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This Common Core resource includes 34 rigorous unit learning tasks for Avi’s, "Nothing But The Truth." 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 documents, charts a

This Common Core resource includes 32 rigorous unit learning tasks for Lois Lowry’s "The Giver." 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 documents and information

The following resource includes 3 FREE and RIGOROUS Common Core learning tasks to be used after students have read and studied Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington “I Have A Dream” speech. Make sure you follow my store for future releases and future sales! Visit My Store!! Check out the other products that I have available of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speeches. MLK "I Have A Dream" Common Core Annotated Text w/Marginal Notes MLK and Obama's March on Washington Speeches -

This Common Core resource includes 28 rigorous unit learning tasks for Jerry Spinelli’s, "Maniac Magee." 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 unit activities also include video excerpts that are thematical

This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart.” 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 extern

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

This Common Core resource includes 30 rigorous unit learning tasks for Elie Wiesel’s "Night." 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 documents and informational

This Common Core resource includes 16 rigorous unit learning tasks for Guy de Maupassant’s short story, "The Necklace." 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 do

This Common Core resource includes 35 rigorous unit learning tasks for Shakespeare’s "Julius Caesar." 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 documents and infor

This Common Core resource includes 20 rigorous unit learning tasks for W. W. Jacobs’s short story, "The Monkey’s Paw." 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

This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for Frank Stockton’s short story, "The Lady or The Tiger.” 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 exter

The House on Mango Street unit features 8 learning tasks and 1 unit culminating performance task focused on several key reading literary skills. Students will analyze how complex characters are revealed in the text and discuss how the themes are developed and symbols are utilized. In the House on Mango Street learning tasks, students also will analyze the figurative and connotative meanings of selected lines from the text and explore how the create coherence within the selection. Students wil

This Common Core resource includes 21 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sharon Draper’s, "Darkness Before Dawn." This novel is the 3rd in her Hazelwood High series. 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 re

The provided FREE Common Core rigorous activity explores the development of plot structure, tone, theme, and character development in a popular movie trailer from 2014. The activities are tied to the Common Core standards RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, SL2, and SL3. The activity focus on the analysis of how authors develop plot structure (foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, humor, and mystery), tone, theme, and complex characters in a movie trailer. The activity includes a teacher answer key to assist you

Part A In Julius Caesar and Antigone, Shakespeare and Sophocles created complex characters who were defined by fate and the exercise of their free will. Citing specific evidence from both primary texts, students will write a 2 paragraph response in which they explain how Shakespeare and Sophocles treat fate or free will positively or negatively in Antigone or Julius Caesar. Students should analyze the following 4 quotes and explain how each quote from the selections highlights free will or fa

The enclosed file contains 2 rigorous common core learning tasks that address the core text of W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw.” Make sure you follow my store for future releases and future sales! Visit My Store!! Check out the other product that I have available of W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw.” Frank Stockton’s “W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey's Paw” – 20 Common Core Learning Tasks!! 2 FREE Common Core Learning Tasks for W. W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" by Dr. Joel C. Boyce is licensed u

This PARCC-style assessment merges informational and literary texts into a performance assessment. Students will construct an explanatory essay to justify their explanations. Students will analyze a film parody, “Gnomeo and Juliet,” of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In the second section of the performance task, students will analyze a theme about ill-fate love and draw comparisons between how it is developed in Romeo and Juliet and 2 informational articles. They will construct an e

This PARCC-style assessment merges informational and literary texts into a performance assessment. Students will construct an explanatory essay to justify their explanations. This task can be completed after reading Antigone or Julius Caesar. Students will analyze a quote from Niccolo Machiavelli's, "The Prince," read an current informational article, and draw parallels between the resources and Antigone or Julius Caesar. They will analyze an informational article and identify its main claim

This PARCC-style assessment merges commercials, political cartoons, and literary texts into a performance assessment. Students will construct an explanatory essay to justify their explanations. Students will analyze 2 modern commercials and 2 political cartoons that use situational and verbal irony and analyze. In the second section of the performance task, students will analyze the development of irony in a literary text and discuss similarities and differences between the author’s approache

This Common Core-aligned research project requires students to conduct background research on Farewell to Manzanar and work collaboratively with their peers to conduct collegial discussions and create research questions and source cards. Students will have to evaluate the credibility and accuracy of each source that they use in their research. In the final stage of the project, students will create an 8-10 minute digital presentation that showcases the information that they researched. Farewe