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These guided reading questions are designed to challenge your students! I love teaching Elie Wiesel, but I do not love how easy it was for my students to Google the answers to the chapter questions I inherited from a co-teacher years ago. These worksheets use higher-order thinking questions to encourage your students to REALLY dig deep into Wiesel's words. This source includes: Questions for each chapter,An answer key, andAn attention-grabbing quote at the top of each guide.This resource uses pa

Click HERE for the Video Preview! In this FREE resource, your students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of rhetorical appeals. Students are tasked with finding advertisements that use ethos, logos, and pathos, describe how the image utilizes the appeal, then cite their image. An example slide is provided to lead your students in the right direction. I have also included a link to the Google Slide version of this resource. Simply click on the "Read First" document in the download and

This resource is intended to your students reach a deeper level of analysis with The Great Gatsby with Say, Mean, Matter. This method of quote analysis works well because it forces students to look past a simple rephrasing of the quotes and challenges them to analyze how the quote plays into major themes and the novel as a whole. Students will read each quote, explain what the quote means, then explain how the quote matters to the greater concepts of the novel. INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE  ● A b

This well scaffolded worksheet allows students to create a monthly budget and calculate their projected net worth after thirty years of keeping their created budget, giving students some much needed motivation for budgeting, saving, and investing. Students have the option of selecting predetermined values for income and expenses or they may research and fill in their own values. If you like this resource, check out my The Book Thief Vocabulary and Magic Square Activity!

Are your students not responding well to the traditional vocabulary practices? It is time for a scavenger hunt using Twitter! The idea is simple; your students form groups (which include at least one group member with a Twitter account) to complete a series of challenges using their new vocabulary words in context. In order to track each group's progress and select winners, you will need to create a unique hashtag for every new hunt. Your students will have to include this hashtag along with th

Your students just finished the first draft of their persuasive essays. What now? How about a peer review? This resource contains two separate foldables. The tri-fold persuasive essay peer review allows for two separate peer reviews and one self-reflection. Also included is a book-style foldable with the same information. Both peer reviews are provided as an editable Microsoft Publisher document and PDF.

Are you looking for a way to mix up your vocabulary practice? Enjoy this FREE vocabulary choice board! Based on the rules of Bingo, this strategy allows students to be in control of their own learning. I know, I know. Obviously this isn't a new concept, but I have included a few options you may have not previously considered. Enjoy! And be sure to check out my other products! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Windom-World

This is a reading organizer that I use with my World Literature course. This helps the students keep track of what we have read for each unit. There are boxes for the title of the work and page number, author, form of literature, and literary terms we have studied with that work and a definition of the term.

This is a reading organizer that I use with my Ninth Literature course. This helps the students keep track of what we have read for each unit. There are boxes for the title of the work and page number, author, form of literature, and literary terms we have studied with that work and a definition of the term.

This is a reading organizer that I use with my English Literature course. This helps the students keep track of what we have read for each unit. There are boxes for the title of the work and page number, author, form of literature, and literary terms we have studied with that work and a definition of the term.

This is a reading organizer that I use with my American Literature course. This helps the students keep track of what we have read for each unit. There are boxes for the title of the work and page number, author, form of literature, and literary terms we have studied with that work and a definition of the term.