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Murder Mystery Inference Activity: Lamb to the Slaughter Mini Unit
By TooBookedUp
Engage your middle school students with a thrilling 5-day detective unit centered around Roald Dahl's gripping short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter." This comprehensive unit combines critical thinking, inferencing, and multimedia analysis, making it perfect for ELA classrooms. Students will step into the shoes of detectives, analyze texts, watch film adaptations, and compare their experiences, all while meeting key CCSS standards.
What’s Included:
Day-by-Day Breakdown:
Day 1: Introduction to the Detective Activity
Day 2: Writing an Opinion Essay
Day 3: Reading "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Day 4: Comparing Text and Film
Day 5: Final Analysis and Discussion
CCSS Alignment:
This unit aligns with CCSS standards for grades 5-8, focusing on quoting accurately from texts, citing textual evidence, and analyzing multimedia elements. Standards covered include:
Benefits:
Bring excitement and depth to your ELA classroom with this 5-day detective unit on "Lamb to the Slaughter." Your students will love stepping into the role of detectives while honing their reading and analytical skills.
By Educate and Create
5 multiple choice questions and 2 short answer questions on Act 4 of the play Julius Caesar. Complete with Answer Key.
We Beat The Street FULL BOOK Chapter Questions, We Beat The Street Worksheets
By Queen's Educational Resources
We Beat The Street Chapter Questions, We Beat The Street Worksheets
ABOUT THIS RESOURCE
★ Text: We Beat The Street
★ Chapters 1 - 22 and Conclusion
★ 88 pages
★ Print and Digital
★ Detailed Answer Keys included
This resource includes:
★ WBTS Chapter Questions (for Chapters 1-22 and Conclusion)
★ Detailed Answer Keys (for each chapter)
★ Google Slide Links (for each chapter)
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This WBTS product focuses on CHAPTERS 1 - 22 and Conclusion of We Beat The Street. EACH chapter features 5 inference-based questions that require students to demonstrate inferential thinking and a deep analysis of the chapter - beyond literal comprehension. Each inference-based question can be treated as an extended response where students must make inferences and support their responses, ideas, and/or analysis with evidence from the text.
⭐ Detailed ANSWER KEYS are included to help you facilitate discussion. No prep needed!
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This resource is also included in Google Slides! Text boxes have already been created to make it easier for you and your students! Each slide includes two instruction solution tabs for when students accidentally delete text boxes and when they want to zoom in (to enlarge worksheets). It's super helpful for students who are not that familiar with how to use Google Slides or need the extra assistance.
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❌ Lesson plans are not included. This resource can be used in addition to your own lesson plans and in such a way that best meets the needs of your students.
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Each of the chapter questions are included in the following, more comprehensive packet.
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The Great Gatsby VOCABULARY | Vocab Lists & Quizzes for All 9 Chapters
By Rigorous Resources for High School English
This 20-page EDITABLE document contains vocabulary lists for all 9 chapters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The document also contains a vocabulary and reading quiz for every chapter. Expanding students' vocabularies may be one of the most important things that we can do as high-school English teachers.
Here is what's included in this product:
• Vocabulary Lists: Lists of 10-12 vocabulary words for every chapter, complete with a definition and a sample sentence with the word as used in The Great Gatsby. A total of over 100 SAT-worthy words. (9 pages)
• Vocabulary & Reading Quizzes: Quizzes with 10 questions per chapter. Build students’ vocabularies while holding them accountable for the nightly reading homework. Each quiz contains 7 questions on vocabulary words plus another 3 questions on reading comprehension. Grading these quizzes is simple and quick. They’re an easy way to log up to 9 grades in your gradebook. (9 pages)
The vocabulary lists and quizzes will come to you in a 20-page EDITABLE Word document which you can customize to the needs of your students! The previews for my resources provide access to dozens of pages of actual content. Click on the green “PREVIEW” button to see what you’ll get. . . .
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Happy teaching!
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Note: These vocabulary lists and quizzes are also included in my Gatsby MEGA-Bundle. The bundle contains everything you'll need to deliver amazing lessons on Fitzgerald's novel: over 40 slides and over 240 pages of content-rich handouts and activities. If you have already purchased the bundle, you do not need to purchase these vocabulary materials.
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Shakespeare: Brutus' Speech (Julius Caesar) Writing Activity
By Beth Hammett
Teach analysis and audience through an interactive interpretation of Brutus' Speech from Julius Caesar. Students will bring the speech up-to-date using slang and time period words. Included are: student examples extra resources list scoring rubric directions with materials list Students will "get the meaning" with this easy-to-teach, fun analysis assignment. Meets standard state ELA guidelines and CCSS.
Of Plymouth Plantation All In One: Vocabulary, Assessments, and Answer Key
By YourTeachingDoc
This bundled package contains:
1. A Pre-Teaching activity where the students translate Archaic Language into common language. The document has "hidden" answers. Highlight the "common language" section and make the text black to see the answers. It is in printable format.
2. A KIM Critical Vocabulary activity for students to master the key vocabulary in "Of Plymouth Plantation".
3. "Of Plymouth Plantation" mastery test - includes key vocabulary, key themes, authors purpose, and central ideas of the text. Answer key is included.
BONUS: Included at the bottom of the Vocabulary page is an online Kahoots review game for the test AND code for students to play in class or you can assign them to play it at home - incorporating technology in a fun and meaningful way!
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BUNDLE of resources for James Baldwin's "My Dungeon Shook" Fire Next Time
By The Red-Haired Reader
This bundle includes a vocabulary worksheet, a vocabulary quiz, and 2 sets of Socratic Seminar packets that can be used as an assessment for James Baldwin's "My Dungeon Shook" from The Fire Next Time. Please check out each assignment individually below. Thank you so much!
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By ARIANA PEREZ
Practice literacy terms and answering questions from literary Works with this interactive and self-checking escape room/breakout.
Practica términos de alfabetización y responde preguntas sobre obras literarias con este escape room interactivo y autocorrectivo.
Helps students achieve proficiency in literacy terms and concepts that revolve around the ap spanish literature course.
classroom-ready
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Poetry Comprehension Worksheets,Analyzing “She Sleeps by the Rill” by Wordsworth
By The Kidz Lab
Bring powerful poetry into your classroom with this beautifully designed comprehension resource for William Wordsworth’s poignant poem "She Sleeps by the Rill." This ready-to-use set of Poetry Comprehension Worksheets is ideal for grades 7–12 ELA or literature classes.
This printable and digital PDF includes:
Full-text of the poem
6 structured worksheet sections, each targeting a key analytical skill:
Theme & Meaning
Narrative Elements
Language & Diction
Cultural & Historical Context
Personal Response
Author’s Purpose
✅ Answer Guide included for teacher use or student self-assessment
Students will develop critical reading and interpretive skills by exploring:
Perfect for:
This resource encourages deep engagement with poetry and aligns with Common Core standards for literature and textual analysis.
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.
Hero's Journey Socratic Seminar
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features everything you need in order to conduct a structured and formal set of Socratic Seminars in your classroom for any novel that follows the model of the hero's journey. It is the PERFECT addition to any hero's journey unit for middle or high school students!
Socratic Seminars (or "Fish Bowl" Conversations as they are referred to in this resource) are high-order ways 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. They are also a great way for students to work together and build upon one another's ideas without the assistance of a teacher. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, with this resource, the work has been done for you and you will have several days of student-led learning during your unit on the hero's journey!
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The Alchemist
⭐ The Alchemist "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
⭐ The Alchemist Anticipation Guide & Lesson Plan
⭐ The Alchemist Bell Ringer Journal Prompts
⭐ The Alchemist Quote Posters
⭐ The Alchemist Socratic Seminar Materials
Divergent
⭐ Divergent "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
⭐ Divergent (Roth) Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan and Materials
⭐ Divergent Faction Acrostic Poem Assignment
⭐ Divergent Faction Personality Quiz
⭐ Divergent Final Project - Long Lost Sixth Faction
⭐ Divergent Mock Choosing Ceremony - Lesson Plans and Materials
⭐ Divergent Unit Test
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By Richard B Williams
This Liam O'Flaherty "THE SNIPER" UNIT QUIZZES product provides students a chance to show what they know. 10 SHORT RESPONSE Questions, 12-QUESTION MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ, Suggested Uses, and Black&White Versions to encourage insightful responses from this canonized work. 11th - 12th Graders will love this quiz. Check it out!
SUMMARY:
O'Flaherty's "The Sniper" identifies a young sniper in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish Civil War, who navigates a rooftop overlooking a city street. He contemplates his position in this war, then shoots an enemy with dire consequences. What can we learn from war? Does it have a toll on us?
This 10th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, their life's journey, war, and our society.
This Product Includes:
1. 12-Multiple Choice Questions
2. 10 Short Response Questions
3. Black and White Version
4. Answer Key provided
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Dragonwings Vocabulary Quizzes
By Educate and Create
Studying Dragonwings? Are students having problems with some of the vocabulary words? Then this product is for you! Includes a vocabulary list and quiz for both Chapters 1-6 and Chapters 7-12. Great to help students with vocabulary words as they read the text! Comes complete with answer key.
Studying Dragonwings? Try these.
Dragonwings Flipbook Study Guide
Dragonwings Introduction Power Point
Dragonwings Characterization Flipbook
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Kindred UNIT PLAN | Discussion Questions, Vocab Lists, Writing Prompts, & More | Octavia E. Butler
By Rigorous Resources for High School English
This 60-page EDITABLE unit has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Octavia Butler's Kindred!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The daily quizzes, discussion prompts, and writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and unlock profound interpretive insights!
Hold your students accountable for completing the nightly homework by beginning every class with a quick vocabulary and reading quiz. Challenge students to explicate textual details using a wide range of interpretive lenses: formalist, historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, etc. Facilitate dynamic discussions that inspire students to arrive at a whole new depth of insight!!
Everything you’ll need to teach the novel is included in this bundle:
• Unit & Pacing Guide: Suggestions for how to pace the reading homework and organize the classwork for Octavia Butler's Kindred. (2 pages)
• Author Introduction: A brief summary of the life of Octavia Butler and the research that she conducted before writing Kindred. (1 page)
• Discussion Questions: Sixteen pages of higher-order discussion questions guaranteed to inspire profoundly thoughtful class discussions! This unit features double-sided handouts with 8-10 questions for each of the novel's 8 sections. The discussion questions are the beating heart of this curriculum. They challenge students to build interpretive arguments that require the support of carefully selected textual evidence — leading to keen interpretive insights! Guaranteed to build skills in close reading and critical reasoning! (16 pages)
• Quick Writes: A "quick write" can be used at any time in a class to get students to pause and reflect on the text in writing. Introduce a quick write before you begin a discussion to allow your more reticent students to collect their thoughts. Or roll one out toward the end of a discussion to let students capture and refine their best ideas. (8 pages)
• Vocabulary Lists: Lists of 10-12 vocabulary words to accompany every nightly reading assignment. Every vocabulary word comes with a definition and a sample sentence with the word as used in Kindred. A total of over 100 words. (8 pages)
• Vocabulary & Reading Quizzes: Build students’ vocabularies while holding them accountable for the nightly reading homework. Each quiz contains 7 questions on vocabulary words plus another 3 questions on reading comprehension. Grading these quizzes is simple and quick. They’re an easy way to log up to 8 grades in your gradebook. Answer key provided. (16 pages)
• Writing Assignment: Challenge students to take their interpretations one step further by writing an analytical paper on Butler’s wonderfully complex novel. Let students choose amongst 5 profoundly thought-provoking sample topics — or invite them to develop an original topic of their own. (2 pages)
• Poetry Pairings: Seven thematically relevant poems by two exceptionally talented black women poets, Lucille Clifton and Natasha Trethewey. (7 pages)
This unit is filled with dozens of visual images that shed light on important scenes from Octavia Butler's novel: documentary photographs of antebellum plantations, excerpts from Butler's handwritten drafts and journals, paintings of biblical figures referenced in the novel, etc. But what really distinguishes this curriculum is how the discussion starters and writing prompts deepen students' thinking and help them arrive at profound interpretive insights!
This resource packet will come to you in two separate formats: Word docs *and* PDFs. Because the Word docs are fully editable, you'll be able to customize the materials to suit your teaching style and/or the skill levels of your students — year after year! If you don't have Microsoft Word, you'll still be able to access the entire unit as PDFs, which are easy to navigate and quick to print!
Because I believe that teachers should be able to see what they'd be getting before they purchase, the preview for this resource provides direct access to dozens of actual pages from the unit. Click on the green “preview” button to see exactly what you’ll get....
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Rigorous Resources is your one-stop shop for resources on American literature. Feel free to check out these complete units on canonical texts by diverse American authors:
Complete Unit on Tommy Orange's There There
Complete Unit on Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Complete Unit on Frederick Douglass's Narrative
Complete Unit on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Complete Unit on Nella Larsen's Passing
Complete Unit on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Complete Unit on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Complete Unit on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Complete Unit on Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese
Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle
By Beth Hammett
This individual or group crossword puzzle activity uses 12 terminologies and optional word bank, as well as word bank with definitions handout, that include: Simile The boy ran as fast as the wind. Sentence uses “like” or “as” to make comparisons. Metaphor The construction worker is a prince. An implied comparison between two unlike beings or objects. Alliteration Casey cackled confidently. The repetition of a single letter at the beginnings of words. Internal (Rhyme) Type of rhyme: The groom was soon doomed. Rhyme occurs inside the words of a sentence. Onomatopoeia Ring, ring…went the telephone. Sound words. Hyperbole I was so hungry I could eat an elephant. An exaggerated statement that has no literal meaning. Adjective The ragged, tattered coat. Vivid words that describe. Personification The flowers danced in the wind. Animals or inanimate objects take on qualities of humans. Synechdoche ABCs for Alphabet. Shortened forms of whole words. Adverb The two boys ran quickly. Tells when, where, or why and may end in –ly. Pun Sea captains don't like crew cuts. Deliberate use of words with multiple meanings that creates play on phrases. Oxymoron Long shorts or silent yell. Opposite words are combined to form phrases. Get students to interact with figurative language. Packet includes answer sheet with definitions. Fun introduction, test prep, or assessment for figurative language!
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!
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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.
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.
Monster (Myers) Literature Guide and Quizzes BUNDLE
By Language Arts Excellence
This is a bundle of my top-selling literature packet and quizzes for the novel, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers. The comprehensive literature guide was created to correspond with the three quizzes to form a cohesive unit for your study of this great novel!
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Literature Guide: This 35-page product features a complete literature guide for use while reading the novel.. Monster is such a fun book to teach students about the American justice system while bringing up many moral issues and thoughtful points for discussion. This packet provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for Monster and encourages students to play along with the jury as they read. I am confident that it will increase your students' understanding of this spectacular novel dramatically.
This student packet includes:
Quizzes: This product features 3 comprehensive quizzes for the novel.
Quizzes cover:
Full answer keys are also included.
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Though it is recommended to purchase materials together, you can also purchase them separately:
Monster Literature Guide & Monster Quizzes for Entire Novel
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THE GREAT GATSBY [UNIT QUIZZES]
By Richard B Williams
This F. Scott Fitzgerald "THE GREAT GATSBY" UNIT QUIZZES resource provides students a chance to show what they know. 15 SHORT RESPONSE Questions, 40-QUESTION MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ, an AMAZING group project, Suggested Uses, EDITABLE, and Black&White Versions to encourage insightful responses from this canonized work. 11th - 12th Graders will love this quiz. 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 10th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, their world, and their life choices?
This Product Includes:
1. 40-Multiple Choice Questions
2. 15 Short Response Questions
3. Black and White Version
4. an AMAZING group project
5. SUGGESTED USES
6. Answer Key provided
7. EDITABLE resource
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