Roald Dahl story, Lamb to the Slaughter, students will have a series of witness statements and crime scene evaluations to read through before answering, "who killed Patrick Maloney?"
Your students will practice the key skills of communication, collaboration, and critical thinking as they work together to determine the perpetrator, motive, and murder weapon. This activity can easily be scaled
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6th - 10th
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Task Cards: To Kill A Mockingbird, Rubric, Student Centers, Writing Activities
Writing fluency! Use task cards at student centers or individual student desks to improve writing fluency for state writing assessment tests. Novel study extension activity for To Kill A Mockingbird. 42 Writing Activities.42 Task Cards for To Kill A Mockingbird can be used as:Learning CentersGroup DiscussionsBell Ringers or Exit TicketsScavenger HuntGame-Based ReviewIndependent WorkJigsaw ActivityThink-Pair-ShareGallery walkDifferentiated InstructionPerformance AssessmentTest Prep StationsLit
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6th - 12th
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Quick Literature Study
This literature study is short and sweet, just like the novel. It asks students to extend the metaphorical story of Jonathan into real world aspects. There are questions for Part One, Part Two and Part Three that can be differentiated based on student ability - these differentiation strategies are outlined in the lesson plans. As a final project, students are asked to find parallels between the novel and ideas, other documents or biographies. To do this, students must conduct outside research
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6th - 9th
Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) - Power Point Presentation
This is the accompanying PowerPoint presentation for the unit “Teaching CER - Claim Evidence Reasoning: A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a brief lecture on the concept of Claim Evidence Reasoning Model, instructions for students on how to do the activity , and abbreviated instructions for the activity from the unit for the teacher (no solutions). It does not include the "Teaching CER - Claim Evidence Reasoning: A Whodunit Mystery" unit teaching sequence which can be purchased separately.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Literary Lenses Socratic Seminar Discussion Activity
I love, love, love Socratic Seminars because they force students to think deeply about the text, they give students control over the conversation (which means they are SO much more active and invested), they provide an opportunity to be amazed at what my students come up with, I can’t stop smiling afterward, and they’re easy to grade! I hope you love this as much as I do. I usually complete this activity after my students have been introduced to the various literary lenses and have had practice
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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the sonnet-ballad by Gwendolyn Brooks Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This is a short poem about the effect of a woman's lover going off to war. The product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify what literary or poetic device was used and determine the author's purpose. It also includes a chart requiring students to identify the rhyme scheme of each line. I also added some cross-genre comparison questions with the song "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" because the themes are similar and it pair so well. Answers are provided for all
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8th - 11th
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Multiple Choice Review Chapter 4, 5, 14, 17
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Chapters 4, 5, 14, 17 multiple choice questions in a timed review game format. Only these four chapters questions are included. RESOURCE DOES NOT COVER THE COMPLETE BOOK and no chapters of the book are included. Slide 1 presents the question, slide 2 starts a 20 second timed period for the students to study the question and choose the answer, a five second warning ding is given, the red stop sign Pencils Up image is presented in slide 3, slide 4 reveals the t
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9th - 12th
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Test Prep Bundle: Tuesdays W/Morrie, Google Grader for MC, Reading Comprehension
Arm your students with the tools of reading comprehension and analysis for assessment tests! Reading Assessments based on the the novel Tuesdays with Morrie will guide them through text analysis and multiple choice questions based on the text. Short Answer questions are included to help students organize and make conclusions about what they have read. Higher level thinking skills are used in Constructive Response. Google Grader link for multiple choice test questions.Check out the additional re
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Julius Caesar Persuasive Appeals Organizer
With this handout and graphic organizer, students learn about all three persuasive/rhetorical appeals and how/why they appear in the play. Students use the handout as a guide throughout the play; they complete the graphic organizer to demonstrate their learning and analyze their findings.
This is a great activity to help prepare students for 11th grade, either college prep or AP. As an AP Language teacher, I wanted to create something for my sophomores to help them understand the appeals and an
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10th
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Shakespeare and Sonnets
If you need a couple of planned and prepped lessons to share Shakespeare in a way that resonates with teenagers, this is that lesson!Get your students excited about Shakespearean sonnets with this accessible and engaging lesson on the Bard's sonnets and the iambic pentameter.This 30 page and slide Google drive folder is packed with printables, slides, and activities for every learner. Through hip hop, a TED Talk, the well-read and well-loved sonnets 18...23...65...and 104 (original and modern En
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8th - 12th
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