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Free high school literature reflective journals for teachers
The Giver Journal Questions
Engage students with thought-provoking questions about The Giver. These free journal questions are a great way to start off the class and get students processing what they read about in previous chapters. It relates the themes of the book to their own life experiences and gives them time to write quietly in a journal for you to collect at the end of the week.
Created by Nichelle Newton
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7th - 12th
The Giver: Novel and Movie Comparison
While watching a movie based on a book I have found it is beneficial for students to critically view the movie. This resource includes a Google doc (and PDF as a print resource) to help your students not only compare and contrast the movie with the book, but also infer why the director and writers changed the novel so much.In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Acceptance Speech she implied The Giver would never be made into a movie. Two decades later it was adapted for a movie, though. Some of the techniqu
Grades:
6th - 9th
Tuesdays with Morrie Unit/Lesson Plan
This is a unit outline that coincides with the new common core standards. It is a thematic unit that focuses upon critical thinking and literary analysis.
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9th - 12th
Reading Journal Questions- Bloom's Taxonomy
I have used these questions as a summative reading activity in my classroom. This is a great way to allow students to choose appropriate and challenging questions to answer based on their book. These questions are organized by the different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Grades:
6th - 12th
ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS: A NOVEL free sample chapter
Read a free chapter of Adequate Yearly Progress: A Novel. The Washington Post calls it a “funny but insightful look at teachers in the workplace…reminiscent of the TV show The Office but set in an urban high school.” Roxanna Elden’s “laugh-out-loud funny satire” (Forbes) is a brilliantly entertaining and moving look at our education system.Each new school year brings familiar challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in one the biggest cities in Texas. But the teachers also face
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
The Great Gatsby journal prompts
Each chapter of The Great Gatsby leads to many questions... and many students using Sparknotes in order to answer those questions. With these journal prompts, students must cite the text, understand it, and relate it to important literary concepts. This keeps students a little more motivated to read considering the answers require some thought and paying attention during class discussions will go a long way. I allowed my students to use their journals to use as a basis for discussion, which help
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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H Keller Quote Essay
Please RATE this simple but FREE product which saves you the time of looking for quotes. I'm just starting here and would like to post and sell more detailed and extensive items. Thank you! Use a quote by Helen Keller and relate it to The Miracle Worker. What does this quote mean to you? How does it relate to the story? Use details from the story. How does this quote relate to some personal experience or event in your life?
Grades:
6th - 12th
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell hook/pre-reading slides and prompts
The writing problem I am working on is ideation. Most of my high school students struggle to take a kernel of an idea and grow it, and helping my students with ideation proved to “make a qualitative difference to the students’ future writing” (Wallack 28-29). Bean identified a related “student problem” as “failure to assimilate the unfamiliar; resistance to uncomfortable or disorienting views.” His recommended “helping strategy” includes drawing “analogies to other times when students have had
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9th - 12th
Middle School Concepts - Comprehensive Checklist
This 28-page, comprehensive checklist covers a broad spectrum of basic, middle school level, Language Arts curriculum concepts. This checklist is an excellent way for Language Arts teachers to be sure they cover everything as they plan lessons. Take a look at the preview for a 3-page sample of this checklist.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
6th - 9th
1984 - Dictatorships Journal/Research Essay
This activity is geared as a follow up activity for students after they read George Orwell's 1984. I use a song by Bruce Cockburn (If I Had a Rocket Launcher) to go into the issue of humans rights abuses in Guatemala in the 1980s, and use Guatemala as a case study in which to compare actual events to the events in the novel. Students then choose their own regime (from a list of 31) to complete a journal or research paper. They compare and contrast with incidents from Orwell's book. A great lesso
Grades:
9th - 12th
Classroom Library Check Out Form
This is a great form to use when students want to check out books from your personal classroom library. I would make several copies and keep it in a binder or prong pocket folder.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
The Great Gatsby Money and Society Constructed Responses
This worksheet poses three questions regarding money and wealth in contemporary society. It connects to Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
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9th - 12th
How to Teach the Class Novel: Professional Development Unit for English Teachers
This self-study professional development unit is designed for English teachers and departments who wish to develop their practice in relation to teaching the whole class novel. It is a self study unit which includes lots of practical ideas for the high school or secondary classroom as well as opportunities for reflection and activities to help translate what you have learned into practice. The unit covers how to choose and introduce the novel, improve reading fluency, develop key reading skills,
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6th - 10th
Also included in: Professional Development Self-study Units for English Teachers
Mrs. Dalloway Creative Journal Topics
These journal topics are meant to be paired with reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf in a high school or higher education classroom. With each journal entry, students are encouraged to think about aspects of their own lives and how they may intersect with important themes or moments in the novel. This is a good way to drive home important themes, such as judgement and criticism, fear of death/aging, and criticism of authority.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
My Book Lineage
Getting students to read can be a challenge. Often students lose interest in reading books as they get older. However, with this fun interactive activity, you can have students trace their book lineage from elementary to high school. Students discuss how certain books represent a milestone in their lives and have shaped who they are today.
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Stations by Audre Lorde - poetry assignment - writing options and poetry reading
Close reading assignment - questions for journal entry based on the poem. Poem plus the assignment
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Literary Elements Journal
Students use this form to make personal connections with identify literary elements in a novel.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
1984 and Paired Dystopian Novel
During or after the reading of 1984, students will choose another dystopian novel and complete dialectical journals which compare/contrast plot development, literary devices, syntax and other elements.
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Grades:
10th
Reading Logs
Every day, my students read, and then they fill out a reading log. This helps them with comprehension more than they realize.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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