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Higher education ELA test prep thematic unit plans
Types of Characters and Characterization Powerpoint
This is a fun, engaging lesson for teaching CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION that your students will be sure to enjoy!
Activity contains:
* EDITABLE 20-slide powerpoint
* 9 entertaining video examples (**PLEASE NOTE: Many of these videos come from youtube, please ensure that you district has access prior to purchasing. If you notice that a link no longer works, please let me know and I will update it with a new link.)
* 11 Illustrated definitions that can be printed for adorable word wall po
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
AP English Literature Full Year BUNDLE!
Teaching AP Lit for the first time? Or just looking to bolster your course with some fresh ideas? This is the resource for you! You'll find in this bundle every resource and lesson plan that I've created for my entire AP English Literature and Composition course over the last 7+ years, along with a bunch of bonus material. There really is a full year's worth of great stuff in this download! My hope is that my AP Lit class is NOT a stale, test-prep course in which students slog their way thr
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Types of Characters (and Characterization) Powerpoint
This is a fun, engaging lesson for teaching CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION that your students will be sure to enjoy!
Activity contains:
* EDITABLE 20-slide powerpoint
* 9 entertaining video examples
* 11 Illustrated definitions that can be printed for adorable word wall posters
* Variety of colorful backgrounds, images, and fonts
Tems included:
Antagonist
Archetype
Central Character
Characterization
Direct Characterization
Dynamic Character
Indirect Characterization
Minor Characters
Motive
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti Paired-Text Set Close Reading Poetry Analysis
Back to School paired text set.Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti close reading poetry analysis. This analysis includes the poem and a comparative short story with similar elements and themes for the students to analyze and compare and contrast. DOK 2 level comprehensive questions and graphic organizer options are included. Analyzing poetry is an art. How do you get better at it? Practice. Here is an easy way to teach close reading with self-guided questions that help the student gain understanding o
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5th - 8th, Higher Education
A Christmas Carol Excerpt End of Stave 4 Close Reading Analysis for students
This activity examines an excerpt from near the end of Stave 4 of the novella "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Whether an assessment/analysis for the end of stave 4 or a stand alone analysis (You do not have to have read the book) for students, this activity allows the student to analyze the text closely for tone, figurative language, word choice, summarization, word meaning, theme, author's purpose, citing text evidence, making predictions, plot analysis, suspense, inference, and drawing
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Holiday Time Classics Paired Text Thematic Unit
Oh Could I Raise the Darken'd Veil by Hawthorne Close Reading Poetry Analysis
Close Reading Poetry Analysis of "Oh Could I Raise the Darken'd Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is a great poem to start off the new semester in January. A New Year in the calendar, a fresh start in the school year, or not focusing on grim and focused on the positive, good ones are all part of the focus in the test prep oriented analysis on the poem. Analyzing poetry is an art. How do you get better at it? Practice. Here is an easy way to teach close reading with self-guided questions that
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know #1 (Vocabulary 1-10)
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know (Complete Words 1-10) INTRODUCTORY SHEET, QUIZ and KEY
I have used the "100 Words" titles in my classroom for several years with much success for so many reasons:
1. the actual book, available from Houghton Mifflin, is sold as both a paper copy and an electronic copy, each at well under $10, making it an ideal resource for students. The assignment is also completely accessible to students who don't purchase the book itself, since the words can
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Heart of Darkness Excerpt Beg. of Part 3 Close Reading Analysis
This activity examines an excerpt from the beginning of part 3 of the novel la"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Whether an assessment/analysis for part 3 or a stand alone analysis (You do not have to have read the book) for students, this activity allows the student to analyze the text closely for tone, figurative language, word choice, author's purpose, character traits, summarization, citing text evidence, inference, and drawing conclusions. Check out the other excerpt from the same novel
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Even More Classic Poems to Teach Specific Themes and the Paired Texts to go with
Have you searched and searched for poetry to match the theme you are teaching? What about the non-fiction newspaper articles from the past that correlate with the fiction and theme being taught? Unit planned? Check out the lists of poems, quotes, short stories, songs, articles, novellas, novels, and excerpts that can be used to pair with the themes below. Check out the other lists available in the store as well. Cross-curricular and great for test prep. In person on online teaching. The lists in
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
A Christmas Carol Excerpt End of Stave 1 Charles Dickens Close Reading Analysis
This activity examines an excerpt from near the end of Stave 1 of the novella "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Whether an assessment/analysis for the end of stave 4 or a stand alone analysis (You do not have to have read the book) for students, this activity allows the student to analyze the text closely for tone, figurative language, word choice, summarization, word meaning, theme, author's purpose, citing text evidence, making predictions, plot analysis, suspense, inference, and drawing
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Holiday Time Classics Paired Text Thematic Unit
Mini-Unit: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I taught this as part of a thematic unit on geography and society for summer school. It covered about three weeks of five one-hour long periods, but it might take you less depending on your student level. (My students are all ELLs and tend to be lower-level readers even in their native languages.)
The best part of this unit is that it takes a literary classic that you love and helps students approach the rich themes--without making them take a mini-course on 19th century American regional dia
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Do Not Disturb Testing Sign
Do Not Disturb Sign
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NewsELA Response Sheet
This can be used with NewsELA online articles.
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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