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📚 Multi-Genre Reading Response Packet Engaging, Low-Prep Reading Responses for Any Text (Print & Go!)Turn your reading block into a thinking lab instead of a worksheet graveyard. This Multi-Genre Reading Response Packet helps students anal
View on TPTDive deep into the rich tapestry of mystery and suspense with this comprehensive Google Slides presentation that explores the fundamental conventions and diverse subgenres of crime fiction. Perfect for high school or advanced middle school
View on TPTProduct Description: Looking for a suspense story they haven't read yet? 🚪🔦 Step away from the usual curriculum with Neil Gaiman's incredibly eerie, twist-ending short story, "Click-Clack the Rattlebag." This interactive slide deck frames
View on TPTEmpower your students to thrive by discovering how to use their unique strengths to build resilience, manage stress, and cultivate a positive mindset. This comprehensive, ready-to-use Google Slides presentation provides a structured, engagi
View on TPTHelp your students transform their study habits by connecting them to their unique personal strengths! This engaging, ready-to-use Google Slides presentation and activity set guides students through a process of self-discovery to create per
View on TPTThis engaging and interactive Google Slides lesson is designed to guide students on a journey of self-discovery, helping them identify, understand, and apply their unique personal strengths to real-life challenges and personal growth. Perfe
View on TPTThis engaging, zero-prep webquest is designed to help middle and high school students move beyond simply identifying their natural talents to actively developing and applying them in their academic and personal lives. Using three distinct,
View on TPTEngage your high school students in the art of persuasive writing with this comprehensive Defense Letter Assignment bundle for the Innocence Project! This captivating assignment challenges students to utilize ethos, pathos, and logos as the
View on TPTThis packet includes comprehension questions for each chapter of the book "Girl in Translation."
View on TPTPartial Description of Choice options for Memoir Assignment: Assignment: You will be writing a short memoir piece based on what should be included in a Memoir from our readings and discussions. Use your notebook time writing for inspiration
View on TPTThis is a powerpoint lesson that includes 1. a teaching point with quote 2. writing prompt: about how students are persuaded everyday, 3. a chart explaining the difference between argument, persuasion and propaganda. 4. Definition of Ethos,
View on TPTThis is a research project for sexually transmitted disease unit. It includes what should be included in either brochure, digital presentation, or poster. It also includes a rubric for scoring.
View on TPTThis is the opening to a unit of "What makes good character?" This lesson explains the difference between ethics and morals. This lesson includes: 1. Do now question slide 2. Introduction to essay assignment 3. Important terms to know: Ethi
View on TPTThis is a rubric for a literary analysis paper. The final draft is worth 48 points. This also includes thesis statement, introductory paragraph, and rough draft which goes with other power point lessons from my store.
View on TPTLesson going over Argument in Commercials- Great opening notes for argument unit. Teaching point: Argument is everywhere Notes on Argument, Propaganda, and Persuasion Includes Ethos, Pathos, Logos with examples in commercials. Discussion on
View on TPTThis is a rubric for a free verse poem writing assignment.
View on TPTThis power point is notes for students on line breaks, form, rhythm and rhyme. Each has a definition along with an examples. This goes well with Toni Morrison Jazz activity.
View on TPTIn a written paper of 2-3 pages, I want you to write a letter to Holden that presents an argument for whether you agree or disagree with the belief that he is an admirable, sympathetic figure that properly represents teenagers today. Either
View on TPTThis is an assignment I use when looking at text and film comparisons. I use it with Tell-Tale Heart, Monkey's Paw and the Hitchhiker. The first part is a chart for comparisons. The second part asks them to analyze the differences based upo
View on TPTThis lesson is an introduction to Reading like a writer. It explains the difference in ways to read a text with an analogy at the beginning of the lesson. The slides are titled: analogy, why reading like a writer is important, reading as re
View on TPTThis is an assignment I used with Julia Alverez's "In the Time of the Butterflies." This asks students to write a one page additional narration from a different characters perspective. It also asks students to write a letter from one charac
View on TPTThis lesson is for group work. It goes through steps to setting group norms with examples, roles for group members, and setting smart goals. This is a great lesson for the beginning of a big project.
View on TPTThis is a lesson created for Heid Erdrich's digital poem Pre-occupied. It connects the themes present in the poem to Native American history along with other issues present in the poem. It meets the Minnesota standard for Minnesota specific
View on TPTThis packet includes questions for each section/chapter of the book "The Emperor was Divine"
View on TPTEmbracing Fears - Part 1In this engaging lesson, students will explore the concept of embracing fears as a pathway to personal growth. Through thought-provoking discussions, journaling prompts, and activities, students will reflect on their
View on TPTIn this lesson, students discover possible Misconceptions they may have about World War 2 and Anne Frank. It is designed to be uploaded to Nearpod but can be used as a slideshow as well. Lesson includes a slide for read-aloud using Book Hea
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View on TPTQuestions for Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People" These can be used for individual students or in small groups. The story is longer and this was included in a two day lesson that I did with seniors. They completed the ques
View on TPTAssignment: Create a narrative autobiography based on a memory of a significant event in your life, perhaps your childhood. Choose an event that will be engaging for readers and that will, at the same time, tell them something about you or
View on TPTThis power point includes notes for personification and hyperbole. It also includes practice opportunities and a poem with examples for each. This gives students the opportunity to practice each of these terms and see how they are used in p
View on TPTThese questions go along with the Pre-occupied lesson. These could also be used after watching Heid Erdrich's poem Pre-occupied on youtube. The questions focus on theme, tone, mood, background, content and form. Meets the standard for Minne
View on TPTInstructions:This graphic organizer will help you identify the different types of intelligence displayed by Algernon and Charlie in the story "Flowers for Algernon." Students can complete this character analysis in groups or on their own du
View on TPTThis assignment is for students to create business plans. It includes descriptions of the executive summary, company description, marketing research, product line description and grading rubric. This took my students about two weeks to comp
View on TPTThis is a powerpoint lesson on how to frame quotes in an essay. It uses the quote sandwich to show how students should introduce and explain the quote. It also includes a slide on hooking your reader at the end.
View on TPTThis is a powerpoint lesson on how to summarize what students are reading. It includes essential question, introduction, examples, several ways to write a summary, for example: SWABS, and character, goal, obstacle, action. At the end there
View on TPTIn this assignment students write a poem in groups. They write a poem based upon 4-5 pictures. I usually pick a different theme depending on the unit. I used "What does it mean to be American" last time I used this but it can be adapted to
View on TPTThis power point uses DD to develop a social contract for the class at the beginning of the year. It helps the students create the rules they will follow for the rest of the year.
View on TPTThis is a rubric for a poem written for a digital poetry assignment. The students write a poem collaboratively and then created videos for their poem. This is a rubric for their poems. It includes the steps for the writing process and the r
View on TPTThis breaks down revision of argumentative or expository essays. Students go over their evidence and transitions and work together to develop their writing skills. It looks at basic structure of paragraphs in an essay.
View on TPTThis packet has questions for each chapter of the book "The Rooftops of Tehran."
View on TPTWalks students through what should be in each paragraph of an argumentative essay, including resources for transitions and planting a naysayer.
View on TPTLesson on how to play Devil's advocate with examples from texts. At the end students practice using any article. (I liked to give choice articles for students)
View on TPTWe have finished reading In the Time of the Butterflies. At this point there may have been a few places that you would have liked to hear from a different character as the narrator to hear their perspective or experience at a certain point.
View on TPTThis is a powerpoint presentation for writing a thesis statement. This walks through the process simply ending with Gallagher's thesis generator.
View on TPTThis assignment is for an argument paper. It provides the outline of the paper, thesis examples and a rubric. It's great for the culmination of an argument unit.
View on TPTThis is a graphic organizer to use with "A Poison Tree" Asks for descriptive words for how we know how the narrator feels. Also asks students to write a plot structure for the poem.
View on TPTThese are questions I use for students to analyze a poem. This can be used as part of a larger poetry research project, which I've also done. This could also be used as a quiz for students who have worked on poetry analysis.
View on TPTThis is a rubric that I created that goes along with a metaphor poster project that I found online.
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