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9th 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
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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
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Unit - Close Reading Activity
The "All Summer In A Day" short story unit is filled with short story reading comprehension activities to teach main idea, summary, theme, characterization, and more. This 8 day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale. Each lesson is scaffolded and contains tools to help meet the diverse needs of all learners. There is also a creative writing project that requires students to wr
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6th - 9th
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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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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
Grades:
7th - 10th
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
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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 Monkey's Paw Short Story Unit
Review literary elements through the reading of the short story, "The Monkey's Paw". This short story unit of vocabulary, text, activities on the theme, mood, plot, and overall comprehension is perfectly spooky for Halloween. Students love the plot twist and will be engaged while using the printable worksheets or distance learning materials to complete activities about vocabulary, plot, sequencing, theme, and mood that will ensure comprehension of "The Monkeys Paw". This short story unit include
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7th - 9th
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Dystopian Short Stories - "The Lottery" and "Harrison Bergeron"
This BUNDLED product contains two short story units: One for "HARRISON BERGERON" by Kurt Vonnegut, and one for "THE LOTTERY" by Shirley Jackson.
These dystopian short stories would be great to study on their own, but they could also serve as a perfect introduction to a full dystopian novel unit like THE HUNGER GAMES, THE GIVER, FAHRENHEIT 451, 1984, DIVERGENT, and many others. This unit would also be an excellent pairing with my FREE "CREATING A DYSTOPIA" activity.
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7th - 9th
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First Week Of Back To School Activities 6th - 8th Grade ELA w FREE Lesson Plans
THE ULTIMATE BACK TO SCHOOL BUNDLE! Your first week of middle school is ready to go! Create class culture, break the ice, establish morning and beginning of class routines with bell ringers, and dive into a fun diagnostic personal narrative writing activity with a writing workshop!INCLUDED:✔ Get-To-Know-You Class Game: Would You Rather?✔ August Grammar Bell ringers- Grammar Focus: Review Parts of Speech✔ 3 in 1 Diagnostic Writing, Six Traits of Writing Workshop, and Personal Narrative- The Story
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6th - 9th
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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 Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe - Short Story Unit - Reading
Are you looking for a short story unit that will pique your students’ interest and engage them in critical thinking skills? How about a short story that is filled with suspense and will keep them on the edge of their seats? Look no further than “Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. This engaging and rigorous close reading unit is full of high quality and critical thinking activities to accompany this thought-provoking short story. Students will LOVE that they are engaged in an on-going
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories - Short Stories Units - Reading Task Cards
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!
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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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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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Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut - Short Story Unit - Narrative Writing Task
This 8 day short story unit for "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut contains scaffolded close reading activities and a no-prep narrative writing task that will engage your middle school and high school students. These reading comprehension resources are designed to support struggling readers, ELL/ESL, and special education students, such as differentiated activities plus chunked text and guided reading questions.After students complete the close reading unit with an emphasis on equality in the
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6th - 9th
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe - Short Story Unit - Irony - Theme
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe short story unit is filled with short story reading comprehension activities to teach the main idea, summary, theme, the three types of irony, and more. This 8-day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school and high school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Poe's classic macabre tale. You will be provided with all the resources you need to assess student understanding and help them develop their creativity an
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories - Short Stories Units - Reading Task Cards
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