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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

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 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 32-page resource is a perfect body of work for an IB Lang & Lit course studying a non-literary text type - a podcast! Controversial best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell's podcast "Revisionist History" is ideal, and this resource includes notes, tips, and guidance for teachers to make this meaningful and aligned to the IB program. In this mini-unit: Students will watch 6 episodes with 2 additional supplemental videosStudents will engage in 7 activities, including creative projects and gra

This resource includes three quizzes to assess comprehension of The Great Gatsby chapters 5-6, along with answer keys for each. Having three versions of the quiz enables teachers to give similar assessments to different sections, to students who were absent, or who require a reassessment. The quizzes are structured similarly and are about equal difficulty, but students will not be able to share answers as easily between three separate assessments.

This Google Slideshow includes 4 introductory activities on existentialism for the beginning of a novel study of The Stranger by Albert Camus, 3 embedded videos, slides for direct instruction, and a suggested reading schedule.

This Individual Oral organizer for the International Baccalaureate course Language and Literature offers structure to ensure that students are addressing all the necessary aspects within a coherent organization. This should not be prescriptive or a gold standard, but it is a starting place for everyone: especially anyone who feels this assessment is asking them to juggle too many balls: literary, non-literary, global issues, analysis, context, relation to body of work...! This organizer does re

This product includes 80+ open-ended reading prompts for chapters 1-9 of The Great Gatsby. These study questions directly relate to the quizzes trios that teachers can use to dissuade cheating, or for students who were absent or who need a reassessment for mastery. Check out individual chapters here: chapters 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, or the whole book all together.  When you finish reading, review the plot with this fun and versatile review game, and increase the rigor of your course with this

This game will help introduce or review text types (cartoon, poster, article, journal, etc) necessary for preparing for the IB Language and Literature Paper 1 Exam. This fun, engaging game combines strategies from the classic classroom games Hangman, Tic-Tac-Toe, and Bingo to explore 24 text types. This game happens in teams of 3-5 students, and will work best if each group has access to one electronic device, Google Docs, and if the classroom has a smartboard where you can project the gameboard

Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind is the most unique and memorable class novel you could possibly offer your upperclassmen! This resource has discussion questions, group activities, and a creative project for studying literature. These activities are distributed at key points in the reading process. Students will engage with literary elements, reader response, and also research into real world issues - from unpaid internships, to ascetic traditions, to the efficacy of torture! Stu

The International Baccalaureate Language and Literature's Individual Oral task is a challenge for teachers to grade. This rubric grading tool makes it easy for a teacher to identify the strengths and weaknesses of an IO in 60-90 seconds, by breaking the four criteria into nine distinct questions that you can answer quickly and assigning each a relative weight. Say what you like about the IB's rubric, but many teachers find they aren't user-friendly. I developed this resource because I would lis

This reader journal provides a standards-aligned space for students to respond to, reflect on, or analyze their nonfiction reading. This product is best paired with its fiction / literary reader journal counterpart, but it can stand alone for a non-fiction unit! Students can come here to use 20+ non-fiction prompts, which include standards as well as thought provoking prompts such as: Unlike fiction, where we can easily accept what we’re told because we know it’s not real (“Okay, while I’m read

16 open-ended reading comprehension questions guide a reader through The Great Gatsby chapters 5-6! These formative questions are closely aligned to the Gatsby Quiz Trio, which transforms these questions into three different quizzes that teachers can use to dissuade cheating, or for students who were absent or who need a reassessment for mastery. Save yourself time and energy by getting this comprehensive bundle all together!  Don't forget to get the upcoming chapter resources here, or use t

This resource includes activities and prompts to get your students started with chapters 1-2 of The Stranger! This activity includes instructions and teacher guidance and will require printing and cutting.

This resource provides scaffolded steps for an individual student to identify, analyze, and ultimately to create a portion of a film trailer. With 10 steps and associated organizers, students will cover all levels of Bloom's taxonomy! This assignments acts as an extension activity for the Theme Song Project, perfect for students who need more complexity, challenge, and cooperation!

Bring Shakespeare's classic Othello 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 study guide will help students think about characters, key quotes, motifs, and the timelessness of all of the above! This includes seven questions with scaffolded organizers in a Google Document form that is easy to edit, assign to students, and track their progress.

In this charades-inspired game, students compete to identify and analyze figurative language and literary features in key quotes from House on Mango Street! This product is a 20-slide presentation. To play, you'll project, airplay, or screenshare the presentation for students to read the rules and divide the class into two teams. Each round, you will privately show one player from each team the prompt: a slide with a literary term and its definition. They will both try to draw something to pr

This lesson is the beginning of a unit exploring the genre of horror - perfect for Halloween! This lesson includes 13 slides - 8 student-facing direct instruction slides, 5 slides with teacher tips and ideas. This lesson includes Essential Questions, Lesson Objective, a Pre-Reading activity (2 pages), an essay to read (4 pages), video (10-15 minutes), four additional resources for further exploration, and a final activity with 5 suggested ways to adapt for any classroom, digital or in-per

This 61-page resource guides students through an intertextual journey to compare and contrast our gut feelings with multiple culturally-relevant horror texts to uncover assumptions we hold about men and masculinity. Horror provides the perfect vehicle for this analysis because it is so visceral, and students who can truly tap into these fears and disgusts will be able to see clearly the messages our culture has subtly sent to us in myriad ways. This lesson would be an excellent addition to an I