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Common Core RL.11-12.10 research
The Crucible Engaging Activities - 12 Pre-Reading & Post-Reading Tasks
Looking for some fun, unique, and engaging activities to supplement The Crucible? These activities are perfect for learning background information before reading the play and assessing students' understanding after studying the play.Pre-reading activities include:❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history
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9th - 12th
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Unpacking 'A Good Man is Hard to Find': Short Story Discussion & Lesson
Engage Adolescent English Language Arts students (Grades 10-12) with Flannery O'Connor's classic short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find."O'Connor's short story is compelling, dealing with issues related to class, race, moral hypocrisy, and violence. In the story, a woman from the American South goes on a family vacation to Florida. But not everything turns out as expected . . .Use this Digital Download for a Two-day English Language Arts Lesson Using my tested-in-the-classroom resources, teenag
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Orwell's 1984 - Compare 1984 to Today - Group Research Presentation Project
George Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to demonstrate what our world could become based on practices of his 1948 society. Assess your high school ELA students' recognition of the importance of 1984 to them, today. Engage students with this detailed research and presentation activity. This activity guides students through researching, organizing, and performing a creative presentation comparing the society depicted in Orwell's 1984 to today's world. No prep.Each group chooses one of the f
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9th - 12th
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Transcendentalism and American Romantic Poetry Webquest
This Google Slides Webquest is provides an opportunity for groups or individuals with a mini-research component, as well as excerpts from Walden, Self-Reliance, and poetry from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Also included is a creative writing final assessment project related to either Transcendentalism or American Romantic Poetry. Three expository writing prompts are also included with the poetry. This assignment is intended to engage students with challenging topics and literary works throu
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature: Transcendentalism, Poetry, and Short Stories
Comparing "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with Swift's "The Albatross" (TTPD)
This assignment asks students to construct an essay that compares Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with Taylor Swift's song "The Albatross." Students must explore themes, literary devices, and the emotional responses they invoke. This assignment could be used to assess student learning after reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I have also included 3 learning extension activities that relate to this assignment.
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9th - 12th
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Feed by M.T. Anderson Bundle of Quizzes, Worksheets, Research Project, and Keys
This low-prep bundle covering Feed by M.T. Anderson contains all the formative and summative assessments teachers need to assess general reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, facilitate student research on a range of relevant topics, and greatly reduce take-home lesson planning responsibilities. Included are four multiple choice quizzes; four short answer alternate quiz options; four close reading worksheets covering fifteen substantive novel passages;
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9th - 12th
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Modern Fairytale Lesson Plans
Modern Fairytale Lesson Plans 10 Lesson Plans made to bring modern fairytales into the 9th Grade ELA classroom Lessons are aligned with ELA Common Core standardsThe preview shows the entire research paper I completed for the lessons Unit Could be used a mini unitA good way to teach theme, adaptions & compare/ contrast.
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9th - 12th
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The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer Research Project for Google Drive
Facilitate the process of investigating relevant topics, documenting information gathered, and delivering formal speeches with this low-prep, standards-based research project to complement Susan Beth Pfeffer's dystopian novel The Dead and the Gone, the sequel to Life As We Knew It. The focus of the project is natural and human-influenced disasters, covering twenty topics including the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the flu pandemic of 1918, the tri-state tornado outbreak of 1925, the Fukushi
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6th - 12th
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Slave Narratives Federal Writers Project
From 1920-1930, the Library of Congress dispatched writers to record authentic slave narrative stories from the last remaining Americans who were enslaved before the Civil War. Hundreds of these true slave narrative stories are available online for students to read and research! This is a great project to add to any slave narrative unit!The Slave Narratives Federal Writers Project provides a curated list of 53 slave narrative stories for your students to choose from to create a research presenta
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Literary Allusions Project & Presentation
Allusions to mythological and biblical figures, stories, or elements show up repeatedly in English literature. Understanding the most common mythological and biblical allusions will help students better understand literature and prepare them for more in-depth and reliable analyses of what they read in your course.Students will select, research, and teach the class in a brief presentation about a mythological character or story from either Greek, Norse, or biblical tradition.
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9th - 12th
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Author Introduction: Ray Bradbury Biography, Bio, All Summer in a Day, CCSS
This Ray Bradbury intro lesson bundle includes two great activities for teaching students about the life and biography of Ray Bradbury and helping them analyze his famous short story, "All Summer in a Day." The highly engaging, CCSS aligned Ray Bradbury biography activity is designed to look like an Instagram profile/post that students fill out using their own research on the author. The short story analysis activity (a digital or printable gallery walk) helps students collaboratively discuss im
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8th - 11th
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Free Scaffolded Reading & Research Notes: Help Students Independently Annotate!
One of my year-long goals is for my students to reach a place where they can independently take and make meaningful notes and annotations while they read. Personally, I prefer to write in my books, but in the classroom, that's not always possible. With this in mind, I put together these 5 Square Notes sheets (kind of like graphic organizers) that walk students through annotation and/or note taking. Each sheet is set up in the 1-2-3-2-1 style, which is a pattern that's easy for students to rememb
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8th - 12th
9/11 September 11 Activities Gr. 9-12
This packet is complete with activities honoring 9/11 for older students. What better way to encourage students to reflect on what 9/11 means to them?
This packet includes three articles about the 9/11 attacks and seven songs written about 9/11 with accompanying reflection worksheets. Teacher can choose from the articles as well as seven lyrics from popular musicians ranging from Leonard Cohen, Beastie Boys and Bon Jovi to Toby Keith, Darryl Worley and dc Talk. The Toby Keith and Darryl Worley
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party': 3-Day HS ELA Lesson | Digital & Print
Engage high school English Language Arts students with Katherine Mansfield's Modernist short story "The Garden Party."Mansfield's short story is a funny, absurd, vibrant read, treating themes such as class division, innocence and experience, and more. In the story, a young girl plans a Garden Party with her upper-middle-class family. But when a poor worker who lives down the lane dies in a tragic accident, some things stay the same, but the young girl is changed forever.Note — this resource come
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10th - 11th
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Research Project and Speech Materials
This low-prep, standards-based project helps high school students investigate topics and deliver informative speeches related to Michael Crichton's science fiction novel Jurassic Park. It also helps students contextualize the events of the novel by calling attention to 30 relevant topics—from scientific advancements (such as the cloning of Dolly the sheep and the sequencing of human genes) to scientific theories (such as those involving efforts to achieve de-extinction and those seeking to under
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9th - 12th
St. Lucy's Home: Karen Russell Short Story Guide for Students
Engage high school English Language Arts students with Karen Russell's contemporary short story "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves."Russell's short story is a fantastic, coming-of-age boarding school read with a twist. With wolves. The story treats home, friendship, conformity, and culture shock themes. In the story, Claudette and her sisters cope with living at an all-girls boarding and finishing school run by Catholic nuns. But when tension arises between the wolf girls, Claudette has
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9th - 11th
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Interdisciplinary Research Presentation Project
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Interdisciplinary Research Presentation Project: This resource includes 11 pages that are the perfect, no-prep way to have your students research deep and meaningful connections between themes from the play and historical events. This Common Core Aligned resource will guide your students to connect themes of power and corruption in Macbeth to examples from history of political insurgencies or corporate corruption scandals. They will then design and present slides o
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7th - 12th
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Lord of the Flies - Arg. Res. Essay - Summative/Final Assess - Social Justice
This includes a research-based argumentative essay prompt connected to Lord of the Flies (in my classroom I also include Hamlet as my students have read that although you could edit that out or include your own secondary novel) along with an outline that labels and describes each sentence in an essay. The nature of the prompt requires students to have a deep understanding of the story and characters so that they can synthesize an opinion and find textual support. The prompt also requires student
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8th - 12th
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Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Research Project for Google Drive
Promote student choice and facilitate the process of researching scientific and societally significant topics from beginning to end with this low-prep, standards-based resource pertaining to the novel Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Students will choose from more than a dozen topics—Yellowstone's supervolcano, Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, and nuclear disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima to name a few—and navigate academically appropriate sources with the goal of
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6th - 12th
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Ernest Hemingway - Research Worksheet / Organizer - NO PREP - EASEL
This Research Organiser/Worksheets on Ernest Hemingway is designed to guide students in conducting thorough research on this literary giant's life and times. Students will uncover the rich tapestry of his life, common themes appearing throughout his works, and his literary style. It's the perfect tool to prepare students for a comprehensive exploration of Hemingway's literary legacy. It is the perfect tool to PREPARE and ORGANISE information and SUPPORT research for:- essays,- presentations,- pr
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7th - 11th
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Shakespeare's Elizabethan Worldview Introduction (GOOGLE SLIDES)
An introductory presentation on William Shakespeare and the Great Chain of Being in Elizabethan England. Includes an overview of terms and definitions, how the structure related to Shakespeare’s writings, along with video content and note-taking graphic organizers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Literature Lessons: Edgar Allan Poe, Biography, Bio, Tell Tale Heart Lesson CCSS
This Edgar Allan Poe lesson bundle includes three great activities for teaching students about the life and biography of Edgar Allan Poe and helping them analyze his famous short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." The highly engaging, CCSS aligned Edgar Allan Poe biography activity is designed to look like an Instagram profile/post that students fill out using their own research on the author. The short story worksheet helps students analyze basic literary elements of Poe's story as well as his use o
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8th - 11th
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Araby by Joyce: Comprehensive Short Story Guide & Lesson for Students
Engage high school English Language Arts students with James Joyce's Modernist coming-of-age short story "Araby."Joyce's short story is a somber, tender telling of the inner emotional life of a working-class boy in early twentieth-century Dublin. The story treats themes of dark and light, spiritual blindness, innocence and experience, and more. In the story, an unnamed boy is infatuated with a barely-known girl. We follow him on his "epic journey" to a bazaar, where he finds disappointment and t
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9th - 11th
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Don DeLillo's Libra Bundle: Reading accountability quizzes and activities!
Description:This bundle of activities and quizzes is helpful for developing a unit on Don DeLillo's Libra. Consider it to be a starter pack! The reading accountability / assessment quizzes are cheat-proof, and the activities are rigorous and engaging. Students will read high-level writing, analyze the plot structure of the novel, and perhaps even write a researched literary analysis. These materials are great for high school honors classes or AP Literature (grades 11-12)!In This Bundle:An introd
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11th - 12th
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