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This Common Core resource includes 20 rigorous unit learning tasks for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, "The Minister’s Black Veil.” 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, narrative, and argumentative writing. This resource also include

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 15 different teacher-created Common Core Middle East Document Based Question (DBQs) files that contain over 120 questions that reference primary and secondary sources such as political cartoons, graphs, tables, pictures, and excerpts of informational texts. These resources help students to become more critical readers of informational texts and resources and teachers students to evaluate resources for information. Each DBQ has the Literacy Standards for Writing in Histor

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

The Common Core explanatory writing graphic organizer and rubric provide students with a detailed tool to structure their explanatory writing. Students in grades 6-8 or 9-12 simply need to follow the format the graphic organizers provide, and they will be on their way to excellently structured explanatory essays. The included rubric helps them to identify the qualities of a strong explanatory essay using the specific language of the Common Core State Standards. Common Core Explanatory Writin

This Common Core resource includes 20 rigorous unit learning tasks for Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, "The Cask of Amontillado." 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 ex

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

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 Common Core resource includes 26 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sharon Draper’s, "Forged by Fire." 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 resource includes speaking and listening activities including c

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 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 resource includes 10 different teacher-created Common Core Southeast Asia Document Based Question (DBQs) files that contain 407 questions that reference primary and secondary sources such as political cartoons, graphs, tables, pictures, and excerpts of informational texts. The focus of the DBQs in this unit is on Southeast Asia including China, India, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea most specifically. These resources help students to become more critical readers of informational texts a

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

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 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 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 25 rigorous unit learning tasks for Shirley Jackson’s short story, "The Lottery." 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 docum

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

Sharon Draper's “Tears of a Tiger” and “Forged by Fire” – Common Core Tasks!! by Dr. Joel C. Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Make sure you follow my store for future releases and future sales! Follow my store!!Check out the other products that I have available of Sharon M. Draper. Sharon Draper’s "Fire From The Rock" Common Core Tasks - 30 Rigorous Tasks!!Sharon M. Draper's "Tears of a Tiger" - 28 Common Core Learning Tasks!!Sharon M. Draper's "