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This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for President Abraham Lincoln’s ”Second Inaugural Address” delivered on March 4, 1865. The rhetorical analysis includes 21 marginal comments with Common Core State Standards alignment. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsof

This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for Patrick Henry’s famous Speech in the Virginia Convention also known as his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis

This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Ambrose Bierce’s short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, ar

This learning resource includes 23 rigorous unit learning tasks for Ray Bradbury’s short story, "Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed.” You are receiving the learning tasks, rigorous graphic organizers aligned to each core skill, and rubrics to score the students’ writing. The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of the most rigorous state standards. The graphic organizers and rubrics are embedded in the document, but they are also included as separate attac

This resource includes the annotated text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream Speech" given at the March on Washington. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, and RI6 standards from the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the identified figura

This Common Core resource includes 20 rigorous unit learning tasks for James Hurst’s short story, "The Scarlet Ibis." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. Students will analyze a video clip and artwork thematic

This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for the Declaration of Independence. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos)

This resource includes the annotated text of the tomb scene in Act III, Scene ii in Julius Caesar in which Mark Antony and Brutus give their famous speeches rich with rhetorical devices and figurative language over Caesar’s dead body. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, and RL6 stan

This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Kate Chopin’s short story, "The Story of an Hour." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The graphic organizers, rubrics, articles, and othe

This resource includes the 14 Common Core annotated texts with marginal notes of famous speeches by President Abraham Lincoln, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy, President Richard Nixon, President Ronald Reagan, President George W. Bush, President William Clinton, President Barack Obama, and President Donald J. Trump. The collection includes: Abraham Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address” Abraham Lincoln’s "First Inaugural Address”Abraham Lincoln’s "Second Inaugural Address”Fran

This resource includes the Common Core annotated text and marginal notes for President Barack Obama’s Speech on Gun Control executive actions delivered on January 5, 2016. This resource includes 95 marginal notes aligned to Common Core standards and elements. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment featur

This resource includes 5 different teacher-created Georgia Performance Standards Document Based Question (DBQs) files for Georgia that contain 264 questions that reference primary and secondary sources such as graphs, tables, pictures, and excerpts of informational texts. The resources explore the SS8G1, SS8G2, SS8E1, SS8E2, SS8E3, and SS8E4 standards and elements. The documents explore the following key economics and geography concepts: • Entrepreneurship in Georgia • Trade (Imports and Expor

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”–25 Rigorous Tasks AND Guided Reading Questions You are bidding on a combination of an annotated version of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” with guided reading questions and Common Core alignment and 25 rigorous Common Core learning tasks with rubrics, graphic organizers, and supplemental informational texts. You are saving $2.00 by purchasing the items in this combination lot. This Common Core resource includes an annotated version of Shirley Jackson's short st

This resource includes the annotated text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous " I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" speech given to an audience of sanitation workers in Memphis, TN before he was assassinated. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, and RI6 standards from th

This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for President William J. Clinton’s speech at the prayer vigil for the victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing delivered on April 23, 1995. The speech was given in memorial for the 168 who were killed during the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for c

This resource includes the annotated text of Wilfred Owen's famous "Dulce Et Decorum Est" poem. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, figurative language, tone, allusions, themes aligned with the RL1, RL2, RL4, RL6 standards from the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the identified figurative language, rhetorical devices, etc., the file includes standard alignment for each comment

This Common Core guided reading resource includes the annotated texts of three famous poems from the Puritan and Colonial American literary periods with marginal comments: 1. “Huswifery” by Edward Taylor 2. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet 3. “His Excellency General Washington” by Phyllis Wheatley Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, these resources include critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices, imagery, and the

This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for the September 11, 2001 speech given by President George W. Bush after coordinate attacks hit the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and abandon field in Pennsylvania. The included zipped folder also includes a copy of the speech without annotations and marginal notes so that you can reproduce it for students so that they can annotate it. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standard

The annotated version of Act III, Scene II of Julius Caesar is aligned with the Common Core emphases on how and why author's use specific rhetorical devices and argumentative appeals to enhance the meaning of the text and develop the characters and themes. The marginal notes for these critical monologues by Mark Antony and Brutus over Caesar's body, are detailed explanations of the appeals and literary and rhetorical devices that highlight this essential dramatic literature selection. The anno

This Common Core resource includes 22 rigorous unit learning tasks for O. Henry’s short story, "The Gift of the Magi." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external doc