8th Grade Literature Interactive Notebooks (by date, latest first)

Enhance your "Animal Farm" novel study with this comprehensive workbook. Designed for middle and high school students, this workbook is the ultimate companion to George Orwell's classic allegory. This resource equips educators with everything needed for a successful novel study, from pre-reading activities to guided chapter notes, multiple writing prompts, and complete answer keys.

Engage your students with purposeful pre-reading activities:
Lay a solid foundation with pre-reading activities that cover essential vocabulary and background knowledge about Orwell and the context in which "Animal Farm" was written. These activities help students connect with the story before diving into the text.

Master the chapters with guided notes:

Guide your students through each chapter with detailed notes emphasizing comprehension, literary analysis, and transfer skills. These notes help students identify key themes, character development, and important events throughout the novel.

Thought-provoking writing prompts:
Encourage deeper thinking and creativity with multiple writing prompts that require students to analyze the text, explore symbolism, and discuss the themes of "Animal Farm." This section includes a peer grading rubric to promote collaborative learning.

Time-saving answer key:
Save time with a complete answer key that provides detailed explanations for all workbook activities, ensuring you have everything needed to guide students through the novel study.

Help your students keep track of all the animals in Aimal Farm! Revolutionize your literature classroom with the interactive Google Slides, designed to engage middle and high school students in deeply exploring George Orwell's classic allegory. Print the pennants to display in your classroom as easy, quick visual reminders! This versatile and comprehensive resource empowers students to track character development, analyze critical quotes, and delve into the symbolic representation of animals in the story, all while fostering critical thinking and visual literacy skills.

Key Components:

1. Google Slides Character Tracking: Dive into the world of Animal Farm with the Google Slides activity. Students can track characters, collect relevant quotes, and identify the symbolic representations of each animal. This interactive platform encourages active engagement and deeper comprehension of the text.
2. Classroom Pennants Display: The printable pennants bring the characters of Animal Farm to life in your classroom. They serve as visual reminders of the characters and their evolving roles in the narrative. As the story progresses, students can add new characteristics to the pennants, creating a dynamic and interactive display.
3. Add Characteristics: Both options come with additional icons and images that students can add to their Google Slides, or the teacher can add to the pennants. These support learners as they follow the story and learn what happens to the animals.

Why Choose Our Animal Farm Character Tracking Resource?

• Engaging and Interactive Learning: Capture students' interest with interactive Google Slides activities that promote active participation and deeper engagement with the text.

• Visual Representation of Character Development: Foster visual literacy skills by allowing students to visually represent character traits and symbolic representations, enhancing their understanding of character development and symbolism in literature.

• Flexible: Adapt the resource to suit your classroom needs and teaching style, whether through virtual instruction or in-person displays.

• Comprehensive and Versatile: Address multiple learning objectives, including character analysis, textual evidence collection, and symbolic interpretation, in one comprehensive resource.

This comprehensive resource is designed to engage students in exploring characterization, setting, plot, conflict, and theme through detailed mini lessons, interactive notebooks, and graphic organizers.

This bundle is perfect for teachers looking to enrich their students' literary analysis skills during any novel study or independent reading book. It provides all the tools needed to delve into essential story elements such as characterization, setting, plot, conflict, and theme.

What's Included:

Characterization:

• Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation that introduces the concept of characterization and the STEAL method.
• Interactive Notebook Foldable: A hands-on activity to reinforce the STEAL method.
• Common Character Traits List: A reference sheet with 96 traits for students to use in identifying and describing characters.
• Graphic Organizers (3 Choices): Templates for students to apply the STEAL method in analyzing characters.
• Characterization Note Page: A worksheet for students to record their observations about characters as they read.

Setting:

• Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation introducing the concept of setting and its significance in a story.
• Interactive Notebook Foldable: A hands-on activity to help students explore and reinforce their understanding of setting.
• List of Words to Describe Setting: A comprehensive reference sheet with vocabulary to help students vividly describe various settings.
• Graphic Organizers (3 Choices): Templates for students to analyze and organize information about the setting in a story.
• Setting Note Page: A worksheet for students to record their observations and analyses of settings as they read.

Plot:

• Plot Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation introducing the concept of plot and its significance in a story.
• Interactive Notebook Foldables (2 Choices): Hands-on activities that help students explore and reinforce their understanding of plot elements.
• Graphic Organizers (3 Choices): Templates for students to summarize and organize information about the plot in a story.

Conflict:

• Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation introducing the concept of conflict and its various types, helping students grasp how conflicts drive a story's plot.
• Interactive Notebook Foldable: A hands-on activity that reinforces students' understanding of different conflict types.
• Conflict Analysis Worksheets (5 Choices): Graphic organizers that guide students in applying their knowledge to analyze conflicts in stories, suitable for independent reading or class novel studies.

Theme:

• Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation that introduces the concept of theme, guiding students in distinguishing it from the main idea and exploring its significance in storytelling.
• Common Thematic Topics List: A curated list of thematic topics to help students recognize and connect recurring themes across different texts.
• Graphic Organizers (3 Choices): Versatile templates for students to organize their thoughts and evidence when analyzing themes, supporting deeper engagement with the texts they read.

Get your students excited about literature and enhance their analytical skills with the Complete Story Elements Bundle: Mini Lessons, Interactive Notebooks & Graphic Organizers!

Plot analysis made simple! This resource includes a mini lesson, interactive notebooks, and plot diagram graphic organizers to explore the elements of plot, making it perfect for any unit or novel study.

The resource comprises of the following components:

• Plot Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation introducing the concept of plot and its significance in a story.
• Interactive Notebook Foldables (2 Choices): Hands-on activities that help students explore and reinforce their understanding of plot elements.
• Graphic Organizers (3 Choices): Templates for students to summarize and organize information about the plot in a story.

Ideal for any unit or novel study, this resource supports a deeper understanding of plot and its impact on a story!

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Setting analysis made easy! Perfect for any unit or novel study, this resource includes a mini lesson and graphic organizers to explore the story element of setting.

The resource comprises of the following components:

• Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation introducing the concept of setting and its significance in a story.
• Interactive Notebook Foldable: A hands-on activity to help students explore and reinforce their understanding of setting.
• List of Words to Describe Setting: A comprehensive reference sheet with vocabulary to help students vividly describe various settings.
• Graphic Organizers (3 Choices): Templates for students to analyze and organize information about the setting in a story.
• Setting Note Page: A worksheet for students to record their observations and analyses of settings as they read.

Ideal for any unit or novel study, this resource supports a deeper understanding of setting and its impact on a story!

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Conflict Analysis Made Simple! This resource includes a mini lesson, interactive notebook, and conflict analysis worksheets to explore the story element conflict, making it perfect for any unit or novel study.

The resource includes:

• Mini Lesson (Google Slides): An engaging presentation introducing the concept of conflict and its various types, helping students grasp how conflicts drive a story's plot.
• Interactive Notebook Foldable: A hands-on activity that reinforces students' understanding of different conflict types.
• Conflict Analysis Worksheets (5 Choices): Graphic organizers that guide students in applying their knowledge to analyze conflicts in stories, suitable for independent reading or class novel studies.

This resource is ideal for deepening students' understanding of how conflicts shape character development and story progression!

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This is a complete unit on Romeo and Juliet.

In this bundle you will find the following:

- Romeo and Juliet study guide flip book

-Romeo and Juliet Characterization flipbook

- Romeo and Juliet Escape Room

- Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy Powerpoint

- Romeo and Juliet Quizzes for each Act

- Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary quiz

- Shakespeare Tragedies powerpoint

- Romeo and Juliet Graphic Organizers

-Film Adaptation Worksheet

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Covers the entire play! Contains the following

Julius Caesar Interactive flipbook

Julius Caesar Vocabulary

Julius Caesar Interactive Characterization Flipbook

Antony/ Brutus Speeches Compare and Contrast

Julius Caesar Escape Room

Julius Caesar Act 1 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 2 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 3 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 4 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 5 Quiz

Shakespeare Tragedies

Doing a novel unit on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer? Looking for materials to help students comprehend the text? Need some differentiation? Look no further! This bundle includes a study guide, characterization flip book, graphic organizers, film adaption, introduction power point, and novel project choice board.

This is a growing bundle. It currently includes a powerpoint, study guide, characterization flipbook, escape room, and quizzes. More shall be added as I finish more products.

Teaching Dragonwings? Don't know where to start? This bundle includes many activities to do before, during, and after reading the novel. This is a bundle for the novel Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep. Don't be afraid to take flight with this bundle.

Covering The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Don't know where to start? We have you covered! This bundle includes six different products to help: an introduction power point, a holocaust web quest, a study guide, a characterization flip book, graphic organizers, and a film analysis. Great for differentiated instruction!

*Study Guide and Characterization flipbook are both the Google Drive Version; however, to access them you will need to click on the bonus file and follow the links.

Covering The Kite Runner? Don't know where to get started? This bundle is just for your! Includes a Introduction Power Point, study guide, graphic organizers, film analysis, novel project choice board, and characterization flip book. Great for differentiation.

Looking to differentiate instruction? Get students excited and moving? All while teaching Shakespeare. Look no further.

The Midsummer Night's Dream Complete Teaching Unit includes everything you need for a fun, interactive, and student-centered unit around this play. It includes a flip book study guide, flip book characterization book, an escape room, an introduction to Shakespearean comedies power point, a quiz for each Act, and two soliloquy analysis worksheets . Answer keys are also included.

Shakespeare Ultimate Bundle. Includes resources for the following plays: Hamlet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and The Twelfth Night. Great for covering Shakespeare at multiple grade levels or multiple plays. Includes different activities, study guides, games, and more. Works great as a school resource.

Covering the As You Like It? Don't know where to get started? This bundle includes everything you need for your students to analyze the text for plot development, characterization, language, and more. Makes learning Shakespeare fun and easy for your students.

Complete Unit.

Covers the entire play of As You Like It !

Great for differentiation.

Teaching Number The Stars? Don't know where to start? This bundle includes many activities to do before, during, and after reading the novel. This is a complete unit for the classic novel Number The Stars by Lois Lowry. Keep your students engaged from beginning to end.

Complete Unit.

Covers the entire book !

Great for differentiation.

Includes:

⭐Number The Stars Introduction Power Point

⭐Number The Stars Flip book Study Guide

⭐Number The Stars Characterization Flip book

⭐Number The Stars Vocabulary Lists and Quizzes

⭐Holocaust Webquest

⭐Graphic Organizers - Any Novel

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A Wrinkle in Time Complete Teacher's Unit is the ultimate resource for English teachers seeking to bring this classic tale by Madeleine L'Engle to life for their students. This comprehensive package contains everything needed to teach the novel in a meaningful and engaging way.

The unit begins with an Introduction Power Point that sets the stage for the novel and provides important background information. This presentation is a valuable tool for engaging students and generating interest in the story.

The Study Guide is a comprehensive resource that includes about the author, a character map. and questions that encourage critical thinking and analysis. With this guide, teachers can easily guide their students through the plot and ensure a deep understanding of the themes and symbolism present throughout the text.

The Characterization Flipbook is a fun and interactive way for students to explore the characters in the novel. With this flipbook, students can create character sketches and analyze the motivations and actions of each character.

Graphic Organizers are also included, providing students with a visual way to organize their thoughts and ideas. These organizers are designed to help students explore key themes and concepts in the novel, making it easier for them to make connections and analyze the text.

The Vocabulary Lists and Quizzes are essential tools for building students' vocabulary and understanding of the language used in the novel. These lists and quizzes are comprehensive and designed to challenge students at all levels.

The Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles provide an entertaining way for students to review and reinforce their understanding of the novel's vocabulary.

Ultimately, A Wrinkle In Time : Complete Teacher's Unit is a must-have resource for any English teacher. With its comprehensive materials and engaging activities, this unit is sure to capture the attention of students and foster a love of literature that will last a lifetime.

Covering the Ender's Game? Don't know where to get started? This bundle includes everything you need for your students to analyze the text for plot development, characterization, language, and more. Makes learning fun and easy for your students.

Complete Unit.

Covers the entire novel of Ender's Game !

Great for differentiation.

Includes

⭐Ender's Game Introduction Power point

⭐Ender's Game: Flipbook Study Guide

⭐Ender's Game Characterization Flip book

⭐Ender's Game Vocabulary Lists and Quizzes

⭐Ender's Game Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles

⭐Ender's Game Graphic Organizers

Covering the The Hate U Give? Don't know where to get started? This bundle includes everything you need for your students to analyze the text for plot development, characterization, language, and more. Makes learning fun and easy for your students!

Complete Unit.

Covers the entire novel of The Hate U Give!

Great for differentiation.

Includes:

⭐The Hate U Give Introduction Power Point

⭐The Hate U Give Study Guide

⭐The Hate U Give Characterization

⭐The Hate U Give Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles

⭐The Hate U Give Vocabulary Lists and Quizzes

⭐Graphic Organizers - Any Novel

A GREAT VALUE!