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High school literature unit plans for Easel Activities
A Wrinkle in Time: Novel Study Unit Plan
This 4 ½ - 6 week novel study will guide students through an imaginative exploration and critical analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award Winning book, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will be challenged to think deeply about the book’s themes and respond thoughtfully through written work and oral discussions. Their imaginations will be stretched and their critical thinking skills will be developed on a daily basis. The study is divided into three segments: Chapters 1-4, Chapters 5-8, and Cha
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5th - 9th
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Detective Stories Unit - Short Stories by Doyle, Poe, Dahl; Sherlock Holmes film
In this fantastic detective stories unit, you will explore the characteristics of the detective story genre and apply them to great short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (The Murders in the Rue Morgue), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band and The Adventure of Silver Blaze), and Roald Dahl (Lamb to the Slaughter).Learn what makes a good detective story and then work like a sleuth to identify genre elements in E. A. Poe's and Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories. Analy
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: Detective Stories Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
Friday Night Lights Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger's study of the impact of football in a Texas town resonates across the country. His discussions of the academics vs. sports debate,race, gender, and class issues, and entitlement will hook middle and high school students. Friday Night Lights speaks to the secondary school experience as well as society's expectations.This complete unit plan, includes: Common Core Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy grade level, time frame, assessments, and detailed daily plans as we
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7th - 12th
Lord of the Flies Reading Guide for Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 12
Thought-provoking chapter questions make this a comprehensive reading guide that is perfect to frame your unit plan for Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Questions go beyond simple recall and require students to think critically by judging, inferring, and analyzing. This guide includes analysis charts for symbolism, characterization, and civilization vs. savagery. A detailed answer key is included. Click the preview for more detailed information! INCLUDES 3 Sections: ⭐ Section 1: Questions f
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9th - 11th
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Full Unit Plan for Alan Moore's Graphic Novel V for Vendetta
Images of some of the unit are available here as a preview, the preview is blurred but in the actual product it wont be.This is a full unit for the graphic novel V for Vendetta. It is 57 pages and includes an anticipation guide before reading the novel, a character guide, comprehension questions for all chapters of the book, many activities for a number of those chapters, and a final exam to go with the unit.Be sure to check out these other, completely free, resources I have to aid in teaching
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9th - 12th
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RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER UNIT - poem, study guide, workbook & editable test
Need a complete unit on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with lessons and activities that create instant student understanding? This study guide, workbook and assessment has everything you need. Your British Literature students will love the fun, vibrant pages of the study guide. Vocabulary explanations, plot summaries, and an accompanying workbook with questions help comprehension and keep students busily engaged. No lesson prep is needed because everything has been h
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10th - 12th
Hidden Figures Full Book Unit and Movie Guide
This is a full unit for the Young Readers Edition of the novel Hidden Figures by Margot Shetterly (ISBN: 0062662376). The Unit contains 86 reading comprehension questions with vocabulary for all the chapters, four chapter activities, and a packet to go with the movie that covers plot, characterization, theme, and movie questions. All the reading comprehension questions, activities, and movie guide also have an answer key.***************************************************************************
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7th - 12th
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Complete Unit for Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese
Be sure to check out the preview available on this page where you can view some of the pages in this unit.This is a unit for Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese. The product does come with an answer guide for the reading questions. The unit breaks the novel into 6 parts, it includes a character sheet to fill out while reading the novel, 60 comprehension questions that cover the whole novel (focusing on higher order thinking and visual literacy), vocabulary terms with each chapte
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5th - 12th
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DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Play (Acts I and II) Literature Guide
Diary of Anne Frank Play Acts I and IIThis Diary of Anne Frank literature guide for the two-act play is not your run-of-the-mill vocab and questions packet! This guide can be used in completion, or teachers may choose to use certain parts independently. This is a comprehensive study of the play and offers the opportunity to teach and review many ELA benchmarks such as:-Point of View-Theme-Plot-Conflict-Mood-Summarizing-Textual Evidence-Cultural Context-Characterization-Chronological Order-Sym
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7th - 10th
TANGERINE by Edward Bloor Literature Guide
Tangerine is a high-interest novel for middle grades girls and boys alike! This novel study is not your run-of-the-mill vocab and questions packet! Students will read each of the 3 parts of the book and have one page of activities to complete after each part. This is a comprehensive novel study, but does not take away the enjoyment of reading this great book! Included is one page of Pre-Reading activities, one page which follows Part 1, one page which follows Part 2, one page which follows P
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5th - 9th
Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) Tragedy Unit
If I had to choose only one classic piece of literature that everyone should study, it would be Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex). This ancient Greek tragedy is the model against which all other tragedies are compared, from Shakespeare onward. Aristotle himself lauded it as the quintessential example of the genre. Today, the play raises questions about the place of tragedy in modern life.This in-depth unit plan is based on the various activities I created when teaching Oedipus in differe
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11th - 12th
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NIGHT: Unit Plan, Novel Guide, Lessons, Activities, Assessments - Digital
This Night unit is structured for close reading, critical thinking, and careful analysis of Elie Wiesel's autobiography. It is structured for easy integration with read-alouds, shared reading, independent reading, guided reading, interactive writing, shared writing, and independent writing, making this rigorous unit ideal for whole-class instruction, inclusive classrooms, reading academic intervention services, or tutoring.Optimized for digital use via TpT's digital overlay tool. (All answer bo
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8th - 10th
Their Eyes Were Watching God Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons, Activities
This 56-page Their Eyes Were Watching God unit plan is aligned with Common Core Anchor Standards. Also, all of the material is based on Bloom's Taxonomy. This posting includes Teacher Notes, 52 activities, essay topics, journal topics, graphic organizers, writing response sheets, and two separate tests with answer keys. The variety of literary analysis and writing lessons and activities in this packet offers to distance learning, brick and mortar classroom, and home school teachers will be sure
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9th - 12th
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Au pas camarade by Eric Walters FRENCH Novel Study | Étude du roman français
Cette étude du roman accompagne « Au pas camarade » d’Eric Walters, auteur canadien (traduit en français). « Au pas camarade » a comme sujet le commerce équitable ainsi que l’implication des jeunes dans la justice sociale. Cette ressource correspond bien aux besoins d’une classe d’immersion française ou de français intensif à l'école primaire. Au sécondaire, cette ressource fonctionnera dans les classes de français de base (grades 10-12) ou de l'immersion ayant des élèves avec des difficultés d'
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6th - 11th
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The Diary of Anne Frank Play Study Unit Reading Comp Activity TIMELINE PROJECT
This is a comprehensive unit project for THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK PLAY (Goodrich and Hackett) to gauge reading comprehension as your students work through your play study unit. (Note: This is one of ten resources/activities from my Diary of Anne Frank Play Study Unit Bundle. If you need more lessons & activities, click here to preview the unit!) Creating a Timeline is a project that is not only a student favorite but also encourages engagement with the entire progression of your Diary of Anne
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7th - 10th
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A Complete Unit for Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles
This is a 59 page unit for the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. The unit for the novel contains 93 comprehension questions that cover the whole novel (focusing on higher order thinking), vocabulary terms with each chapter of the novel, and 5 activities to go along with the novel, along with an exam to use at the end of the novel, totaling 43 pages. There is also a packet that goes with the Baskervilles episode of the BBC show Sherlock as well as a packet to go with the film K
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7th - 12th
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1984 Reading Guide With Chapter Questions for Comprehension & Critical Thinking
Thought-provoking chapter questions make this comprehensive reading guide perfect to frame your unit plan for 1984 by George Orwell. Questions go beyond simple recall and require students to think critically by inferring and analyzing. This study guide includes questions for each chapter along with a detailed answer key. Click the preview for more detailed information! Incudes PDF to print and all student materials in Google Slides. Take a look at all of my resources for George Orwell's 1984! T
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9th - 12th
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Brave New World Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
This 101-page plan is a Common Core Standards based unit containing: time frame, day by day lessons, vocabulary, chapter by chapter study guide for discussion ideas, 50+ worksheets, assessments, group and individual projects and much, much more. In this day and age when even a hamburger can be cloned, students are fascinated by the What-ifs of human reproduction. What would happen if people could choose their baby's gender as well as each and every physical, mental and emotional aspect?In this c
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9th - 12th
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The Stranger Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Notes, Lessons, and Activities
Aligned with the Common Core principles, 'The Stranger Unit Plan,' a 90-page compilation of lessons and activities, has been detailed and developed for clarity, depth, comprehension, and analysis- from basic to higher level cognition. This version is a third larger than the previous one with a flexibility terrific for Distance, Classroom, and Home School Learning. It includes a table of contents, a copious variety of activities for teachers to meet their goals and the needs and skills of their h
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Othello Unit Plan and Enrichment Activities
Did Othello and Desdemona ever stand a chance as an inter-racial couple? Were they “star-cross’d,” like Romeo and Juliet? If not, what circumstances doomed their love? Students will wrestle with these and many other questions in their study of Othello, the Moor of Venice. The focus of this unit plan and enrichment activities resource is on close textual analysis for upper level (grades 11-12) students. However, like all of Shakespeare’s plays, Othello was meant to be performed before an audience
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10th - 12th
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Full Unit for The Martian by Andy Weir (With Activities)
The first few pages are provided here as a free preview, the preview is blurred however in the actual product it wont be.This is a complete 54 page unit for Andy Weir's The Martian. The unit contains a character guide, reference sheet, 144 comprehension questions with vocab words for each chapter and an answer guide for the chapter questions, 11 chapter activities to do throughout the novel, and instructions for a final paper at the end of the novel. *********************************************
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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To Kill a Mockingbird Reading Guide With Chapter Questions, Activities
Use this comprehensive reading guide to frame your unit plan for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. With chapter questions, themes, quotes, characters and more, its six Common Core aligned sections will increase comprehension and engage students. A detailed answer key is included. INCLUDES: Questions, Vocabulary, Character Analysis Activities, Theme Development, Quotes, & an Analysis of Harper Lee's Choice of Literary DevicesThis Comprehensive Reading Guide Includes:⭐ Thought Provoking Cha
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9th - 11th
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Our Town (Thornton Wilder) Unit Plan for AP Literature and Composition
This unit for the play Our Town is specifically designed for an AP Literature and Composition students. Many of the activities are geared specifically as exam prep; however a number of lesson could be adapted for classes that are not preparing to take the AP Literature Exam. I often use this unit later in the year when the AP exam is getting close. They would work equally well early in the school year when you want to familiarize students with parts of the exam.This unit includes two weeks wo
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: Big AP Literature and Composition Bundle
Animal Farm Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
This thought-provoking Animal Farm unit plan includes Unit Structure, and Activities forms for planning, and a sample calendar agenda. It also offers 15 activities covering the main elements of literature, background information on George Orwell, the Bolshevik Revolution, the allegorical elements regarding major Russian leaders of this period in history, propaganda techniques, vocabulary, literary terms a 100 point test and much, much more. Activities address the Common Core standards as well as
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7th - 9th
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