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Common Core RI.9-10.5 thematic unit plans
Presidential Speeches Rhetorical Analysis Bundle
Looking for engaging rhetorical analysis lessons to help prepare your students for the AP Lang exam? This bundle includes two 10-day thematic unit plans, covering FDR's "Pearl Harbor" speech, Bush's 9/11 speech, Reagan's Challenger Explosion speech, and Clinton's OKC Bombing speech.The exercises in this unit focus on helping students analyze the rhetorical choices the speaker makes to convey his message or achieve his purpose. Students will practice identifying and writing defensible thesis stat
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9th - 12th
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ELA Growing Bundle | Thematic & Genre Based Units for Full Year | Grades 9 & 10
This ELA Bundle for Grade 9 and 10 provides thematic and genre-based units, lessons and notes for a full year of freshman or sophomore English, whether it be on-level, Honors, or Pre-AP. These units can be taught by genre, by unit, or a good mix of both. Nearly all of the materials for this resource have already been created, but I'm still in the process of finishing up the final few - hence the Growing Bundle status. ⭐ Currently, this Grade 9 & 10 ELA Unit Bundle includes the following:ELA
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9th - 10th
Argument Research and Essay Unit With "Room for Debate"
Make writing argument essays relevant with this month-long unit! Students begin by reading, analyzing, and evaluating articles on real-world topics from “Room for Debate" in The New York Times. Then, using their reading as inspiration, students select a topic for research and use their research to write a formal argumentative essay. Throughout the unit, the teacher scaffolds instruction and provides practice paraphrasing, avoiding plagiarism, MLA formatting, and developing arguments. The teach
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8th - 12th
The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights American History Unit
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights Social Studies Unit, which works for both print and Google Drive™, investigates and helps gain an understanding of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This will work fro grades fifth-high school.This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format and includes:Cover sheet in both color and black and white.Links to helpful online resources.Informational Slideshow Presentation to use for instruction.G
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8th - 11th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade ELA Unit 1 BUNDLE
This resource is a comprehensive combination of slides (97 slides), activities, do-nows, vocabulary, comprehension check questions, highly engaging writing tasks, mini-lessons, discussion questions, and assessments, making teaching American Voices fun, engaging, and efficient. Texts included in this unit:"Music for My Mother""A Quilt of a Country""American History""The Immigrant Contribution""Rules of the Game""The Writing on the Wall""With a Little Help From My Friends""Morning Talk""Immigrant
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8th - 12th
Chop it Up: A Look at Food Justice Unit
Unit Essential Questions:1. How can food be used as a tool for both oppression and liberation?2. How does our neighborhood influence the choices we make about our health?3. What is the relationship between privilege, poverty, and consumption?4. How can we, as students, become involved in the food justice movement?5. How does the history of systemic racism in America create food insecurity?6. How do issues of land access impact food access both historically and presently?What's included?A hyperd
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9th - 12th
Bundle: Dark Romanticism - American Gothic + Detective Stories Unit
This bundle includes the Dark American Romanticism - American Gothic Unit as well as the Detective Stories Unit.DARK ROMANTICISM – AMERICAN GOTHIC UNITIn this sublime unit, your students will explore American Romanticism and Gothic in works of fiction, poetry, art, and film. Your students will first learn about conditions that influenced American Romanticism and Gothic and study concepts and elements that characterize Romantic and Gothic literature and art. They will then apply these concepts to
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8th - 12th
MyPerspectives Grade 9, Unit 1: American Voices (Slides, Activities, Assessment)
This resource is a comprehensive combination of slides (97 slides), activities, do-nows, vocabulary, comprehension check questions, highly engaging writing tasks, mini-lessons, discussion questions, and assessments, making teaching American Voices fun, engaging, and efficient. Texts included in this unit:"Music for My Mother""A Quilt of a Country""American History""The Immigrant Contribution""Rules of the Game""The Writing on the Wall""With a Little Help From My Friends""Morning Talk""Immigrant
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8th - 10th
Also included in: MyPerspectives 9th Grade ELA Unit 1 BUNDLE
Essential Question Inquiry Unit for ELA: Fear and Hope
Tailored for high school English teachers and their students, this dynamic unit intertwines literature, historical analysis, and critical thinking to explore the layers of narratives concealed beneath the surface of conventional history. We will analyze poetry, historical speeches, nonfiction articles, and more. This EQ pairs well with narratives that explore themes of fear or hope, fiction and/or non-fiction.LET'S TAKE A LOOK INSIDE: Unit OutlineThe Essential Question Adventure Pack: An Intr
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8th - 11th
My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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8th - 12th
MyPerspectives Unit 2: The Individual and Society
This resource is a concise and engaging unit plan on American Literature with the theme of the individual and society. Students explore the question: what role does individualism play in American society? Through various texts, activities, vocabulary, assessments, and tasks, students engage with American Literature in an innovative and informative way. Texts in this unit include but are not limited to: The poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Elliot, excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau,
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9th - 12th
Also included in: MyPerspectives American Literature Units 1-5 BUNDLE
Unsolved Podcast Unit (Text Structures, Fact / Opinion, Research)
This no-prep unit includes everything your students need to research and present an unsolved mystery, true crime, or unexplained phenomenon. The content is high-engagement and students will learn in a hands-on, project-based learning modality with an authentic product -- their very own podcast!Can be used to teach:- Text Structure- Research Skills- Informational Text Analysis- Fact vs. Opinion (Objective vs. Subjective)Included:Unit Plan / Pacing GuideStudent InstructionsRubricViewing Guide for
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
MyPerspectives British Literature Unit 1: Slides & Creative Handouts (BUNDLE!)
This British Literature unit plan (112 Slides) encapsulates a Beowulf Study and various poetry, all of which express the theme of heroism. The unit allows students to explore the mark of a hero and take a stance on heroism deriving from success OR sacrifice based on the texts in the unit in the form of an end of unit essay assessment. This resource includes do now's, exit tasks, discussion questions, video links, theme-related poetry, as well as an end-of-unit assessment. Students will engage wi
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9th - 12th
Essential Question Inquiry Unit for ELA: Historical Fiction Novel Choice
Tailored for high school English teachers and their students, this dynamic unit intertwines literature, historical analysis, and critical thinking to explore the layers of narratives concealed beneath the surface of conventional history. We will look at podcasts, historical reenactment, nonfiction articles, and more. This EQ pairs well with historical fiction books or a research unit.LET'S TAKE A LOOK INSIDE: Unit OutlineThe Essential Question Adventure Pack: An IntroductionWhat is an Essenti
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8th - 11th
Identity Activities for Middle and High School Students
Looking to dig into identity with high interest texts to engage your middle and high school students? This unit designed to examine the effect of stereotypes on a person's identity. Activities include standards aligned questions, written short response, narrative writing, and a choice board with digital options are perfect for middle and high school students. Included texts are:America Ferrera’s TED Talk “My Identity is my Superpower”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk “Danger of a Single Story”
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6th - 12th
MyPerspectives American Literature Unit 4: Grit and Grandeur
This resource plan is a thematic unit that encompasses literature that expresses the importance of place. Texts included in this unit are: an excerpt from Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi," Twain's short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron," Barry Lopez's literary criticism: "A Literature of Place," Carl Sandburg's poetry, and more! The resource is LOADED with discussion questions, activities, tasks, mini-lessons, do-now's and assessmen
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9th - 12th
Also included in: MyPerspectives American Literature Units 1-5 BUNDLE
MyPerspectives 9th Grade ELA Unit 2: Survival (Slides, Activities, Assessment)
This resource is a comprehensive combination of thematic unit plan slides (119 slides), activities, do-nows, vocabulary, comprehension check questions, highly engaging writing tasks, mini-lessons, discussion questions, and assessments, making teaching the unit fun, engaging, and efficient.Texts taught in this unit: "The Seventh Man" - Haruki Murakami"The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt" - Nancy Sherman"The Voyage of the James Caird" - Caroline AlexanderNovel Excerpt from Life of PI - Yann Martel"T
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9th - 12th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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7th - 12th
Also included in: My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
Black History Month Lesson Bundle for Secondary English
This thematic bundle for African American History Month includes nine secondary ELA lessons and activities that teach a variety of ELA reading, writing, and grammar skills. Specifically, the bundle includes five paired-text lessons, two nonfiction connections lessons, one speech lesson, and one grammar Trashketball game to review sentence structures.The paired passage and nonfiction connection lessons require students to think critically and synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas ac
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8th - 11th
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Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Lesson Bundle - Close Reading and Essay Writing
These lessons and activities make teaching argumentative writing and rhetorical analysis easy! Use argument writing bell ringers, an argument research essay unit, rhetorical appeals task cards, research activities, paired texts, graphic organizers, and a rhetorical appeals trashketball game to differentiate instruction and meet the needs of individual students. These fourteen varied activities and lessons also help improve reading comprehension and prepare students for standardized assessments.A
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9th - 12th
Argument Writing Rhetoric English Unit BUNDLE - 9th & 10th Grade - CCSS Aligned
In this Argument Writing Rhetoric unit for 9th and 10th grade English, students will look at a variety of mentor texts and analyze them using SOAPSTone (Subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone) graphic organizers. This Rhetoric Unit asks students to use the texts as mentor texts, answer analysis questions, and create a variety of projects from posters and interviews to one pagers to demonstrate their learning. Included in this Argument Writing Rhetoric English Unit for 9th & 10th
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9th - 10th
Bundle: Dark Romanticism - American Gothic + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism
This bundle includes the Dark Romanticism – American Gothic Unit as well as the Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit.DARK ROMANTICISM – AMERICAN GOTHIC UNITIn this sublime unit, your students will explore American Romanticism and Gothic in works of fiction, poetry, art, and film. Your students will first learn about conditions that influenced American Romanticism and Gothic and study concepts and elements that characterize Romantic and Gothic literature and art. They will then apply these
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8th - 12th
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone High School Curriculum
Put together makes up my 7week Harry Potter Unit, written/ used for a group of 11th & 12th grade high school students but easily adaptable for all high schoolers. Included is our 8 week pacing guide following the 2024 fall calendar
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9th - 12th
Bundle: Detective Stories Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
This bundle includes the Detective Stories Unit as well as the Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit.DETECTIVE STORIES UNITIn this fantastic detective stories unit, you will explore the characteristics of the detective story genre and apply them to great short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (The Murders in the Rue Morgue), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band and The Adventure of Silver Blaze), and Roald Dahl (Lamb to the Slaughter).Learn what makes a good det
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8th - 12th
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