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This versatile worksheet can be used with any novel or short story. Use this to teach your students about inferencing and character analysis through indirect and direct characterization, directly linked to the ELA CCSS!

Help your students prepare for the PARCC with this test/quiz! It includes excerpts from both chapters one and two of John Steinback's classic, Of Mice and Men. This test is aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards and elicits application of skills associated with inferencing, using context clues, as well as objective summarizing of main events. Also included is the answer key, overall, a great investment to save time and headaches!

Help your students prepare for the PARCC with this test/quiz! It includes excerpts from both chapters three and four of John Steinback's classic, Of Mice and Men. This test is aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards and elicits application of skills associated with inferencing, using context clues, as well as objective summarizing of main events. Also included is the answer key, overall, a great investment to save time and headaches!

This project requires students to work in collaborative groups to analyze chapter two of The Great Gatsby and create an illustration for an assigned scene. There is a rubric already created for this project and can be purchased separately, I have found that my students really enjoy this project!

Help your students prepare for the PARCC with this test/quiz! It includes excerpts from Act II of Romeo and Juliet. This test is aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards and elicits application of skills associated with inferencing, using context clues, as well as objective summarizing of main events. Also included is the answer key, overall, a great investment to save time and headaches!

This is a comprehensive test/quiz for Edgar A. Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. This test is a combination of multiple choice, vocabulary, short response, and one long response. All point values are already assigned for print and go capability and includes answer key for all multiple choice and short answer questions.

This is a chapter quiz that focuses on chapters 1-5 of The Hounds of Baskerville that is comprised on 10 multiple choice, 10 short answer responses, and an essay/open ended prompt. Also included is the answer key.

Segmented by chapter, this is a short response quiz with 25 questions and the corresponding answer key for chapters 6-10 of The Hounds of Baskerville.

Help your students prepare for the PARCC with this test/quiz! It includes excerpts from Act III of Williams Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This package includes TWO separate assessments with the matching answer keys, one for standard students and one for an honors/accelerated student grouping. These tests are aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards and elicits application of skills associated with inferencing, using context clues, as well as objective summarizing of main eve

This two day lesson plan challenges students to analyze the text while performing in depth indirect and direct characterization of two characters to ultimately identify their parallelisms. CCSS aligned and PARCC geared, this exercise is rigorous and engaging. Also included are excerpts to help students focus on specific elements and characters in the text.

Help your students prepare for the PARCC with this test/quiz! It includes excerpts from chapter 1 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby. This test is aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards and elicits application of skills associated with inferencing, using context clues, as well as objective summarizing of main events. Also included is the answer key, overall, a great investment to save time and headaches!

This test/quiz includes excerpts from chapters 1-6 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter. This test is aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards. Also included is the answer key, overall, a great investment to save time and headaches!

Help your students prepare for the PARCC with this test/quiz! It includes excerpts from Act IV of Williams Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This package includes TWO separate assessments with the matching answer keys, one for standard students and one for an honors/accelerated student grouping. These tests are aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards and elicits application of skills associated with inferencing, using context clues, as well as objective summarizing of main even

This project will both engage students in the brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe's use of language in "The Tell Tale Heart" and allow students to apply their understanding of imagery. A great activity with corresponding rubric!

Included in this product at 10 original, critical thinking questions for Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain that you can use for either assessment or small group discussion. All questions are aligned to support ELA New Jersey Student Learning Standards (similar to those of the common core standards). Standards that are targeted include: NJSLSA.R1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences and relevant connections from it; cite specific tex

This is a writing unit that is designed to guide students through expository style writing. This presentation is comprised of 52 slides with 5 immersion lessons complete with warm ups/do now, objectives in the form of student learning, and the articles/mentor texts needed to teach the unit. This unit is scaffolded to include opportunities for teacher modeling, partner work, and independent work. The unit concludes with a suggestive pacing for student writing production, a proposed summative asse

This test/quiz includes excerpts from both The Fall of the House of Usher and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. This test is aligned with both PARCC and the common core state standards. Also included is the answer key, overall, a great investment to save time and headaches!

Excerpts from both "Self Reliance" and "Nature" with analytical questions. Great resource to teach active reading.

This reading assessment focuses on challenging students to identify core traits characteristics of Dystopian Literature through various passages and multiple choice questions that are aligned with CCSS. This quiz is approximately 15 questions and assesses student skills that include identifying the protagonist, analyzing passages to uncover the topic/theme, and much more. In a block period this works great with a review session to follow, and can also be used as a pre-assessment for a dystopian

After reading chapters 1-4 of The Great Gatsby students will reflect on the chapters and identify and support the presence of materialism and excess in a web, as well as 3 extension questions pertaining to the chapters.