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This product is a guided analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil." I use this product as part of my American Romanticism unit. Included in this product: Biographical and historical information to set the context for the short storyAnalytical Explanation of literary focus: symbol & parablePre-reading points to set students' contextual understanding of the textReading check questionsGuided analysis critical thinking questions Answer sheets

This guided analysis supports students in their analysis of five Native American texts. Texts Covered:"The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky""The Sky Tree""The Earth Only"from "The House Made of Dawn""Coyote Finishes His Work"Link to Full Texts -- includes all 5 texts for analysis Literary Aspects in Focus:ToneMotifsCultural ElementsPurposeStudents are given a guided overview of the literary aspects with examples. They then read the texts and complete a chart for each piece of literature based

This product focuses on the perspective of Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government," Gandhi's "On Nonviolent Resistance," and King's "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail" in analyzing the perspectives of civil disobedience presented in each. It includes: Instructional slidesbackground details for each textvocabulary development for Thoreau's textliterary focus of paradoxDigital worksheets that guide students through the close reading of each textPost-Reading analysis questionsI use this lesson

This bundle includes an entire unit, the first unit if teaching chronologically. It includes lessons on the following texts: Early Native American Literature:"The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky""The Sky Tree""The Earth Only""Coyote Finishes His Work"Anne Bradstreet's "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July, 10, 1666"Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's "World, in hounding me..."Jonathan Edwards' "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God"from Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative

This product is a complete unit bundle of texts during the Romantic era of American literature. The texts included in this bundle include: Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis"Ralph Waldo Emerson's excerpt from Nature and from Self-RelianceHenry David Thoreau's excerpt from WaldenComparing Points of View:Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"Martin Luther King Jr.'

This product guides students through preparation, participation, and reflection of a Socratic Seminar. The worksheets can be completed in-person on printed copies or digitally. Included in the product is: An overview of a Socratic SeminarPreparation Worksheets for the Socratic SeminarPreparation questions and thoughtsIntriguing quotes Universal questions to considerDuring the Socratic Seminar Worksheets:Observer's Report + post-seminar reflectionOverall Reflection Worksheet

This digital product is a guided analysis using the TPCASTT analysis form to analyze Anne Bradstreet's "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of our House, July, 10, 1666". The product includes everything you and your students need to complete an in-depth study of the poem--perfect for online learning! Link to Full Text HereIncluded in this product: "How-To" Instructions for best practices of implementation2 slides providing background information of the author and time period2 slides provid

This product includes enough to complete one week's worth of lessons focusing on the rhetorical analysis of five historical U.S. Documents. Texts in focus:Thomas Jefferson's "The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence"Dekanawida's "The Iroquois Constitution"Thomas Paine's "Crisis No. 1"Abigail Adams' "The Letter to John Adams"Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention"Instructional slides providing detailed overview of SOAPSTone meth

This digital bundle includes an entire online unit of Early American literature, the first unit, if teaching chronologically. It includes lessons on the following texts: Early Native American Literature:"The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky""The Sky Tree""The Earth Only""Coyote Finishes His Work"Anne Bradstreet's "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July, 10, 1666"Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's "World, in hounding me..."Jonathan Edwards' "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God"from

This digital product is a complete online instructional pack for Washington Irving's short story "The Devil and Tom Walker." I use this lesson as part of my online classroom American Romanticism unit in my American Lit. class. This product includes: 15 instructional slides for teaching focusing on:analyzing author's stylethe use of mood to achieve a specific rhetorical or aesthetic purposethe use archetype in literatureVocabulary practice as a pre-reading activityPost-reading guided analysis qu

This product is a Google Sheets digital worksheet for your students to perform hexagonal thinking individually or in a group in your distance learning or in-person classroom. This thinking map was presented on "The Cult of Pedagogy" podcast and blog ( linked here). It can be used as a basis for discussion and allows students to make connections between a variety of topics. I use this in my classroom towards the end of a unit for students to formulate connections between the various topics dis

This digital product can be used for in-person learning or in an online classroom. It guides students through the analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" This product includes: Important historical and biographical details to build pre-reading contextAnalytical overview of symbol and themePre-reading writing activityDuring-reading analysis questionPost-reading critical thinking questionsAnswer sheets are included. See preview for a detailed look at what this product entails. I

This digital guided analysis supports students in their analysis of five Native American texts. This is perfect for a week of online learning. Texts Covered:"The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky""The Sky Tree""The Earth Only"from "The House Made of Dawn""Coyote Finishes His Work"Link to Full Texts -- includes all 5 texts for analysis Literary Aspects in Focus:ToneMotifsCultural ElementsPurposeStudents are given a guided overview of the literary aspects with examples. They then read the texts a

This is final part of a guided lesson to prepare students for the ACT writing assessment. Included in this product: Suggested time allotments for each step of the writing processPractice ACT promptGuide to writing each paragraph of the responseOverview of steps for making revisionsSelf-assessment or peer-review rubricThese worksheets can be completed digitally in your students' Google Drive. Or you can print the pages to have them complete it on paper. Check out these products for a deeper ov

This product is a digital worksheet that guides students through a peer review of a classmate's annotated bibliography entry. Students are asked to: review MLA-formatting of the annotated bibliography entry.assess the entry's organization, support and elaboration, focus, style, and conventions based on the rubric that is included. check the formality and conventions of the entry.state two things that the classmate did well for the entry.state two things the classmate could do to improve the en

This bundle includes a full semester of writing instruction. It includes: A diagnostic writing prompt with different literary quotes to choose for a responseA digital interactive writer's notebook for the semester, which includes:30 voice lessons that guide students through the analysis of:DetailsDictionSyntaxToneImagery5 journal entry prompts for various writing stylesA step-by-step guide to drafting an expository essayA step-by-step guide to drafting an annotated bibliographyA step-by-step g

Included in this digital document: Instructions on best practices of implementing product into classesStudent Guide for completing guided analysis16-page guided analysis for any novelTerms of Use pageThis guided annotation packet can be used for any novel. Included are suggestions for use as well as how I implement it into my own classroom. Students will be guided in analyzing: Author's biographical informationBackground of the period of publicationBackground of the period of settingLiterary

This product is everything you and your students need to analyze three works of English Romantic literature: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in FranceThomas Paine's Rights of ManWilliam Godwin's An Enquiry Concerning Political JusticeLinks included in this product: Links to all passagesLink to vocabulary QuizletLink to video explanation of background informationLink to Google Slides overview of background informationLink to video explanation of writing an extended responseStudents

This product is a guided Close Reading poetry analysis of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Each page of the digital worksheets guides students step-by-step through an in-depth analysis of the poem. Students are challenged to find the meaning in certain choices made by Eliot; asked to explain the impact of various literary devices; and perform a close analysis of Prufrock as the speaker of the poem. Answer sheets are provided for all 7 pages of the digital worksheets.

This digital product is an overview of the period in American literature between 1800-1860 known as American Romanticism. I use this product to begin the second unit of my American literature course. It provides students with an overview of: Major historical events of the eraElements of American Romantic thought and perspectivesCharacteristics of American Romanticism in literatureThe difference between the Transcendentalists and the Dark RomanticsMajor literary accomplishments of the time peri