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Higher education close reading unit plans
Transcendentalism Unit: Fun Activities + Guided Readings for Emerson, Thoreau
Exciting as a field of fireflies, this Transcendentalism Unit Plan will engage your high school students and make lesson planning a breeze. With guided readings, fun activities, and real-world connections, you’ll have all the resources you need to teach Transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margert Fuller, and more!This comprehensive unit plan is designed to bring the works of Transcendentalists to life in your English classroom. Each lesson includes hook ideas, close
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS Unit Plan: Discussion Questions, Worksheets, & Writing
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 75-page EDITABLE unit has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis. Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, quick writes, daily quizzes, and final writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights!The gra
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Frankenstein COMPLETE UNIT | Discussion Questions, Quizzes, & Writing | EDITABLE
Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 100-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, daily quizzes, and analytical writing assignments will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! This unit wa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rhetoric Unit Bundle– Devices, Appeals, Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis Unit
Strengthen the rhetorical analysis and argumentation skills of your high school and advanced middle school students by helping them learn, identify, analyze and practice rhetorical strategies—both rhetorical appeals and rhetorical devices—AND have them apply what they’ve learned using Martin Luther King’ Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” along with a host of other historical speeches and seminal U.S. texts. This 150+ page engaging and academically rigorous rhetorical analysis bundle--now provi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
THE COMPLETE MAUS Unit Plan: EDITABLE Discussion Questions, Worksheets, Quizzes
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 170-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the te
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â American Literature YEAR-LONG BUNDLE: Personalized Curriculum for Natalie T.
Native + African + Early American Colonial Text Set Unit : Perspective Pairings
Is your Early American Lit curriculum more bland than a Puritan cookbook? As the saying goes, variety is the spice of life, so let's transform it from yawnsome to awesome with a study of perspective!Early American founding texts don't have to be boring. When you pair them with rich creation stories, shocking captivity tales, important indigenous issues, and diverse American perspectives, students will not only have a better understanding of the literary landscape of America, but will also gain a
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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A RAISIN IN THE SUN Complete Unit: EDITABLE Discussion Prompts, Quizzes, Writing
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 180-page curriculum has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly stimulating lessons on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, daily quizzes, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â American Literature YEAR-LONG BUNDLE: Personalized Curriculum for Natalie T.
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Complete Unit: Discussion Prompts, Quizzes, Writing
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 200-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, daily reading quizzes, literary terms exercises, vocabulary lists, and analytical writing assignments will challenge your stu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â American Literature YEAR-LONG BUNDLE: Personalized Curriculum for Natalie T.
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE Unit Plan: EDITABLE Discussion Prompts, Quizzes, & Writing
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 135-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handout, discussion questions, image analysis worksheets, vocabulary lists, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig
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7th - 10th, Higher Education
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THE CRUCIBLE Complete Unit | EDITABLE Discussion Questions, Quizzes, & Writing
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 60-page EDITABLE unit on Arthur Miller's The Crucible promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The daily discussion questions, vocabulary lists, literary devices quiz, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! This unit was designed to have more than enough rigor for hon
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â American Literature YEAR-LONG BUNDLE: Personalized Curriculum for Natalie T.
CATCHER IN THE RYE Complete Unit: EDITABLE Discussion Prompts, Quizzes, Writing
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 200-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly stimulating lessons on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, daily quizzes, literary device exercises, creative writing assignment, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your st
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass COMPLETE UNIT: Editable Lesson Plans
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 90-page EDITABLE unit has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The daily quizzes, discussion questions, exercises on literary devices, and writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â American Literature YEAR-LONG BUNDLE: Personalized Curriculum for Natalie T.
KINDRED Complete Unit | EDITABLE Discussion Questions, Quizzes, Writing | Butler
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 60-page EDITABLE unit has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Octavia Butler's Kindred!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The daily quizzes, discussion prompts, and writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and unlock profound interpretive insights! Hold your students accountable for completing
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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THERE THERE Complete Unit: EDITABLE Discussion Prompts, Quizzes, Writing, etc.
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 200-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly stimulating lessons on Tommy Orange's There There! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, daily quizzes, literary device exercise, creative writing assignment, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig b
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â American Literature YEAR-LONG BUNDLE: Personalized Curriculum for Natalie T.
THE KITE RUNNER Complete Unit: EDITABLE Discussion Prompts, Quizzes, & Writing
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 200-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly stimulating lessons on Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, reading quizzes, literary device exercises, and writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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CCSS:
AP English Language Unit 5: Complete Unit Plan and Activities CED Aligned
Introduce the Unit 5 skills of AP Lang in this complete, ready-to-teach, 3-week unit. By the end of this unit, students will be ready for the Unit 5 Progress Check. This also works as a stand-alone memoir study and composition unit for any high school English Class. On a personal note, this is my favorite project I do with my AP students because their writing is so memorable and personal. They treasure the pieces the produce in this unit.***BUT WAIT! Before you purchase this unit alone, know tha
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â AP English Language and Composition CURRICULUM BUNDLE full year CED Aligned
Frankenstein Unit Plan for AP Literature and Composition
Frankenstein is an iconic text. And it is one that students love. They love the conflict and the science fiction and the Gothic. This unit builds on the schools of literary criticism which I introduce earlier in the year (however, the way the assignments are developed, you could do all of them without previously introducing any of them). It incorporates historical criticism with an introduction to the Romantic Period though poetry. It incorporate ethical criticism first through looking at
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Big AP Literature and Composition Bundle
The Ultimate Star-Crossed Love Stories Unit with Romeo and Juliet + Paired Texts
In this unit, students will close read and discuss key star-crossed love stories such as “Orpheus and Eurydice” and “Layla and Majnun.” I have also included an excerpted version of Romeo and Juliet that includes the major scenes / moments from the play to make it more palatable for students and also easier to read in a short amount of time. Excerpts from the play are accompanied by close reading tasks, questions, and discussions to help students interact with the text in a meaningful way.This bu
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
PASSING by Nella Larsen | Complete Unit | 3 weeks of rigorous EDITABLE lessons!!
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 150-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly stimulating lessons on Nella Larsen's Passing!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The discussion questions, daily quizzes, literary device exercises, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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CCSS:
AP English Language & Composition Lesson Plans & Printable Materials (FULL YEAR)
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson plans and printable materials for teaching AP English Language & Composition. These lesson plans address all of the College Board standards in ways that promote critical thinking, creativity, inference, evidence gathering, and content-to-world connections grounded in character building and deeper life meaning.The following writing styles are covered in detail through essay writing tips, guides, models, and prompts: Rhetor
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â AP Language & Composition Lessons, Slides, & Materials BUNDLE for FULL YEAR
AP English Language Unit 6: Complete Unit Plan and Activities CED Aligned
Introduce the Unit 6 skills of AP Lang in this complete, ready-to-teach, 3-week unit. By the end of this unit, students will be ready for the Unit 6 Progress Check. ***BUT WAIT! Before you purchase this unit alone, know that you can save over 20% by buying the Full-Year Curriculum BUNDLE.***This curriculum focuses on the Unit 6 skills outlined in the new CED:CLE-1.P--When synthesizing, writers draw upon arguments from multiple sources, strategically select the most relevant information, and com
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â AP English Language and Composition CURRICULUM BUNDLE full year CED Aligned
King Lear Complete Unit Plan
This extensive 277 page unit plan for King Lear is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the play. Our King Lear unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Shakespeare’s craft and encourage them to w
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Book of Unknown Americans Unit Plan, Activities, Assessments. FULL DIGITAL!
Looking for a current and relevant unit that your students will love just as much as you?The Book of Unknown Americans unit is so engaging that even you'll be interested in reading the supplementary materials! This 6 week complete unit plan will provide you with current and topical nonfiction articles that focus on the multifaceted argument that is immigration. The 80+ pages of resources will help students analyze both nonfiction and fiction text for structural elements, examine rhetoric from a
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Language The Great Gatsby Unit
This unit is designed with AP Language students in mind, which means there is focus on nonfiction ideas and supporting texts. With The Great Gatsby, students focus on the themes of materialism and class with additional nonfiction texts supporting the exploration of these themes. In addition, The Great Gatsby offers an excellent opportunity to analyze figurative language, so slides on new figurative language terms are also provided. This unit, therefore, can help students practice close reading
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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