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Common Core RL.11-12.1 videos
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - Study Session Video
45 minute summary and discussion with illustrations meant to help students better understand and remember details about the book.
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9th - 12th
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The Secret Garden - Text Based Evidence - Text Analysis Essay Writing Lesson
Teaching how to write a literary analysis essay citing text evidence for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett has never been easier! This in-depth text dependent analysis (TDA) writing prompt resource guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a compare and contrast essay with textual evidence as support. It includes an compare and contrast writing graphic organizer, rubric, compare and contrast writing quiz, and a comparison contrast writing template.All aspects of text
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9th - 12th
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How to Write Thematic Essays (Step-By-Step with Video)
11-page slideshow that takes students step-by-step through identifying a theme to gathering evidence. Slides use Fahrenheit 451 as a reference, but students need not have read the novel to use the slides.
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6th - 12th
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Inspiring a Love of Reading and Notetaking | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to inspire a love of reading and note-taking (no more reading quizzes!) in your high school English class. This is a section of a professional development course created by a high school English teacher. Bonus file includes assignments and handouts reviewed in the video screencast, which has a video of the presenter speaking. Running time: 32 minutes and 24 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or state appro
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
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Differentiation and Note-taking | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn about differentiation and how to assign various note-taking activities in your high school English class. This is a section of a professional development course created by a high school English teacher. Bonus file includes assignments and handouts reviewed in the video screencast, which has a video of the presenter speaking. Running time: 13 minutes and 29 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or state approves
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
Outlining Your Plot, 9
Part 9, Outlining Your Plot detail the lists and graphs you make to outline your plot. The lists include the characters: protagonist, antagonist, their allies, and the measurable qualities of every character. The lists also include the settings and any important prop, and their measurable qualities. The graphs are to give a visual of the meetings of the characters with props at important settings that convey the forces showing the convergences. Also, there is an example of how the same story-lin
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
Harrison Bergeron Classroom Screenplay
‘Harrison Bergeron’ is a 1961 short story by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). The story can be categorized as ‘dystopian satire’ or a ‘satirical dystopian story’, but we’ll say more about these labels in a moment. The action of the story takes place in the future America of 2081, where everyone has been made truly equal, physically, mentally, and aesthetically.This product has broken up the dialogue, added screen directions, and printable props.
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6th - 12th
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Outlining Your Plot, Plot.9
Part 9, Outlining Your Script details how to outline your story or script, both as lists of the qualities of character, props, and settings, and as a graph of convergences. It also discusses how the same story-line with the same characters can have different interpretations or have a twist added by analyzing what forces the characters convey.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Inciting Incidents and Rising Action, Plot.6
Part 6, Inciting Incident and Rising Action defines what an inciting incident is and what rising action is. It explains how they work through the interplay of forces conveyed by the protagonist and their allies and antagonist and their cohorts as well as the meetings between protagonist forces and antagonist forces. It also explains how different forms of excitement, such as a sense of betrayal or suspense, is generated through the convergence of positive and negative forces as they are conveyed
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
Climax and Falling Action, Plot.8.2
Part 8, Climax and Falling Action 2, uses examples to further explain the workings of the climax and the falling action of stories and scripts. It details how information, props, and settings can all convey important forces that when converging with the protagonist and the antagonist empower whichever character they are allied with and so contribute to the transformation of the main characters. Students will understand climaxes and falling action in a new, more precise way which will help them
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
Revising Your Story or Script: Taking away the horror of it, Plot.10
"Revising Your Story or Script: Taking away the horror of it" is the tenth and last part of "How to Outline Your Story or Script." It details what to look for to make sure your story has a climax and that the climax works properly, how to check the story builds in excitement properly, and how to make sure character interactions are believable. It also discusses analyzing books and films as plot structures of symbolic forces conveyed by characters, props, and settings.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
Forces Behave in Characteristic Ways, Plot.3
Part 3, Forces Behavior in Characteristic Ways details how the study of forces defines positive and negative behavior. The lesson shows that by interpreting these behaviors metaphorically through cultural or personal associations you can give your protagonist the positive behaviors and your antagonist the negative behaviors.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
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Exciting and Engaging Activities | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to assign exciting and engaging activities in your high school English class. This is a section of a professional development course created by a high school English teacher. Bonus file includes assignments and handouts reviewed in the video screencast, which has a video of the presenter speaking. Running time: 21 minutes and 57 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or state approves the hours and completes t
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
Outline Your Story or Script, Plot.1
Part One, the Overview "How to Outline Your Story or Script" defines dramatic structure, plot, and its parts with precision. It introduces characters, settings, and key objects as dynamic elements of plot, and what makes them dynamic.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
Forces Can Be Measured, Plot.4
Part 4, Forces Can Be Measured explains that since forces can be measured in some way the concept can be carried over to the understanding of characters, settings, and important objects. Characters will have qualities that can be measured, such as a physical ability, mental ability, or different kinds of skills. Settings will have power to either create an atmosphere or mood that affects characters and objects or may have a power such as drawing certain characters to them or locking characters w
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
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LGBTQ+ Literature | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to teach LGBTQ+ literature in your high school English class. This is a section of a professional development course created by a high school English teacher. Bonus file includes assignments and handouts reviewed in the video screencast, which has a video of the presenter speaking. Running time: 56 minutes and 4 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or state approves the hours and completes the certificate f
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
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Whole-Novel Activities | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to assign whole-novel activities in your high school English class. This is a section of a professional development course created by a high school English teacher. Bonus file includes assignments and handouts reviewed in the video screencast, which has a video of the presenter speaking. Running time: 19 minutes and 12 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or state approves the hours and completes the certifi
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
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Poetry and Prosody, Rhythm and Rhyme | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to teach poetry and prosody in your high school English class. This is a section of a professional development course created by a high school English teacher. Bonus file includes assignments and handouts reviewed in the video screencast, which has a video of the presenter speaking. Supporting files includes a poetry unit. Running time: 15 minutes. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or state approves the hours and
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
Lesson Plan- Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calvert County Mark Twain
Lesson Objectives: By the end of this lesson students will be able to:1. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as used in the text and use them in meaningful sentences. 2. Analyze the use of literary conventions and devices to develop character and point of view in the short story. 2. Discuss the purposes and significance of literary humor.
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11th - 12th
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Teaching Shakespeare | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to teach Shakespeare in your high school English class. This is a section of a professional development course created by a high school English teacher. Bonus file includes assignments and handouts reviewed in the video screencast, which has a video of the presenter speaking. Running time: 35 minutes and 17 seconds. Teacher's Workshop: BlogPodcastWebsiteTeachersPayTeachers Testimonials: “Loved [the course]. Thank you for being so real and for providing so many resources. I enjoyed the
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
Climax and Falling Action, Plot.7.1
This, the seventh part of How to Outline Your Script or Story, defines the climax in such a way students will be able to accurate find the climax of stories and scripts and create dramatic climaxes themselves. The lesson also details the functions of the falling action: how it ties up loose ends in a way satisfying to readers or audiences and how it provides closure to a story or script. Students will be able to identify the falling action in stories and scripts as well as create satisfying fall
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
Forces Follow a Course, Plot.5
Part 5, Forces Follow a Course details how to establish a theme by choosing the setting for the beginning and the setting for the ending or your story or script. It explains how settings have meaning and gives examples of how you can create themes from your choice of opening and ending settings.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
VIDEO - Antigone Prologue discussion and explication
This 8 1/2 minute video is the first in a series of videos for classroom use on Antigone. Mr. Mooney walks the students through the Prologue of Antigone step by step. An optional writing or reading assignment is at the end.Imperative that you download this free script version of Antigone. It's 41 (entire play) pages, but may be worth your while to print out so students can annotate.Great sub plan!
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9th - 12th
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Macbeth Bundle
This bundle combines all of my resources on studying Macbeth, including a video on the play's historical/societal context, a graphic organizer for taking notes on the different characters, a close reading guide for key scenes in Act 1, and essay prompts.
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10th - 12th
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