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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.

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 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 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

This resource includes a full set of reading questions for Sophocles' play Antigone along with an included answer key. 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, author's purpose, etc.

Do your students struggle with descriptive writing? This resource provides students with writing prompts and tips to help strengthen their creative writing skills! In this Google Slides digital notebook, there are prompts for each of the five senses. Students can make their own copy and respond to the sensory language prompts right on the slides. This resource is perfect for creative writing courses or even to help students in ELA classes develop a keener understanding of imagery.

Simplify your essay feedback with a system of codes! This editable resource provides you with a variety of abbreviations to use for identifying common errors in your students' writing. Simply make copies of this code sheet for your students (I arranged 3 on 1 page to conserve copies/paper), and they can de-code your feedback. I like to use this to supplement content-based feedback. This resource is catered more toward grammatical and mechanical errors in writing. You can, of course, change or ad

This resource is a great first day of school ice-breaker activity to let your students get to know each other. Students will take this card around the classroom and find fellow students to sign their card based on the prompts. Some of the prompts include items like "Find Someone Who..." has been to a home football game, is a Taylor Swift fan, likes to bake, etc. This bingo card is customizable, so you can edit the prompts to best fit your students.

Have students grade their own essays! Check out the essay rubric here that matches with this resource.This resource is an abbreviated rubric template that you can use to print onto sticky notes for grading or peer review. Students simply circle the letter (M, P, D, or I) for each grading criteria. M = MasteringP = ProficientD = DevelopingI = IncompleteThe grading criteria include the following categories: Claim/CounterclaimIntroduction/ConclusionEvidenceReasoningOrganization & Topic Sentences