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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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow Unit - 2 Weeks - Washington Irving Short Story, CCSS
This is a fun 2 week unit plan for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Whether you need a unit during the Halloween season or you're simply looking to study an early work of classic American literature, this is a fun storyline for students to analyze. Students will: Participate in engaging PowerPoint sessions, read the text (included), engage with the rich vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences about themes supported with evidence, use a viewing guide as they watch
Grades:
8th - 12th
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145th Street Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers Unit of Study
Use this 120 + page unit to study one story, a few stories, or all ten stories.This unit is packed with high-interest, engaging, and creative activities to match the draw and energy of the stories in Myers’ text.Includes for EACH Story … Do-Now Comprehension Questions or Reading Quiz Key Open Response Prompt … Plus a variety of additional activities! Included in this unit:- Information for the Teacher including ideas, suggestions, and variations- Walt
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7th - 12th
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Short Story Bundle of Three Scary Stories for Any Time of Year Print and Digital
Scare your students – and teach them to analyze great literature at the same time! This bundle includes three creepy short stories: “The Monkey’s Paw,” “The Tell-tale Heart,” and “The Lottery.” Perfect for any time of year -- a great for a sub plan.Digital and print -- ready for whatever you need! Each unit includes a print version, a Google Slide option, and PowerPoint.Your students will love reading, analyzing, discussing, and debating them! And you will love having them in a unit -- read
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Short Story Unit Lesson Questions Activities
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a great short story to get students speaking thoughtfully and thinking critically. This unit for Flowers for Algernon is comprehensive, thorough and detailed. Students will practice their inference skills while they explain character actions and thoughts, identify changes in Charlie and summarize their overall thoughts of each "progris report" session. This all-in-one resource for Flowers for Algernon allows students to thoroughly understand not only th
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7th - 9th
5 Day English Sub Plan - Emergency Plans - FULL WEEK Middle/ High School English
EDITABLE Secondary English 5 Day Sub Plan. Ready to print or email. Students will read the short story "Trap of Gold" and create a poster project. Complete with lesson plans, short story, and poster project all in 1 easy to read document. Also, works in multiple grade levels so you can leave one plan for all your classes. - Instructions are detailed and easy to read so the sub can simply follow along. - Plans, short story, comprehension questions, and poster project all included in one editable
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7th - 12th
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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
Teaching Theme Mini-Unit
This is a mini-unit to teach the basic concept of theme. It will take 3-5 days depending on your students. In my experience, for 8th graders, theme is one of the hardest concepts to grasp—partly because of their age and their limited life experience. The structured questions and the “formula” provided here help young students find the path to discovering the theme in a short story, novel, or movie. The writing is aligned with Common Core standards.
What you get:
• An overview of the less
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6th - 9th
Chrysanthemum! Teaching the Elements of a Short Story
This unit provides lesson plans for teaching the elements of a short story using Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes as a model. Several graphic organizers are included as well.
Topics covered: setting, characters, conflict, rising and falling action, climax, resolution, and theme.
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3rd - 8th
Bundle CKLA Domains Listening & Learning (Companion to Amplify & Engage NY)
The Google Slides that go along with CKLA Listening and Learning Curriculum. This is the flipchart that is on the board for the whole class to see. They make the curriculum more visually stimulating as well as make your job easier. No more fumbling through the big book while your questions you are trying to read. These slides have your pictures, your questions, and even extra resources. It is the perfect companion to Amplify's CKLA Listening and Learning Domains. These are perfect for th
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1st
Literary Elements Pre-Test
This a selected response test to assess students prior knowledge of literary elements including the parts the plot, characterization, theme, point of view and dialogue and should be used at the beginning of a reading unit that focuses on these terms. Question types include multiple choice, short answer, fill-in (word bank included).
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6th - 8th
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The Story of Pirate Tom T4W based Unit and Activities
This pack contains over 250 pages of resources to teach a Journey Narrative writing unit, with a SETTINGS focus, based on the T4W Mentor text, ‘The Story of Pirate Tom’. With this unit, everything is done for you! This unit comes complete with 15 individual lessons printable resources and activity sheets! Use the hard copy of the text provided to work your way through the unit which is aligned with an easy to follow 146-page PowerPoint. The lessons consist of a variety of activities, varying be
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1st - 4th
The Most Dangerous Game Short Story Lesson with Activities Common Core CCSS
1. This packet is filled with a post-reading pop quiz, three creative project based assignments, and a group activity that will lead the entire class in a review of several literary devices: Direct Characterization, Indirect Characterization, Tone/Mood, Sensory Imagery, Conflict, Foreshadowing, Personification, Hyperbole, and Symbolism. Technology is involved in almost every element of the unit. This is a wonderful engaging short story rich with detail and textual evidence.Click here to follow m
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle of Lessons Use Digital or Printable
DETERMINE THEME using Classic Short Stories, CCSS aligned UNIT (110 pages)
Use this engaging unit to teach your students how to effectively determine the theme of a story. Students will learn about important short story elements as well as how those elements help develop the theme of a story. Additionally, this unit provides a straightforward strategy that makes teaching theme AND learning how to determine theme simple and easy!
This zipfile includes:
-Short Story Elements PowerPoint Presentation
-How to Determine Theme PowerPoint Presentation
-Introduction to Unit
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Grades:
7th - 10th
STAGE 2, TERM 2 A and B, component B NSW aligned units
Term 2 A units - 3 and 4 - Wandi, Piano Fingers and Sonam and the SilenceTerm 2 B units - 11 and 12 - Ned Kelly and the Green Sash, BINDICovering the concepts of Argument and Authority, Symbolism, Imagery and Connotation- these 4 stories are beautifully crafted.All units contain PowerPoint presentations, student notes and PDF version PLEASE NOTE_ THEY ARE NOT GOOGLE SLIDESPlease read individual descriptions, previews and video previews to see what is included in each resource.
Grades:
3rd - 4th
The Polar Express Literature Based Activity Packet
The Polar Express packet is packed full of different reading skills. Some of the skills consist of finding the main idea, author's purpose, fact and opinion, cause and effect, similies, metaphors, and comparing/contrasting several of Chris Van Allsburg's books. This unit is really fun to do at Christmas time! Visit this website for additional information about this unit~
http://arlingtonrobinson.weebly.com/the-polar-express1.html
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3rd - 5th
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Elements of Fiction: Curriculum Materials MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL
Help your students learn all about what makes a story good with the Elements of Fiction Curriculum Materials MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL.
A two-page outline of all the documents is included. Also includes title-divider sheets to keep things organized in a binder or file folders.
Includes the following products (for less than what it would cost to purchase separately):
Brain Warmer Quick Write and Write Around
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elements-of-Fiction-Brain-Warmer-Quic
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6th - 12th
Fiction Reading Unit (Common Core Aligned)
Give your students the gift of learning about fiction and having fun while they do it. This bundle includes all the resources you will need to teach a fully common core aligned reading fiction unit. The pinnacle of the package is an easy to use 48 slide power point that guides students through their journey in fiction. The power point features clear examples, student friendly terminology, and interactive quizzes. Learning Targets:- Students will be able to make and support claims about stories a
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4th - 8th
Also included in: The Complete Common Core Aligned Reading and Writing Bundle
The Black Cat Activity Bundle
This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tale, The Tell-Tale Heart. Each product is thoughtfully crafted and allows students to think outside the box by delving deeply into the story's themes, characters, vocabulary, and plot development. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. This activity bundle provides more than a week's worth of material to
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7th - 10th
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Stories with repetitive patterns unit - The Papaya that Spoke - Writing
A full 3 week story writing unit based on Pie Corbett’s, The Papaya That Spoke.Planned in line with the Talk4Writing and Reading, Gathering Content and Writing teaching styles.Included:PlanningLesson by lesson Active Inspire flip chart presentation.Lesson by lesson resourcesStory map picture for you to copy onto your own paper flip chart.
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1st - 2nd
The Danger of a Single Story COMPLETE 4-week ELA UNIT with NO PREP
Ever wanted to teach the TED Talk "Danger of a Single Story" and have your students analyzing rhetorical strategies AND critically thinking!? Then, this is the unit for you! You and your students will read excerpts, articles, short stories, poems, and more as you read traditionally underrepresented perspectives from communities such as Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic/Latino/a Americans, and African-Americans. As your students and you read through the texts and advance through the uni
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9th - 12th
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CCSS:
"Amigo Brothers" Curriculum All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students read and understand Amigo Brothers, a short story by Piri Thomas.
Includes the following products (for less than it would cost to purchase separately):
Anticipation Guide
Quick Write and Write Around
Building Background Notes and Answers
Vocabulary Builder
Vocabulary Scramble
Vocabulary Quiz and Answers
Double Entry Response Chart
Character Chart
Reading Guide Advanced
Reading Guide Basic
Making Inferences and Using Text Support
Discussion Cards and Comprehension Questions
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Baseball in April by Gary Soto: Writing Prompts/Discussion Questions
This 3-page download includes written response and discussion questions for Gary Soto's short story collection "Baseball in April."
With open-ended writing and discussion prompts--18 prompts covering all 11 short stories--this set of questions is ideal for in-class seminars, small group discussions, literature circles, quick writes, or providing a starting point for formal essays or in-class responses.
Designed for students in grades 5 through 8, these prompts require students to reflect upon
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5th - 8th
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