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Book Trailer Project - End of Year Movie Trailer Assignment for Any Novel Study
This book trailer project is a memorable and engaging project-based learning assessment! Included with this project outline are a book trailer rubric, movie trailer storyboard graphic organizer, student checklist, assignment instructions, student examples, and more. Included with this Book Trailer Project:✏️ Book Trailer Project Outline - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Reflective Writing Assignment Prompt - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Movie Trailer Task Checklist & Student Planner -
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6th - 12th
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Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities - Roles, Rubrics, and Worksheets
These literature circle roles include 7 inquiry-based job descriptions to facilitate student-led book clubs. These responsibilities offer students the opportunity to practice essential reading strategies. This unit also includes editable and ready-to-print rubrics, a pacing guide, and scaffolding worksheets.Included with these Literature Circle Roles:✏️ Handouts Outlining Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities✏️ Scaffolding Worksheets for Each Role✏️ Task Chart Graphic Organizer and Pa
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7th - 10th
The Landlady Roald Dahl Short Story Close Read Analysis Unit & Lesson
The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a fantastic short story to use to to help teach foreshadowing and characterization! This unit for The Landlady includes an activating activity, pre-read vocabulary, during reading questions, post reading foreshadow and characterization charts, as well as a quiz and post reading narrative activity! There is also a comparing mediums worksheet for students to use with the 1979 film version of the The Landlady!The worksheets with foreshadowing and characterization rea
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7th - 10th
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Lamb to the Slaughter Roald Dahl Complete Short Story Unit Activities, Keys
Roald Dahl's short story Lamb to the Slaughter is great for students to practice and hone their analysis skills. Dahl is a loved author and well renowned for his creativity and resilient characters, and Lamb to the Slaughter is no exception. With this unit students will be able to dig deeply into the text searching for irony, and practice their analytical abilities for inference, mood and tone!This unit contains a pre-reading vocabulary and activating activity, during reading (or post, dependi
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8th - 10th, Adult Education
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Man From the South Roald Dahl Short Story Unit Analysis Lesson Activities
Roald Dahl's delightful short story Man From the South gets students critically thinking with all the dark humor and simplistic language that this classic author is known for. This Man From the South unit includes everything necessary to do a comprehensive study of the short story. Start students off with thinking critically about real life risk takers to set the stage for them thinking about the risk that Carlos and the American boy take. Students will identify the elements of plot such as c
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8th - 10th, Adult Education
Rhetorical Analysis Pretest and Post-Test Assessment Pack of 2 Tests
This resource is now included in the Rhetorical Analysis BIG Bundle! Be sure to check this out before you buy this resource seperately. These two assessments work as either 2 final assessments or a pre-test, post-test for a rhetorical analysis unit. They can also be used as a formative assessment as students practice rhetorical analysis skills. The skills focuses are on identifying ethos/pathos/logos in a speech, and explaining how the writer uses this language to appeal to a specific audience.
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9th - 12th
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Cyclops Hands-On Activity (The Odyssey): Instructions Handout & Editable Rubric
This "Cyclops" activity assesses students' knowledge of characterization, figurative language, and vocabulary for the "Cyclops" story from Book IX of The Odyssey by Homer. In addition, it checks for reading comprehension, evaluation skills, and citing specific references from the text to prove points. Students must be neat and creative when incorporating required information on the hidden door foldie activity. This is a great review activity, or it can be used in the place of a test to assess st
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6th - 9th
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Richard Matheson Button Button - Science Fiction Story
Science fiction is a great way to teach characterization. In "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson, students will explore characterization in a fun and engaging way using text evidence from the story. "Button, Button" explore the universal idea of greed and how far a person is willing to go for money. Included: General Day GuideAnticipation Guide to set up the storyComprehension Questions - combination of multiple choice and short answerComprehension Question ANSWER KEYCharacterization Activi
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Science Fiction Short Story Bundle
Cause and Effect Rubric
This rubric is written in student-friendly language and measures 3 areas: Determining Cause/Determining Effect/Understanding the Relationship between Cause and Effect. Depending on which scale/rubric you prefer, there are 2 copies here, one which rates students on the 1-2-3-4 scale, and the other rates students at 70-80-90-100 scale. :-) Related Products⭐ Freebie Teacher Observation Success Checklist⭐ Winter Picture Writing Prompts | Writing Activity⭐ Teacher Observation | Teacher Evaluation Fo
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2nd - 8th
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Acadience Monitoring Bundle!
These two products provide different ways to monitor student progress and growth. One product provides space for you to write how students score on each Acadience test throughout the year. There is also a tracking sheet to write their scores each time they are progress monitored. The next product is used for students to track their own growth. They can color in how well they did for fluency, accuracy, and retell. This is a great tool because it is a wonderful representation for each student to b
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Not Grade Specific
AP English Literature Research Paper Assignment
This is the research paper assignment that I give my AP English Literature students, though it could be used for any upper level high school English class. The assignments asks students to make a literary argument about the short fiction of a writer of world literature.
The assignment requires students to blend their own analysis of literature with several published works of literary criticism. It requires students to synthesize close readings of two or more short stories by their writer with
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11th - 12th
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Poem Analysis and TDA Essay, Text Dependent Analysis — "Out Out" by Robert Frost
In this Poem Analysis and TDA Essay (Text Dependent Analysis), students will first read and answer questions for the poem "Out Out—" by Robert Frost. Students will then write a TDA based on themes and figurative language in the poem. In this lesson plan:Full Poem "Out Out—" by Robert Frost (1916)Poem Analysis Questions that concentrate on poetic devices (alliteration, allusion, theme, mood, tone, dialogue, connotation, rhyme scheme, juxtaposition) with ANSWER KEYTDA Text Dependent Analysis Promp
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Author's Purpose Rubric Authors Purpose Rubric
This AUTHOR's PURPOSE rubric is perfect for helping your students! It's written in student-friendly language and enables the student to assess their ability to determine the Author's Purpose for writing a text.Depending on which scale/rubric you prefer, there are 2 copies here, one which rates students on the 1-2-3-4 scale, and the other rates students at 70-80-90-100 scale. :-) If you need any other rubrics/scales, I have lots! :-) PLEASE check out my store, thank you!I hope you find my product
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3rd - 7th
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Evaluating POINT OF VIEW "3 Little Pigs" Blog Post Assignment
This fun assignment requires students to analyze two different versions the classic children's story, "The 3 Little Pigs." Students must evaluate which NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE they believe - the Pigs or the Wolf - then write about it in the form of a hypothetical blog post.
This resource takes the simple short story and applies it to a the complex concept of POINT OF VIEW. It is a great project ot assess students' understanding of POV and complements another resource that I sell: "Evaluating POIN
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6th - 12th
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'The Awakening' EDITABLE Quizzes, Discussions, & Essay Assignments – AP ELA
From editable plot quizzes to discussion and essay topics with directions, tips, and flexible rubrics, this packet for The Awakening contains everything you need to assess your students’ understanding of Kate Chopin’s classic novel about the complexities of balancing femininity and motherhood in the late 20th-century. Included with your purchase (See PREVIEW):44 The Awakening multiple choice plot questions included as 10, 20, and 40 question print-ready quizzes (with answer keys). These question
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Classic Literature Discussions, Essays, & Plot Quizzes Bundle
Annotation Rubric
Here is a simple and quick way to grade those close reading annotations. It is a great and easy tool for students to understand expectations!
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4th - 12th
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Student Choice Book Reports
Engage your students with monthly choice Book Reports. They can pick any of the nine given options to tell a summary of the book to the class. For each project, they must include all of the Literary Elements: Characters, Setting, Key Events and Details in the Plot and Problem and Solution.
As you present the Book Report project to your class, give each student pages 2 & 3 back to back. This will explain to students what is expected of them, the 9 choice options, a rubric for expectations
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3rd - 8th
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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Thematic Essay | Assignment, Rubric, & More
Explore four different thematic questions with this Born a Crime Thematic Essay! In this perfect final assessment for a Born a Crime unit, students will choose a theme to analyze and support their analysis with textual evidence from the novel.Students can choose from four thematic ideas and their corresponding questions: humor, oppression, love, and identity. Then, students will write a 5-paragraph, MLA paper answering the thematic questions with examples from Born a Crime.Students use the inclu
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Unit Bundle | Unabridged & Young Readers
Lamb to the Slaughter Writing Assessments - Essay Prompts and Editable Rubrics
This differentiated assessment offers three different written response options to evaluate students’ understanding of Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter.” Includes editable 4-level rubrics! Choose between an essay, paragraph, or narrative response using these literary analysis prompts.Included with these Lamb to the Slaughter Writing Prompts:✏️ Editable “Lamb to the Slaughter” Assessment Handouts - Google Docs®✏️ 3 Argumentative Essay Prompts✏️ 1 Narrative Writing Prompt✏️ Option for individua
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8th - 11th
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Article of the Week Assignment Intro, Volume 2
This Article of the Week bundle (Volume 2) includes everything you need to implement this assignment in your class! The Article of the Week assignment, inspired by Kelly Gallagher, is an excellent way to get your students reading and writing purposefully and frequently. This assignment also helps broaden your students' knowledge of the world around them.The Article of the Week Assignment Bundle Zipped File includes:-8 high-interest, relevant articles for teenagers• Colin Kaepernick's New "Just D
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8th - 12th
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Of Mice and Men Constructed Responses and Higher Order Thinking Questions
These 10 Constructed Response writing assignments ask your students to engage in Higher Order Thinking and respond in writing to a standards-based prompt. Included are 10 printable handouts that you can use TODAY!
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Chapters 1 and 2: Three prompts on lined handouts based on these standards: CCSS RL11-12.6 (Point of View, Literal vs. Figurative Meanings), RL11-12.3 (Elements of a Story), and RL 11-12.1 (Inference/Explicit Textual Evidence)
Chapters 3 and 4: Three prompts on line
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Activities Bundle
The Great Gatsby Discussion Questions - 20 Essay Questions and Writing Prompt
These writing prompts for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby include 20 higher-level discussion questions for your next Socratic seminar or final essay assignment! Includes editable rubrics for Google Drive®.Included with these The Great Gatsby Discussion Questions:✏️ 20 Discussion Questions for The Great Gatsby - PDFExplore themes including love and desire, judgment, and “The American Dream”Interpret characterization in The Great Gatsby, including major and minor charactersExplore literary
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8th - 11th
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Article of the Week Starter Pack
Combining the awesome article of the week concept used by Kelly Gallagher and the non-fiction signposts created by Beers and Probst, this Article of the Week Starter Pack is a great way to bring non-fiction into your classroom. This pack includes a master template that you can copy and paste any article into, a grading rubric, and a sample article of the week to help you and your students get used to the process. All documents completely customizable for your classroom and grading practices.
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5th - 12th
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Notice and Note Signpost Rubric (Fiction)
This scoring rubric is designed to assess student's ability to identify textual evidence of Notice and Note Signposts in literary fiction, as identified in the text, Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading, by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst. Students are also assessed on their analysis of author's purpose by answering anchor questions specific to each of the 6 Signposts.
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5th - 10th
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