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Studying the Hero's Journey? Or just want to explore how the art of storytelling in an interesting way? This is a great resource to get your students thinking about storytelling and the way heroes are made! Joseph Campbell's hero's journey template is an engaging lesson to teach students about the "must have's" of heroes in literature. No matter what level or type of literature you're teaching, every hero fits the hero's journey template one way or another! I use this activity with Beowulf, but

This is a fantastic summative project/assessment at the end of a unit, semester, or year of AP Lit. & Comp. or other literature course that gets your scholars thinking about characterization, details, application to the real world, themes, big ideas, conflicts, character relationships, and much more all while practicing presentation skills and HAVING FUN! This Google Slide guides students through how to create their presentation for designing a dinner party with characters from the text(s) th

This google slide document is best used as an introduction to the literary time period of American Romanticism and includes information on both minor movements Transcendentalism and the Brooding or Dark Romantics.

In this fun research activity, students follow instructions to find out background information, read Arthurian legends, and connect Arthurian literature to the real world. They organize all of their findings into a brochure template (also included) then they can design it, change the colors and fonts, etc to their liking. This is a great introductory activity for a unit on King Arthur and/or Arthurian literature OR as a summative project at the end of a unit. Completed examples included for refe

In Advanced Placement Literature & Composition, we need to be ready to write on any aspect of a piece of literature with thoughtful depth. The only way to be great at this is with PRACTICE! In this resource, you will find: Instructions for three ways to PLAY this literature analysis gamePre-formatted cards to print and have students draw from for their reading response prompt (taken from the College Board's Conceptual Framework)A list of texts (poetry, short fiction, longer fiction, and drama)

This Google Slide takes you through the introduction to communication and can be used to explain the prominence of podcasts in modern communications. It then guides students in their own initial analysis of a podcast episode (Supernatural with Ashley Flowers). It explains the project requirements and shows a tentative recording/publishing schedule on the final slide. The students can use any podcast creation device/website- Anchor is a great place to start!

If you're studying tension, mystery, suspense, or storytelling in general, Roald Dahl is one of the greatest go-to's! With this resource, you can have your students complete a first read (or follow along while they listen), then analyze for some core literary characteristics and elements of the story. This is great for independent work, sub plans, practice identifying literary/story elements, genre elements, etc. Google doc makes it easy to share, assign for homework or independent work time,

This is a single doc, checklist style description of a final one-pager assignment over one chapter of The Great Gatsby. I use this with my 10th/11th grade students, and they have a lot of fun! I require them to choose one chapter (the most shocking, impactful, interesting, etc to them) and make at least one element of the one-pager "interactive" in some way (flipping page, texture, etc)

Google slide resource for introducing the major characteristics and components of American Transcendentalism.

The Lake Poets of British Romantic Literature are a great way to get kids WRITING about NATURE! With this short activity, you can get kids channeling their inner poets by having them write about the scenes provided on the slides. This could be a quick intro, bell ringer, exit ticket, or you could extend the assignment by adding more requirements if you wish! I was SHOCKED and pleasantly impressed by the poems my students came up with! Enjoy!

If you're teaching George Washington's Farewell Address, this is a great resource for you! You can have your whole class work on this, chunk it over different days or class periods, or put your class into small groups and have them each annotate and then share their findings. However you choose, this is a great tool for HS students to dig an incredible and empowering speech! **I teach this in tandem with the Hamilton musical, so that bring another entertainment element into this study as well!*

After reading "The Scarlet Ibis," have students dig into the characters and analyze the theme(s). Students will investigate the text to find quotes to support their interpretations, then write about a theme presented by the text using textual evidence.

This is a comprehensive background/introduction to Medieval Literature for a High School level course. Topics covered include: Historical events leading up to the middle ages/ culture & language development that created the cultural climate/population in England during the middle ages. The three estates of the middle ages - clergy, nobles, commoners. Feudalism overviewCrusades overviewChivalry Influences of the church/ corruption of the church Black DeathMixture of languages that created unique

These are a cute, simple way to kick off the year, semester, or give out any time of the school year to give your kids a little point boost! Print them off, cut them out, and VOILA!

This is a super fun (and funny!) creative writing and/or storytelling activity for students of all ages! I use this in many ways throughout the year including introducing or concluding short story units where we'll be studying aspects of quality storytelling, creative writing units, speaking units to gets kids comfortable sharing and speaking in front of each other, and as ice breakers at the beginning of the year or a new semester. However you use them, the kids will LOVE it! They have so much

Impromptu or extemporaneous speaking is a WONDERFUL skill to develop! What better way than a fun, creative activity with the class! This activity is a fun, supplemental lesson that serves to discuss the importance of quick thinking, confident speaking, and the presentation of coherent, real-time thought production. The best implementation would be to do this activity multiple times throughout the year to improve students' comfort speaking in front of others and practicing the skills of quick tho

This is an all in one teacher and student guide to a final literary analysis project! I used this at the end of the year as my final assessment, but it can be used at the end of a short story or poetry unit, as long as the students have an array of texts to choose from! This is a doc with the project explanation step-by-step, a calendar to show the process day-by-day (editable to your needs!), and a short analysis practice activity with an excerpt from The Scarlet Ibis to do as a class to get s

This is a fun, creative way to have your students dive into Langston Hughes' powerful poem "Dreams Deferred" also titled "Harlem." Students complete a TPCAST analysis of the poem using a great digital tool Storyboard. They use the free version, and at the end, they screenshot their project and turn it in as an image file!

If you want a fun, easy to follow notes sheet to hand your kids as you walk them through an introduction and context to the renaissance era, this is for you!

This is a short introduction/background on Anglo-Saxon history & literature as well as an intro to Epic Heroes in Anglo-Saxon Literature! I use this as a short intro for my Anglo-Saxon unit in British Literature before we study Beowulf, and the kids find the history and the discussion of epic heroes very interesting!