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A student packet for organizing a persuasive letter as a character from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Includes suggested characters and opinions and graphic organizers to get them ready to write creative and persuasive letters. As a culminating project after reading the play, this can lead to some excellent, and dramatic, letters - and some great persuasive writing!

Instruction sheet and grading rubric for a culminating activity for Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol". Students dramatize the five staves of the novel, with specific criteria to assess their understand of the novel and the language of Dickens's work. This can be a truly fun group assessment activity!