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Common Core RL.11-12.4 videos
September 11 Poems
All poems are about September 11. Poetic devices covered: theme, symbolism, rhyme, rhythm, mood, and tone. Package includes instructional videos from the internet to introduce and explain poetic devices and four total September 11 poems with sixteen total questions for these poems. It's a seven page document. Free resource Sept. 11 Blog accompanies this lesson too.
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9th - 12th
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Free Common Core Activity for Plot Structure, Theme, and Tone in a Movie Trailer
The provided FREE Common Core rigorous activity explores the development of plot structure, tone, theme, and character development in a popular movie trailer from 2014. The activities are tied to the Common Core standards RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, SL2, and SL3. The activity focus on the analysis of how authors develop plot structure (foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, humor, and mystery), tone, theme, and complex characters in a movie trailer. The activity includes a teacher answer key to assist you
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6th - 12th
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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:Â 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:Â 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:Â 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:Â 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:Â 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:Â Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
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:Â Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
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African American Literature | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to teach African American 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. Supporting file includes Black American poetry unit but not copyrighted literature. Running time: 54 minutes and 8 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate u
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
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:Â Outline Your Story or Script: The Complete Plot How-to Course
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Allusion: AROV"s Lessons on the Go
For teachers looking for "lessons on the go", we offer "turnkey" content that requires little-to-no preparation whatsoever, which can be incorporated lessons or assigned as stand alone projects for independent study. This product is a ready-to-go lesson on allusions (approx.: 25 minutes) that teachers can use as a classroom supplement, as an exercise for differentiation and review, or even for an activity for students to engage with individually. It covers the concept of allusion itself, address
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Purpose of Grammar and Syntax | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to teach grammar and syntax 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: 47 minutes and 9 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:Â PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
15:00
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:Â 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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17:08
Short Fiction and Point of View | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to assign a short fiction unit 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. File does not include copyrighted short stories. Running time: 17 minutes and 8 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or sta
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in:Â 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:Â 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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Literary Devices | ELA Professional Development Course
Learn how to teach literary devices and techniques 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: 6 minutes and 32 seconds. This course is not eligible for a professional development certificate unless your district administration or state approves the hours and completes the
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in:Â PD for Secondary ELA Teachers: Easy, Exciting, and Excellent Teaching
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Teaching Poetry In Action: Pairing with Dystopian Texts
Poetry is one of the most powerful supplementary texts available to teachers and also one of the most nerve-wracking and frightening things to teach. In this video, I share a combination of techniques: the Big Six analysis tool, pairing poetry with Essential Question based and genre-based units to help teachers feel confident teaching poetry.The poem we walk through in this video is called "Prayer for the Mutilated World" by poet Sam Sax. I will share with you exactly how I'd teach it to stud
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Dystopian Literature: Mega Bundle of All Resources
Analyzing Mood: Three Skeleton Key Trailer
Get your students in the MOOD for reading the classic thriller, "Three Skeleton Key," with this spooky story trailer. The trailer can be used in conjunction with my close reading unit "Analyzing Mood: Three Skeleton Key" which is available for sale in my TPT store. The story is perfect for teaching students students how to analyze an author's choices, and support inferences with text evidence, and study literary elements such as foreshadowing, mood, diction, and voice.
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8th - 11th
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Bundle: Live from St. Petersburg!
Show your students what Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg looked like! Let them experience how it felt to be Rodion Raskolnikov walking to the old pawnbroker woman's apartment with his dreaded task on his mind.This bundle includes four videos from St. Petersburg that make Crime and Punishment come alive:1. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route 1: Walk the most likely murder route suggested by the landmarks Dostoevsky discusses in the novel. Length: 15:30.2. In the Steps of Raskolnikov Murder Route
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