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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an engaging and rigorous experience for students—and an easy one for you—with the BritLitWit bundle! These resources transform a difficult text into a memorable unit. All materials are appropriate for any translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as abridged and unabridged versions. Here's what's included: Bonus: Pacing guide with a sample schedule and additional suggestions for activitiesDo You Have What It Takes to Be a Knight? Intro Activity:

Teach an engaging and rigorous Frankenstein unit with the intro resources, reading questions, quizzes, worksheets, wrap-up assignments and more included in this bundle! You'll get everything you need to ensure that students comprehend the complex details and connect with the classic issues of the novel. Completely revised in 2023! What's included: Pre- and Post-Reading Check-in: Kick off and conclude your Frankenstein unit with engaging discussions! For the pre-reading part of this resource, st

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a breeze to teach with this bundle! What’s included: Anticipation Guide (Pre-reading Opinionnaire): Students respond to seven provocative statements related to the themes of the play by checking off how much they agree with each statement and explaining their opinions.Victorian Etiquette Quiz: This just-for-fun quiz based on a real Victorian etiquette book introduces students to the absurdity of Victorian Era manners, and then prompts them to th

The Beowulf Unit Bundle from BritLitWit will have you covered from start to finish with reading questions, quizzes, worksheets, projects, activities, and more! This bundle includes: Anticipation Guide/Pre-Reading Opinionnaire: This resource presents statements that reflect the attitude of Anglo-Saxon people, including topics like loyalty, revenge, and honoring elders. Students check off the degree to which they agree with the statement, and then explain three of their points in further detail.

You teach British literature. You want to save time and money. You need the BritLitWit British Literature Mega-Bundle! These resources will save you tons of prep time, keep your students engaged, and provide a rigorous learning experience—all at an awesome discount! This bundle is a massive help for teachers new to the profession or British Literature, as well as a great refresh for those who have more experience! It includes resources for ten British Literature classics: Beowulf, Sir Gawain

This Beowulf project helps students understand the purpose of literary monsters like Grendel by exploring how real fears of a society become part of folklore, movies, and literature. Students consider why people from ancient times would have believed in monsters or what troubles they could have symbolized and design a monster of their own that taps into a fear common in our own society. For this assignment, students: Identify what kinds of fears literary monsters like Beowulf's Grendel may hav

This bundle for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge contains materials that will introduce students to the text, support their reading and understanding, and guide them through multiple ways of analyzing the poem. The bundle includes: 30 reading questions about the plot and symbolism, with a graphic organizer that helps students analyze how the poem meets the ideals of British Romanticism (answer key included)Review worksheet that requires students to put "headlines" abo

These rigorous Frankenstein quizzes will motivate your students to complete their reading and come to class prepared! This resource includes 8 multiple-choice reading check quizzes on the following Frankenstein chapter chunks: Letters 1–4 (8 questions)Chapters 1–3 (13 questions)Chapters 4–6 (10 questions)Chapters 7–10 (9 questions)Chapters 11–14 (12 questions)Chapters 15–16 (13 questions)Chapters 17–21 (11 questions)Chapters 22–24 (11 questions)The chapter chunks are manageable for students t

This is the complete Macbeth bundle you've been looking for! The BritLitWit Macbeth Unit Bundle includes pre-reading activities, reading questions, quizzes and worksheets on all five acts, and multiple culminating projects. You'll be all set for an awesome unit. Check out the individual product listings for more details! BritLitWit Macbeth Unit Bundle Contents Intro Activity: Would You Rather...?: This pre-reading activity presents students with eight questions in a "Would you rather...?" for

Hamlet is a challenge for students and teachers alike, but this bundle will make it much easier to dive into Shakespeare's masterpiece with confidence! The BritLitWit Hamlet Unit Bundle includes pre-reading activities, questions for reading and extended thinking, quizzes and worksheets on all five acts, final projects, fun activities, and more. You'll be all set for an awesome unit! Check out the individual product listings for previews and additional details. Pre-Reading Opinionnaire: Kick off

You're all set to cover World War I poetry with this bundle! The resource includes intro slides, a packet of analysis questions with poem texts, and a final writing assignment. More details on the contents: Introductory Slides: These slides include a quick write to help students connect their prior knowledge to the topic, political context for why Britain got involved in World War I, a collection of British military recruitment posters with discussion prompts to help students understand the soc

Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is loaded with challenging phrasing, so students might be tempted to skim over it. But students will understand what Hamlet really means with this cut-and-paste activity that requires them to match chunks of the soliloquy to modernized language. (Don't worry—the modernized language isn't taken from SparkNotes!) Additionally, four analysis questions help students break down Hamlet's reasoning and find ways to relate to the soliloquy today. This activity w

In this fun-yet-challenging final project for Frankenstein, students choose from a menu of options create a small portfolio of four components: A visual that represents an aspect of the novel (e.g. creating a page from Victor's lab journal)A short creative writing piece (e.g. rewriting a popular song to be about Frankenstein, writing a letter from Margaret Saville's perspective, etc.)A literary analysis worksheet that guides students to examine a pertinent topic (including epic conventions, lit

Kick off your study of The Importance of Being Earnest with this just-for-fun quiz based on a real Victorian etiquette book! The quiz introduces students to the absurdity of Victorian era manners, and then prompts them to think about whether our own era has equally ridiculous expectations for behavior. A key is included. This activity can be used with other comedies of manners, such as the works of Jane Austen or a history unit about Victorian England. Related blog posts: The challenges of te

Introduce Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, other King Arthur tales, or medieval history with this just-for-fun quiz! Students find out if they would qualify as a knight in medieval times by circling the statements they agree with, which are based on codes for chivalry. Includes a humorous scoring guide! Then, students explain why they believe three items they circled are relevant to their lives and/or society and explain why three items they didn't circle are outdated or unfitting. Students enj

"The Wife of Bath's Tale" from Canterbury Tales is so much easier and more enjoyable to teach with these resources! The story can be difficult for students to understand because of the Wife of Bath's numerous digressions, but these resources help them focus on what matters and help them strengthen their reading comprehension skills. Here's what's included: Resources for The Wife of Bath's Prologue Summary outline of the Prologue to the tale that sorts out the Wife of Bath's main points and puts

This Macbeth quiz bundle provides multiple-choice quizzes for all five acts. Quizzes focus on plot details, character development, themes, motifs, and important quotations. For some questions, a quotation from the play is provided. Students need to reason their way through to identify the speaker of the quotation or identify the theme or motif with which it aligns. Keys are included! Act I quiz: 20 questions Act II quiz: 18 questions Act III quiz: 18 questions Act IV quiz: 15 questions Act V q

Get a great deal on units for three classic texts from British literature: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Canterbury Tales! The BritLitWit Medieval Literature Bundle has everything you need—available together at a great price! Follow the links below for more information about each resource. BEOWULF UNITThe Beowulf Unit Bundle from BritLitWit will have you covered from start to finish with reading questions, quizzes, worksheets, projects, activities, and more! This bundle includ

This bundle of resources for the three most notable stories from Canterbury Tales will help you teach them thoroughly and with confidence! In addition to reading questions and quizzes that make sure students grasp the plots of "The Pardoner's Tale," "The Miller's Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Tale," this bundle includes skill-building resources that guide students to analyze irony, make inferences, and branch out into creative writing. Here's what's included: "The Pardoner's Tale" Resources12

Introduce Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with this engaging slide presentation! This resource includes 10 well-researched slides that include: A brief overview of the textBackground about the authorAn overview of chivalry in medieval timesCharacteristics of chivalric romancesComponents of a quest (and other examples in literature and film)Influence of folklore on the textNotable poetic devicesThemes and the motifs that support themThese slides align with any translation of Sir Gawain and the