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Use this digital resource to gamify your review of literary terms for your ELA students! This PowerPoint includes 48 questions on figurative language, text structure, author's purpose, rhetorical devices, test-taking/reading strategies, and more! Directions: Print copies of blank bingo cards for your students (linked in resource).Instruct students to fill out their bingo cards with the terms in the PowerPoint.For each question slide, students will mark their bingo card with a highlighter if th

This resource is a great activity for students to practice analyzing diction/word choice. The worksheet is broken up into two parts: part 1 is Bloom's Taxonomy level 4: Analyze, and part 2 is Bloom's Taxonomy level 6: Create. Part 1 requires students to analyze the impact of word choice in examples of imagery quoted from popular novels. Students will consider the connotation of words/phrases, what the author's purpose was with the language, and the mood evoked from the language. Part 2 require

This project requires students to choose a character and create a mask that represents that character's traits. I assign this project when students read Oedipus Rex or Antigone to tie in the ancient Greek theater tradition of actors wearing masks to portray the characters, but it could be adapted for any work of literature or drama. This project allows students to think creatively and critically while analyzing character development. Students will... choose four adjectives that strongly repr

This resource is a set of reading questions for The Epic of Gilgamesh. There are questions for each tablet of the epic, and a pdf of the text is linked in the document. The reading questions activate a range of DOK levels from recall/understand to analyze/evaluate, and assess multiple reading standards including character development, theme/central idea, citing evidence, drawing inferences, author's purpose, etc.

This resource is a great handout to provide to students to help them facilitate small group discussions, or even to use for whole-class discussions! It's also a great support for students who are reluctant to engage in conversation, who struggle to get the ball rolling, or have difficultly maintaining the momentum of academic discourse. This handout provides sentence starters and question stems organized by different stages of discourse: Entering the Conversation, Paraphrasing, Supporting Ideas,

Connect students' love for music with the book they're reading! With this project, students create a playlist of songs on a fun mixtape-style powerpoint template that reflect different chapters/sections of a literary work. The template is designed for 10 songs to align with 10 chapters/sections of text, but can be edited for fewer chapters (just make a copy). Along with choosing the corresponding music, students will respond to analysis questions that will have them consider theme, central idea,

Use this rubric for all of your students' essays! This universal rubric can be used to assess argument writing, expository writing, research papers, literary analysis essays, and more! This resource has three main criteria: ideas, structure, and language. These criteria include the following categories: Claim/CounterclaimIntroduction/ConclusionEvidenceReasoningOrganization & Topic SentencesTransitions & Embedding EvidenceFormal LanguageFormat & CitationsConventions (Grammar/Spelling)Each categor

This resource will guide your students through the process of planning and writing a literary analysis essay for the novel Things Fall Apart in response to the following prompt: Write an analytical essay about Things Fall Apart in which you examine how the cultural and historical settings of the novel influence the development of one character. How does this character react to the cultural collision between Western ideas and Ibo culture?This essay guide includes the following: assignment guide

This resource will help guide your students to craft well-structured paragraphs. RACES is a well-established acronym for constructed response writing that stands for Restate and Answer the Question, Cite Evidence, Explain, and Sum it Up. This resource includes a guided graphic organizer with a scaffolded example paragraph, and it includes a blank template that students can fill out as they practice structuring their writing before they are ready to write without the scaffolds.

Students can use this handy bookmark to guide their reading of any novel! With a variety of prompts and literary concepts to consider, this resource will facilitate a richer engagement with a text and allow students to produce more diverse and thoughtful annotations. The pdf of this resource has 3 bookmarks on 1 page to save on copies. I would recommend printing these bookmarks on cardstock paper for your students. They can make their annotations on sticky notes, in a journal, or write directly

This writing rubric can be used to assess literary analysis essays (essays that require students to analyze literary aspects such as character development, themes, symbolism, etc). This resource has three main criteria: ideas, structure, and language. These criteria include the following categories: Thesis StatementEvidenceReasoningOrganizationIntroduction & ConclusionTransitionsFormalityConventions (Grammar/Spelling)Each category is set at 10 points with Evidence and Reasoning at 20 points for

KIT INCLUDES:4 roles with corresponding worksheets: Diction Detective, Discussion Leader, Reporter, Bridge Buildercolor task cards of instructions and role descriptionspeer and self evaluation forms for post-discussiondiscussion sentence starter resource with sentence frames and question stems that promote discourseUse with any novel! Literature Circle roles include Discussion Leader, Reporter, Diction Detective, and Bridge Builder. Students complete their role sheets while they read a section

This resource is a great activity for students to practice analyzing diction/word choice and writing for different audiences & occasions to use alongside the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. The worksheet is broken up into several parts that activate ALL levels of Bloom's taxonomy! Linked on the document is also a powerpoint to guide students through the notes and activities.Questions 1 and 2 requires students to identify and differentiate diction with positive vs. negative connotation from quoted wo

Use this holistic rubric to assess short pieces of student writing (paragraphs, constructed responses, short essay drafts). The writing criteria is divided into three categories: Mastering (100%), Approaching (85%), and Developing (65%). The criteria evaluates all critical writing components including the use of text evidence, analysis of evidence, organization and use of transitions, formality, grammar, and more. The resource includes one large copy of the rubric and two smaller copies of the r

This resource is a companion to the novel Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins. It includes at least one question of focus for each chapter. These questions explore character development, themes, word choice, figurative language, symbolism, foreshadowing, conflict, and more. Students can respond to the questions on sticky notes to place throughout the novel, or on separate paper as a journal. These questions also align with this annotation bookmark resource HERE.

This resource is a great summative assessment project idea to conclude any novel or play! It works great for group projects or individual projects. This assignment requires students to portray a character from a literary work as a visual and written portrait illustrating the essential aspects of the character's identity. Students can lay flat on large bulletin board paper and trace the outline of their bodies, or they can work with a body outline/silhouette on smaller paper. Students can draw sy

This resource is a great activity for students to practice analyzing tone and mood to use alongside the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and Maus by Art Spiegelman.

Students can use this resource to document notes and citation information while conducting research. Evaluating Sources Chart (page 1) - students can complete the drop-down questions to evaluate the quality and credibility of the sources they gather from research.Source Notes (pages 2-3) - students can use these tables to document necessary information to create source citations in addition to important quotes and other information from their research.Annotated Bibliography (page 4) - students c

This activity packet is a great resource to accompany Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex (You could also adapt it for Antigone). It includes several activities for students to analyze characters and their motives and emotions, and ways to express them. Part 1 - Students annotate excerpts of the play by including stage notes to the side. This allows them to think critically about how the scene should look visually and how performers should interpret the roles of the characters. Students will include

With this graphic organizer, students can document and track evidence of characterization for up to 5 characters in any novel! Using the "STEAL" acronym of characterization methods, students find quotes that portray the traits, behaviors, motives, changes, personality, and cultural identity of different characters throughout a literary work. There is a space for students to write the quotes, analyze the quotes (what does the evidence demonstrate about the character?), and connect the evidence to