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House Without a Christmas Tree Novel Study
By Meggen Loew
A novel study unit covering The House Without a Christmas Tree By Gail Rock.
Included in Unit:
Novel Study Materials:
· Suggested Lesson Plans
· Daily Discussion Questions (with answers)
· Goals and Instruction Pages for Parent/Teacher
· Setting Worksheet
· Character Worksheet
· Conflict Worksheet
· Theme Worksheet
· Plot
· 3 Quizzes (Used weekly)- With Answer Key
· 2 Final Unit Test Options (Multiple choice or short answer)-With Answer Key
Vocabulary Materials:
· Goals and Teacher Instructions
· 3 Sets of Vocabulary Words
· Master definitions
· Student Dictionary
· 3 Crosswords
· 1 Vocabulary in Context Worksheet
· All Vocabulary Word Search
· Final Vocabulary Test
· Answer Keys
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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The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander BUNDLE of Resources
By Ms. J's ELA
This bundle should accompany Kwame Alexander's novel The Door of No Return. The story is not included in this resource.
This bundle includes:
- Chapter Vocabulary Lists
- Chapter Vocabulary Quizlet Links
- Google Form Vocabulary Tests
- A Reading Journal with 8 Prompts
- A Thorough Study Guide with Middle School English Vocabulary Embedded (personification, summarize, simile, etc.)
- A Final Writing Project Including Research
- A Final Writing Project Rubric
BONUS: Two prompts and worksheets for a socratic seminar discussion regarding the book.
These resources cover everything you could need for a unit about this novel.
Flying Lessons and Other Stories Lessons LAST 5 STORIES BUNDLE
By Ms. J's ELA
This bundle of lessons should accompany the last five short stories of the book Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh.
Those five stories are:
- Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains by Tim Tingle
- Main Street by Ellen Oh
- 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 a presentation and student worksheets which address:
- pre-reading journal prompts
- story vocabulary (except Main Street)
- tiered reading questions
- questions focused on one specific ELA standard
- answer keys
Depending on the length of your classes, this resource could take 4 days or 2 weeks. I have 50 minute classes, and it would take me 2 weeks.