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Close reading Common Core RH.11-12.3 resources
Engaging "Homegoing" Unit Plan (30 Days)
Product Description:Discover a comprehensive and captivating unit plan for Yaa Gyasi's compelling novel, "Homegoing," designed for 12th-grade students. This thoughtfully crafted unit provides a deep dive into the novel's rich themes, complex characters, and historical context, fostering critical thinking, discussion, and reflective writing.Key Features:Detailed Pacing Guide: A 30 day step-by-step pacing guide ensures seamless instruction, including pre-reading activities, engaging discussions, r
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Women's Suffrage Movement Reading Assignment and Worksheet, 1865-1920
Follow me if you like this resource! You will be notified of other freebies and new products that I post.This four-page Reading Assignment and Worksheet provides an overview of the various activities, attributes and activities of women involved in the women's suffrage movement. It covers the time period from the end of the Civil War in 1865 through the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Students can read this on their own as a homework assignment or it can be a group activity in a classroo
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Women's Suffrage: Teaching Bundle * Women's History Month
The Things They Carried - Empathy Building Unit
The series of activities in this unit are designed to enhance empathy for your students to situations, people, cultures, and places they may have never experienced before. Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, is an excellent literary resource, in particular with setting, narrator, and characterization, imagery, syntax, and more, as well as developing deeper understandings of the themes of war, post-traumatic stress disorder, battlefield violence, social and political inequities, and men
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10th - 12th
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"I Have a Dream" Speech Review, Test, or Worksheet and Detailed Answer Key
This "dream" assessment provides a comprehensive review of Martin Luther King's famous speech. Students will have the chance to look at the piece from both a historical and literary perspective as they analyze what this famous civil rights leader espoused. From rhetorical devices to symbols, imagery, diction, and inferences, readers will gain a true understanding of the profound contents of "I Have A Dream." Teachers may also utilize an on-line video of MLK's speech as students read the conten
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
This bundle contains all of my holiday clue by clue activities. These activities have students practicing critical thinking, logic, reasoning, and reading strategies as they solve a fun mystery or logic puzzle. They work for students of all ages and make a great group activity to get students talking and expressing opinions. But they can be done as individual activities. This bundle includes 6 mysteries (for Valentines Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas), each in PDF format, perfect for
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Obama Close Reading and Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz "DNC Keynote Speech"
A middle school and high school activity for Black History Month. A printable close reading handout and reading comprehension multiple choice quiz of President Barack Obama's keynote address speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. This worksheet and assessment is perfect for students who are passionate about current events and social justice. The lesson is aligned to common core standards. Feeling stressed as a teacher with limited to no time for lesson planning? If you're searching f
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6th - 12th
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Historical Witch Hunt Socratic Seminar: Culminating Activity For The Crucible
Historical Witch Hunt Socratic Seminar: Culminating Activity For The Crucible- This activity is the perfect way to apply the large themes of The Crucible to other witch hunts throughout history. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a warning against the pressure of blind conformity and how fear can lead even the most noble of individuals to potentially crack under pressure. Students begin with watching a Ted Talk over the idea of fear and what it can do to a person and then individual read and an
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
End of the Year Activities Last Week of School High School Reading Comprehension
This is a self-contained product that focuses on a small section of Plato’s Republic. The work is listed as an exemplary information text in the CCSS for Language Arts. This product is perfect for High School reading comprehension.Plato’s Republic is one of the most influential texts in the Western canon and has significantly shaped Western culture. The following is from Allan Bloom’s “Preface to the Second Edition.” “The Republic is, of course, a permanent book, one of the small number of books
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP English Literature, Inferences, Implied Ideas, reading comprehension
AP English Literature, Inferences, Implied Ideas, reading comprehension(THE THEAETETUS) WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?Higher Order Thinking Skills HOTS #3In this post-truth environment, where alternative facts and false stats are on the rise, critical thinking, analytical debate, and ethical reasoning are more important than ever.This product focuses on Plato’s Theaetetus. The question at the center of the dialogue regards the question of knowledge and whether it exists. The answer, according to Socrates,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rhetorical Analysis Google Doc Packet & Printable - Emma Watson "Women's Rights"
PRINTABLE or DIGITAL Google Doc work packet. Ready to be assigned on Google Classroom. You will save time because an answer key and detailed lesson plan are included, and you will have a rigorous and engaging lesson aligned to standards on reading informational texts and argumentative writing! Students will love reading about social justice and gender inequality, perfect for Women's History Month!In this activity, students will...1. Evaluate Emma Watson's persuasive techniques by reading the spe
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6th - 12th
Mini-Bundle: U.S. Women's History Reading Assignments Pre-Columbian Era to 1865
This Mini-Bundle includes four Reading Assignments and Worksheets from the Pre-Columbian Era through 1865:* Native American Women Reading Assignment and Worksheet* Colonial Women Reading Assignment and Worksheet* Women of the American Revolution Reading Assignment and Worksheet* Early Women's Rights Movement Reading Assignment and WorksheetEach Reading Assignment and Worksheet is designed to take one class period or for students to complete on their own as independent study or to complete as hom
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8th - 11th
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Rhetorical Analysis Practice - Ruth Muskrat Bronson - Native American Heritage
Celebrate First Nations writers with this speech activist Ruth Muskrat Bronson gave to President Coolidge in 1923. This 33-page rhetorical analysis lesson includes a transcript templatesorganizersteacher guidesversions in both PDF and Google SlidesSuggestions for UseHonor Native American Heritage Month or Indigenous People's Day with a full, rigorous lesson.Use the lesson plan in an AP English Language class.Incorporate the lesson into Women's History Month.Use as an emergency sub plan with adva
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: American Literature Collection - Geronimo to Jason Reynolds - Stamped
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Close Reading
A close reading guide for American History teachers and literacy lovers!!! This reading guide from OWLS goes with any lesson centered around our nation's fight for freedom.
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6th - 12th
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Analysis of Strategies using Civil War era Ballou Letter
This brief Text is a personal letter that Major Sullivan Ballou wrote to his wife in 1861 the night before the Battle of Bull Run. Students tend to concentrate on the closing that sounds so loving, but it’s a good text for close reading because almost half of the letter is on the subject of his love of country and how he’s ready give his life to save the union. It’s poetic and beautifully written (Alas, people don’t talk like this anymore.) This lesson was designed for use in an AP Language Clas
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Earth Day Bundle - Persuasion, Rhetoric and Authorial Message
As the climate crisis becomes more prominent in mainstream media and takes over social media news feeds, it's time to bring it into the classroom. The Five resources provided here encompass the major modes and genres of literature! Use together or spread throughout the year! Either way, texts are included with marginal questions and space for annotating. Simple Print and Go!
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9th - 12th
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Women in Colonial America: Reading Assignment and Worksheet *Women's History*
This five-page Reading Assignment and Worksheet provides an overview of the various activities, attributes and activities of women in colonial America between 1607 and 1763 which was the start of the French and Indian War. Students can read this on their own as a homework assignment or it can be a group activity in a classroom. It is also ideally suited for home-schoolers or independent learners who want to learn more. A Worksheet with questions based on the reading is included, along with an An
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Women in Colonial America: Teaching Bundle *U.S. History*
Examining 9/11 Stations Activity
The purpose of the stations activity is to not only educate students on the events of September 11, 2001, but to have them think critically about the words and images tied to that day. Feel free to add or omit stations that would/would not serve your classroom. Activities can also be completed outside of the station format and used as activities for whole class instruction.Station 1: Analysis of President Bush’s Speech to the Nation on 9/11 includes bank of rhetorical strategies, sentence stems,
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9th - 12th
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The Declaration of Independence: Close Reading and Analysis Assignment
This package starts with one succinct page of background information essential for understanding the historical context in which The Declaration was written. Following the page of background notes, you'll find a series of questions about The Declaration, followed by an answer key. In order to answer some of these questions, your students will have to refer to the page of background notes, using them to analyze, draw conclusions, explain, and/or evaluate. In short, this assignment is designed to
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Gettysburg Address: Test, Worksheet, or Homework Assignment & Answer Key
After reading this famous speech, teachers may "address" their students with a short, comprehensive printable that captures the essence of this famous oration.
Questions include topics on historical context and rhetorical devices. A detailed answer key is included.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Columbus & N. Scott Momaday: Organizers to Cite Evidence and Pair Texts
These activities will lead students to examine nonfiction texts from different centuries that address the same momentous world event. The lesson includes a letter written by Christopher Columbus and selected quotes from an essay by N. Scott Momaday. A variety of engaging organizers will guide students to closely examine these works and analyze how each treats the same topic.The Columbus excerpt from a letter to the Spanish monarchs expresses his views of the indigenous people and the landscapes
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
70s Disco Classroom Stations Daily Agenda Slides for Small Groups
Looking for a fun way to get your students engaged in source analysis? Introduce Source Analysis Speed-Dating! With speed-dating style pairings, your students will be analyzing sources and making arguments like never before. Not only can they practice their source analysis skills, but they'll have a blast doing it! Try it today and watch your classroom ignite with debate.
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7th - 12th
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Pride and Prejudice: Introductory Activities [Distance Learning]
This packet includes four introductory activities including to help students learn more about the novel, the historical period, and the themes represented. They utilize primary texts, additional research, dialogue between texts, tone and style analysis, predictive skills, etc. It is also meant to help drive interest in and comprehension of the novel before actually reading it. It is designed to be used either with remote learning or directly in the classroom. There are instructions for the teach
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Pride and Prejudice: Starter Bundle [Distance Learning]
Primary Document Worksheet: Letter From an Indentured Servant (1623)
This document is an excerpted reading an indentured servant's letter home to England, expressing the difficulty of life in the New World. It is able to be edited and includes:-Contextualization Introduction-Chunked Excerpts-Vocabulary Development Assistance-Scaffolding Questions-Answer Key Great for in-class primary document analysis and to supplement class time as a homework assignment!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American History Primary Document Bundle
Primary Document Worksheet: Woodrow Wilson, Safe for Democracy Speech (1917)
This document is an excerpted reading from Woodrow Wilson's 1917 speech to Congress in which he argued that the United States must enter WWI in order to make the world "safe for democracy." It is able to be edited and includes:-Contextualization Introduction-Chunked Excerpts-Vocabulary Development Assistance-Scaffolding Questions-Answer Key Great for in-class primary document analysis and to supplement class time as a homework assignment!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American History Primary Document Bundle
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