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This graphic organizer serves as a support for students during reading to determine the main idea and supporting details from either the diary or the play. The graphic organizers have tiered levels of support with the one completely filled out being an exemplar.
This graphic organizer is tiered for different levels of support in helping students to map out the plot structure for The Diary of Anne Frank, both the diary and play versions.
This graphic organizer asks students to read The Iroquois Constitution and examine it for explicit and implicit political assumptions and beliefs. It also asks to students to briefly analyze the symbolism in the document.
8th - 12th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Social Studies
This is an informational sheet, anchor chart, graphic organizer, writing prompt, and rubric all-in-one. This instructional resource is aligned to Florida B.E.S.T. Benchmark ELA.8.R.1.2 - Analyze two or more themes and their development throughout a literary text.
This is a graphic organizer to use during reading of the novel, The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez. The organizer includes questions aligned to the Florida B.E.S.T. benchmarks.
Teach students the similarities and differences between analyzing text as literature and analyzing film as literature through The Odyssey. Based off John Golden's text, Reading in the Darks: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom.
This graphic organizer was made for a mini-lesson (available as a bundle) from two Native American myths: "The Earth on Turtle's Back""When Grizzlies Walked Upright"The graphic organizer is to facilitate thinking about the patterns, symbols, and character types present in the myths and common themes and archetypes. The mini-lesson is part of a larger examination of cultural characteristics of Native American peoples.
This graphic organizer facilitates analysis of physical and rhetorical devices in speeches, such as: volumegesturesdramatic pausesrepetitionanaphoraanalogyallusion
This is a graphic organizer designed to accompany the presentation, "Introduction to Literary Periods". This graphic organizer reviews 6 literary periods: Classical PeriodColonial & Early National PeriodRomantic PeriodRealist & Naturalist PeriodModernist PeriodContemporary Period
Setting is not merely a description of the weather, the time period, the time of day or what the place looks like. Setting can also affect character, theme, and/or plot (Golden, 66). For this activity, we will compare the settings of the film and text versions of The Odyssey. Setting plays an important role in the terms of describing Odysseus’s journey and can even act as a symbol for the themes of the rest of the film. Complete the chart below.
literary analysis checklist for students to interact with the benchmarks and success criteria and monitor their own progress as they move through the unit and Performance Task
This sheet is designed to assist teachers with data analysis specifically for middle school science benchmarks in the state of Florida.
6th - 8th
Earth Sciences, Physical Science, Science
NGSS
MS-ESS2-2
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