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Adult education short stories unit plans
Short Story Unit, Eng. 11/12 Short Stories + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Short Story Unit for Older TeensTired of teaching the same old short stories? Did a teacher in the earlier grades steal your thunder by already teaching some of the short stories you were planning to use in your classroom? This bundle of modern and classic short stories (all with multimedia add-ons) is for you! Designed for high school junior and senior English classes, this unit plan includes a wide variety of lesser-known high-interest short works that will entertain and challenge your uppercl
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories
Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories: This comprehensive middle school and high school short story unit will captivate your students with four highly engaging stories, all with surprising endings. The resource includes eye-catching PowerPoint presentations to introduce short story terms and to guide the lesson for each of the short stories, dynamic discussions, enriching videos, and creative assessments and activities to engage and challenge your stude
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Minister's Black Veil: A Mini-Unit!
In need of materials that will compliment your unit on The Minister's Black Veil? This *Mini-Unit* can help fulfill many Common Core standards with a variety of activities!
Included:
Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography! (With check questions!)
Vocabulary Worksheet! (**KEY INCLUDED!**)
Quickwrite Activity- A glance into the past!
Study Questions (**KEY INCLUDED!*)
Connecting the literature graphic organizer! (Example response included!)
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Short Story Unit for High-School English (4-6 Weeks)
Interested in a new unit to shake things up? Looking for author diversity? Tired of the same old stories? Check out this MASSIVE bundle of resources that comprise an entire unit of study. This resource contains FOUR-SIX WEEKS OF COMPLETE LESSON MATERIAL! You don't have to create a SINGLE thing. This unit is appropriate for 9-12th graders. The lessons are geared more towards advanced students, but can easily be done with grade-level kids as well. I have used it for advanced 9th, 10th, and 11th gr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe. 3-Text Level Pack For ESL Tiered-Instruction. Fun!!
These bright, colorful and fun adapted text versions of The Tell-Tale Heart make Edgar Allan Poe's classic accessible to a wider variety of readers, including ESL, ENL and Special Ed. The bundle includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text, which comes at 2-adapted levels, plus the original text. See preview for details.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also prints out for in class instructio
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Most Dangerous Game Short Story Bundle
The Most Dangerous Game Short Story Bundle This is a 32 page bundle of worksheets and other resources designed to be used with the Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. It is an upgrade from my original unit plan even though it lists at the same price. It was developed over a seven year period. I think I have finally maximized the magic of this classic adventure story. My students enjoy it immensely. It is comprehensive and gives you a wide variety of choices of fun activities to d
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Middle School Short Story Unit: Digital, Google Slides, PowerPoint
Perfect for in-class instruction OR distance learning. Save big on this unique bundle designed for the most challenging students! Over 400 slides of content and 16 multi-day, jumbo lessons organized to allow students to explore different elements of short stories in a fun, interactive, visual way. Every presentation in this bundle has been redone and is the result of a collaborative effort between an English teacher and special education teacher. Each presentation is meant to allow for differ
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6th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
20 Creating Writing Prompts with Protagonists, Settings, & Directions
Hello Fellow Teacher, There are 20 creative writing prompts on this PDF. Each one includes the location, the setting, and the protagonist’s characterization, as well as internal and external conflicts.Students can work individually or in a small collaborative group to create these stories. To incorporate more standards, students can type and present their stories to the class and staff, or you can publish in the school newspaper.Notice how each prompt requires students to incorporate different l
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: BUNDLE for Creative Writing Activities
English & Communications Course: Unit 3: Short Stories & Critical Theories
This is my English & Communications course, based on the textbook The Writer's Presence (mostly 3rd edition with some new articles from later editions). The course works well for accelerated high school students and college students. It is similar to the AP English Language and Composition and the AP English Literature curriculum. This is Unit 3: Critical Reading of Short Fiction. Students learn to read short stories through a study of seven critical literary perspectives: New Critical / For
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: English & Communications Course Bundle: Units 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5
The Landlady- Short Story Unit
This resource provides 37 pages of EVERYTHING you need to teach the short story The Landlady! I have also included a link in which you can download a printable version of the story!
This Resource Includes:
Comprehension and Extended Response Questions
Vocabulary Graphic Organizer with Vocabulary Words
Story Plot Anchor Chart and Graphic Organizer Work Sheet
Inference Anchor Chart and Graphic Organizer Work Sheet
Foreshadowing Anchor Chart and Graphic Organizer Work Sheet
Short Story Quiz
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
Halloween 3 Short Stories Unit for Clinkity-Clink, A Ghost Story, Bongcheon-Dong
Students read and analyse three different types of spooky stories.
1. "Clinkity-Clink" from Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark by Alvin Schwartz
2. "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain
3. "Bongcheon-Dong Ghost" by Horang
None of these are very gory or contain adult situations.
The stories are not included in this download, but are available to view for free online. Links to view them are provided in the lesson.
The sample lesson is just a small excerpt from the unit plan. I kept it in MSWord form
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Urban Tribes - Native Americans in the City Lessons - Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for High School StudentsThis learning resource uses the reading strategies: connection, question, infer and transformation, to allow for powerful understanding. Students will gain a better understanding of the unique issues facing Indigenous millennials in North America.Lessons included will ask:Students to make connections, between the text and personal experiences, other texts and media, or world events/issuesStudents to document and class
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Student Experts Teach the Teacher Literary Terms- Includes Story Quiz & Test
This task is an excellent back-to-school unit to refresh or expand their knowledge of literary terms. This Literary Term Presentation puts the power in your students' hands and encourages them to be the experts. They love teaching the class and being the go-to student for that concept. This task is wonderful because it values students' voices, and the work also engages the students while reviewing foundational terms and important presentation skills. This unit further serves you as it provides
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Teacher Pack - My Octopus Teacher
This comprehensive teaching unit, including assessment, has been designed for teachers to use with My Octopus Teacher, the beautiful and profound story of the year filmmaker, Craig Foster, spends with a wild common octopus in the Great African Sea Forest and its life-changing effects. (Netflix documentary film - directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed)Contents (4 digital/editable/printable files ready for immediate download and use):(1) Teacher Guide (18 page .pdf) • Unit overview • Inquiry Q
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Introduction to Magical Realism Mini Unit
Transport your students into the world where the surreal and the real become one with this miniunit. Included in the unit isAn Introduction HandoutIntroduction to Magical Realism Stations and Reflection SheetA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings LessonBorges and Marquez, small group lessonEssay assignmentUnit can take between one and two weeks depending on length of periods and amount of group reading. Short, easy to understand teacher instructions.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Skull by Philip K. Dick
Looking for a two-day science fiction lesson? Teach high-school?By the end of the lesson, students will analyze “The Skull” by Philip K. Dick to identify ways that the author’s narrative reflects themes/tropes of the time period & make predictions about the resolution of the story.This has been a big hit for my students, in both a science fiction class and in regular English. Included are:-Two Full Lesson Presentations (PPTs)-One Blank Student Slide Presentation (For Critical Thinking Summat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Basic Spanish Espanol Reading Comprehension Short Stories Passages Paragraphs
This PDF file includes 30 Spanish Reading Comprehension Passages.These worksheets have many uses:1. Home school2. Substitute teacher3. Snow days4. Busy work5. Online distance learning6. Class work7. Independent work8. Warm up activity9. Homework10. Quizzes11. End of quarter review12. End of year review13. Summer school / summer learning14. Back to school review15. And more!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Life's Voyage - Select An Adventure Story writing slides Special Education
In this project, students will be challenged to consider some of life's choices that teens are confronted with throughout Middle School or High School. They will create a personalized "Choose Your Own Adventure" story playing out both sides of each decision and diving deeper into the understanding of what good and bad choices really look like, as well as the results/consequences of each.Instruct each student to "Make a Copy" and save it on their own drive or device before editing.This works AMA
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Twilight Zone Bundle of Worksheets!
Someone out there asked for a bundle a while back, and I forgot all about it until today. I uploaded three more episodes, and bundled them with a few episodes that I have lots of fun with (A Most Unusual Camera The Last Flight), my students may have asked for (The Man in the Bottle, The Fugitive), or are good for Halloween (Howling Man, The Jungle). A few of these deserve more widespread love.The Twilight Zone series featured some of the best short stories on television. These stories are excell
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
'The Machine Stops' Short Story Full Close Reading Workbook
'The Machine Stops' -Short Story, Full WorkbookA perfect short story for the English 2020 classroom. Reading age 16+Studying ‘The Machine Stops’ seems never so relevant, which is strange as it was written in 1909. An amazing short story written about a dystopian/utopian future where everyone is isolated (ahem) in cell-like structures, and rely on a machine (ahem, ahem). As the title suggest, the machine then stops.This workbook will take students through a close reading of the story, focusing on
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: 'The Machine Stops' Short Story Bundle of Resources
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" Full Text
From Electric English...
Here is a clean, fresh copy of Poe's short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher". There are activities that accomapany this story in my store as well. All that being said, use it for whatever you want.... It's FREE and a great story :)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Short Stories Unit Plan - Grade 12
A full Short Story Unit Plan to give you and your students peace of mind.This unit contains 8 full stories with corresponding assignments, along with fully editable notes, and a unit project to test their skills!Stories and Assignments include:Walks Like by Ivan Coyote (a focus on gender orientation and identity)All The Years of Her Life by Morley CallaghanFrom: My Name is Seepetza (Indigenous story of the impact of residential schools)Just Lather, That’s All by Hernando TellezLamb to the Slaugh
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sixteen Rich Short Stories (with annotations)
Want to inject your short story unit with a few new titles that spark conversation and provide examples for teaching many literary devices? Here is a list of my favorites, annotated so you know a little about them, as well as highlights of teaching topics. NOTE: STORIES ARE NOT INCLUDED, BUT ARE ACCESSIBLE ONLINE.
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Students will enjoy Guy de Maupassant's classic tale with a twist-ending as they analyze sequence of events and theme. The unit includes a vocabulary list, journal prompt, guided reading questions, graphic organizers for theme, irony, and plot, an exam for after reading, essay prompts, and a link to a reading on YouTube for independent student listening/reading.
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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