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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!

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.

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.

Have your students analyze the deeper meaning of the classic text The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. This activity/worksheet is designed to cover a 52 minute class period and is directly aligned with the CCSS for grades 9-12. Time saving and challenging and can easily serve as a transition into a socratic seminar or even writing assignment. Also includes answer key!

Do your students struggle with writing argumentative essays? Well, with this graphic organizer they can go from struggling to soaring! Help them organize their thinking, evidence, and counterclaims all in one versatile sheet!

This is a theme chart for Edgar A. Poe's Masque of the Red Death for students to complete as they read. All themes are already identified.