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11th grade balanced literacy thematic unit plans
Visual Literacy & The Graphic Novel
Teach visual literacy and introduce the graphic novel. This resource is full of engaging lessons and activities for building visual literacy skills. It will also introduce students to the genre of the graphic novel (you don't need to be reading one).Whether you teach the graphic novel or not, this bundle will give you the opportunity to work on your students’ analytical skills. We spend our days analyzing visual clues and interpreting people’s actions based on those clues. However, when it comes
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8th - 12th
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The Odyssey Unit for pre-AP skills AND authentic literacy!
This unit was written to promote authentic literacy and advance pre-AP skills in the classroom. Included in this new and updated unit are almost 70 pages of totally original handouts and engaging activities that you will not find anywhere else: a “4 Corners” interactive anticipation guide, the “Odyssey Toga Party” to introduce star characters, the Mount Olympus Police Report to file against Odysseus, Life is Like an Epic Simile to help students write their own poems, Annotation in 8 Steps, plus
Grades:
8th - 11th
Wonder Adapted Novel Study for SPED
This is a full adapted unit for the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. This unit is perfect for a special education or life skills class and has everything you need for reading and writing for 6-7 weeks. The novel study includes a character reference sheet, character description activity, character foldable, plot activity with three levels of support, and journal writing prompts with three levels of support. Additionally each part in the book has a fill in the blank activity with three levels of supp
Grades:
6th - 12th
NEW Complete Digital Curriculum Virtual Classroom High School English 9-12
**Update to those who have already purchased this item. I have gone through the original and updated some links that were glitching out. Please re-download the item to get those new links. Gotta love technology! :) I also added curriculum maps to the end of the slide deck AND additional novel studies This is a complete, Google slides one-stop-shop item containing all the activities, assignments, texts, and materials you need to teach high school English, grades9-12. This program is vertically al
Grades:
9th - 12th
Mental Health: The Impact of Social Media
this is a 3 day unit that deals with the impact of social media on mental health with a specific focus on teenagers. The unit deals with:- The pros and cons of social media- Algorithms and marketing from social media companies- The Neuroscience behind what social media can do to our brains- Critical thinking and strategies we can use to limit and control our social media use. With regards to material, there are several videos, discussions, debates, and articles that pertain to the above topics,
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5th - 12th
Radio Drama Unit and The Frozen Pirate Radio Play
Sea Shanty anyone? This THREE-WEEK radio theater unit and play, nearly 80 pages in length, is suitable for high school drama classes or upper middle grade gifted classes and includes: • Rationale for teaching radio theater• A lesson on the history of radio theater • Information about Foley engineers• Three links to video clips of Foley engineers• Student-created sound effect project• Five links to radio play performances (some vintage and some recent) • A mini-lesson in writing and pr
Grades:
9th - 11th
Teach Theme BUNDLE | Lesson, Auto-Graded Quiz, Poster & Topic-Statement Template
THEME is my favourite lesson to get to as an English teacher; but I often find students (myself in high school, too) confuse THEME with "moral" or "topic", and they need support articulating innovative thematic messages.This comprehensive THEME bundle is designed to quickly and effectively teach and assess students' familiarity with identifying and articulating THEMEs in the texts they read, mainly literature. The bundle engages learners ages 13+ in ---learning what THEME is and is NOT, actively
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7th - 12th
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So-EZ-Science: Weather & Atmosphere Unit
This unit is a balanced literacy unit covering areas such as: temperature conversion, making a rain guage, recording weather, using weather station symbols, using the Beaufort Wind Scale, fronts, cloud types, cloud cover, graphing precipitation, graphing temperature, graphing weather phenomenon, weather tools, relative humidity, calculating relative humidity, precipitation, interpreting weather symbols on a weather map, reading a weather map, wind velocity, wind direction, wind speed, reading a
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Complete Novel Unit
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s rich with magical realism murder mystery text Chronicle of a Death Foretold comes to life in this engaging and moving novel where we know where the crime took place, who the victim is, and even who were the killers, but what events transpired to lead up to this murder, and why did an entire community who knew about the intended murder allow it to happen? Is the town responsible for the murder? My students are true crime fanatics, and they really enjoyed diving into this
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Representing Teen Culture - The Breakfast Club (Focus Film)
This resource includes a fully sequenced program of work and supporting resources (over 50 pages) for teaching a unit of work based on 'Representing Youth Culture' through the lens of the camera.
It includes a unit outline and a suggested sequence of lessons and activities (over 20 hours) with specific targeted resources.
In addition to a user friendly, purposeful study guide to engage students while watching the film 'The Breakfast Club', this resource now includes viewing guides suitable fo
Grades:
8th - 12th
Coming Of Age - Entire English Thematic Unit
Coming Of Age - Entire English Thematic UnitAre you looking for an engaging unit to keep your students engaged with high-interest topics? My students love this unit because they're able to connect to it in a meaningful way! This unit includes: Essential Questions Journal PromptsComing-Of-Age Ceremony Gallery Walk (with Posters)Frayer DefinitionsIdentity ChartNarrative TextsSong Analysis Assignment"This I Believe" Assignment"Onward" Film AnalysisFinal AssessmentTeenagers Who Changed the World - I
Grades:
7th - 11th
Fahrenheit 451 Reading Guide (Graphic Novel)
Questions to go along with the graphic novel version of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I used it digitally (with students typing their answers on the document itself) but it's perfect to use with journals.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: The ULTIMATE Unit Plan for Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Analyzing Text Features, Tone, & Rhetoric BUNDLE | Lesson & Quiz Set
This comprehensive Read & Write Valid Sources bundle is designed to quickly and effectively review and assess students' familiarity with identifying and articulating WHAT sources are credible, WHY, and HOW to cite courses correctly in MLA. Quizzes include --->Text Features (__16 points) -- assesses students' understanding of a source's use of common text features to enhance or direct the reader and their interpretation. Ethos, Logos, Pathos (___10 points) -- assesses students' understandi
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7th - 12th
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The Prestige: A Literacy and Science Unit
This is a 10-day Literacy (and a lot of science!) unit based on the movie "The Prestige". The unit deals with the concepts of magic, electricity, science vs supernatural, the ethics of cloning, and much more. As far as activities and assignments go, the unit includes creative writing, persuasive writing, predictions and critical thinking (during the movie), a debate (pros and cons of cloning), an introduction to editing, and an introduction into formal essay writing. Included in the purchase are
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Thematic Film Unit Bundle! 6 units in total!
STEAL Characterization Mini-Unit
This mini-unit employs the popular STEAL acronym to help students understand and apply the concept of CHARACTERIZATION within texts.
The first page is a simple graphic organizer that explains each component of the acronym:
- S = SPEECH: What do the characters SAY/HOW DO THEY SPEAK to reveal their personalities/characteristics?
- T = THOUGHTS: What do the characters’ INNER THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS show about their personalities?
- E = EFFECT ON OTHERS: How do the characters TREAT AND
Grades:
5th - 12th
Thematic Unit - Poverty in Pictures, Poems, and Print
During a two-week thematic unit titled, Poverty in Pictures, Poems, and Print, students will explore the topic of poverty by viewing, listening to, and reading a variety of texts and media including poems, non-fiction texts, podcasts, photographs, videos, and picture books. Each day, students will explore a question surrounding poverty and collect and organize information from the texts and media as they research the topic. Students will reflect upon each question in writing as they collect and
Grades:
6th - 12th
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The [Literary] Eras Tour Project
...Are you ready for it?This group project will make your whole class *shimmer* with this engaging, dynamic way to explore a variety of literary periods. Assign your Swiftie students to a specific literary Era. Then, have them do some cursory research and create a 5 minute max presentation, a physical manifestation of your Era, and connect your Era to a modern song that contains elements from your Era.Each Era includes two suggested poems for exploration. Please preview all poems before assignin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Pride and Prejudice Whole Novel Unit
As a lifetime lover of Jane Austen and regency era texts, I am well aware that not every student in our classroom is going to go gaga for the high brow language and the distant time period. But Pride and Prejudice has stood the test of time for a reason: her texts are accessible to the masses for their humor, their criticism of marriages of convenience and power, and this book is THE origins of the enemies to lovers trope in a novel, one my students ate up. This unit has everything to bring Aust
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Full Unit Romeo and Juliet Packet for Google Classroom
I LOVE this unit because it is easy to drop right into my Google Classroom and it doesn't overwhelm my students with dozens of files that they need to sift through in order to find the activities! This All-In-One package is definitely the way to go! Evaluations and key learning tools are separate files but the whole unit is built into an interactive 50-page Google Slide notebook with videos, drag and drop activities, charts and more! My students really appreciated the unit being delivered this
Grades:
9th - 12th
Volcanoes! eBook (PDF)
Volcanoes! eBook is a thematic science unit on volcanoes that can be taught in the classroom and/or posted on a teacher website for the students to download at home. This unit includes key vocabulary words, key concepts, an investigative journalism writing assignment, a pre and a post test.
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K - 12th, Staff
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck OMM COMPLETE UNIT
If you are teaching “Of Mice and Men”, you need this bundle! This download includes everything you need to teach “Of Mice and Men” from introduction to final assessment. All of the resources included have been used in my own classroom with high student interest. Use this bundle to differentiate your classroom instruction to a wide array of learners through methods including stations, group work, writing, and assessment. A teacher’s packet with explanation of resources is also included.This bund
Grades:
9th - 12th
Hexagonal Connections in Twelfth Night Act II
Elevate your 12th grade literature class with this engaging and thought-provoking Twelfth Night Act II Hexagonal Activity! This meticulously crafted resource is designed to immerse your students in the captivating world of William Shakespeare while honing their critical thinking skills. What's Included:A ready to use hexagonal grid template.Carefully curated lists of 20 themes and a variety of characters from Act II.Modern day translations of key quotes for easy comprehension (optional to use).T
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Digital Literacy for High School
This Digital Literacy unit was created as a result of our recent reliance on the internet for education. This unit takes an entire quarter (10 weeks) and teaches students the basics of what digital literacy is, the types of information, 3 types of digital media (visual ads, online news sources and social media), 2 strategies in analyzing the reliability of digital sources (Kathleen Morris' flowchart, and C.A.R.S.), accompanying activities and worksheets, 2 TedEd lessons, requirements for a fina
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Poetry Unit Plan - A Journey Through Language and Emotion
This high school poetry unit plan is designed to engage students in a comprehensive study of poetry. Through reading, analyzing, writing, and performing various types of poetry, students will develop a deeper understanding of the power of language and the ability of poetry to convey complex emotions and ideas. This unit emphasizes critical thinking, creativity, and self-expression.
Grades:
8th - 12th
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