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This Frankenstein Unit Bundle has recently been redesigned to meet the new AP English Literature course requirements, aligning with AP® English Literature Unit 6 (Longer Fiction or Drama Unit II). This three-week unit plan includes everything you would need to teach Mary Shelley's masterpiece, Frankenstein. This material aligns with the 1831 version of the novel. Designed for an advanced placement course, it guides an analytical, quote-driven exploration of the text, along with multiple as

This AP English Lit Full Course Year Long bundle provides extensive materials for teaching AP Lit for an entire year. Perfect for both first year teachers and AP Literature teachers looking for a refresher. Teaching AP English Literature and Composition can seem to be an overwhelming endeavor, but this bundle gives teachers the resources and guidance they need to teach it well, meet the standards set by College Board, and has the flexibility and editable features to make it their own. Each

This bundle has been overhauled to represent the 2019 changes to the AP English Literature course description and meets the AP Lit ® Skills for Unit 2 (Poetry 1). This bundle includes all of the materials you would need to introduce poetry analysis to AP ® Lit students or other advanced literature students, as well as supplementary material to expand it as you need. It includes a unit plan and student objectives, which are not sold separately. This bundle includes the following resources, also

This bundle of AP Lit Short Story Lessons prepares AP English Literature ® and other advanced literature students for prose analysis. Based on the Short Fiction I standards in the new AP Lit CED, this resource includes six lessons. Each lesson breaks down the important skills and strategies needed for prose analysis through slideshow notes, then offers a chance to practice on a short story (less than 5 pages). Each lesson ends in a paragraph assessment, styled after the AP Lit paragraph resp

This set of year long ELA bellringers will prep your high school students in vocabulary, grammar, literary elements, and nonfiction analysis, especially those in Honors or headed for AP Literature and AP Language. This ELA bellwork bundle includes a beautiful student handout that you can print or assign digitally for note-taking. While these could be used in any 9-12th grade ELA classroom, they best match the skills and standards of 10th grade ELA. I use them with on-level and Honors 10 cl

This bundle includes everything you need to teach Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor® to AP English Literature ® students to both in-class and distance learners. This massive resource contains the following: Notes and Mini-Lessons118 slides of detailed notes, with applications to Foster's text and beyond, including novels, plays, songs, poems, film, and television21 pages of textual excerpts and handouts for additional learning26-page student note packet, following the

These Literary Term Bell Ringers for AP Lit will help your students practice critical AP® Lit skills in preparation for advanced analysis and the AP® Lit exam ⭐ What's Included in this Literary Term Bell Ringers for AP Lit resource:➤ The download includes 28 lessons, each including:A title slide centered around a visual image associated with the literary termA definition of the literary termAn example from literature (prose and poetry)Additional practice titles to spark discussion, including l

This AP English Literature Skills resource contains 130 task cards representing the Enduring Understandings and emphasized skills from the AP English Literature ® course and exam description. These task cards are available as printable materials or interactive Google Slides, perfect for digital learning. These AP Lit aligned task cards are printer-ready and include a color and black and white version.  ⭐ What's Included in this AP Lit Skill Task Cards resource:Each of the 130 AP Lit aligned

This week-long AP Lit Prose Analysis unit, which fulfills the skills listed in the AP English Literature ® CED for Short Fiction Unit II, guides students on a focused analysis of prose. Each lesson helps AP Lit® and other advanced literature students understand how prose elements such as diction, syntax, point of view, tone, and other elements can shape a textual excerpt and drive the meaning of an entire novel or play. These lessons are connected into a full week unit with a completed timed

This new and improved bundle contains everything you will need to teach Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart in AP English Literature and other advanced literature courses. The notes, quizzes, test, and study guide are now also available in interactive Google versions for online use. The bundle contains the following: 10 PowerPoint presentations of introductory and chapter guided reading notes1 answer key for discussion questions, aligned with Guided Reading Notes1 poem study slideshow g

This AP English Literature Starter Kit was designed with new AP English Literature teachers in mind and includes a range of standalone units and activities you can implement today. It bundles my best-selling and best-reviewed resources that can be used in any AP® Lit classroom. None of these resources require outside texts or reading assignments and they can be integrated along with any AP® Lit curriculum!  To preview the materials in this AP English Literature Starter Kit versus my Full C

This AP Literature Test Preparation Bundle has been completely overhauled to reflect the 2019 course changes and blend test prep with test strategy. The resources in this unit could be used at the start of the year, before the AP ® English Literature exam, or throughout the entire course. ⭐ What's Included in this AP Lit Test Preparation Bundle: AP®Lit Essential Skills HandoutAP®Lit Test Prep - Understanding the RubricAP®Lit Test Prep - Approaching the EssaysMultiple Choice Strategies for

This unit, designed for AP English Literature ®/ AP Lit and other upper level ELA classes, guides students in the study of August Wilson's Fences. This download includes materials for teaching, assessing, and expanding on this play and its impact on American literature. The resource includes the following: 71 pages of slideshow notes (1 introductory, 1 for each Act)A pacing guide and instructions and strategies for teaching Fences2 AP Lit skill-based Socratic discussion activities + rubric2 gr

This bundle of six mini-lessons, designed to meet the criteria for AP English Literature ® Short Fiction III (Unit 7), guides students in understanding six major literary movements and studying excerpts from various short fiction from those movements. These movements include: RomanticismRealismThe Harlem RenaissanceModernismPostmodernismMagical RealismGothicism*Each extended lesson is designed to last 2-3 days (depending on your school's schedule) and includes: an introductory analysis activit

This resource contains 36 PDF files, each of which walks students through poetry analysis of each poem in five focused steps. Each page asks 2-3 questions focused on one AP Lit Essential Skill® (Characterization, Setting, Structure, Narrator, and Figurative Language). The questions comprise five slides, designed for each day of the week. The lesson ends with a writing or discussion prompt, modeled after the prompts from the AP® English Lit exam. This resource can be used both in the classroom or

This AP English Literature Essential Skills Activities Bundle features a range of graphic organizers that can be paired with any text to help your AP® Lit students get the most out of studying each AP® Lit Essential Skill. Each AP Lit graphic organizer is aligned with a different skill from the AP® Lit CED and will help your students make observations, connections, and move towards complex analysis. Each ends with the creation of a writing prompt and an optional writing assessment. ⭐ Wha

This Hamlet Lesson Bundle includes everything you need to teach Hamlet to Grades 10, 11 and 12! Upperclassmen are interested in this play because of its unique plot, but it also has many unique applications in discussions of grief and mental illness. Materials have been differentiated and scaffolded to teach remedial students and include challenge questions for AP® and Pre-AP® students as well. All assignments in this resource are also available as interactive Google Slides or Google Forms, s

This bundle contains everything you need to teach Kafka's The Metamorphosis and the theory of existentialism to your ELA students, including: A differentiated, jigsaw-style lesson to introduce existentialismGuided reading notes, explaining important plot events and themes as students readMaterials, including questions and a rubric, to conduct a Socratic SeminarAn editable 35-point unit testThese materials are designed to last 5-6 days with the novella taking 3 days to read, but pacing can easi

This AP Lit Poetry Unit meets the required skills and activities as described in the new AP English Literature CED® for poetry unit II. Students can work individually or in groups to analyze four advanced poems, both in discussion and in writing.  ⭐ What's Included in this AP Lit Poetry Unit II:This short unit includes 4 AP Lit Poetry essential skills lessons. Each lesson includes:  a slideshow poem lessona skill-based graphic organizera line of reasoning graphic organizer for essay brainstor

This two-week Poetry Boot Camp unit guides 9-10th grade students in analyzing poetry. These lessons are designed to make poetry analysis engaging by pairing poems with movie clips, TED-Ed videos, song lyrics, and other media. Furthermore, it reinforces student interpretation and analysis, rather than a find-the-only-right-answer approach. This unit contains 8 lessons, each based on a poetry skill. These skills are based on skills from the AP® English Lit CED, so they are great for new and