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Painting Places with Words Using John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards

Useful in an Of Mice and Men unit, or in a unit that focuses on descriptive writing, this lesson prompts young authors to impersonate John Steinbeck's writing style in the opening passages of the novel. A Six Trait writing activity...

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Persuasive Journal Prompts

For Students 9th - 10th

Need a journal topic? Whether you use these prompts as part of a persuasive writing unit, or reproduce the download as a one-page handout for your class members, the suggested topics make a great addition to your curriculum library. In...

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Fusing Firecrackers with Narrative

For Teachers 7th - 12th

Improve your youngsters' descriptive writing. They study an object and write about what they see as a warm-up, then they read an excerpt from Paul Guest's memoir, One More Theory about Happiness. The next part of the...

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Grade 9 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 8

For Teachers 9th Standards

Rid yourself of unsupported analytic writing forever with a mid-unit assessment focused on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." As ninth graders formulate an essay based on evidence from the first seven lessons in the unit, they...

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Road to Grammar

Shopping

For Students 6th - 12th

Talk about what you bought last weekend with plenty of activities centered around the theme of shopping. English language learners have the opportunity to listen, speak, write, and read over the course of these exercises. The resource...

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The Tom Cruise Wedding

For Teachers 5th - 9th

Scholars read a newspaper article about Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes in 2006. They define vocabulary words, complete comprehension worksheets, and analyze use of the present perfect and passive in the article. Individuals write...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Instructional Unit Plan

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards

Maya Angelou's first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, demonstrates both the author's exemplary writing and the themes of gender and racial injustice that perpetuate beyond the limits of the 20th century. Use a...

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Grade 10 ELA Module 4: Unit 1, Lesson 5

For Teachers 10th Standards

Learners prepare for the end-of-unit task by evaluating previous homework and writing sentences with parallel structure and various phrases. Scholars do this by closely examining E.B. White's Death of a Pig. They examine the structure of...

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Mid-Unit Assessment: Single Draft Narrative

For Teachers 8th Standards

Put it in your own words. Scholars work independently on their mid-unit assessments by responding to a writing prompt. They write about Miné Okubo’s life and the moments when Okubo became visible again.

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Grade 10 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 4

For Teachers 10th Standards

Just read between the lines. Scholars analyze rhetorical devices in Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter by first discussing them with guided questioning. They then complete a rhetorical impact tracking tool before finishing the lesson plan...

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Grade 10 ELA Module 3: Unit 1, Lesson 6

For Teachers 10th Standards

Is there an underlying message? After looking at an excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, scholars discuss how the author uses words to present a claim. Learners work through an evidence tool and guided questions to support...

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Grade 12 ELA Literary Criticism Module

For Teachers 12th Standards

Building one idea at a time. Scholars complete a close read and multiple activities related to Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon to build upon their understanding of central ideas and motifs. They participate in meaningful...

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Teacher’s Guide: The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition By Anne Frank

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards

A line from Anne Frank's diary reads, "What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again." Indeed, that is the hope for scholars who study her diary. The 19-page guide to the Definitive Edition of The Diary of a Young...

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Picture Prompt: Kids on Bridge

For Students 2nd - 3rd

In these language arts worksheets, students are presented a picture and a space is provided for the teacher to type a word list for the students to use in the story. Students synthesize a story using the given word list related to the...

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Picture Prompt: Kids on Bridge

For Students 2nd - 3rd

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Picture Prompt: Kids And Watermelon

For Students 2nd - 3rd

In these language arts worksheets students are presented a picture and a space is provided for the teacher to type a word list for the students to use in the story. Students synthesize a story using the given word list related to the...

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Picture Prompt: Kids And Watermelon

For Students 2nd - 3rd

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Picture Prompt: Custodian

For Students 2nd - 3rd

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Picture Prompt: Girl in Pumpkin

For Students 2nd - 3rd

In these language arts worksheets, students are presented a picture and a space is provided for the teacher to type a word list for the kids to use in the story. Students synthesize a story using the given word list related to the...

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