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Powerpoint includes audio of the song "Dear Momma" by Tupac and the poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes and guides students through close analytical readings that are Common Core style. Questions are directly aligned with the FCAT Test Specifications for Literary Analysis, but can be used to review for any standardized test. Answer key and teaching notes are included on the "notes" section of the slides. If you like this product, see my other Poetry Pair lessons! http://www.teacherspayt

This mini-lesson teaches students the essentials of how memory works in a visual and interactive manner based on cognitive science. Students will learn three steps to long-term memory, assess their strengths and weaknesses, and develop a plan of action! 1. Focus! 2. Make it meaningful! 3. Repetition! Slides contain "Teacher Talk" in the notes section for advice on how to conduct the lesson. This is something that you are sure to return to throughout the year! After this lesson students c

Based on popular request...Here are my four best-selling Poetry Pair lessons on one Poetry Pack! Engage your students in close reading of complex poetry by pairing with popular songs! Featured Songs and Poems... *Tupac Shakur's "Dear Momma" and "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes * "Superwoman"by Alicia Keys and "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou * Katy Perry's "Firework" and "Earl Gray" by Edgar Lee Masters * Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" and "If" by Rudyard Kipling

Here is another of my best selling Poetry Pairs! Since songs are really poetry set to music, they are ripe for analysis and comparison to more traditional poetry. This is the PERFECT way to get your students who hate poetry engaged in poetry analysis! A good way to initiate or culminate a unit on poetry! The themes in this lesson: Living life to the fullest and Becoming an adult, can be used to end the school year in a meaningful, rigorous, and fun way! This product includes... * A po

Perfect for Social Studies, Language Arts, Reading, Debate, and Public Speaking classes! This lesson guides students through reading and analyzing the first amendment, what is protected speech and unprotected speech. Students examine the actual amendment, sample political cartoons, and two Landmark Supreme Court cases. To culminate the lesson, students conduct further research on the First Amendment in schools to create their own political cartoon to show mastery of the material! This lesson

This interactive lesson guides students through a close, analytical reading for author's craft. Based on the Common Core Craft and Structure Standards (5-7) and the FCAT Author's Purpose, Perspective, and Bias benchmarks. This lesson includes... -A high interest pre-reading discussion prompt -Link to the article "Why we like to be scared: The science behind the scream" -Prompts for students to read and reread the article closely for deeper meaning -A learning scale to monitor student compr

This interactive powerpoint includes a series of engaging lessons to help students meet CCSS Reading Standard 4. In the Common Core Standards, the concept of Tone is first introduced at the 6th grade level and then is developed and deepened at the higher grade levels. This power point is designed for 6th graders being introduced to tone for the first time as well as older students for a tutorial on the concept. The series of lessons includes... Teaching Tone Lesson Sequence ppt -Definitio

In this motivation mini-lesson, students discuss their failures and learn that their response to failure can either hold them back or help them bounce back quickly. Based on the work of Carol Dweck, this teen-friendly lesson helps reveal to students their mindset, growth mindset or fixed mindset, and helps them to develop a growth mindset to lead them to be successful in school and in life! This lesson included... -Discussion prompts -Quick quiz to determine mindset -Mindset infographic -Ca

Another poetry pair to help your students appreciate poetry by using something they love already, music! This poetry pair includes: -Song lyrics "Superwoman" by Alicia Keys with a link to the audio -Poem "Phenomenal Woman" with link to the author reciting the poem -Questions that align to the Sunshine State Standard Test Specifications for Literary Analysis benchmarks, but can be used to prepare for any state standardized tests. -Written response prompts and learning scale -Powerpoint that gu

This Interactive Vocabulary Review engages your students in word play activities that help them to deeply process new vocabulary words. This set of 100 words was selected by Merriam-Webster as words that are important to Middle School and cross all disciplines. Included in this product... * Flash card set that you can reproduce for each student. * Word Wall Words * Assessment * Interactive Powerpoint that includes 4 different review activities with teacher instructions in the notes se

This interactive mini-lesson guides students to write answers that are dependent on a text and provide specific, detailed evidence. Students listen to a link to the audio of the author Jack Gantos reading aloud the first chapter of his fun and funny book, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. Next they analyze a quote from the excerpt and are guided to write an evidence response to the question "What does this quote reveal about the character?" Students then read and analyze another quote from the ex

Get your students engaged in close, analytical reading by pairing up poems and popular songs! Included in this poetry pair... -Powerpoint lesson that guides students though close reading the song and poem -Handout with the song lyrics and poem -Questions that align to the Sunshine State Standards Literary Analysis benchmarks, but can be used for any state standardized tests -Written response questions that are text-dependent and learning scale -Framed written response for struggling readers a

This 10 page document describes 8 strategies and 15 routines to help students develop the habit of close, analytical reading that is necessary to meet the Common Core Standards. The Common Core Standards for ELA stress the need for students to be able to read complex text carefully and independently. The PARCC has stated that two of the standards will be tested on each and every question. Reading Anchor Standard 1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logica

A handout for use with the Poetry Tutorial lesson with poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes and excerpted lyrics"Dear Momma" by Tupac. Perfect for use for close analytical readings that are Common Core style! Poetry Tutorial Lesson for this Handout can be found here http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Tutorial-Close-Reading-of-Tupac-Dear-Momma-and-Hughes-Mother-to-Son

The goal of this lesson is for students to be able to explain how views of women have changed across time by analyzing texts for author's craft. Perfect for the Reading or Language Arts teacher looking to include informational text or the Social Studies teacher looking to incorporate reading skills! This Author's Craft tutorial begins with an analysis of two songs, "Survivor" and "Independent Women" from the sining group Destiny's Child led by Beyonce Knowles. Students listen to and make notes

This is the perfect icebreaker to get to know what is important to your students, assess their comprehension, writing, and speaking skills, plus introduce them to Close Reading all while enjoying the popular song "Roar" by Katy Perry! Perfect for language arts, reading, social studies, debate, or speech classes! This icebreaker can be used to kick off a unit on argumentative writing and research or a debate! This lesson includes: -Teacher directions in the "Notes" section of the powerpoint

Are your students ready for the Common Core? Find out how your instruction matches up with the demands of the core standards by administering this Common Core Performance Task Baseline Assessment. This Common Core Performance Task Assessment contains the a story, poem, and 10 pairs of multiple choice questions that align with the 10 Common Core ELA Literary Text standards. The questions are modeled after the PARCC paired multiple choice questions that require students to support their answe

This interactive close reading lesson engages students in activities to help them analyze various texts for the author's perspective. Perfect to launch a debate on gun control or as an introduction to an author study on Ray Bradbury, or a genre study on science fiction. This lesson includes... -A prereading activity where students analyze visuals to determine which position on gun control they portray. -Links to the story and video clip of the story -Multiple choice question based on the FCAT

This lesson pairs the short story "The Fan Club" by Rona Maynard and nonfiction passages about cyberbullying. Students read through and discuss the story that Maynard wrote when she was a teenager (link to story provided in the notes section of the ppt) and analyze the theme and motives of the characters through engaging activities like creating an Open Mind Portrait of the characters to "get in their heads" and Role Play. These activities lead to a rigorous Socratic Discussion prompt and Text

This close reading lesson pairs a work of fiction, Orwell's classic novel 1984, and a nonfiction editorial, Editorial: All this snooping is legal, and that's the problem. Students are guided through multiple readings that expand their comprehension and assist them in writing a text-dependent question that analyzes an author's argument. Note: this lesson can kick off a unit on Orwell's 1984, or used independently, or even used to jump start a unit on debate! This Close Reading lesson includes