Free 10th Grade English Language Arts Resources (by date, oldest first)

The S.T.E.A.L. anchor chart is a great visualization for students when making inferences in fiction. Print in color or black and white!

Use as an anchor chart in your classroom or for quick reference in a binder! TPCASTT is the perfect addition for any classroom reading poetry.

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• All Things English For Middle & High School Students
• Defending Disney Villains
• Revising & Editing Workbook
• Revising & Editing for Group Lessons
• Bell Ringers for the Semester
• Everything Writing

An easy to read format to get your students writing!

And check out these other resources!

• All Things English For Middle & High School Students
• Defending Disney Villains
• Revising & Editing Workbook
• Revising & Editing for Group Lessons
• Bell Ringers for the Semester
• Everything Writing

Dive into the captivating history of Halloween with this comprehensive, FREE resource designed for middle and high school students.  This freebie includes a detailed reading passage on the origins, symbols, and global celebrations of Halloween, complete with engaging questions and guided note-taking sheets to reinforce learning.  Whether you’re exploring the cultural significance or dispelling common misconceptions, this resource is perfect for helping students develop a deeper understanding of Halloween.  Ideal for use in history, social studies, or language arts classrooms, this set is fully ready to use, with no preparation required.

Dive into the dynamic world of meteorology with the FREEBIE “The Fury of Nature: Understanding Hurricanes” reading passage, Q & A, and Note-Taking Sheets!  This educational resource offers a captivating reading passage that explores the science, impact, and fascinating facts about hurricanes.  Accompanied by a comprehensive set of questions and answers, it provides a thorough framework for assessing student understanding and encouraging critical thinking. The note-taking sheets are designed to help students organize information effectively and develop strong study habits.  Ideal for middle to high school students, this freebie is an invaluable addition to any science curriculum or classroom library.

This detailed resource package includes a thorough reading passage on 9/11, exploring the causes, events, and consequences of this pivotal moment in history. It comes with 20 critical questions, an answer key, and note-taking sheets for students making this resource perfect for engaging your upper middle and high school students.

Dive into the excitement of the 2024 Summer Games with this comprehensive, free educational resource!  Perfect for upper middle school to high school students, this package includes a detailed reading passage on the upcoming Paris Games, a set of questions and answers to test comprehension, and note-taking sheets to help students organize their thoughts.  This resource is an excellent way to engage students in the rich history and cultural significance of the Olympics while enhancing their reading and critical thinking skills.

Dive into the timeless world of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders with my engaging PowerPoint Presentation and Note-Taking Sheets!  This FREEBIE is perfect for teachers and students alike, designed to complement your literature curriculum and enhance students’ understanding of the novel.  The PowerPoint slides provide a comprehensive overview of key themes, character analysis, plot summaries, and important quotes, while the accompanying note-taking sheets encourage students to actively engage with the material, track their thoughts, and organize their insights.  Whether used in the classroom or for remote learning, this resource makes studying The Outsiders interactive and enjoyable.

Posters including 17 literary devices which are easy to print and use in your classroom. Add them to your word wall or brighten up a reading area.

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Vocabulary for Grades 7-10

Improves Vocabulary, Reading, Writing

10 Higher level words

Connotation, Denotation, Antonyms, Synonyms, Parts of Speech

Hands on and Interactive

Vocabulary Memory Game for Grades 7-10

Increases student vocabulary and understanding

Includes 10 List Words

Includes Definitions for teacher and students

1 Memory Game

Increase critical thinking skills with this Thanksgiving-themed Costa's Levels of Inquiry activity! Students will categorize questions based on Costa’s Level 1, 2, and 3, promoting deeper understanding of Thanksgiving traditions and ELA skills. Perfect for engaging middle and high school students in critical analysis and creative thinking during the holiday season!

What's Included

• 10 Thanksgiving-themed questions for categorizing into Costa's Level of Questioning
• Answer key

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Elevate your Scythe novel study with thi Exit Tickets and answer key freebie for chapter 1! Designed for no prep assessment, the exit ticket features 6 thought-provoking questions aligned with key curriculum standards.

Empower your students' comprehension and critical thinking skills with this comprehensive resource, complete with a time-saving answer key for quick and efficient grading!

Scythe Exit Tickets for Chapters 1-5

Directions:

• Students will respond to the exit ticket following the reading of Chapter 1.

• Use the answer key to grade their responses.

What's Included:

• An exit ticket for Chapter 1 with six questions
• Answer key

This back to school would you rather game is a great get to know you activity for the first week of school! Perfect as an icebreaker activity, debate, speech class, morning meeting activity, brain break, discussion starters, writing prompts or debate prompts. This is great for middle and high school students!

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• Would you rather never have homework again OR have an extra hour of sleep every day
• always know the right answer OR always be able to make everyone laugh

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Vocabulary Printable Game | Roll a Word Activity | Freebie: Student can use this roll a vocabulary word game in centers, for test prep, homework, small groups, tutoring, homeschool and so much more! AVID teachers can use the SAT/ACT vocabulary words found in our AVID Vocabulary bundle to practice their vocabulary skills!

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• 1 Roll a Word Vocabulary PDF Game Board

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• Students roll the dice and then choose a word from their vocabulary list.
• Then follow the directions to practice the word.

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This group work sheet can be used for any subject area. It is a very simple tool used for students to reflect on group work.

Students Will Write:

Plus- an area they did very well in

Delta- an area they could improve on for next time

Shout out- this is where they name a group member and what they did well

Stand out- this is where they share something that stood out to them from the experience with their groups

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This four-page handout introduces students to the themes which are most prominent in Mary Shelley's literary masterpiece, Frankenstein (1818). By having your students read and discuss this thematic introduction together, you will have them captivated by the complex questions invoked by Frankenstein before they open the novel's cover.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein asks a series of profound questions about human nature. Are human beings inherently benevolent or malevolent? Are humans better off when they live alone in isolation or when they live together in society? Can the development of modern technology have the effect of transforming human nature?

This handout is part of a larger bundle of Frankenstein resources which includes discussion questions, short writing prompts, vocabulary lists, daily quizzes, and an analytical writing assignment. To view my comprehensive bundle of Frankenstein resources, visit the following link:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Mary-Shelleys-Frankenstein-AP-Literature-3-WEEKS-of-DYNAMIC-Lesson-Plans-5293594

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NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This EDITABLE slideshow will kindle a fascination with Fitzgerald's novel before your students even crack the cover of The Great Gatsby. Open your unit on Fitzgerald's masterpiece with this powerful 41-slide PowerPoint SLIDESHOW presentation on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald's and the culture of 1920s America called "The Road to Gatsby: A Slideshow on F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Roaring Twenties."

While this slideshow can be downloaded for free, it is meant to be accompanied by a 9-page LECTURE that you can preview and/or purchase for $1.99 by clicking HERE!!

Here's a quick glimpse into each of the four sections featured in the slideshow:

• Part I. The Artist as a Young Man: This section features photographs of Fitzgerald from his childhood in Minnesota, his college years at Princeton, his military training at Camp Sheridan, and his romantic courtship of Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama. Your students will be fascinated by the parallels between Fitzgerald's life and Jay Gatsby's upbringing, military training, and romantic life. After all, it is only because Gatsby is wearing his military uniform — which erases the signs of his class status — that he can get close to Daisy Faye! (13 slides)

• Part II. New York in the Artistic Imagination: This section features photographs and paintings of the rapidly changing skyline of New York in the 1920s. Photographs by Alfred Stiegliz reveal how 5-story brownstones were replaced by 50-story skyscrapers. Paintings by Georgia O'Keefe and Howard Thain reveal how the invention of electric lights imbued the cityscape with color and romantic allure. (7 slides)

• Part III. The Characters as Readers: This section will not only prepare students to catch the literary allusions in The Great Gatsby but will get students thinking about what the books that various characters are reading might reveal about their personalities. What does his interest in Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches novels reveal about the character of Jay Gatsby? What does his interest in Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color reveal about the racist and xenophobic views of Tom Buchanan? (7 slides)

• Part IV. Drafting The Great Gatsby: This section features photographs of the mansions and parties that Scott and Zelda attended on Long Island in 1923. It also features Fitzgerald's handwritten drafts of the first and last pages of his novel, a list of the six titles that Fitzgerald rejected (plus the title he actually preferred but requested after the book had gone to print), and the painting by Fancis Cugat that Fitzgerald selected for the cover of The Great Gatsby. (12 slides)

This slideshow will come to you in a 41-slide EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation which you can customize to the needs of your students! The 9-page EDITABLE lecture accompanying the slideshow can be previewed and/or purchased for $1.99 by clicking HERE. (Sellers are only able to upload one document per TeachShare product, so I've had to upload the lecture under a separate product listing. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience). As a bonus for purchasing the lecture, you'll also get a Spotify playlist of the songs that characters listen to in The Great Gatsby.

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UPDATED for the 2024-2025 School Year: This syllabus is for a year-long course in AP® English Literature and Composition. The curriculum features 10 units on works of literary merit written by diverse authors — works which appear frequently on the AP Literature Exam.

Core Texts: The literary texts featured on this syllabus — from Macbeth and Frankenstein through The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes Were Watching God — are guaranteed to motivate high engagement from modern-day teenagers! The curriculum was designed to be inclusive and intersectional with respect to race, class, and gender. Each unit features higher-order discussion questions, frequent writing tasks, literary device exercises, and longer writing assignments which amount to rehearsals of the FRQ essays on the AP Lit Exam.

Skills Objectives: This curriculum focuses on the six "big ideas" — as well as the advanced reading and writing skills — which the College Board has identified as the core components of AP Literature and Composition. It equips students with the terminologies and techniques for analyzing how six formal elements — character, setting, structure, narration, figurative language, and literary argumentation — deepen the content of a literary text.

Organization: The 10 units on this syllabus are organized chronologically, with the various texts corresponding to important literary movements: Renaissance, Romanticism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, Postmodernism, etc. But please feel free to re-organize and/or replace the units at your discretion. Because the syllabus is fully editable, you'll be able to customize the materials to suit your own literary tastes and/or the interests of your students — year after year!

Below is a list of the ten units and core texts featured in this AP Lit syllabus. Click on any link to view the complete teaching unit for that literary text....

Unit 1: The Renaissance

• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1601) or Othello (1603) or Macbeth (1606)

• Stations Activity: Figurative Language in Shakespeare

• Discussion-Based Teaching Toolkit

Unit 2: Romanticism

• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831)

• How to Write an Analytical Essay

• How to Embed Evidence

Unit 3: Traditional Verse Forms

• The Sonnet: Shakespeare, Keats, Rossetti, McKay, & Angelou

• FRQ1 Practice: How to Write a Poem Analysis Essay

Unit 4: Modernism & the American Dream

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

Unit 5: The Short Story: Minimalist Realism

• Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)

Unit 6: The Harlem Renaissance

• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1938)

Unit 7: Transnational Fiction

• Jhumpa Lahiri, "A Temporary Matter" (1999)

• Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003)

Unit 8: Contemporary Fiction: Diverse Voices & the Polyphonic Novel

• Tommy Orange, There There (2018)

Unit 9: Modern & Contemporary Poetry

• American Poets: Dickinson, Frost, Hughes, Bishop, & Brooks

Unit 10: Exam Prep

• Figurative Language Stations

• FRQ1 Practice: How to Write a Poem Analysis Essay

If you like this syllabus, you'll love the full-year AP Literature Curriculum — a mega-bundle of teaching resources to get you through the entire school year! The year-long curriculum features over 1,500 pages of printable teaching resources: reading quizzes, higher-order discussion questions, detailed answer keys, and FRQ writing prompts for every book. And it's currently on sale for over 50% off!! Click to learn more about the AP Literature Curriculum!

For what it's worth, every literature unit in my store was designed with rigor suitable for AP Literature. So feel free to assemble a curriculum which features the texts you're most excited about. After all, it's your passions that will prove most inspiring to your students! How about Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1599)? Willa Cather's My Ántonia (1918)? Nella Larsen's Passing (1929)? J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951)? Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959)?

Rigorous Resources is your one-stop shop for top-quality resources on complex literature by diverse authors. Every resource was created by a Ph.D. in English who has taught for 20+ years and published award-winning essays on authors like Sylvia Plath and James Baldwin. If you have any questions about this syllabus or any of the unit plans, please don't hesitate to get in touch. I love hearing from fellow teachers who share a passion for great literature. And I'll be eager to do everything I can to make sure you have an amazing experience with teaching AP Literature!

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This syllabus is for a 9th-grade English course on World Literature. The syllabus features literary texts guaranteed to keep modern-day teenagers highly engaged. For the syllabus is focused on a topic which globally connected teenagers find intrinsically interesting: namely, coming-of-age literature from around the globe. In this 9th-grade English course, students learn about how the experience of growing up is shaped by social conditions and cultural traditions which are specific to countries like Afghanistan, England, Iran, and the United States — all while reading amazing literature!

Skills Objectives: The curriculum is designed to build foundational skills in the analysis of literary form. It equips students with the tools and techniques for analyzing the formal elements of various literary genres: novels, plays, poems, and graphic novels. It also prepares students to identify and analyze a wide range of literary devices: various types of imagery, figurative language, etc.

Because this syllabus fully editable, you'll be able to customize this syllabus to suit your own literary tastes and/or the skill levels of your students — year after year!

Here are the 8 units featured in this World Literature course focused on coming-of-age fiction from around the globe:

1. The Coming-of-Age Novel (United States)

• J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

2. Friendship & Ethics: Doing What's Right (Afghanistan)

• Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

3. Love vs. Duty: Teenage Romance & Generational Conflict (England)

• Introduction to Shakespeare

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

4. Poetry Unit: Formalist Analysis (Various)

• Sensory Imagery in Poetry

• Figurative Language in Poetry

• Figurative Language Stations

• Love Poetry: Traditional vs. Modern

• Sonnets: Traditional vs. Modern

5. Coming of Age in a Revolution (Iran & Austria)

• Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

6. Poetry Unit: Thematic Analysis (Various)

• Poetry on Ethical Dilemmas

• Poetry on Family Dynamics

• Poetry on Cultural Identity

7. The Feminist Bildungsroman: Finding One's Voice (U.S.)

• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

8. New Immigrant Literature (Post-1965 U.S.)

• Gene Luen Yan, American Born Chinese

Writing Instruction Tools

• Introducing Quotations: How to Properly Embed Textual Evidence

• How to Write an Analytical Essay

Discussion Tools

• Discussion-Based Teaching Toolkit: Socratic Seminar Rubrics

Syllabus

• 9th-Grade English Syllabus

If you like this syllabus, you'll love the full-year 9th-Grade English Curriculum— a mega-bundle of teaching resources to get you through the entire school year! The year-long curriculum features over 1,400 pages of printable teaching resources: reading quizzes, discussion questions, and writing prompts for every book. And it's currently on sale for over 50% off!! Click to learn more about the 9th-Grade English Curriculum!

Rigorous Resources is your one-stop shop for top-quality teaching resources on diverse authors. Every resource was created by a Ph.D. in English who has taught for 20+ years and published award-winning essays on fiction and poetry.

If you have any questions about the syllabus or curriculum, please don't hesitate to get in touch via the email address below. I love hearing from fellow teachers who share a passion for great literature. I'll be eager to do everything I can to make sure you have an amazing experience with 9th-grade English!

Happy teaching,

Adam Jernigan

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