Kimberly Tracewski

This product is everything you would need to have students create a comparison between Julius Caesar and Mean Girls. For this assessment, students read the play, watch the movie, and then compare specific characters or themes from each story. This activity is a great way to assess their ability to compare 2 texts in a way other than a paper. Keep in mind, that creating an infographic will require technology for students to develop those ideas. Included: Movie response Comparison work Assignme

This product includes a variety of thing to use with Teaching the Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It includes: Unit Outcome and Components Essential Questions Formative Assessment, which is a letter writing assignment Reading Schedule Character Analysis through creating "character corpses" Each piece helps students reflect on the book and really focus on how Charlie's character develops and matures in this coming of age novel.

This product includes 9 passages from the novel Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian. It also includes a student example response and close reading. These passages are set up in a way that instructs students to close read them, listing specific tasks for each passage. Close reading has been one of the best ways my students have learned to interact with the text in order to create real analysis - not just summary. They also LOVE this book! These close readings also include 2 different approaches

This is a small close reading passage from John Steinbeck's novel, The Pearl. In this assignment it requires students to apply specific annotations skill while analyzing the passage. As they close read, they use essential questions to help them understand what to annotate. Then, students are asked 4 questions specific to the passage and for a detailed response to an essential question on the back. You can find a sample answer key on my TpT account as well.

These are a few activities connected to analyzing Adam Bagasarian's novel Forgotten Fire. It also includes a more detailed version of a test and study guide than my free one. They could be used as homework instead of basic reading questions or as in class activities. They focus on analyzing the changes that Vahan goes through and using textual evidence to back up ideas from the text. It also includes a fun song analysis activity. Feel free to check out some of my other Forgotten Fire materials

This product is a handout with links to internet resources to help teach the Rhetorical Appeals, ethos, logos, and pathos. This handout requires students to learn about these 3 techniques for persuasion and identify their effectiveness in advertisements. In also include a writing piece.

This unit focuses on Comparing Shakespeare's play Much Ado about Nothing with Branaugh's 1993 film and Wheedon's 2012 film. It uses new ideas for analysis related to the Common Core standards by having students compare details from different interpretations. You will need both films in order to get a whole picture of how the stories compare, but I have selected specific scenes to help you make comparisons. Those comparison's can be found as link and close readings on the documents within the fo

These files are everything you need to start a 20Time project in your classroom. This includes Assignment details Introductory Steps How to create a Weebly Details for Progress Speech 20 Time is an awesome ongoing activity that allows students to research and practice something that they are truly interested in. You can do this for any extended amount of time, stretching from a few weeks to a year. During this time, the students research, practice, investigate, and blog about their findings

In this activity, you will need the movie The Book Thief. This could be used with the novel as well. I used it an assessment over the skills of creating and supporting claims related to characterization. In my class, we first read Forgotten Fire and analyzed Vahan throughout it. In order to see that they could analyze characterization outside of just that book, they then applied that skill to the movie. They really enjoyed the movie - which was a perk to this activity - and we able to analyze

This product includes 7 poems that connect to the novel Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian. These poems share similar themes and experiences as the characters from the novel and helps students draw connections between the two. This product includes objectives and tasks for each poem, instructing students to do a close reading for each piece. I used this in my classroom by having students work in groups of 3. First they read a poem, then they annotated it, then they discussed what they noticed

Even though this is a typically thought of as a children's book, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has many complex ideas within in it. In this small unit, students will analyze the character of Max looking more deeply in to the story by comparing it to the film. Specifically, they will look at how the monsters symbolize the complex emotions that Max is working through. You will need the children's book and the movie in order to complete this lesson. *I don't know why the preview s

This product is a detailed PowerPoint presentation that prepares students for a discussion about some of the topics raised in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. You can think of this activity as something you lead or as a WebQuest for students to follow in order to have a discussion later. Listed in the PowerPoint are "I can" statements as student objectives. Then, they have specific tasks to follow as they work on the information. Throughout the PowerPoint are links to supple

In my classroom, we teach students not only about the importance of knowledge, but also the importance of treating others with respect and integrity. Therefore, I use this poster in my class as way to motivate kids to treat each other kindly. This quote comes from the bible, but does not make any direct biblical references, so you can use it in a variety of settings. "Love Your Neighbor As Yourself"

These files are an addition to my introductory materials on 20Time. You may want to check those out as well. This includes: Signs for a Bulletin Board A description and list of the overall goals A Rubric for the Proposal Speech A weekly reflection for students over their blogs A blog rubric and the information for the final paper 20 Time is an awesome ongoing activity that allows students to research and practice something that they are truly interested in. You can do this for any extended amo

This was one of my FAVORITE lessons that I did with my students. They loved watching a unique film: (500) Days of Summer. AND their analysis of the stories was fantastic because it really allowed them to make unique comparisons. This product helps students create a comparison between William Shakespeare's play, The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, with the movie (500) Days of Summer. Through this activity, they analyze the characters or themes in the story to determine similarities and difference.

This product contains the directions for setting up this activity as a teacher, notes for students to use as they read, and various nonfiction readings that connect to the novel Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian. These articles discuss the problems that occurred during the Armenian Genocide which will help the students better understand Vahan's experiences in the novel. This is activity is a wonderful way to incorporate nonfiction reading into the study of a novel dealing with genocide. My stu

In this folder are the materials for a quick unit on King Arthur. This unit focuses around 4 vocabulary words so that students are really understanding what those words mean and how they relate to King Arthur and therefore our values today.

Every year, I ground my teaching in different mantras. I try to use these instead of the typical classroom rules. While I still have classroom rules and procedures floating around my room, these mantras help inspire students to do their best and help provide them with reasoning behind the rules. I pulled my mantras this year from myself, as well as people in history including: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Aurelius, and Toni Morrison. This stack includes 9 different mantras including: Excellence ma

In this folder, there are 6 total activities to use with teaching William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. They include analysis activities as well as writing activities that encourage students to think more critically about the text. My favorite within this folder is the Silent Socratic Seminar. Instead of having a typical seminar, student silently pass around the papers after they have commented or raised a question. This encourages everyone to be involved and is especially helpful for those q

This product lists important quotes from Shakespeare's play, the Tragedy of Julius Caesar. For this lesson, students analyze the meaning of important quotes from the first 3 acts of the play. These quotes are chosen for being important and relevant to major themes and conflicts within the story. At the top of each sheet are the 3 objectives students are working towards through this analysis. • I can identify the speaker and the person being spoken to for major quotes. • I can translate the li