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Transform your middle school ELA classroom with this comprehensive bundle of 12 highly engaging short story units. Each unit is meticulously designed to provide a full week of dynamic lessons, complete with detailed plans, interactive slides, a choice activity board, Socratic seminar questions, three STAAR-aligned essay prompts, a film vs. text Venn diagram, and the text PDF. These short stories will captivate your students and enhance their literary analysis skills, making learning both fun and meaningful.

Included Short Stories:

1. The Most Dangerous Game
2. Sorry, Wrong Number
3. The Hitchhiker
4. The Way Up to Heaven
5. Lamb to the Slaughter
6. The Landlady
7. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
8. Harrison Bergeron
9. Examination Day
10. The Pedestrian
11. All Summer in a Day
12. There Will Come Soft Rains

Bundle Features:

1. Comprehensive 5-Day Lesson Plans: Each story unit includes a detailed five-day lesson plan, ensuring a structured approach to teaching. Lessons are aligned with educational standards and include clear objectives and outcomes.

2. Interactive Slides: Engage your students with interactive slides that guide them through the story, provide context, and facilitate discussions. These slides are designed to keep students focused and involved.

3. Choice Activity Board: Each unit comes with a creative choice board, allowing students to demonstrate their understanding through various projects such as writing an alternate ending, creating a comic strip, designing a literary brochure, and more.

4. Socratic Seminar Questions: Encourage critical thinking and in-depth discussion with six thought-provoking Socratic seminar questions for each story. These questions help students delve deeper into the text and analyze its themes, characters, and literary elements.

5. Three STAAR-Aligned Essay Prompts: Each unit includes three essay prompts (argumentative, correspondence, and informational) that are aligned with STAAR standards, helping students practice their writing skills and prepare for standardized assessments.

6. Film vs. Text Venn Diagram: Enhance your students' analytical skills with a film vs. text Venn diagram activity. Students compare and contrast the short story with its film adaptation, focusing on key similarities and differences.

7. Text PDF: Each unit comes with a PDF of the short story, making it easy to provide students with the text for reading and annotation.

Why Choose This Bundle?

• Engaging Content: These short stories are highly engaging and perfect for capturing the interest of middle school students. The diverse selection of stories includes suspense, science fiction, dystopian themes, and more.
• Comprehensive and Ready-to-Use: Save time with ready-to-use lesson plans, activities, and resources. Each unit is designed for easy implementation, ensuring you can focus on teaching and engaging your students.
• Develop Critical Thinking: The activities and discussions included in each unit promote critical thinking, literary analysis, and deeper understanding of the text.
• Flexible and Adaptable: The bundle provides flexibility in teaching, with a variety of activities and assessment options to suit different learning styles and classroom needs.

Perfect for middle school humanities teachers, this bundle offers everything you need to deliver engaging and effective ELA lessons throughout the year. Enrich your curriculum and inspire your students with these timeless short stories and comprehensive teaching resources.

• Thanksgiving Gratitude Toast Writing Unit with Slides and Awards
• Looking for a meaningful and engaging way to bring gratitude into your classroom this Thanksgiving season? This 4-Day Thanksgiving Toast Writing Unit has everything you need to help your students craft heartfelt toasts while building their public speaking and writing skills.
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Informational Texts: Central Idea & Author’s Purpose
• This resource features informational texts centered around the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Students will practice identifying the central idea and author’s purpose using guided activities, perfect for grades 4-6. Includes quizzes and engaging slides to bring the festive event into your classroom!
• Multiple Genre Thanksgiving Writing Fun: Story Starters, Centers, and Activities
  Spark creativity with these 10 engaging Thanksgiving-themed story starters! This freebie offers writing prompts perfect for centers or bell-ringers, allowing students to explore genres while creating their own holiday-inspired tales. Ideal for grades 4 and up!
• Text Features with Thanksgiving Football Text Set, Quizzes, and Slides
  Bring excitement to your lessons with this text feature set using Thanksgiving football articles. Students will analyze and identify different text features while engaging with a fun, seasonal topic. Quizzes and slide presentations are included for easy, interactive learning.
• Thanksgiving Argument Writing Unit: Debate Topics & Lesson Plans for STAAR ECRs
  Help your students master argumentative writing with this resource, complete with four Thanksgiving-themed debate prompts. Perfect for middle school, the unit includes a 75-minute lesson plan, guided notes, and templates for teaching claims, evidence, and rebuttals.
• Thanksgiving Author’s Purpose Reading Unit: Passages, Slides, Guided Notes (Grades 5-7)
  This reading unit features five double-sided Thanksgiving-themed passages that explore different author’s purposes. With interactive slides and guided notes, this resource is great for whole-group instruction, centers, or intervention activities in grades 5-7.
• Thanksgiving Digital Resource: Interactive Slides for Middle School Fall Break Vibes
  This non-academic, interactive slide deck is perfect for building community and having fun the day before Fall Break. Featuring 22 slides with thought-provoking and engaging Thanksgiving prompts, it's a fun, low-prep activity to wrap up the season.
• Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Activity: Rhetoric for Grades 5-7 (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
  This resource guides students through persuasive writing with a focus on rhetoric. Using Thanksgiving-themed prompts, students will practice developing strong arguments using ethos, pathos, and logos. Perfect for building writing and critical thinking skills in grades 5-7.
• Thanksgiving Text Structure Coloring Sort & Lesson
  Teach text structures in a creative and interactive way with this Thanksgiving coloring activity. Students will learn about different text structures and apply them through sorting and coloring activities, making the lesson both educational and fun.
• 10 Fall Narrative Essay Picture Prompts and Planner: Print and Go & Slides
  This resource includes 10 narrative essay prompts, each with a fall theme, designed to help students craft compelling stories. Perfect for middle school students, the resource includes both print-and-go materials and a slide deck for easy classroom use.

This bundle could cover 20-25 days of classroom instruction, depending on how the resources are paced and implemented. It offers a great variety of activities for both Thanksgiving season and beyond.

1. 90 Day Reading Comprehension Bell Ringer Warm-Up Routine: This daily bell-ringer routine provides 90 days of reading comprehension practice, helping students build consistency in analyzing texts, identifying main ideas, and drawing inferences. Perfect for regular, bite-sized practice that reinforces key comprehension skills.
2. ECR Relay Race: Engaging STAAR Writing Prep: This interactive relay race activity is designed to make STAAR writing preparation engaging. With 12 prompts focused on extended constructed responses (ECR), students will work on crafting thoughtful, structured responses, honing their ability to articulate ideas clearly and support their answers with evidence.
3. STAAR ECR Mastery Resource for Informational Essays: This resource focuses on informational essay writing with a strong emphasis on developing thesis statements, claims, and supporting evidence. It’s a targeted approach to mastering the essential components of STAAR informational essays, equipping students with skills in organization and argumentation.
4. Thanksgiving Argument Writing Unit: Debate Topics & Lesson Plans: This seasonal resource engages students in argument writing through Thanksgiving-themed debate topics. Students will practice constructing persuasive arguments, making claims, and providing relevant evidence—core skills for STAAR ECRs and persuasive writing in general.

This bundle provides comprehensive practice in reading comprehension, essay structure, argumentation, and evidence-based responses, setting students up for success in standardized test preparation.

Are you looking for a YEARLONG BUNDLE to help your students learn, engage and grow in their writing skills? Then check out this MEGA BUNDLE which includes resources for the ENTIRE YEAR and covers the writing styles of informational, persuasive, narrative and poetry style texts! Each unit of writing incorporates a variety of POWERPOINTS and ANCHOR CHARTS to help you teach as well as numerous ACTIVITIES to help students learn and apply their understanding. Don't forget that each unit has a range of ASSESSMENT TEAMPLATES to suit your teaching style so you can teach and assess as your students progress throughout each unit of writing!

FEATURES

✏️ Narrative writing rubric

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Observation Notes for 1 Student

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Observation Notes for 3 Students

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Observation Notes for 6 Students

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Observation Notes for 12 Students in a Boxed Template

✏️ Narrative Writing Conference Observation Notes for 30 Students

✏️ Narrative Writing Sticky Note Observation Templates

✏️ 2 Narrative Writing Interactive Notebooks

✏️ 6 Narrative Writing Planning Templates PLUS a SAMPLE PLAN

✏️ 3 Narrative Writing DIFFERENTIATED Unscramble the Text activities

✏️ 20 Quick Writes - Narrative Writing Practice papers

✏️ Narrative Writing Text Type Cut & Paste Matching activity

✏️ 28 Narrative Writing Plot Ideas

✏️ 10 Narrative Writing Picture Prompt Cards

✏️ 28 Narrative Writing Character Ideas

✏️ 28 Narrative Writing Object Ideas

✏️ 28 Narrative Writing Setting Ideas

✏️ Planning Narrative Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Narrative Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Revising Narrative Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Editing Narrative Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Publishing Narrative Writing PowerPoint

✏️ DIFFERENTIATED Narrative Writing Mentor Texts

✏️ Narrative Writing Revising Checklist

✏️ Narrative Writing Editing Checklist

✏️ Narrative Writing Revising Poster

✏️ Narrative Writing Editing Poster

✏️ Information Report Writing Rubric

✏️ Informational Writing Conference Notes for 1 Student

✏️ Informational Writing Conference Notes for 3 Students

✏️ Informational Writing Conference Notes for 6 Students

✏️ Informational Writing Conference notes for 12 Students Boxed Template

✏️ Informational Writing Conference Notes for 30 Students

✏️ Informational Writing Sticky Note Observation Templates

✏️ Informational Writing Editing Symbols Poster

✏️ Poster on the Structure of Informational Writing

✏️ Informational Writing Language Features Poster

✏️ Superb Starters - Sentence Starters Poster for Informational Writing

✏️ Logical Linkers - Linking Words Poster for Informational Writing

✏️ List of Informational Writing Topics Poster

✏️ Informational Writing Revision Checklist

✏️ Informational Writing Mentor Text

✏️ Search Engine Questions Poster for Informational Writing

✏️ List of Websites for Research Poster for Informational Writing

✏️Sample Informational Writing Plan

✏️ 10 Researching Posters/ Info Sheets for Informational Writing

✏️ 6 Informational Writing Planning Templates

✏️ Search Engine Questions Poster for Informational Writing

✏️ 2 Informational Writing Interactive Notebooks

✏️11 Quick Writes - Writing Prompts to help students practice researching and information report writing

✏️ Informational Writing Fact or Opinion Cut & Paste Activity

✏️ Informational Writing Summarising Templates

✏️ Planning Informational Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Informational Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Revising Informational Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Editing Informational Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Publishing Informational Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Persuasive Writing Rubric

✏️ Persuasive Writing Conference Notes for 1 Student

✏️Persuasive Writing Conference Notes for 3 Students

✏️ Persuasive Writing Conference Notes for 6 Students

✏️ Persuasive Writing Conference Notes for 12 Students Boxed Template

✏️ Persuasive Writing Conference Notes for 30 Students

✏️ Persuasive Writing Sticky Note Observation Templates

✏️ Planning Persuasive Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Persuasive Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Revising Persuasive Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Editing Persuasive Writing PowerPoint

✏️ Publishing Persuasive Writing PowerPoint

✏️ 6 Persuasive Writing Planning Templates PLUS a SAMPLE PLAN

✏️ Persuasive Writing Drafting Templates

✏️ 2 Persuasive Writing Interactive Notebooks

✏️ 24 Topic Ideas for Persuasive Writing

✏️ 5 DIFFERENT Persuasive Writing publishing templates

✏️ 3 Persuasive Writing DIFFERENTIATED Unscramble the Text Activities

✏️ Superb Starters - Sentence Starters Poster for Persuasive Writing

✏️ Poster on the Structure of Persuasive Writing

✏️ Editing Persuasive Texts Poster

✏️ Revising Persuasive Texts Poster

✏️ Persuasive Writing Emotive Language Poster

✏️ Persuasive Writing Language Features Poster

✏️ Logical Linkers - Linking Words Poster for Persuasive Writing

✏️ Persuasive Writing Editing Checklist

✏️ Persuasive Writing Revising Checklist

✏️ 3 Persuasive Writing DIFFERENTIATED Mentor Texts

✏️ 10 Quick Writes - Opinion Writing Ideas with Reasons for & Against

✏️ Poetic Writing Rubric

✏️ Poetic Writing Conference Notes for 1 Student

✏️ Poetic Writing Conference Notes for 3 Students

✏️ Poetic Writing Conference Notes for 6 Students

✏️ Poetic Writing Conference Notes for 12 Students Boxed Template

✏️ Poetic Writing Conference Notes for 30 Students

✏️ Poetic Writing Sticky Note Observation Templates

✏️ Planning Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Revising Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Editing Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Publishing Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Writing Shape Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Writing Haiku Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Writing Acrostic Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Writing Kennings Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Writing Ode Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ Writing Limerick Poetry PowerPoint

✏️ 7 Poetic Writing Interactive Notebooks including Sample Poetic Texts

✏️ 20 Poetic Writing Topic Prompt Cards

✏️ 6 Writing Packs for 6 DIFFERENT Types of Poetry including Limerick Ode, Kennings, Haiku, Shape & Acrostic style poems

✏️ Ode Poetry Poster

✏️ Kennings Poetry Poster

✏️ Shape Poetry Poster

✏️ Haiku Poetry Poster

✏️ Limerick Poetry Poster

✏️ Acrostic Poetry Poster

✏️ 5 Poetic Writing Topic Ideas Posters

✏️ Poetic Writing Revision Checklist

✏️ Poetic Writing Editing Checklist

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