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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

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

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