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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!

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 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 bundle combines a mini-unit podcast study of "Revisionist History" presented by controversial bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell with a non-fiction reader journal aligned to ELA standards for informational texts! The podcast study is designed for IB Language and Literature courses preparing students for the Individual Oral assessment, but the non-fiction journal can be used for any informational text for years to come. This bundle includes a bonus file of free vocabulary puzzles!

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 bundle includes formative reading questions for the study of chapters 7-9 of The Great Gatsby, along with three reading quizzes on chapters 7-8. Having separate reading quizzes makes it easy for teachers to assign different assessments for students who are absent, sick, in different sections, or reassessing! This product does include reading questions for chapter 9, but does not include quizzes to assess chapter 9. Instead, enjoy playing the review game included! If your study includes l

Maximize student choice by letting students choose their own books! With this bundle, they can read fiction or non-fiction, and still respond to English Language Arts Standards. With over 50 prompts, students can authentically engage with a variety of standards and teachers will be spared the endless monotony that is reading the same response over and over!

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

This bundle includes formative reading questions for the study of chapters 3-4 of The Great Gatsby, along with three reading quizzes. Having separate reading quizzes makes it easy for teachers to assign different assessments for students who are absent, sick, in different sections, or reassessing! Make sure to check out resources for the next chapters here, and a review game for when you finish the novel!

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 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!

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.

This bundle includes formative reading questions for the study of chapters 5-6 of The Great Gatsby, along with three reading quizzes. Having separate reading quizzes makes it easy for teachers to assign different assessments for students who are absent, sick, in different sections, or reassessing!

This assignment can be used for any class novel! In fact, using it across several class novels provides familiarity and scaffolding for student readers. This assignment offers students a variety of choices from written to visual to show their understanding and critical thinking, from within the text to their real world experience and current events.

This graphic organizer scaffolds the exploration of any text - ads, blogs, websites, infographics, anything! - to guide students to identify its text type, audience, purpose as well as rhetorical and stylistic features, and then draw conclusions from their observations. This organizer is so comprehensive and versatile that students can use it over and over for a wide variety of texts throughout their Lang & Lit study, so that by the time they arrive at their Paper 1, analyzing any text will be a

This bundle includes a reader journal aligned to ELA literature standards, a slideshow teaching how to analyze stylistic devices, and a set of vocabulary games!

This organizer helps students scaffold their research, using an annotated bibliography modeled after those used in graduate schools to conduct literature reviews. With thorough scaffolding, students will be able to collect, cite, describe, compare, contrast, and comment on seven sources to create a thorough examination of one brainwashing or propaganda technique from 1984 that occurs through history and current day. Find the full project instructions here! Or purchase the whole bundle here.If

This 25-page lesson plan familiarizes students with 25+ academic terms for stylistic and figurative language devices (metaphor, anaphora, repetition, paradox, and lots more!) with three activities, five practice passages, and in-depth insights into finding implications in language that will make this resource a go-to for every literary analysis task, this year and forever! This lesson is also a great option for a sub plan, and would make an impressive demo lesson for an interview!  Have mor

This reader journal is closely aligned to AERO English Language Arts high school standards. Each standard for reading literature has been adapted into about 30 student-friendly writing prompts that students can choose from on a day-to-day basis on their authentic reading journey. For example, "Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it..." becomes, "Try to notice foreshadowing. When you think you see something coming in the story, stop and writ