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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

James Joyce's short story "Araby" from Dubliners is brief but jam-packed with significance. It can pass students by if they don't have the skills they need to analyze it, though! These resources help students examine "Araby" so that they better understand and appreciate the story, but also build literary analysis skills that will help them tackle any other short stories or novels. Studying "Araby" with the help of these worksheets is a great way to prepare students for writing literary analysis

Teach the Canterbury Tales Prologue in a way that highlights what matters: interpreting the text to understand what makes it a timeless classic. This bundle includes rigorous, yet well-supported resources that will improve students' reading comprehension skills and create an enjoyable learning experience. No tedious overemphasis on Middle English or the minor details of the pilgrims' clothing here! Instead, this approach is all about helping students become more astute readers and developing a

These Beowulf reading questions include 67 questions about the poem's plot, along with prompts for students to note examples of important poetic devices, such as kennings and variation. This resource includes a version for the Seamus Heaney translation, with the questions broken into ten chunks that provide good stopping points (line and page numbers are noted). An answer key is included! There's also a version of the questions without line or page numbers in case you're using a different vers

These reading questions for The Importance of Being Earnest help students keep track of the play's complex plot details! The 39 questions cover Acts I–III. An answer key is included. This resource is also included the discounted BritLitWit The Importance of Being Earnest Unit Bundle! Related blog posts: The challenges of teaching Earnest and how to overcome themTry a humor unit (especially at the end of the school year!)Other resources you may find helpful: Canterbury Tales Prologue Reading Q

For a challenging Beowulf assignment, have students write a boast poem similar to the one that Beowulf delivers before he fights Grendel! The information students are required to include will help them prepare for writing college admissions essays. This resource scaffolds the writing process so students are set up for success. The packet includes: A detailed rubric that outlines the requirements for alliteration, kennings, references to family/friends, and personal accomplishments and plans. (

These Beowulf introductory slides use authoritative sources to prepare your students to analyze the text. The slides include explanations of: The general plot The historical context about the cultures who contributed to the development of the storyHow the story developed in the oral tradition before it was written in Old English and eventually translated into Modern EnglishThe cultural values present in the story including comitatus, wyrd, flyting, boasting, and a sense of communityLiterary dev

Need a Macbeth intro activity? Kick off the unit with an anticipation guide that engages the whole class in a fun discussion! The slides for this pre-reading activity present eight questions in a "Would you rather...?" format that get students to think about the tough decisions that the characters in Macbeth have to make (for example, "Would you rather be fake sometimes so you could get ahead in your career, or always be honest, but appear less ambitious?") Students always have fun debating the

This Frankenstein worksheet is an engaging way to get students interested in the novel's exploration of the nature vs. nurture debate. It includes: A brief introduction to the “nature” and “nurture” views A table with prompts for students to identify their traits that they believe are genetic and the traits they believe have developed through their experiences5 questions that guide students to examine how nature and nurture affect the creature in the novel and people in the real worldThis activ