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Flowers for Algernon Unit: Study Guide, Vocabulary, Test & PowerPoint based on the 8th grade ELA standards. It includes: Powerpoint background building introduction with literary terms, student study guide, vocabulary, themes graphic organizer, and a 29 question standards-based test now with ANSWER KEYs INCLUDED. Please note this is the same powerpoint, study guide, and test offered individually on my storefront. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher Algernon Study G

Epic of Gilgamesh unit & student study guide created for senior honors students, but can be adapted to other levels. Unit includes chapter questions that promote critical thinking and are also excellent Socratic discussion questions. A timed writing prompt, writing process essay intructions & criteria, & rubrics are also included. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher Epic of Gilgamesh Unit/Student Study Guide by kebu@TPT is licensed under a Creative Commons Attributi

Flowers for Algernon Standards-Based Test & Key. *PLEASE NOTE: this test is based on short story, not novel & is a CST Style , multiple choice test. 29 Question CST standards-based test & answer key created for 8th grade, but can be adapted for other levels. Please note this is the same test included in the Flowers for Algernon Study Guide, Questions, and Test Product included on my storefront. Multiple choice style test that can be adapted by adding essay questions, and short answer questions.

This unit includes: Six texts, Student workbook. Teacher lessons, Rationale for each lesson, Rhetorical reading and writing activities, 1 month duration, 70 pages The American Dream & The American Identity: What is an American?This common core aligned unit is an introduction to the essential question: American Identity: What is an American? It is a rhetorical reading and writing unit that asks students to take a stand on the idea of the American Identity and write their way to deeper understand

Flowers for Algernon Study Guide, Vocabulary, Test & Answer Key. This student study guide for Flowers for Algernon that was compiled based on the 8th grade ELA standards. It includes a student study guide, vocabulary, themes graphic organizer, and a 29 question test now with ANSWER KEYs INCLUDED. Please note this is the same study guide and test offered individually on my storefront. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher Algernon Study Guide by L. Tyrrell, Selma Unifi

Flowers for Algernon PowerPoint with Text Introduction & literary terms review. PowerPoint includes a novel intro that helps build student background of ideas in the text. It also includes an 8th grade standards based literature preview/review that will helps students comprehend terms used and focus on important content withing text. Teacher & student instructions are in yellow. Powerpoint can also be adapted for other grade levels. This Powerpoint works well with the Flowers for Algernon Stud

Theme Lesson: House on Mango Street--This is a 1-2 period mini-lesson on theme in the the House on Mango Street. Includes teacher instructions, student hand out with text excerpt, and student graphic organizer. This standards-based lesson asks students to work in pairs to connect text to self. Can be used for any level 9-12, and works well with English Learners. Helps create good interactive discussion for ELs and is very structured. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteac

This common core aligned unit is an introduction to the essential question: Why do we marginalize people? It is a reading and writing unit that asks students to do close reading by reading and responding to text dependent questions. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher This unit includes: Teacher lessons Text Dependent Questions Student questions pages Culminating writing task Extended Activity tasks Answer keys 2-3 week duration 18 pages *Free Download of text:

* Note: this is an expanded version of the Literary Terms Powerpoint: Standards-Based product on my storefront. Standards-Based Literary Terms powerpoint lesson can be used to preview/review and comprehend literary terms used in any novel, short story, or poem. Can also be used to introduce terms, prepare for novels, short stories and poems, or to prepare for state testing. Powerpoint lesson can be adapted for several grade levels. Standards noted on powerpoint are 8th grade California ELA stan

Heart of Darkness Essay Topics & Discussion Questions. These Heart of Darkness timed write essay topics were created for senior honors students, but can be adapted to other levels. These essay questions promote critical thinking, close textual analysis, and are also excellent Socratic discussion questions. Can be modified for use as an essential questions study guide, class discussion questions, full writing process paper topics,or quiz/test questions. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/L

3 pages--'Zine is short for magazine--in this assignment, students are asked to create a personal magazine that describes who they are as individuals. Students enjoy sharing their favorite personal topics, & teachers get to know all about their new students. This is an excellent way to assess your students' writing abilities and allow them a creative outlet that still follows ELA Common Core Standards. This informative/explanatory writing project consists of the following criteria: a letter o

These Epic of Gilgamesh critical thinking & chapter questions were created for senior honors students, but can be adapted to other levels. These focus/chapter questions promote critical thinking, close textual analysis, and are also excellent Socratic discussion questions. Can be used as a student study guide, class discussion questions, or quiz/test questions. Please note that these are the same questions included in the Epic of Gilgamesh Study Guide. NO ANSWER KEY INCLUDED--OPEN--ENDED QUEST

Short Story Literary Elements: Movie Poster. Students are asked to analyze literary terms within any short story. Standards-Based individual or group project that asks student to close read text to analyze for: theme, setting, tone, symbols, & characterization. Students use quotes, graphic representations/symbols, and personal commentary to create a movie poster for the short story they are assigned. Students use quotes from text to prove their ideas about the elements. Activity also has stud

17 Literary Terms Worksheets and Graphic Organizers that work with any novel, short story, or poem. These ELA Common Core Standards based worksheets ask students to think critically about the literature they read, and enable students to comprehend character motivation, theme, and figurative language with the texts. Also builds background for literary response writing. Created for grades 9-12, but can be adapted for grades 7-8. The materials included have been successfully used with both ELD an

Writing Workshop: Time Saving Writing Content Editing Key. 46 writing content comments to respond to student writing in a timely manner. I spent years pouring over student drafts and making the same content comments over and over again!! I finally decided that I kept seeing the same content mistakes repeated, so I created this number key. It works the same way as editing marks, but you use numbers to correspond with the content issues in a students' paper. For example, if a student need to e

Jury of Her Peers: Short Story Test.7 Short answer questions and 1 timed essay question. Test created for 9th grade gate, but can be differentiated for other grades/levels. Asks higher level questions (Costa's level three questions) that force students to close read and think critically about the text. Questions can be used for Socratic seminar, or lead students through the text. Essay questions can be used to build background prior to reading the text. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Stor

16 lessons that take students through a rhetorical reading and writing process Rationale for each lesson Rhetorical reading and writing activities 2-3 week duration 29 pages This The Things They Carried Literature Guide for grades 9-12 includes 29 pages of Common Core Standards Aligned activities. This common core aligned unit is an introduction to the essential question: What is the effect of war on leadership? It is a rhetorical reading and writing unit that asks students to take a stand on t

17 Literature Worksheets and Graphic Organizers that work with any novel, short story, or poem. These ELA Common Core Standards based worksheets ask students to think critically about the literature they read, and enable students to comprehend character motivation, theme, and figurative language with the texts. Also builds background for literary response writing. Created for grades 9-12, but can be adapted for grades 7-8. The materials included have been successfully used with both ELD and ga

These standards-based characterization freebies are from my bundled product titled, Literary Terms Worksheets & Graphic Organizers: 17 Literary Terms Worksheets and Graphic Organizers that work with any novel, short story, or poem. These standards based worksheets ask students to think critically about the literature they read, and enable students to comprehend character motivation, theme, and figurative language with the texts. Also builds background for literary response writing. Created for

Personal Statement & Hero's Journey Writing Assignment & Rubric--This personal statement assignment is based on the classical Hero's Journey. All students are on their own personal journey & the juniors and seniors are all working on personal statements, so I combined the two. This standards-based writing assignment includes two writing prompts, a scoring rubric, and a peer editing checklist. This assignment can be differentiated for several levels, and has been used/modified successfully with