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Arguments are everywhere. And now, in the era of 24-hour news, social media, internet comments, and quick communication,  bad arguments are everywhere. It's increasingly important that we teach our students critical thinking skills, and how to distinguish credible, logical, well-reasoned arguments from weak, manipulative, even dangerous ones. That's where the teaching of logical fallacies comes into play. In this 3-day lesson, you'll find the following: 17-slide presentation including a definiti

How do your students grapple with difficult texts? I've had success with "Say, Mean, Matter" charts. When completing a chart, students read what characters SAY, paraphrase to reveal what the quote MEANS, and take it a step further by analyzing why the quote MATTERS. Included with your purchase: Say, Mean, Matter chart for The Crucible Act 3 (eight significant quotes)Answer KeyBlank Say, Mean, Matter chartList of extension activities

Are you looking for a more engaging way to improve your students' skills on the AP English Language and Composition free-response questions? "Chopped Up Essays" is an interactive, collaborative, and FUN group assignment in which students race to reconstruct a sample essay. This edition covers the 2006 AP English Language and Composition Rhetorical Analysis prompt (Question 1, excerpt from Jennifer Price's "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History"). Included in this full-day lesson: Detaile

Are you looking for a more engaging way to improve your students' skills on the AP English Language and Composition free-response questions? "Chopped Up Essays" is an interactive, collaborative, and FUN group assignment in which students race to reconstruct a sample essay. This edition covers the 2014 AP English Language and Composition Rhetorical Analysis prompt (Question 2, Abigail Adams' letter to her son). Included in this full-day lesson: Detailed Teacher Instructions (2-page PDF)A high-qu

How do your students grapple with difficult texts? I've had success with "Say, Mean, Matter" charts. When completing a chart, students read what characters SAY, paraphrase to reveal what the quote MEANS, and take it a step further by analyzing why the quote MATTERS. Included with your purchase: Say, Mean, Matter chart for The Crucible Act 2 (six significant quotes)Answer KeyBlank Say, Mean, Matter chartList of extension activities

How do your students grapple with difficult texts? I've had success with "Say, Mean, Matter" charts. When completing a chart, students read what characters SAY, paraphrase to reveal what the quote MEANS, and take it a step further by analyzing why the quote MATTERS. Included with your purchase: Say, Mean, Matter chart for The Crucible Act 4 (seven significant quotes)Answer KeyBlank Say, Mean, Matter chartList of extension activities

Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience is an excellent trove of rhetoric just dying to be analyzed. In this lesson, students read Kurt Vonnegut's "I Am Very Real," written to the head of the Drake, North Dakota school board in response to the burning of 32 copies of Slaughterhouse-Five. Two-day lesson includes: Full text of Vonnegut's letter in a visually appealing two-page PDF (with room in margins for annotation)10 challenging rhetorical analy

How do your students grapple with difficult texts? I've had success with "Say, Mean, Matter" charts. When completing a chart, students read what characters SAY, paraphrase to reveal what the quotes MEAN, and take it a step further by analyzing why the quotes MATTER. Included with your purchase: Say, Mean, Matter chart for The Crucible Act 1 (five significant quotes)Answer KeyBlank Say, Mean, Matter chartList of extension activities

"What does that word mean?" It's a common question known to drive English teachers mad. It's time to make learning vocabulary fun again. This two-week vocabulary unit - covering all four acts of Arthur Miller's classic play The Crucible - will help students become familiar with challenging vocabulary words as they navigate the play. Unit includes: PDF slides of 20 words from the play, broken up into two sets (Acts 1-2; Acts 3-4)Printable review booklet for students (vocabulary word information

Tired of overly simple reading quizzes? This rigorous, eight-question, multiple choice quiz on Shirley Jackson's classic short story "The Lottery" will test students on their ability to recognize how literary elements impact the story's meaning. Questions go a bit deeper than the plot, covering the following literary elements: SymbolismIronyForeshadowingDictionTonePoint of ViewThemeWith your purchase, you'll get not only a visually appealing PDF (in two forms with scrambled answer choices, in

It's easy, with the benefit of 300+ years of hindsight, to pass judgment on the residents of Salem for succumbing to the witch craft hysteria, as depicted in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. But that doesn't help us explain WHY the hysteria occurred in the first place. Luckily, some groundbreaking psychological experiments have taken place between the late-1600s and today, and these experiments can give us insights into why the town of Salem went crazy. In this activity, students move from station

Bring Fitzgerald’s characters to life with this engaging, evidence-based project for The Great Gatsby! Students rank characters on a tier list (like the popular online gaming trend) and then defend their placements in writing with text evidence. This assignment blends creativity with close reading, making it a perfect end-of-unit project, review activity, or assessment. Both printable cutout and digital Google Slides versions are included, so you can choose the format that works best for y

Struggling to find AP-level reading assessments on foundational texts for AP English Language and Composition? This reading quiz, on George W. Bush's 9/11 Adress to the Nation aligns with the AP English Language and Composition curriculum and is designed to assess students' understanding of the rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, line of reasoning, and other components of the AP standards from College Board's Course Exam description. Quiz includes: Full text (with background info and li

Struggling to find AP-level reading assessments on foundational texts for AP English Language and Composition? This reading quiz, on Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?", aligns with the AP English Language and Composition curriculum and is designed to assess students' understanding of the rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, line of reasoning, and other components of the AP standards from College Board's Course Exam description. Quiz includes: Full text (with background info and line n

Bring Steinbeck’s characters to life with this engaging, evidence-based project for Of Mice and Men! Students rank characters on a tier list (like the popular online gaming trend) and then defend their placements in writing with text evidence. This assignment blends creativity with close reading, making it a perfect end-of-unit project, review activity, or assessment. Both printable cutout and digital Google Slides versions are included, so you can choose the format that works best for you

Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience is an excellent trove of rhetoric just dying to be analyzed. In this lesson, students read Jourdan Anderson's "To My Old Master." In the letter, freed slave Jourdan Anderson writes response to his former master Patrick Henry Anderson, who has made a desperate plea for his former slave to come back and run his plantation. The letter is scathing, poignant, and rich with rhetorical strategies just begging for an

How do your students grapple with difficult texts? I've had success with "Say, Mean, Matter" charts. When completing a chart, students read what characters SAY, paraphrase to reveal what the quote MEANS, and take it a step further by analyzing why the quote MATTERS. Included with your purchase: "Say, Mean, Matter" chart with 6 significant quotes from chapter 1 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (PDF)Detailed answer key (PDF)Blank "Say, Mean, Matter" chart (PDF)List

Tired of overly simple reading quizzes? This rigorous, 10-question, multiple choice quiz on Act 1 of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Questions include quote identification, character analysis, making inferences, and more. With your purchase, you'll get not only a visually appealing PDF (in two forms with scrambled questions and answer choices, in case you've got students with wandering eyes), but you'll also get an editable question bank as a Word doc. Answer key included!

Everything is an argument. "Everyday Rhetoric" is a series of lessons designed to teach students how the "texts" they encounter in the real world function as arguments. Each lesson is short, making them ideal for warmups, sub lessons, or easy-to-print homework assignments. Designed for use in AP English Language and Composition courses, each lesson follows College Board's Course and Exam Description. In this lesson, students will analyze Amanda Gorman's poem, delivered at Joe Biden's inauguratio

How do your students grapple with difficult texts? I've had success with "Say, Mean, Matter" charts. When completing a chart, students read what characters SAY, paraphrase to reveal what the quote MEANS, and take it a step further by analyzing why the quote MATTERS. This product is printable and ready to go. Perfect for digging into the text further during reading, and the clear instructions make it a great option for sub days! Included with your purchase: Say, Mean, Matter chart for Frankenst