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A Midsummer Night's Dream Literature Guide
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features a comprehensive literature guide for use while reading Shakespeare's most beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The packet provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the play and promotes strong reader response by encouraging students to connect and have fun with this highly relatable text! The wide range of activities in this guide from daily journal prompts, illustration activity, and a creative writing assignment to the final essay questions will keep your students engaged throughout and help them to gain a deep understanding of possibly their first interaction with the great William Shakespeare. A full answer key is provided for this guide.
Product Includes:
- Student cover page
- Anticipation guide
- Journal Prompts
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension questions
- Love Arrows Graphic Organizer
- Creative writing journal entry assignment
- MSND artwork assignment
- Essay Prompts & Rubric
- Answer Key
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⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Socratic Lesson Plan and Materials
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Anticipation Activity
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⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Social Media Materials
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MAYA ANGELOU'S 12 POEMS [LESSON ACTIVITIES AND POEMS]
By Richard B Williams
This MAYA ANGELOU "12 POEMS" [Lesson Activities and Poem] resource provides students a chance to experience a variety of topics that cause reflection. Angelou's popular poems, 96 discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY and ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black and White Versions, 12 quizzes, 60 Multiple Choice questions, 5 worksheets, Projects, and ACTIVITIES, and a Biography. This resource allows students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 9th - 12th Graders will love this resource. Check it out!
Summary:
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She died on May 28, 2014 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was an American poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and oppression.
This 9th - 12th grade canonized poem allows students to understand life, love, and their world.
POEMS INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:
1. "Still I Rise"
2. Kin (for Bailey)
3. "Phenomenal Woman"
4. "A Brave and Startling Truth"
5. "Woman Work"
6. "On the Pulse of the Morning"
7. "Caged Bird"
8. "Life Doesn't Frighten Me"
9. "When You Come"
10. "Equality"
11. "Song for the Old Ones"
12. "When I Think About Myself"
This Product Includes:
1. Who was Maya Angelou? (Video Biographies included)
2. Each poem has 8 Discussion Questions (96 in all)
3. Angelou Visual Poetry
4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]
5. Group Poem Presentations
6. The Freedom Chart
7. Diction, Tone, and Angelou
8. LITCRIT
9. Reciting Angelou
10. It's About Us and much more
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Li-Young Lee's "6 Poems" [LESSON ACTIVITIES & POEMS]
JOHN MILTON'S "3 POEMS" [Lesson Activities & Poems]
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MAYA ANGELOU'S 12 POEMS [LESSON ACTIVITIES AND POEMS]
By Richard B Williams
This MAYA ANGELOU "12 POEMS" [Lesson Activities and Poem] resource provides students a chance to experience a variety of topics that cause reflection. Angelou's popular poems, 96 discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY and ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black and White Versions, 12 quizzes, 60 Multiple Choice questions, 5 worksheets, Projects, and ACTIVITIES, and a Biography. This resource allows students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 9th - 12th Graders will love this resource. Check it out!
Summary:
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She died on May 28, 2014 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was an American poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and oppression.
This 9th - 12th grade canonized poem allows students to understand life, love, and their world.
POEMS INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:
1. "Still I Rise"
2. Kin (for Bailey)
3. "Phenomenal Woman"
4. "A Brave and Startling Truth"
5. "Woman Work"
6. "On the Pulse of the Morning"
7. "Caged Bird"
8. "Life Doesn't Frighten Me"
9. "When You Come"
10. "Equality"
11. "Song for the Old Ones"
12. "When I Think About Myself"
This Product Includes:
1. Who was Maya Angelou? (Video Biographies included)
2. Each poem has 8 Discussion Questions (96 in all)
3. Angelou Visual Poetry
4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]
5. Group Poem Presentations
6. The Freedom Chart
7. Diction, Tone, and Angelou
8. LITCRIT
9. Reciting Angelou
10. It's About Us and much more
You may also appreciate:
SPACE [BUNDLE]
Eve Ensler's "MY SHORT SKIRT" [LESSON ACTIVITIES & POEM]
Marge Piercy's "6 POEMS" [Lesson Activities & Poem ...
SEAMUS HANEY'S "2 POEMS" [LESSON ACTIVITIES AND POEMS]
Li-Young Lee's "6 Poems" [LESSON ACTIVITIES & POEMS]
JOHN MILTON'S "3 POEMS" [Lesson Activities & Poems]
PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING ME ON THESE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS:
TheAngryTeacherBLOG
EMAIL LIST
YOUTUBE
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Hey Angry Teacher Fam,
I'm Richard Williams, The Angry Teacher. I've been teaching for 20+ Years , and have amassed quite a bit of knowledge to share. Please consider joining the Angry Teacher family; we'll enjoy having you in the fam!
Please consider checking out the other EDUCATIONAL materials and resources in my store.
Also, guys, remember that leaving REVIEWS is a way that TeachShare gives you credit on products! So let's do it!
Thanks for stopping by!
The House on Mango Street Bundle of 4 products!
By The Red-Haired Reader
This bundle includes 4 products:
1. a set of Socratic Seminar packets
2. a creative writing assignment that requires students to write their own set of vignettes in the style of Cisneros
3. a Diction Deep Dive Collaborative Activity for "My Name"
4. A Figurative Language/ Poetic Devices Question Trail for review
Please check out each product individually below and let me know if you have any questions! Thank you!
Please help my little business grow!
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BUNDLE: Funny in Farsi Resources: Speed Dating and Final Assessment!
By The Red-Haired Reader
This bundle includes 2 speed dating activities and a Socratic Seminar final assessment! The speed dating activities are for "The F-Word" and "America, Land of the Free". Please check out the product descriptions for each item individually. Thank you!
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The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM (Shirley Jackson)
By Language Arts Excellence
Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task (and it is!), but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
How does it work?
In this escape room, students will try to escape the picturesque American town with a dark secret by solving 5 different skills-based puzzles, deciphering an encrypted message, and finding clues along the way.
Product Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
- Theme Reflection for homework assignment or in-class writing activity
Because this is a skills-based escape room, it is perfect for a review of the story before the test.
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Check out these great DYSTOPIA resources to frame the study of this tale:
⭐ Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint Presentation
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⭐ Dystopian Literature Socratic Seminar
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Writing and Literature Guide for Spanish Classes guía de escritura y literatura
By ARIANA PEREZ
More than 45 worksheets.
Some of the topics:
El argumento
texto informativo
ensayos
personajes
Narración
Análisis de obras
2 El cuento
El conflicto
3 texto lírica
la tragedia
articulo informativo
lazarillo de tormes
bernarda alba
recursos discursivos
poemas
tipos de textos
formal vs informal
ejercicios literarios
transitions
¡Escribamos una Autobiografía!
El Desarrollo
El tiempo y el Espacio
y mucho mas!
By Richard B Williams
Edith Wharton's ETHAN FROME UNIT QUIZZES product provides students a chance to show what they know. 10+ Short Response Questions, 10 multiple choice questions, Suggested Uses, 2-NOVEL related assignments, and Worksheet Pages to encourage insightful responses from this canonized work. 11th - 12th Graders will love this short writing quiz. Check it out!
SUMMARY:
In the cold, gray, bleakness of a New England winter, Ethan Frome, an isolated farmer, tries to scrape out a meager living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife, Zeena. He meets his wife's fun-loving, lively cousin Mattie who transforms his life with whom he falls in love. They soon realize that their fate is doomed by the stifling conventions of the era; Mattie and Ethan then decide to do the unthinkable! Can society stifle an unbridled ambition?
This 11th - 12th grade canonized work allows students a chance to experience what happens when life doesn't turn out the way we expect.
This PRODUCT includes:
1. 10+ SHORT RESPONSE QUESTIONS
2. 5+ Short Response Worksheet Pages
3. 10 multiple choice questions
4. 2-NOVEL Related Assignments
5. Suggested Uses
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I'm Richard Williams, The Angry Teacher. I've been teaching for 18+ Years , and have amassed quite a bit of knowledge to share. Please consider joining the Angry Teacher family; we'll enjoy having you in the fam!
Please consider checking out the other short story materials and resources in my store.
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A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Mystery Escape Puzzle Breakout Room
By The Red-Haired Reader
Your students will be transported back in time to hunt dinosaurs! They will have to find the various time guides to gather information necessary to prevent the disturbance of the timeline. Only by carefully following all of the employees’ directions will they be able to return to the present, thus successfully completing the escape room!
The seven stations address the elements of the short story, including characterization, symbolism, summary, vocabulary, syntax and diction, foreshadowing, and figurative language. This is a rigorous review and analysis activity. Students should read the text BEFORE they do the escape room.
Download one of the 7 stations to preview here! Freebie Station!
Thanks for checking out my product! Please let me know if you have any questions!
BUNDLE of 2 Billy Collins poetry analysis activities: Google Doc
By The Red-Haired Reader
This bundle gets you 2 Billy Collins poetry analysis activities. Your students will analyze "On Turning Ten" and "Snow Day" by chunking the text into manageable bits. Check out each product individually! Thank you!
***Interested in checking out what a foldable poetry analysis from my store looks like? Please download my freebie here! Foldable Poetry Analysis for The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel: FREEBIE ***
BUNDLE: Macbeth! Socratic Seminar, Creative Writing, Soliloquy Analysis!
By The Red-Haired Reader
This Bundle offers 3 Macbeth products from my store at a discount. Please check out each product individually! Thank you!
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O. Henry Christmas Bundle: set of 2 Question Trails for the Holiday Season
By The Red-Haired Reader
This product contains question trails for 2 of my FAVORITE O. Henry stories: "The Gift of the Magi" and "A Chaparral Christmas Gift". Students should read the texts before attempting the Question Trails. I love to do these stories and Question Trails the week before holiday break! Question Trails are student-led and self-checking, making them the perfect activity for that time of year. Answers are included! Please watch my video on how to use a question trail, and let me know if you have any questions at sarajoy916@gmail.com!
BUNDLE: The Birthmark Socratic Seminar packets + Question Trail text analysis!
By The Red-Haired Reader
This Bundle contains 2 products for Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark": a question trail that is chock full of text analysis questions, and a Socratic Seminar that could be used as a final assessment. Check out each of the products above in further detail! Buying them together saves you $$!
Please help my little business grow!
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AP Spanish Literature Review Game
By ARIANA PEREZ
Includes 50 Questions in a Game Like Form.
Questions are about/ Las preguntas son acerca de:
Temas, autores, movimientos literarios, personajes y vocabulario.
Regular terms follow.
Do NOT post online, Do NOT share with colleagues.
Lord of the Flies Unit Plan: Read through a choice of 2 different lenses!
By The Red-Haired Reader
This is a full unit plan for reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding through a choice of two different lenses: Psychology or Gender. You'll receive the full Unit Plan in a grid format, as well as every assignment for both lenses.
Students will be put in groups according to their chosen lens and will explore a number of resources pertaining to their lens. They'll complete a wide variety of assignments, including a Double Entry Journal, Socratic Seminar, Symbolism Word Splash and Explanation, Theme Formal Essay, and Characterization Creative Situational Writing. The directions and rubric are included for each assignment. Since it's in a Google Doc, it's all ready for you to post and have your students complete digitally, OR you can print it out and have then do it that way, too!
Please let me know if you have any questions! My students LOVED being in charge of their own learning by choosing how they would read the text and having all of the assignments laid out for them right from the beginning. Thanks for looking!
NIKKI GIOVANNI'S "7 POEMS" [Lesson Activities & Poems]
By Richard B Williams
This NIKKI GIOVANNI "7 Poems" [Lesson Activities and Poems] resource provides students a chance to experience a variety of topics that cause reflection. 7 of Giovanni's popular poems, 21+ discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY & ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black & White Versions, quizzes, and Biographies. These poems allow students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 9th - 12th Graders will love this product. Check it out!
Summary:
Nikki Giovanni is a prominent American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Born on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee, Giovanni emerged as one of the leading voices of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her poetry often addresses themes of race, identity, family, and social issues.
This 9th - 12th grade canonized set of poems allows students to understand life, American society, and love for our community and world and the need to be aware and resist.
Poems Included:
1. "Quilts"
2. "You Came Too"
3. "Poem for Black Boys"
4. "Knoxville, Tennessee"
5. "Dreams"
6. "woman"
7. "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)"
This Product Includes:
1. Who is Nikki Giovanni? (Video Biographies)
2. Each poem has 7+ Discussion Questions [18 questions]
3. Giovanni Visual Poetry
4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]
5. Group Poem Presentations
6. Opinion
7. Cafeteria Duty and much more
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Marge Piercy's "6 POEMS" [Lesson Activities & Poem ...
Li-Young Lee's "6 Poems" [LESSON ACTIVITIES & POEMS]
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Hey Angry Teacher Fam,
I'm Richard Williams, The Angry Teacher. I've been teaching for 20+ Years , and have amassed quite a bit of knowledge to share. Please consider joining the Angry Teacher family; we'll enjoy having you in the fam!
Please consider checking out the other EDUCATIONAL materials and resources in my store.
Also, guys, remember that leaving REVIEWS is a way that TeachShare gives you credit on products! So let's do it!
Thanks for stopping by!
BUNDLE of resources for Stephen King's Quitters Inc. from Night Shift!
By The Red-Haired Reader
This resource bundles two products from Stephen King's Night Shift! You'll get a Speed Dating Discussion Activity and a set of Socratic Seminar booklets + rubric! Please check out each product individually using the links below. Thank you!
BUNDLE of 4 poems by William Carlos Williams Foldable Poetry Analysis Activities
By The Red-Haired Reader
This product bundles 4 of my foldable poetry analysis activities by William Carlos Williams together for one low cost! You'll get "This is Just to Say", "The Dance", "The Great Figure", and "The Red Wheelbarrow". Please watch my video to see how foldables work, and check out each product link individually. Than you so much!
BUNDLE: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury quiz, analysis activity, poem
By The Red-Haired Reader
This bundle includes the 3 resources I use to teach Ray Bradbury's iconic short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains". There is a comprehension quiz (answers included), a poetry foldable for the Sara Teasdale poem that appears in the text, and a Tabletop Twitter Silent Discussion Activity for analyzing the text. Please check out each item individually, and let me know if you have any questions!
Monster (Myers) Quizzes for Entire Novel
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features 3 comprehensive and thoughtfully-written quizzes for the acclaimed novel, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers. While Monster is perfect for optimal student engagement and involved discussions on contemporary issues in society, it is also important that students understand what is going on. These straightforward quizzes will make sure that you students understand the plot, characters, and vocabulary of this amazing and relevant novel!
Quizzes cover:
- Character Identifications (matching)
- Comprehension Questions (multiple choice)
- Vocabulary (fill-in-the-blank)
Full answer keys are also included in this resource.
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While you can use these quizzes on their own, they are made to correspond with: Monster Literature Guide
Purchase the two products together at a 20% discount: Monster Literature Guide and Quizzes BUNDLE
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