Erin's Backpack

These questions go along with the short story entitled "The Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez.

This is the poem Annabel Lee by Poe with accompanying guiding and extension questions. My students annotate the poem for rhyme scheme, alliteration, allusions, meaning, assonance, and repetition, etc. then complete the questions to extend their thinking. The following are the I can statements I use when teaching the piece in conjunction with a unit focusing on the themes of home and family. RL.11.2 - I can empathize with the author to understand the significance of the man’s definition of the

This is an excerpt from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens and the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes with accompanying editable guiding and extension questions. My students read the personal essay and the poem andthen complete the questions to extend their thinking. The following are the I can statements I use when teaching the piece in conjunction with a unit focusing on the themes of home and family. RI/L.11.2 - I can determine two central ideas or themes of the texts and compare how the

Through the use of the poem entitled "Family Tree" by Olive Walters, students practice tracking the development of a theme through a text. They are then provided with scaffolding to help track a theme through another text.

This product provides guidelines for students to keep a reflective journal while independently reading a novel with wrap up questions on the theme of Home and Family.

Two different grading rubrics are offered in this resource for grading Independent Novel Journals.