$5 - $10 Literature Assessment

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:

• Detailed Lesson Plans: Each day is thoughtfully planned to guide students through reading, analyzing, writing, and discussing "Lamb to the Slaughter."
• Graphic Organizers: Scaffolded organizers for each day to help students track evidence, make inferences, and compare the text with the film.
• Texts and Multimedia: The original short story and a link to the film adaptation, complete with an introduction by Roald Dahl.
• Writing Prompts: Engaging prompts to encourage students to write opinion essays and reflections.
• Class Discussion Guides: Questions and prompts to facilitate meaningful classroom discussions.

Day-by-Day Breakdown:

Day 1: Introduction to the Detective Activity

• Students are introduced to the murder mystery and work in groups to analyze witness statements and evidence photos.
• Focus on inference and deduction skills.

Day 2: Writing an Opinion Essay

• Students write an opinion essay based on their detective work from Day 1.
• Emphasis on textual evidence and structured writing.

Day 3: Reading "Lamb to the Slaughter"

• Students read the short story in chunked sections, making inferences and annotating the text.
• Use of scaffolding techniques to support all learners.

Day 4: Comparing Text and Film

• Students watch the film adaptation of "Lamb to the Slaughter."
• They use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the text and film, analyzing differences in storytelling techniques.

Day 5: Final Analysis and Discussion

• Students discuss their findings and the differences between the text and film.
• Wrap-up activities include reflective writing and sharing insights.

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:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.7
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.7
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.7

Benefits:

• Engaging and Interactive: Students love the hands-on detective work and multimedia elements.
• Skill-Building: Focus on inferencing, textual evidence, and critical thinking skills.
• Comprehensive and Ready-to-Use: All materials and instructions are included for a seamless implementation.

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.

This is a set of quizzes for the different chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There are a total of 6 quizzes based on the chapters of the book the students have read. Each quiz has five multiple choice questions and the answer key is included. This makes an easy bell ringer or exit ticket when reading the novel.

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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Hojita para dar a los alumnos.

Sheet to give to students to interpret or critique art.

I recommend keeping them in its original size to give each student about three sheets.

Art project Includes all of the tasks for each member of the group and guided questions.

Teaching art in Spanish Guided Lesson

Kit de Aprendizaje de Arte para Estudiantes de Secundaria es la herramienta educativa perfecta para inspirar la creatividad y fomentar la apreciación del arte en jóvenes artistas en crecimiento. Este producto está diseñado para estudiantes de secundaria y ofrece más de 9 actividades en español que los ayudarán a explorar, aprender y expresarse a través del arte de manera divertida y educativa.

Guía en Español: Cada kit viene con una guía detallada en español que explica cada actividad paso a paso. Las instrucciones son fáciles de seguir, lo que permite a los estudiantes aprender de forma independiente o en un entorno de aula.

This High School Art Learning Kit is the perfect educational tool to inspire creativity and foster an appreciation for art in budding young artists. This product is designed for high school students and offers over 9 activities in Spanish that will help them explore, learn, and express themselves through art in a fun and educational manner.

Enhance your students' reading experience with this comprehensive set of comprehension questions based on A Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school readers, these thought-provoking questions will deepen understanding and spark engaging discussions about the novel's themes, characters, and plot. Designed to assess both literal and inferential comprehension, these questions can be used for class discussions, homework, or as part of an assessment.

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.

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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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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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

Studying The Great Gatsby? Are students having problems with some of the vocabulary words? Then this product is for you! Includes a vocabulary list and quiz for each chapter. Great to help students with vocabulary words as they read the text! Comes complete with answer key. For Google Drive version click here

Are you looking for an interactive, student-led activity and assessment for Clint Smith's Counting Descent? Look no further!

This product includes 2 different assignments:

1. 'During Reading' Theme Tracking Sheet

2. 'After Reading' Socratic Seminar Discussion

The tracking sheet presents students with 4 themes they will track throughout the course of 10 poems . I usually have my students do this with a partner. It's up to you if you want to assign them a theme to focus on, or just let them choose their 10 favorite poems to analyze.

After they've read and analyzed the text, they'll prep for the Socratic Seminar! I usually use this as my final assessment.

You'll see 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 circle. 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 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!

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

"Ready-to-use,"

"time-saving,"

no prep

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.

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.

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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This Sylvia Plath "Initiation" 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:

Plath's "Initiation" highlights fitting in, group exclusivity, self exploration, and individuality. Millicent, a teen pledge at Lansing High, realizes that being an individual offers more freedom and self discovery than being part of a sorority. Can we truly separate ourselves from society and at what would you sacrifice to do so?

This 10th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, conformity, and individuality.

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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Studying The Book Thief? Are students having problems with some of the vocabulary words? Then this product is for you! Includes 10 vocabulary lists and 10 quizzes covering the entire book. Great to help students with vocabulary words as they read the text! Comes complete with answer key.

This bundle packages 3 products together for a reduced rate! You'll get a question trail to review the book, a platitudes writing assignment, as well as 2 Socratic Seminar packets that can be used as a final assessment. Please check out each individual product for details! Thank you! Please let me know if you have questions.

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More than 45 worksheets.

Some of the topics:

El argumento

texto informativo

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personajes

Narración

Análisis de obras

2 El cuento

El conflicto

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la tragedia

articulo informativo

lazarillo de tormes

bernarda alba

recursos discursivos

poemas

tipos de textos

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ejercicios literarios

transitions

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El Desarrollo

El tiempo y el Espacio

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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

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This Richard Matheson "BUTTON BUTTON" UNIT QUIZZES resource provides students a chance to show what they know. 10 SHORT RESPONSE Questions, 13-QUESTION MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ, 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:

Richard Matheson's "Button, Button" is a short story about a husband and wife, Norma and Arthur Lewis, who are offered a deal by a Mr. Steward for $50,000. If they choose to push the button someone they don't know will die, and they will receive the money. This prose pulls at students heart about why we should care about others.

This 10th grade canonized work allows students to look at how we should think about others and forgo greed and selfish behaviors.

This Product Includes:

1. 13-Multiple Choice Questions

2. 10 Short Response Questions

3. Black and White Version

4. SUGGESTED USES

5. Answer Key provided

6. EDITABLE resource

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