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Brave New World Unit : Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is an excellent text for AP Literature, general, or honors students. This unit includes activities, quizzes, paired poetry, a discussion-based anticipation guide, engaging response journal activity, student-centered historical context cooperative jigsaw, and close reading activities. This bundle will help your unit come to life! Enjoy! You deserve to simplify your planning through enriching, engaging resources. _____________________________

You deserve to simplify your planning through enriching, engaging resources. Engage your students in a study of dystopias and dystopian literature through this engaging and rigorous PBL! This unit is meant to work alongside a book study of any dystopian novel ( Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, 1984, The Giver, Fahrenheit 451, etc. ) and guide students through the steps of creating their own dystopian worlds through using their assigned text as a model. Encourage your students to critique socie

Persuasive talks are a powerful way to teach students public speaking, rhetorical analysis, persuasive writing, and research-skills. For this unit, students write a research paper on the topic of their choice, analyze contemporary speeches, and craft a persuasive speech for an authentic audience that captures their own unique voice on a topic of their choice. In my own classroom, I was blown away by some of the topics my students chose, which included “Glossophobia: How the Fear of Public Speak

Looking for engaging short stories aligned to the 2019 AP Curriculum Framework to launch your year? This resource includes three engaging short stories that feature allegories and/or fairytale-esque elements in order to convey messages about social change. Additionally, this resource is designed to prepare your students to conduct their own analytical discussions around a text, teaching students the close reading skills they need to be successful. ______________________________________________

1984 Unit : George Orwell's 1984 is an excellent text for AP Literature, general, or honors students that will challenge your students to think deeply about personal freedoms, the danger of totalitarian governments, the importance of the past, and more. This growing unit is still being added to, but already includes activities, a discussion-based anticipation guide, an engaging response journal activity, student-centered historical context cooperative jigsaw, a project-based learning supplemen

This resource is aligned with the Short Fiction I Unit of the new AP Literature and Composition curriculum framework. This story and the resources provided provide a delightful way to build students' literary analysis, discussion, and writing skills. "Young Goodman Brown" is an allegory by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1835. This is the perfect text to discuss the hero's journey __________________________________________________________________ Feedback from Educators:“This was a nice additi

Take a second to imagine your students actively engaged in discussion, movement, and activity as they prepare for the poetry, prose, and free choice essay on the AP Literature and Composition exam. Wouldn't that be lovely? This growing bundle includes a variety of my best writing resources: reciprocal teaching activities to boost comprehension and analysis of difficult texts, discussion carousels to prepare for analyzing poetry, a powerpoint breaking down the Q2 essay on the exam and what's exp

Looking for activities to engage your AP Literature students in Frankenstein while providing the context necessary for them to understand the text? This bundle of resources includes a creative writing task, a fun yet educational personality quiz, historical context on the Romantic and Enlightenment era, and an engaging game to help students apply their understanding of the period to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." This bundle includes: Frankenstein Creative Writing TaskRomanticism vs. Enlightenm

PBL Unit Bundles for ELA Classrooms : English classrooms are at an advantage when it comes to Project-based Learning -- our content is based on skills and creation. These three PBL units cover research, writing, reading, and speaking in a way that will engage your students and clearly relate to the "real world." ___________________________________________________________________ Key PBL Elements:Challenging Problem or Question: How can we create and share ideas worth spreading in a way that imp

If you're searching for a way to help your AP Lit. students grasp the significance of and distinction between perspective and point of view in short fiction, if you want to find illuminating questions that will help your students analyze how point of view impacts perspective and theme, or if you're simply looking for another tool in your teaching toolbox, this product will be a wonderful resource. Including a twenty-five page PowerPoint that includes differentiated journal prompts, key questi

Ready your students for life after high school with this 50-page resource that guides students through the process of searching for, preparing for, and applying for jobs. This resource covers how to fill out an application, write a resume, interview effectively, write a cover letter, check your social media footprint, and follow up with a thank-you note. Utilizing rubrics, anchor papers, interactive scaffolding, and clear instruction sheets, this unit will provide everything you need to teach y

Ready your students for employment and college admissions with this 72-page resource that guides students through the process of searching for, preparing for, and applying for jobs, along with writing and revising effective college admissions essays. This resource covers how to fill out an application, write a resume, interview effectively, write a cover letter, check your social media footprint, and follow up with a thank-you note. Utilizing rubrics, anchor papers, and clear instruction sheets,

This resource is aligned with the Short Fiction I Unit of the new AP Literature and Composition curriculum framework. This story and the resources provided provide a delightful way to build students' literary analysis, discussion, and writing skills. "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence is a haunting and magical tale of the price of ambition. Through this resource, students will analyze the development of characters, the impact of setting, and the power of perspective. This is an excellen

Help engage your students in understanding the Enlightenment and Romantic eras through this quick, fun, and engaging quiz. For this task, students will answer a variety of questions about their personalities and preferences to determine whether their worldview aligns more closely with an Enlightenment or Romantic mindset. This tool would be a perfect lead in for any Romantic text, including Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Wuthering Heights, or Jane Eyre. Looking for

Although Brave New World is an exceptionally engaging and relevant text, students often get hung up on the first three chapters. Huxley’s world-building and pseudoscientific description often disorient students and they need a bit of extra support. This product was designed to help your students make sense of the first three chapters of Brave New World without you having to explicitly explain the structure of the society to them. These task cards are focused on illuminating the structure of

College Admissions Writing Mini-Unit: This resource will guide students through the college essay writing process from start to finish. From brainstorming activities to researching university values to revision stations, this unit provides a comprehensive approach to the writing process. Students will know…The characteristics of reflective essays and the elements that make a college essay effective.Their intended audience’s values.Brainstorming strategies for when they feel stuck.Organizational

Beloved Analysis Stations for AP Literature: This resource includes four stations focused on comprehending and analyzing the opening chapter of Beloved. In the foreward of the text, Toni Morrison wrote that, when she wrote Beloved, she "wanted the reader to be kidnapped [and] thrown ruthlessly into an alien environment." The opening chapter achieves this end, which lends the text its power while also confusing many students. These stations focus not only on relieving that confusion, but on te

Prepare your students for the AP Lit. Q1 and Q2 essays using this close reading strategy that is sure to boost student comprehension of poetry and prose! Reciprocal teaching is a common method for raising reading comprehension in the middle and high school classroom that is highly under-utilized in the AP classroom. However, this activity is specifically geared towards advanced learners and is designed to increase student understanding and confidence in relation to complex prose passages. This a

Use this engaging resource to set the stage for Frankenstein and the Romantic Era for your AP Literature students. Including an engaging presentation on the characteristics of Romanticism, Mary Shelley’s life, and the characteristics of Gothic novels, this resource will expose your students to the big ideas of the Romantic era in an exciting way. This resource includes: 25-Slide Historical Context Presentation going over Gothic novels, the Romantic and Enlightenment eras, and Mary Shelley’s life

King Lear - Full Unit : This resource uses King Lear to teach close reading, comprehension, and analysis and is intended to prepare your AP Lit. or advanced students to comprehend and analyze the key nuances, symbols, and motifs in the text through discussion prompts, poetry pairings, creative projects, and more! This unit includes the following:1. King Lear Pre-Reading Socratic Seminar/Anticipation Guide: This guide will introduce your students to key themes of the text, including appearance