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The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Persuasive Writing- Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers!
In persuasive writing, many students have trouble writing a clear thesis statement on what their essay is truly about. In the lesson Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers, students get to break down what is actually involved in a thesis statement and what happens when the statement is vague- as teachers we feel that we get misled often!
Movie trailers are a good tool to use in teaching thesis statements because it is relatable to almost every student- they have to admit they would feel
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Write An Essay Brochure: Intro, Thesis, Body, Conclusion, Word Choice
Support students throughout the writing process with this EDITABLE reference brochure that covers writing the introduction and thesis statement, integrating evidence, using transitions, writing the conclusion, and using effective word choice. This resource works for expository/informational essays, as well as persuasive/argument essays. It is full of tips on how to write, structure, and revise an essay.When you purchase this product, you will receive a 2-slide PowerPoint file that you easily edi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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COLLEGE ESSAY Writing Unit: Personal Narrative Advice, Examples, & Assignment
Updated for the 2024-2025 COMMON APP: This 30-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need to help your students write phenomenal college application essays. Here are some highlights from the 30-page curriculum: • How to Get Started (Handout #1): Tips for how to get started on one's college essay and overcome writer's block. (1 page)• Strategies for Crafting Vivid & Lively Prose (Handout #2): While the question of what students choose to write about will be important, the question of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Rose for Emily Literature Guide, Unit, Lesson Plan
In this "A Rose for Emily" short story lesson plan you'll find an updated twist on a classic. It is an excellent model for teaching close reading and making connections across texts. Everything is planned and neatly organized for you to use immediately.Student Experience: How far would you go for love? Is Miss Emily in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" truly in love or just insane? In this unit, students will examine how Faulkner painted a crafty picture of a woman scorned, a nosy southern town, a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
THE HANDMAID'S TALE UNIT PLAN: COMMON CORE APPROVED
***I added the viewable google slide companion as a bonus and to show how I used this unit during remote learning. This 84-page unit has expository text and activities meant to elevate classroom discussion. The goal of this unit is to make connections to the present and find ways to relate and engage with this dystopian tale. Students focus on: the social commentary about gender roles, feminism, and real-world examples. With the current political climate of the world, this is a great unit
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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After Spring Break Spanish Activity Back from Easter Break Preterite Tense Chat
Need a after Spring Break Spanish activity? This back to school after Spring Break Spanish Find Someone Who is the perfect interpersonal Spanish activity for the first day back from Spring break or after Easter break of Spanish 2-4 to talk about what you did over the break using the preterite tense Spanish. These people search or people hunt activity was designed as a Spanish interpersonal communicative activity to get students talking in Spanish class after Spring Break or after Easter BreakThi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Comment Cards for Academic Essay Writing to Help Students Give Quality Feedback
As English teachers, we ask our students to edit and revise their peers' essays. However, students do not always know how to give constructive feedback. It's important that students are able to give constructive feedback about targeted writing skills while also maintaining the dignity of the writer. This product contains a handout with five tips for writing effective comments during peer revision and coaches students on how to go about giving thoughtful, quality feedback on academic essays in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Literary Analysis Thesis Statement: SIX Mini-lessons for Essay Success
This lesson contains a step-by-step guide for how to write a thesis statement for the literary analysis essay. It is a part of our Mega Lit. Analysis Essay Bundle, sold separately. Bundle and SAVE! CLICK HERE!The most important part of the writing process is crafting the thesis statement because it is the "road map" or "blueprint" for the entire essay. Because this one, single sentence is so important, I have crafted six mini-lessons to insure that your students will have focused, argumentati
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Halloween Reading, Cause and Effect and Inference Skills Using, "Thriller"
Students like to be entertained while they learn! HALLOWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT AND INFERENCE SKILLS USING, "THRILLER." Introduce students to the concepts of cause and effect and inference skills. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories, poems, viewing films, creative writing, novel studies.
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Presentation for the smart board or projector
Active link to the music video, “Thriller”
Cause and effect handouts (2)
Inference handout
Lyrics handout
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Literature Guide Unit, Lesson Plans
Are your students obsessed with Serial or Undisclosed or other true crime stories? Pique their interest while exposing them to canonical literary fiction with Trifles -- the perfect twist on this murder mystery, of sorts! This easy-prep drama unit is an excellent choice if you are looking for a text to quickly cover the elements of drama in place of a longer text, or it would even work well as a quick unit for Women's History Month. Student Experience: Since it's first production in 1916, Trifle
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Oil Pastel Christmas Bow Drawing, Middle/High School Art, Winter Crafts
Teach your students to draw stunning realistic Christmas bows using oil pastels in this step-by-step tutorial presentation. This works great for high school grades 9-12. Great for public, private and homeschool and adult education students as well. The perfect art project during winter season!This product comes with:PDF/PPT versions of project tutorial steps/instructionsPDF handout of image steps for studentsBow grid drawing practice handoutPDF of color bow reference imagesOil pastels techniques
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Ultimate Drawing BUNDLE, 10 Art Projects, Middle/High School Grades
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[UPDATED 2019] MLA 8 Format Cheat Sheet
UPDATED FEBRUARY 1, 2019MLA 8th EditionImportant details about MLA citations and works cited Page guidelines Works Cited Description:Teach your students how to embed and cite text into their expository, persuasive, and argumentative essays correctly. Use this helpful cheat sheets as a reference for different ways of embedding quotes into sentences and cited sources. This Product Includes:Cheat Sheets -MLA 8th Edition Somethings that are covered: What is MLA Citation Page guidelines Types of i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
AP English Language Unit 6: Complete Unit Plan and Activities CED Aligned
Introduce the Unit 6 skills of AP Lang in this complete, ready-to-teach, 3-week unit. By the end of this unit, students will be ready for the Unit 6 Progress Check. ***BUT WAIT! Before you purchase this unit alone, know that you can save over 20% by buying the Full-Year Curriculum BUNDLE.***This curriculum focuses on the Unit 6 skills outlined in the new CED:CLE-1.P--When synthesizing, writers draw upon arguments from multiple sources, strategically select the most relevant information, and com
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Reading Paired Texts Bundle — The Story of an Hour, The Yellow Wallpaper
In this Paired Texts Bundle — You will receive a literary analysis for each individual story: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In addition, you will receive an essay prompt and rubric for a text-dependent analysis essay and graphic organizer to compare and contrast both pieces of literature. The paired texts analysis focuses on many literary elements (similarities and differences) including: point of view, text structure, theme, characters
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Unit BUNDLE - Digital for Distance Learning
✍Teach Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with this complete unit bundle! 165 pages and over 125 teacher slides ready to print and teach☞or use digitally for your 21st-century learners!✍ This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. This unit will contain a Google File Link Page that will provide you with a Google Doc/Slides for each activity. ⇩Each of the bundled unit's product description is below:⇩➀ Student Interactive Notebook for A Midsummer Night
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Great Debaters Viewing Guide and Introduction to Debate Bundle
This 5 day lesson plan for high school students includes everything you need to introduce your students to logic, logical fallacies and debate in an engaging way! I use it with my juniors before we do classroom policy debates. The movie is based on the true story of the Wiley College debate team in the 1930s, which was the first all black college debate team to debate a white college team and which has been a champion team since. The movie is riveting and inspirational, and I've never had a clas
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Slideshow | Easter in Spanish-Speaking Countries | La Semana Santa Las Pascuas
ENGLISH VERSION - From dancing skeletons to colorful carpet-adorned streets, Easter brings a wealth of different traditions throughout the Spanish-speaking world. With this slideshow*, your students will learn more about how the Holy Week is celebrated by Spanish-speakers in 15 different countries. This slideshow in English has 16 slides with pictures and maps to teach not only culture but also some geography! It also comes with questions to share thoughts and ideas as a class.Overview:Easter in
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Analytical Papers | How to Write Essays: Hook, Thesis, & Body Paragraphs
NEW IN 2021: Rigorous! Inspiring! This 25-page EDITABLE writing curriculum has everything you'll need to help your students write high-quality analytical papers on any literary text. This unit was originally designed for 11th- and 12th-grade English teachers who want to help students improve their analytical writing; but it could also be used by history teachers to deliver lessons on how to write high-quality expository essays. Here are some highlights from this 25-page unit on analytical/exposi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Nonfiction Lesson for Halloween: Are Horror Movies Hilarious or Horrible?
This hot topics nonfiction mini lesson in print and digital format is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension if you are looking for an interesting way to engage students with informational, expository texts this Halloween. This resource is more than just questions and answers - you are getting a full blown mini lesson plan complete with a relevant video link for a starter, an argumentative writing prompt, and spooky creative project... all perfect Hal
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Bell-Ringers for the ENTIRE Year-40 WEEKS - EDITABLE PROMPTS w/ Mentor Sentences
This bundle of EDITABLE bell-ringers for the entire school year contains 40 weeks worth of prompts (323 SLIDES)!Each day of the week is assigned to a specific type of prompt to challenge students with various skills tasks. Here is the weekly key of prompts in this bundle:Mondays = Vocabulary TasksTuesdays = Debate TopicsWednesday = Mentor SentencesThursday = Literary Analysis ActivitiesFridays = Creative Writing Prompts Use these bell-ringers at the beginning of each class period throughout the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Bell-Ringers & Mentor Sentences: A Bundle for the Beginning of Class
The Ultimate Personal Narrative Bundle for Grades 6-12
This bundle is going to become the most EPIC and ULTIMATE personal narrative bundle for grades 6-12. I am super excited to share resource that I create and use with my own students when they write personal narrative essays. I have also priced this bundle competitively so that you can get MORE for LESS.Here's what's included:Personal Narrative & College Essay Introduction Strategies: A Menu of OptionsPersonal Narrative/ Memoir Revision Forms & Mini-lessons PACKPersonal Narrative Essay B
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6th - 12th, Higher 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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