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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

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

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

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

Struggling to find AP-level reading assessments on foundational texts for AP English Language and Composition? This reading quiz, on Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" 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

Tired of overly simple reading quizzes? This rigorous, 10-question, multiple choice quiz on Ambrose Bierce's classic short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" 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 each of the Common Core ELA 11-12 Literature standards With your purchase, you'll get not only a visually appealing PDF (in two forms with scrambled answer choices, in case you've got

We've all been there. It's the end of the year, and students come into your classroom in droves. They all bashfully ask you the same question: "Will you write me a recommendation letter?" Writing recommendation letters can be an easy or painstaking process, depending on the student. If it's a student you have a close relationship with, the words may flow freely, but if it's a student you don't know so well (or worse, a student you haven't spoken to in years), recalling their specific areas of s

"Song of the Week" is a music-related spin on Kelly Gallagher's "Articles of the Week." Each lesson begins with a hook activity, after which students are given a set of song lyrics to annotate while they listen. Afterwards, they are given a set of close reading questions designed to have them dig a little deeper into the song. This lesson includes: Word Cloud Hook ActivityTeacher Guide with recommended instructions and approachFive extension activities to take the lesson to the next levelSong ly

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 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 a recent New Yorker cover, titled "Critical Mass," which makes an argum

Ever notice that students would sometimes prefer staring at a wall to anything you're saying? Might as well inspire them with this set of five motivational, thought-provoking quotes from Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, and Mark Twain. Here are the quotes: "There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and blasting it out with charges." (Hemingway)"The most damning revelation you can make about yoursel

Looking for some quick, easy-to-implement vocabulary practice? With Vocabulary Tic-Tac-Toe, students build their vocabulary by selecting 3 of a variety of activities including: Creating a product based on a vocab wordIllustrating a comic strip based on a vocab wordComposing a poem with a vocab word in the titleMore...This one-page worksheet can be used with any vocab unit, and students love having some choice in how they practice their vocab. Give it a try!