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Free high school literature unit plans
Shakespeare's Macbeth Act 1: Complete Unit Plan FREE
Teaching Macbeth has NEVER been this easy! This complete lesson plan for Act 1 has you covered. You’ll have NO-PREP and no worries when using this standard-aligned unit. Once you download this FREE resource you'll see why it's been downloaded over 4,000 times!Each of the 4 lessons contains a teaching PowerPoints and student packet that will help you glide through teaching Macbeth even if you have never taught it before. Organized by lesson, this resource is easy to navigate.Here's what you'll ge
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9th - 12th
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Touching Spirit Bear LitPlan Novel Study Unit, Activities, Questions, Test
This LitPlan Novel Study for Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen is a comprehensive foundation of ready-to-use materials that will ensure your students get the most out of their Touching Spirit Bear novel study.Practical, flexible, and standards-based with step-by-step plans for the whole novel unit, my LitPlan Novel Study is especially helpful to new teachers or veteran teachers teaching Touching Spirit Bear for the first time. 20 Step-by-Step Daily Lessons guide you and your students through
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Touching Spirit Bear LitPlan Novel Study Unit Bundle
AP English Literature Pacing Guide
This pacing guide explains the breakdown of lessons and units in my AP Lit ® course in accordance to the new College Board course suggestions. It can be used for buyers of my AP Lit Full Course Bundle®, but also for any new or veteran AP® Lit teacher looking for a comparison. The pacing guide shows my layout of daily lessons, as well as suggested and supplemental materials that I use. Note: The pacing guide is just an overview of these lessons; it does not include these lessons (but they can be
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Course Year Long Bundle | 3500+ Pages!
Short Stories - Unit Bundle
This unit bundle focuses on literary elements examined through short stories. It features some Canadian and American short stories, and contains full lesson plans, worksheets, note taking pages, checklists, rubrics, and more. Slideshows are currently not included, but will be in the near future (in 2023).
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6th - 9th
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Complete Teaching Unit Plan
Teaching Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 has never been easier! This complete unit plan has everything you need to teach Ray Bradbury’s classic tale of dystopian society. Organized into 14 jam-packed lessons, this unit plan will challenge your students in new ways each day. Every lesson has an activator, activities for the section of text, and a quick write. An alternative option that replaces the quick write for multiple-choice is available for every lesson. Every student packet has a coordinatin
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9th - 12th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Pacing Guide, Character Activity, Bell Ringer & Lesson
This free To Kill a Mockingbird resource includes a unit calendar and character activity with a bell ringer, lesson plan, and student assignment sheet for a character analysis activity and poster activity. Use the unit calendar to plan your own unit, or check out my unit here: To Kill a Mockingbird Unit Plan.This Resource Includes:⭐ Pacing Calendar ⭐ Characterization Bell Ringer ⭐ Lesson Plan ⭐ Student Assignment Sheet ⭐ Character Analysis Activity ⭐ Students Make Character Posters More To Kill
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8th - 11th
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Check out this complete unit plan for Charles Dickens' holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol"! This unit is designed for grades 7-12, and features a blend of traditional reading and kinesthetic classroom activities designed to maximize student engagement in a festive, immersive learning environment that's perfect for energetic teachers looking to engage students with hands-on, high-impact learning.
Five day unit plan includes interactive, hands-on activities for each of the staves (chapters) in D
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7th - 12th
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Shakespeare Solved! Romeo and Juliet Act I
Why don't kids "get" Shakespeare? We're good teachers. We do all the right things, like act out the important scenes, help students translate the writing into modern English, maybe show clips from movie versions of the plays. Yet for many students, nothing really works the way we'd like.
Well, the problem is solved. At their essence, Shakespeare's plays are all about what problems he has set up for the main characters, and how the other characters help to solve those problems. Even students wh
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7th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Pre Reading Activities - Prologue Reading & Tableaux
Introduce Romeo and Juliet Act 1 with this engaging FREE pre-reading activity! Students pose in frozen scenes as key characters from play and then read the prologue in short pieces. This activity ignites interest in the play and serves as the perfect way to introduce your unit! This Pre-Reading Activity Includes:⭐ A Kinesthetic Activity With Students Posing in Frozen Scenes ⭐ Students Read the Prologue Multiple Times⭐ Increases Student Understanding⭐ Introduces the Basic Plot⭐ Engages Students i
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9th - 12th
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"The Crucible" Character Analysis Graphic Organizer Student Handout
This product is a character analysis graphic organizer student handout for The Crucible by Arthur Miller! It includes every character in the play and asks students to analyze them through 5 different categories:1. Character's role in story2. How character has changed throughout the play3. Positive/Negative connotation words to describe the character4. Struggles/oppressions they face or cause for others5. Students create a drawing of each character based on the description in the textThis product
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Social Justice Unit-Ghost Boys
**If you wouldn't mind leaving a review, that would mean the world to me!!*(Click "My TPT" "My Purchases" "Free Downloads" to access)**If you already downloaded this unit prior to June 30, 2020, I've added an optional introduction activity that connects the newly released (free) BrainPop video about the Black Lives Matter Protests to a class discussion. This is a 10 day unit (with an optional intro activity) that is designed to be used with the novel, Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes. It inco
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4th - 9th
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The Diary of Anne Frank (The Play)--Unit Plan
Complete unit for studying The Diary of Anne Frank (The Play) by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. The unit includes a study guide for the entire play, two multiple choice quizzes comprised of twenty-five questions for each quiz, three essay options, and a character analysis project. Also, there's a study guide designed for watching the film version of the play. Unit also includes a listing of Common Core Standards and a tie in using the Anne Frank House Museum's Virtual Reality Tour to enhan
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7th - 12th
Macbeth Pre Reading Activities and Introduction With Unit Pacing Calendar
Introduce Macbeth with this engaging activity! Students pose as key characters from Macbeth and act out tiny scenes from the play. This activity ignites interest in the play and serves as the perfect way to introduce your unit! I also included the pacing calendar for my unit plan - use it to create your own unit or check out my no prep Macbeth Unit Plan With Four Weeks of Engaging Lessons & Activities! Looking for Macbeth resources? Check out the following: ⭐ Macbeth Unit Plan With Four Wee
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9th - 12th
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Hunger Games Unit Introductory PowerPoint
This Hunger Games Unit for the high school English classroom is informative, challenging, and fun! It includes Hunger Games quizzes separated by chapters, a creative final project in which students choose between several options to "show what they know" at the end of the novel, a PowerPoint introduction to the Hunger Games, discussion questions for the Hunger Games, and a few other Hunger Games classroom group activities. I also included a daily activity I did with my 5 classes-- our own Hunger
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7th - 12th
Cynthia Ozick "The Shawl" | Free Short Story Unit Plan, Honors & AP Literature
Looking for a powerful addition to your unit on the Holocaust or genocide? “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick is sparse, memorable, and beautifully written. While the story itself is very short, your students will be inspired by the challenging text.This story pairs well with Night by Elie Wiesel, 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, or any other text that deals with themes of war, oppression, trauma, or death.When you teach this powerful short story
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9th - 12th
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Play Unit
SuperSummary’s Play Unit for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare delivers a wealth of classroom-ready, text-specific teaching materials in a comprehensive unit. Our complete unit challenges students to think and learn with pre-reading context questions, writing and discussion prompts, and reading check & comprehension quizzes, plus a rigorous activity, text pairing suggestions, and differentiated essay topics. Also featured are two graphic organizer worksheets for processing and analyzin
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Literature Guide & Play Unit
Romeo and Juliet Full Unit Scope and Sequence (Free)
If you are looking for inspiration or a starting point to teaching "Romeo and Juliet," look no further! This scope and sequence contains a detailed look at how we teach the entire text in 8-9 weeks! Use this guide to help inspire your own creations, download some of the activities we included, or purchase our entire unit bundle to have access to all of our favorite "Romeo and Juliet" activities, assignments and projects!Please note, that this is an ever growing and changing document as we contin
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: "Romeo and Juliet" Act 1 Activities Bundle
"The Crucible" By Arthur Miller Free Unit Test - Editable!
Enjoy this free unit test that I use with my students to assess them over "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller! It includes a short answer section based on historical context, multiple choice, character/quote matching, reading comprehension based short answer section, and extended response! PDF and Word Doc version is included to make it your own. Looking for more Crucible materials? Check out these engaging escape rooms for each Act! Save $ with my Crucible escape room bundle! The Crucible Unit Esca
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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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ELA Curriculum Map Pacing Guide for 9th & 10th English Quarter 1 of Full Year
This curriculum map resource includes a suggested pacing guide for 9-weeks of ELA curriculum for grades 9-10. You can use it to help plan your own year of ELA lessons and/or get a better sense of the materials included in my ELA Quarter 1 Curriculum Grades 9-10.The Quarter 1 curriculum resource is intended for both new English teachers as well as experienced English teachers looking for new ideas and creative lessons to add to their mix. This 9-week curriculum plan focuses on short fiction and n
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8th - 11th
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Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare | EDITABLE Worksheets & Lessons for Act 1 | FREE
Get lit! I'm offering these worksheets for FREE to help you get an amazing start with teaching Romeo and Juliet. This resource features worksheets for all five scenes in Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet — along with answer keys! This free 40-page resource is excerpted from a comprehensive 180-page COMPLETE UNIT on Romeo and Juliet. It features worksheets that students can fill out after they've read each of the five scenes in Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet. The worksheets are divided into sections which inv
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8th - 11th
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Similes in The Old Man and the Sea | FREE Activity for The Old Man & The Sea
Download this editable activity for The Old Man and the Sea. This figurative language activity has worksheets that will guide the students in identifying similes, breaking them apart, tying figurative language to their lives, organizing their thoughts, and presenting their findings to the class. Keys and rubrics are included. You can check out more literature activities in my American Literature Bundle. Standards from NCTE and IRA are met, as well as the Common Core. Please email me with any
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Bundle | Growing Bundle for American Literature
Free Much Ado About Nothing Movie Unit, Activities, and Assessments
Short, meaningful, thoughtful activities to help you teach the movie version of Much Ado About Nothing. Will work for any film version. Students select a character to follow throughout the play. Then, they take notes as they watch. They analyze characterization, plot, and theme. Includes opening and closing activities as well as two creative writing assignments or assessments. This is all you need to teach the play and help your students understand Shakespeare. It is easily edited in Microsoft W
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7th - 12th
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Lesson Plan Template: Lesson Outline for Novel Study
This lesson plan template is what I use for my literature units. I have all my novel study unit lessons organized this way and ready to upload directly to Google Class, iLearn, Microsoft 365 or any online learning platform. Each day, all 6 elements are in place as we read the class text. This lesson format is:Totally adjustable to your needs and timeAllows for student involvement in readingAccommodates multiple intelligences and strengths each dayCreates a comprehensive daily structureProvides f
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9th - 12th
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