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The Mist Chapter 5 Suspense Element: Development of a Villain Table Top Twitter!

By The Red-Haired Reader

Hello!

This is a Table Top Twitter/ Silent Discussion activity that will aide your students in analyzing chapter 5 of Stephen King's The Mist! It's an alternate way to do a station rotation. The questions focus on the development of Mr. Norton and Ms. Carmody and how they contribute to the SUSPENSE!

To set up, you’ll need to copy the large questions and paste them onto larger poster size paper. (I like to use those giant Post-Its so I can hang them up afterwards!) I have included 7 questions so that you can place one at each table or station. You will also need to project the page of directions onto your Smart Board, or make a copy of them and put them where students can see. My students like to write their comments in colored ink, marker, or colored pencil in order to make it a little more fun.

To begin this Tabletop Twitter discussion, students will first read the question. Then they will scan the answers their classmates have already written, and write an answer that hasn’t already been said. They may put a hashtag comment for fun after their comment. As the activity goes on, they have the option of responding to a comment that a classmate has already made instead. After a set time you deem appropriate for your students has elapsed, direct them to silently move to the next station.

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The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn by Kelly J. Baptist LESSON

By Ms. J's ELA

This resource should accompany the short story The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn by Kelly J. Baptist. The page numbers listed in this resource align with the book Flying Lessons and Other Stories. This resource includes 4 pages of both color and b/w worksheets which include a pre-reading journal question, tiered reading questions, vocabulary, and a focus on supporting analysis with textual evidence. A 10 page presentation accompanies the worksheets and includes an answer key.

This is a sensitive story. One of the tiered reading questions addresses coping strategies in times of grief. This question needs to be approached in an open, honest, non-judgmental way. If this is not the way you operate, skip this resource.

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The Fall of the House of Usher Escape Room

By Language Arts Excellence

This activity features an engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 puzzles covering plot, vocabulary, figurative language and quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher!

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 Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. 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. It is the perfect activity for Halloween, Poe's Death Day on October 7, or any day you want to shake it up with your students without sacrificing learning. 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 out of the haunted house of Usher by solving 5 different skills-based puzzles, discovering a hidden message, and finding clues along the way.

  • Plot it Out: In the first task, students must order the plot events of The Fall of the House of Usher on Freytag's Pyramid. Once solved, corresponding letters reveal the first code.
  • Figuratively Speaking: In the second task, students must identify 9 types of figurative language within the short story. Highlighted boxes in the correct answers will reveal the code.
  • Criss-Cross: In the third task, students must solve a crossword puzzle with questions about literary elements and plot events of the story. Circled boxes on the crossword once unscrambled will reveal the code.
  • Vocab Match Up: In the fourth task, students must fill in the blanks with vocabulary words from The Fall of the House of Usher. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the code.
  • Encrypted Message: In the fifth and final task, students must decipher an encrypted message (a quote from The Fall of the House of Usher) using clues they collected during the first four tasks. When the message is written on the scroll and brought to you, they can finally escape the haunted house of Usher.

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- 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 supplementary materials 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 products to supplement your study of The Fall of the House of Usher:

⭐ The Fall of the House of Usher Literature Guide

⭐ The Fall of the House of Usher Digital Escape Room

⭐ The Fall of the House of Usher Digital Literature Guide

⭐ The Fall of The House of Usher Anticipation Guide and Lesson Plan

⭐ The Fall of the House of Usher Socratic Seminar

More resources to round out your Edgar Allan Poe unit:

⭐ Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint

⭐ Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Bell Ringer Journal Prompts

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe's Obituary

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Quote Posters

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Resource Bundle

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⭐ The Raven ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Tell-Tale Heart ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Black Cat ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Pit & the Pendulum ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Masque of the Red Death ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Cask of Amontillado ESCAPE ROOM

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS]

By Richard B Williams

This WUTHERING HEIGHTS [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS] resource provides 18 Slides, a major PROJECT and 2 worksheets, with black and white versions and it's editable! Lessons on the importance of tempered ambition, gender roles, the significance of children, and other topics are included. This resource will make teaching students themes and characterization through Bronte's classic a lot more relatable and current. 11th - 12th Graders will love this piece through these activities. Check it out!


  • Kids do content presentations and an essay. Yes, they do the heavy lifting while they learn from themselves and each other.
  • You could also choose for them to do one or the other, instead of both.
  • They could also do this individually, in pairs, or groups.

SUMMARY:

Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS showcases a man's journey from rags to riches as he drags his heart with him the entire way. Heathcliff and Catherine move from childhood friends to lovers to estranged acquaintances. How does it all end in this dark romantic classic?

This 11th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to delve into the importance of what happens when you avoid judging others, and when you never give up and your persevere. Just what is hidden away in Rochester's attic?


This Product Includes:

1. 2 worksheet pages

2. 6 questions (great for group or sub work)

3. 16 NOVEL PRESENTATION TOPICS

(with Instructions for students and teacher)


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Grey Matter from Night Shift Stephen King Speed Dating Discussion + reflection!

By The Red-Haired Reader

This set of 12 Speed dating questions are a fun alternative to a traditional class discussion and will help your students analyze "Grey Matter" from Night Shift by Stephen King!

In order to prepare, you simply have to copy the 12 discussion prompts below and cut them into separate strips. You can laminate them if you’d like! Arrange your classroom so pairs of students will be facing one another. My classes have about 24 students in each, so I set up my desks facing one another down the center of the classroom. Alternatively, you could do two concentric circles depending on the space you have to work with!

When it’s time for the speed dating to begin, each “couple” will flip over their question and discuss it. I usually set a timer for 60 seconds, but you can do longer or shorter depending on the needs of your students. When the timer buzzes, one row (or circle) moves one way, and the other goes in the opposite direction. In this way, each student will have the opportunity to discuss every question.

I've included a reflection/ ticket out the door half sheet question for afterwards if time allows!

Please let me know if you have any questions about this activity! I’d love to hear your feedback after you complete it in your classroom. Thank you so much!

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Flying Lessons and Other Stories BUNDLE OF LESSONS FOR ALL STORIES + BONUS

By Ms. J's ELA

This bundle includes lessons for all stories in the book Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh. The stories are not included in this resource. Lessons are focused on the following stories:

- How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium by Matt De La Peña

- The Difficult Path by Grace Lin

- Sol Painting, Inc. by Meg Medina

- Secret Samantha by Tim Federle

- The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn by Kelly J. Baptist

- Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains by Tim Tingle

- Main Street by Jacqueline Woodson

- Flying Lessons by Soman Chainani

- Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents by Kwame Alexander

- Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push by Walter Dean Myers

Each lesson includes WORKSHEETS and a PRESENTATION. Worksheets come in color and b/w. Presentations include answer keys.

Each lesson contains:

- Pre-reading journal prompt

- Story vocabulary (except Main Street)

- Tiered reading questions

- Questions focused on one particular ELA standard

- Answer keys

BONUS ESSAY WRITING PROMPTS ARE INCLUDED!

If you teach 90 minute block classes, you would likely get through one lesson per day. If you teach 50 minute classes like I do, each lesson could take two days. This bundle could last from 2 weeks to 4 weeks depending on your schedule.

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The Gift of the Magi & The Necklace Compare Contrast Essay

By Language Arts Excellence

This product features all the materials you need to assign a compare/contrast essay for two classic tales of irony: O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi and Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace.

For this assignment, students will need to think critically and specifically about the similarities and differences between the two famous stories. Two comprehensive literary device charts are provided to prompt students to take a close look at both tales and to think beyond the obvious (like the fact that they are written by different authors) and consider the deeper similarities and differences differences (like plot structure, values of the characters, and lessons the stories try to teach) between them. These thoughtfully-constructed materials will help students develop exemplary compare/contrast essays that they can be proud of!

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  • Complete assignment directions
  • 2 Literary device worksheets
  • Venn diagram chart
  • Essay graphic organizer (Block Method)
  • Rubric
  • Teacher key for charts

This assignment is perfect during the holiday season or can be used as a part of any short story unit!

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Also, check out these resources to round our your unit on The Gift of the Magi:

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⭐ The Gift of the Magi Socratic Seminar Materials

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⭐ The Little Match Girl Sensory Details Lesson Plan

⭐"Christmas Talk" Lesson Plan

⭐Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Task Cards

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MACBETH [PLAY PRESENTATIONS]

By Richard B Williams

This MACBETH [PLAY PRESENTATIONS] resource provides 14 Slides, a major PROJECT and 2 worksheets, with black and white versions and it's editable! Lessons on the importance of tempered ambition, gender roles, the significance of children, and other topics are included. This resource will make teaching students themes and characterization through Shakespeare's phenomenal issues a lot more relatable and current. 10th - 12th Graders will love this piece through these activities. Check it out!


  • Kids do content presentations and an essay. Yes, the heavy lifting while they learn from themselves and each other.

SUMMARY:

Set in medieval Scotland, Macbeth charts the prophetic rise to power and tragic downfall of general Macbeth. Already a successful soldier in King Duncan's army, Macbeth is informed by Three Witches that he is to become king. As part of the same prophecy, the Witches predict that future Scottish kings will be descended not from Macbeth but from his fellow army captain, Banquo. Macbeth, and his power-hungry wife - Lady Macbeth, is taken aback when King Duncan nominates his son Malcolm as his heir. Propelled by ambition, confusion, and greed, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth scheme to take the thrown and keep it...even if it means to murder the king.

This 10th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to delve into the importance of what happens when we don't check our ambitions. Can we be too ambitious? Can one person show both heroic and villainous sides at the same time?


This Product Includes:

1. 2 worksheet pages

2. 6 questions (great for group or sub work)

3. 12 PLAY PRESENTATION TOPICS

(with Instructions for students and teacher)


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The Man Who Loved Flowers by Stephen King Socratic Seminar: 2 booklets + rubric!

By The Red-Haired Reader

Are you looking for a fun, interactive, student-led activity/ assessment for the end of Stephen King's "The Man Who Loved Flowers" from Night Shift?

This resource contains two different packets of Socratic Seminar packets- packet A and packet B. Each packet contains three different discussion questions that require students to answer and provide two quotes from the text to back up their answers. Students are also required to come up with three additional questions they will ask if there’s time in their seminar. Finally, the packet has a page where each student will monitor a partner in the opposite seminar. They will make a check each time their partner speaks, and paraphrase meaningful comments their partner makes. The file also contains a rubric for you to use while your students are discussing!

When you print out the file, you’ll see packet A on the top half of the sheet, packet B on the bottom half, and then the rubric as the last page of the file. Remove the rubric and print one out for each of your students. Copy the rest of the pages, cut them in half, and staple them. Each student will receive one half-sheet booklet; packet A or packet B.

Give your students adequate time to plan for their Seminar! I usually give them a full class period (40 minutes for me), but you could have them do it for homework, or over the course of a few days. The day of the Seminar, you’ll assign partners with opposite packets. Let A discuss for as long as they need (usually 25 to 30-ish minutes for me!), then flip-flop your circles and have B discuss afterwards.

My students LOVE Socratic Seminars! I have found the fishbowl discussion format works much better when you give each group three different questions so you don’t hear the same discussion two times, which is how this product is set up. I have used Socratic Seminars in small literature circle groups, as well as with the whole class at once. Please ask if you have questions!

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Flying Lessons and Other Stories BUNDLE- First 5 Stories

By Ms. J's ELA

This bundle includes resources for the first five short stories in the book Flying Lessons and Other Stories. Those stories are: How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium, The Difficult Path, Sol Painting, Inc., Secret Samantha, and The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn.

Each resource includes a presentation and student worksheets which come in color and b/w for easy printing.

This bundle includes:

38 student worksheet pages

52 slides

Answer Keys

Each resource includes:

story vocabulary

pre-reading activities

tiered reading questions

an emphasis on one particular ELA standard

Depending on the length of your class periods, this resource could last 4 days or 2 weeks.

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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.

  • Close Read: In the first task, students must answer challenging multiple choice questions about The Lottery. The corresponding letters of the correct answers reveal their first code.
  • Vocab Challenge: In the second task, students must fill in the blanks with vocabulary words from the text. Shaded boxes within the correct answers form their second code.
  • Character IDs: In the third task, students must fill in a blank character chart about important characters in the story. When assembled correctly, letters of the correct answers reveal the third code.
  • Criss-Cross: In the fourth task, students must solve a crossword puzzle with questions about literary elements and plot events of the story. Circled boxes on the crossword once unscrambled will reveal the code.
  • Encrypted Message: In the fifth and final task, students must decipher an encrypted message (a quote from The Lottery) using clues they collected during the first four tasks. When the message is written on the scroll, final question is answered, and booklet brought to you, they can finally escape before it is their turn to pick from the dreaded black box.

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- 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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⭐ The Lottery Comprehension Questions, Literary Elements & Vocabulary

Check out these great DYSTOPIA resources to frame the study of this tale:

⭐ Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint Presentation

⭐ Escape from Dystopia ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Dystopian Literature Socratic Seminar

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THE OTHER WES MOORE [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS]

By Richard B Williams

This Wes Moore THE OTHER WES MOORE [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS] resource provides 14 Slides, a major PROJECT and 2 worksheets, with black and white versions and it's editable! Lessons on the importance of redemption, the nature of opportunity, importance of community, taking responsibility, and other topics are included. This resource will make teaching students themes and characterization through Moore's phenomenal issues a lot more relatable and current. 10th - 12th Graders will love this piece through these activities. Check it out!


  • Kids do content presentations and an essay. Yes, the heavy lifting while they learn from themselves and each other.

SUMMARY:

Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates highlights the true story of two Black men from the same neighborhood with the same name: Wes Moore. Both men grew up enduring similar hardships, but Moore, the author and narrator, was encouraged to overcome these difficulties and became successful, while Wes, his counterpart, found himself sentenced to life in prison for murder. What happened? Did life have to turn out this way?

This 10th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, their world, and their life choices?


This Product Includes:

1. 2 worksheet pages

2. 6 questions (great for group or sub work)

3. 12 NOVEL PRESENTATION TOPICS

(with Instructions for students and teacher)


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The Boogeyman by Stephen King Set of 2 Socratic Seminar booklets + rubric!

By The Red-Haired Reader

Are you looking for a fun, interactive, student-led activity/ assessment for the end of Stephen King's horror-filled, suspenseful short story "The Boogeyman" from Night Shift?

This resource contains two different packets of Socratic Seminar packets- packet A and packet B. Each packet contains three different discussion questions that require students to answer and provide two quotes from the text to back up their answers. Students are also required to come up with three additional questions they will ask if there’s time in their seminar. Finally, the packet has a page where each student will monitor a partner in the opposite seminar. They will make a check each time their partner speaks, and paraphrase meaningful comments their partner makes. The file also contains a rubric for you to use while your students are discussing!

When you print out the file, you’ll see packet A on the top half of the sheet, packet B on the bottom half, and then the rubric as the last page of the file. Remove the rubric and print one out for each of your students. Copy the rest of the pages, cut them in half, and staple them. Each student will receive one half-sheet booklet; packet A or packet B.

Give your students adequate time to plan for their Seminar! I usually give them a full class period (40 minutes for me), but you could have them do it for homework, or over the course of a few days. The day of the Seminar, you’ll assign partners with opposite packets. Let A discuss for as long as they need (usually 25 to 30-ish minutes for me!), then flip-flop your circles and have B discuss afterwards.

My students LOVE Socratic Seminars! I have found the fishbowl discussion format works much better when you give each group three different questions so you don’t hear the same discussion two times, which is how this product is set up. I have used Socratic Seminars in small literature circle groups, as well as with the whole class at once. Please ask if you have questions!

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Eraser Tattoo by Jason Reynolds Lesson

By Ms. J's ELA

This lesson should accompany the short story Eraser Tattoo by Jason Reynolds. The story can be found in the anthology Fresh Ink.

This lesson focuses on making inferences and identifying themes. Students will provide and explain textual evidence that supports inferences and themes that they identify from the story.

This resource includes 6 slides for display at the front of the class and 2 student worksheet pages which come in color and b/w.

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The Most Dangerous Game Socratic Seminar

By Language Arts Excellence

Socratic Seminar Materials for Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game

A Socratic Seminar (or a "Fish Bowl" Conversation as I like to call it with my students) is a higher order way of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, this student-tested resource was created to include everything required to conduct a structured and formal set of Socratic Seminars in your classroom surrounding The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, all with very little preparation required on your end.

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• Assignment Directions with step-by-step instructions on how to conduct fishbowls in your classroom

• Engaging Introductory Activity for Conversation Building

• 5 Editable Discussion Questions for each “Fishbowl” conversation

• “Fishbowl” Preparation Sheet

• Conversation Builder Prompts

• Observation Sheet

• Rubric

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THE GREAT GATSBY [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS]

By Richard B Williams

This F. Scott Fitzgerald THE GREAT GATSBY [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS] resource provides 14 Slides, a major PROJECT and 2 worksheets, with black and white versions. Lessons on the duality of man, money, reputation, secrecy, and other topics are included. This product will make teaching students themes and characterization through Fitzgerald's phenomenal issues a lot more relatable and current. 11th - 12th Graders will love this piece through these activities. Check it out!


SUMMARY:

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is set in the Roaring Twenties, a time of prosperity and excess in America. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway, who moves to Long Island and rents a house in the wealthy neighborhood of West Egg. There, he becomes neighbors with the mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby.

As Nick becomes acquainted with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom, he learns of Gatsby's obsession with Daisy, who he had a romantic relationship with before the war. Gatsby throws extravagant parties in the hope of attracting Daisy's attention. Will these parties re-ignite the fire or will they prove dangerous in the end?

This 11th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, their world, and their life choices?


This Product Includes:

1. 2 worksheet pages

2. 6 questions (great for group or sub work)

3. 12 NOVEL PRESENTATION TOPICS

(with Instructions for students and teacher)


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DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS]

THE METAMORPHOSIS [BUNDLE]

THE MONKEY'S PAW [LESSON ACTIVITIES]

EVERYMAN: A MORALITY PLAY [LESSON ACTIVITIES]

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Bundle of Stephen King Short Story activities!

By The Red-Haired Reader

This product bundles together activities for 9 of Stephen King's short stories and includes an analysis of King's short essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies". Please check out each product individually!

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The Lottery Activity Bundle (Shirley Jackson)

By Language Arts Excellence

**Now with newly added material!**

This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for the study of Shirley Jackson's shocking tale of tradition gone wrong, The Lottery. The numerous activities as well as full-length lesson plans provide an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourage students to think critically about literary elements, theme, and symbolism. An Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint and Crossword Puzzle helps to set the groundwork for the dystopian tale. Social media activities will encourage your students to bring the story to modern day and all the materials needed for a formal set of Socratic Seminars are included to ensure deep thinking and close reading of the text. A full answer key is provided along with student-tested lesson plans to help guide you through teaching the story. We have now also included the wildly popular Escape Room with tasks on characters, vocabulary, plot, quotes, and literary elements of the story - perfect for a review before the final test. The wide range of lessons in this unit will keep your students engaged from start to finish and help them to gain a deep understanding of one of the most controversial tales of American literature.

Product Includes:

  • Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint & Crossword
  • "Tossing Lines" pre-reading activity
  • Lesson plan for reading the story
  • Comprehension questions
  • Vocabulary worksheet
  • Literary elements chart
  • The Lottery Theme Jigsaw Lesson Plan
  • Socratic Seminar lesson plan and materials
  • Escape Room
  • The Lottery "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
  • Social Media materials and lesson plan
  • Dystopia Quote Posters - newly added!
  • Complete teacher's key
  • Bonus: Symbolism Worksheet and Lesson Plan included for free!**

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JANE EYRE [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS]

By Richard B Williams

This JANE EYRE [NOVEL PRESENTATIONS] resource provides 15 Slides, a major PROJECT and 2 worksheets, with black and white versions and it's editable! Lessons on the importance of tempered ambition, gender roles, the significance of children, and other topics are included. This resource will make teaching students themes and characterization through Bronte's classic a lot more relatable and current. 11th - 12th Graders will love this piece through these activities. Check it out!


  • Kids do content presentations and an essay. Yes, the heavy lifting while they learn from themselves and each other.
  • You could also choose for them to do one or the other, instead of both.

SUMMARY:

Charlotte Bronte's JANE EYRE showcases a girl's journey to love and happiness through this bildungsroman. Jane moves from an orphaned 10 year old to an accomplished governess who gains the heart and love of the brooding, Byronic hero Edward Rochester. As she journey's through this novel she encounters several hardships and trials.

This 11th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to delve into the importance of what happens when you avoid judging others, and when you never give up and your persevere. Just what is hidden away in Rochester's attic?


This Product Includes:

1. 2 worksheet pages

2. 6 questions (great for group or sub work)

3. 16 NOVEL PRESENTATION TOPICS

(with Instructions for students and teacher)


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Bundle of 59 Socratic Seminar Booklets! Great Final Assessments/ Lit Circles!

By The Red-Haired Reader

Please check out the video preview for my line of Socratic Seminars!

This bundle includes every product in my Socratic Seminar Bundle line. Multiple novels and short stories are included for grades 6-12! My students LOVE Socratic Seminars, and I often use them as their final assessment grade. The can be used in small literature circle groups, or with a full class. Please ask if you have any questions!

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