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10th grade short stories unit plans
Narrative Writing Unit: Grades 7-12
This unit will take you and your students through the process of planning, drafting, revising, and polishing a narrative piece. These resources will work for personal narratives or fictional short stories, because the skills needed for both forms are the same.The first few days are structured, whole-class lessons. After that, the class moves into a series of writer’s workshop days as students complete mini-lessons and work on developing their own stories.NEW REMOTE TEACHING SUPPLEMENT: If you ar
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7th - 12th
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Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your students on the edge
Grades:
7th - 10th
Dystopian Unit Resource Bundle - Dystopia vs. Utopia - Dystopian Literature
Create or supplement a Dystopian Stories Unit with this diverse, creative, high-interest teaching resource! The bundle of Dystopian literature materials include the following: Cultural Clashes! Utopia vs. Dystopia (Research & Informational Writing)Welcome to Dystopia: A Nightmare Disguised as Paradise (Short Story Unit)The resources in this bundle are designed for 7th-12th grade students. Please see the following description for each resource.Welcome to Dystopia - A Nightmare Disguised as
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8th - 12th
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Secondary ELA Curriculum - Full Year of Interactive Notebooks (grades 7-10)
These units for Interactive Notebooks create a whole year of Secondary ELA lessons. Your students will create organized reference tools to show their learning, all while maintaining creativity and choice. These lessons, activities, and assessments are perfect for grades 7-10.Key takeaways of this full year of Secondary ELA:✅ Short Story Unit✅ Novel Study ✅ Drama Unit ✅ Poetry UnitUse this resource as you read any texts! The Short Story Unit and the Poetry Unit come with plenty of suggestions, bu
Grades:
7th - 10th
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
Short Story Unit Bundle: Essential Questions & Skills for Critical Thinking
A FRESH APPROACH TO TEACHING THE SHORT STORY:If you’ve been teaching the same three short stories from the dusty anthology in the corner of your classroom for the last several years, this resource is going to take you in an entirely new direction. This unit is extremely unique in its approach in a few different ways:Widening the definition of “short story”In order to offer a wide variety of stories without having to purchase and read through countless anthologies, this unit harnesses the power
Grades:
8th - 11th
High School Interactive Notebook Short Story Unit - Literary Analysis
Need to teach literary analysis for short stories? The organization and hands-on learning of interactive notebooks meets the rigor of note-taking and formal responses in this short story unit. This high school interactive notebook has less cutting and gluing than most interactive notebooks, so your students spend more time thinking and writing. The short story activities and interactive notebooks in this resource can be used with any text, and activities are included in three formats - print, di
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7th - 10th
Psychotic Short Stories -- Literary Analysis Mini-Unit
This full unit contains a variety of activities for studying "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, and "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl.
The unit could be great for Halloween, but you could teach it any time of the year. It contains everything you need to have your students analyze three creepy and haunting short stories from great classic authors, including the following:
* A FULL-TEXT version of "The Tell-Tale Heart" as well as...
- A four-page vocabula
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7th - 10th
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Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz
Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz: Prepare your students for reading short stories or novels with this ready-to-use resource. This comprehensive lesson prepares students with a solid understanding of essential story elements and literary elements crucial for analyzing fiction. The included short story elements presentation, engaging review game, and quiz create an excellent introductory lesson that lays the groundwork for insightful literary analy
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Gift of the Magi: Reading, Discussion, & Literary Analysis
Need a seasonal literature activity with a text that’s complex enough? Do you want to teach a short story, collaboration, essay writing, and/or literary terms?This collaborative unit teaches the short story “The Gift of the Magi” in a way that engages every learner from start to finish! Pick and choose from premade lessons, class discussion, vocabulary, and a small-group literary analysis essay. All students will be pushed to interact with the text and each other!"The Gift of the Magi" is a grea
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7th - 10th
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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
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8th - 12th
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Dystopian Short Story Unit Bundle - 3 Stories, CCSS Aligned, Analysis Activities
Students constantly RAVE about dystopian literature. Why not give them something to rave about in your classroom? This month-long dystopian short story unit, featuring short stories by Ray Bradbury, contains engaging and relevant reading comprehension and literary analysis materials that will encourage student engagement and foster reflective thinking about life, society, and, yes, even that scary word - the FUTURE. Materials Included:1. A BONUS Unit Outline/Overview2. "An Introduction to Dystop
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7th - 11th
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The Lottery Activity Bundle (Shirley Jackson)
**Now with newly added material!**This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for the study of Shirley Jackson's shocking tale of tradition gone wrong, The Lottery. The numerous activities as well as full-length lesson plans provide an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourage students to think critically about literary elements, theme, and symbolism. An Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint and Crosswor
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8th - 11th
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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
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 Short Story Boot Camp for AP Literature Bundle Unit 1
This short story story boot camp in a quick unit is intended to take place during the first two-three weeks of the school year for AP® Literature. This unit hits on the essential skills in the short fiction unit 1. Each story is flash fiction (under 1000 words) with the intent that students can read and analyze within one class period.The unit is is designed with two intentions in mind. One, AP® Literature students need to have a certain set of skills and common vocabulary, and two, they need
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP Literature and Composition Getting Started Bundle
Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" Activity Pack
Spend a few days with what’s been called Poe’s “perfect” short story: “The Cask of Amontillado” from my American Romantic and Transcendental Writers Unit and my American Literature Bundle (please do not purchase both). Students develop their vocabulary and their literary analysis skills before spending some time analyzing Poe’s use of setting and irony. Students wrap up Poe’s story with a flash fiction gothic horror story assignment and/or a test. All teacher notes and keys included. CCSS aligne
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9th - 12th
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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 Unit: Relationships, Family, Setting and Conflict for Secondary ELA
A FRESH APPROACH TO TEACHING THE SHORT STORY:If you’ve been teaching the same three short stories from the dusty anthology in the corner of your classroom for the last several years, this resource is going to take you in an entirely new direction. This unit is extremely unique in its approach in a few different ways:Widening the definition of “short story”In order to offer a wide variety of stories without having to purchase and read through countless anthologies, this unit harnesses the power
Grades:
8th - 11th
Short Story Unit Plan - Slides, Assignments, & Activities - Digital Print Bundle
Short Story Unit Plan - Slides, Assignments, & Activities - Digital Print Bundle: This comprehensive middle school and high school short story digital and print unit will captivate your students with four highly engaging stories, all with surprising endings. The resource includes eye-catching PowerPoint and Google Slides presentations to introduce short story terms and to guide the lesson for each of the short stories, dynamic discussions, enriching videos, and creative digital and print as
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7th - 10th
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Bystander Effect + First They Came + Terrible Things - DIGITAL & PRINT
This Holocaust resource pairs a video introducing the Bystander Effect, Martin Niemoller's quote "First They Came," and the picture book Terrible Things by Eve Bunting to encourage students' close reading analysis, annotation, and reflection on the role of bystanders during the Holocaust. Students are then asked to apply the idea to their own lives. This is a perfect introduction to any Holocaust unit and can be used with texts such as Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, Refugee, Salt to Sea, The Co
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6th - 10th
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Short Story Unit: Coming of Age Essential Question for Secondary ELA Reading
A FRESH APPROACH TO TEACHING THE SHORT STORY:If you’ve been teaching the same three short stories from the dusty anthology in the corner of your classroom for the last several years, this resource is going to take you in an entirely new direction. This unit is extremely unique in its approach in a few different ways:Widening the definition of “short story”In order to offer a wide variety of stories without having to purchase and read through countless anthologies, this unit harnesses the power
Grades:
8th - 11th
American Literature Short Story Collection
There are a variety of activities and handouts for 19 different American short stories (all sold separately in my store) in this growing bundle. There are 270 pages and 77 Slides for a total of 347 pages. You save more than 40% when you buy this money saving bundle. This bundle is great if you teach a variety of grades (give different stories to different grade levels) or if you want to differentiate and have different groups to read different stories. The possibilities are endless.Included in t
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6th - 12th
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Short Story Unit for High School With Four Short Stories, Questions, Activities
Engage your students with this Four Week Short Story Unit! Students learn to annotate and study literary devices through "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan, "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, and "Apollo" by Chimamanda Adichie. Includes lesson plans, bell ringers, texts, comprehension questions, assignments, a literary device quiz, and more. All the prep work is done! Materials are in PDF to print and all student materials are writeable in Google. Th
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9th - 11th
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