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This growing bundle (50+ pages so far!) includes several resources for teaching the International Baccalaureate Language and Literature SL Program for 11th-12th graders! Find organizers, mock exams, lesson plans for bodies of work, games, and more! Check out larger units on novels I've used for literary works: Home by Toni MorrisonPerfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick SuskindOthello by William ShakespeareFollow me for more and make sure to leave a review if you love these resources!

Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind is the most unique and memorable class novel you could possibly offer your upperclassmen! It follows a serial killer with a supernatural sense of smell on his quest to bottle the scent of a young woman into a perfume so he can find personal fulfillment as well as conquer the world. The trigger warnings that might scare off younger students, conservative districts, or generally anyone squeamish - (implied) pedophilia, murder, orgies, and cannibalism

This bundle includes resources to teach the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus and a BONUS Non-Fiction Reader Journal! So far, this bundle includes: 1 Introduction to Existentialism Lesson with 4 Student Activities 1 Pre-Reading Activity 3 Assessments: 1 Individual Essay, 1 Individual Video Project3-Part Mock Trial Project for the whole class!Bonus Resources include an additional project and vocabulary puzzle games! If you're interested in another short, thought-provoking book, check out

This Google Document is teacher-facing rules, directions, and guidance for facilitating this game in your classroom throughout or after your study of Orwell's 1984. Green boxes indicate tips, advice, or methods not to be shared with players. Red boxes indicate optional scripts teachers can use to deliver directions in a dramatic fashion.  This game is adapted from a popular murder-mystery style campfire game played all around the world. Each game may take 30-90 minutes depending on the number o

This lesson explores the brainwashing and propaganda technique of the "Common Enemy" through the "Two Minutes Hate" at the beginning of Orwell's 1984. Students will think and research "Common Enemies" in their real world. This lesson stands alone or directly scaffolds the literary analysis / research paper for 1984 you can find here, along with the whole bundle of resources here!

This 221-page bundle has everything you need to study Perfume: Story of a Murderer (32 pages) and The Great Gatsby (125 pages) with a Literary Analysis lens (64 pages) with your high school students! Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections. Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind Perfume is a longer text at 300+ pages, so teachers should plan a minimum of 4 weeks for Perfume, although there is more than enough material (and usual

Bring Shakespeare's classic Hamlet to life in your classroom with this creative final project! Students will reimagine the characters and plot but bring it down to earth in the context of their school. This product scaffolds the entire process for completing this project: A step-by-step teacher's guide with options for customizing for your classroom2 formative assignments for students and groups to prepare3 summative assignment with comprehensive directions: 1 individual, 1 group, 1 reflectionT

This 211-page bundle has everything you need to study Perfume: Story of a Murderer (32 pages), The Great Gatsby (125 pages), and Orwell's 1984 (54 pages) with your high school students! Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections! First Up: Perfume: Story of a MurdererPerfume is a longer text at 300+ pages, so teachers should plan a minimum of 4 weeks for Perfume, although there is more than enough material (and usually more than enough st

This resource is a full unit plan for the study of 1984 by George Orwell, with a focus on brainwashing techniques, their psychological roots, and their historical and modern realities. Then, students apply their learning by trying to brainwash each other in competing propaganda campaigns! Because this PDF resource is written for students, teachers skip the planning stage and can directly print, project, or post this document however you post assignments (Canvas, Google Classroom, etc.) Easel

This 155-page bundle has everything you need to study Orwell's 1984 (54 pages) with a Literary Analysis lens (64 pages) with your high school students! Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections. 1984 by George Orwell. Throughout their reading of the novel, students will plan toward a large final research project and develop ideas as they go. Teachers get:  5 lessons students complete as they readA dual final project: A research paper explorin

This bundle includes lesson plans, posters, organizer, and more to teach students a wide variety of stylistic devices (metaphor, anaphora, repetition, paradox, and lots more!), and uses a categorization activity to help them retain the meaning of 25+ terms. Then, you have a great resource on using those categories to find analysis or "implications" and practice passages. This resource is excellent for teachers who know their students can pick a figurative device out of a line up, but can't find

This 400+-page bundle has everything you to study three novels, one play, one intertextual genre study, all with a lens of literary analysis with your high school students! Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections. This EPIC bundle includes six complete units: Perfume: Story of a Murderer ( novel study, 32 pages; 4-12 weeks) The Great Gatsby ( novel study, 125 pages; 3-8 weeks) 1984: Brainwashing and Propaganda ( novel study and research

This 140-page bundle has two complete units that invite students to explore the nature of evil through history, pop culture, and literature: an intertextual journey to Understanding Gender Through Horror (108 pages) and a literary journey to 18th-century France in the novel Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (32 pages). Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections. Genre Study: Understanding Gender Through Horror This unit guide

This 153-page bundle has all the resources you need to study Perfume: Story of a Murderer and Orwell's 1984 with your high school students! Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections between these dark novels. This bundle includes two unit plans:  Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind 4 introduction activities: A slideshow introducing characterization, genre, theme, etc.2 interactive* introduction activities, including analytical

This unit guides students and teachers through an intertextual journey of culturally-relevant horror texts to understand, unpack, and challenge gender norms in our society. With 100+ pages of resources, including student-facing direct-instructions slides, readings, and organizers, as well as comprehensive teacher guides with guidance and tips for differentiation and customization, this unit is dynamic, timely, relevant, and decidedly confronts students with the tension of the deeply embedded gen

This resource is student-facing assignment directions laying out thorough expectations for the dynamic, interactive murder trial of Meursault as a summative, cumulative project for their study of The Stranger.  The Process: Some students will assume the roles of characters to play "witnesses"; teams of lawyers will assemble in the prosecution and defense; and reporters will write serious news pieces as well as sensationalized tabloid articles about the murder. All students will use close readin

This bundle includes an intertextual genre study exploring themes of gender and power through the genre of horror, along with resources for textual analysis and media study that will help prepare IB students for their Paper 1 exam. Included you will find: 3 full lessons8 short readings (short stories, blogs, articles, essay) 19 other text types (photos, movie clips and trailers, songs, poems, etc.)16 activities for studentsDozens of pages of teacher notes, strategies, options for differentiat

Study bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell's podcast "Revisionist History" as a Body of Work that your students can use for their Individual Oral Assessment. This unit includes 63 pages of teaching materials for the podcast as well as a planning sheet for the IO and an easy grading tool to help you provide quick feedback as you listen to back-to-back IOs!

This 311-page bundle has everything you need to study Perfume: Story of a Murderer (32 pages), The Great Gatsby (125 pages), and Orwell's 1984 (54 pages) with a Literary Analysis lens (64 pages) with your high school students! Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections! First Up: Perfume: Story of a MurdererPerfume is a longer text at 300+ pages, so teachers should plan a minimum of 4 weeks for Perfume, although there is more than enough

This resource is a full unit plan for the study of 1984 by George Orwell, with a focus on brainwashing techniques, their psychological roots, and their historical and modern realities. Then, students apply their learning by trying to brainwash each other in competing propaganda campaigns! Because these PDF resources are written for students, teachers skip the planning stage and can directly print, project, or post this document however you post assignments (Canvas, Google Classroom, etc.) Easel