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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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

Greek Myth Creation Lesson & Project. Introductory activity for any mythology unit, or ancient literature study. Works great as an introduction to The Odyssey, Oedipus, and the Hero's Journey. Students are asked to create a myth using a list of questions that must be answered in the myth. They must also create a visual, and present their myth. Created for freshmen Gate students, but easily differentiated for several levels. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher

The Odyssey: Close Reading & Text Dependent Questions--this unit is differentiated for Gate, English Learners, mainstream students, and struggling students. Unit focus questions/essential questions help students to follow and understanding the deeper meanings in the text. Essential questions also help students close read, build background, and search for evidence/quotes to help prove their points in the differentiated culminating essay. Included in unit: Introductory Myth Creation Project, Stu

Autobiographical Narrative Writing--About Me '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 o

1 page--activity asks students to think critically about their own values, and compare them to Beowulf's values. This activity creates great discussions based on student interpretations of Beowulf's character and motivation. Students must do close reading to really prove their points with evidence. This is a great lead into an essay regarding character motivation within Beowulf. Can be modified for any novel, short story, or poem. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher

20 Pages-The Odyssey--this unit is differentiated for Gate, English Learners, mainstream students, and struggling students. Unit focus questions/essential questions help students to follow and understanding the deeper meanings in the text. Essential questions also help students build background and search for evidence/quotes to help prove their points in the differentiated culminating essay. Included in unit: Introductory Myth Creation Project, Study Guide Questions, Essential Question Graphic

The Odyssey Student Study Guide--this The Odyssey student study guide asks reading comprehension questions to enable student understanding of text. Questions were written using a shortened version of the text, but can be used with any version. Very helpful for English Learners, below basic, and far below basic students who struggle with reading comprehension. Works well with The Odyssey Consequences Graphic Organizer that is available on my storefront. Please note these are same chapter questi

This common core aligned unit is an analysis of Civil Disobedience and the role of freedom. Students will use close reading, writing, speaking and listening to grasp a deeper understanding of Thoreau's idea of civil disobedence and freedom. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher This unit includes: Two Week Unit Links to supplementary materials Link to article for analysis 19 Activities Step by step daily instructions for each activity Rhetorical reading, writing

Creative and fun assignment!! Criteria sheet for Macbeth Soundtrack assignment. This is a very cool assignment that students really love. Students are forced to think critcally about their song choices and defend them in the liner notes. This can be used with any text and can also be used as a group project. I have used this successfully with several grade levels: 9th, 9th GATE, 12th,& 12th honors. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Litteacher Litteacher

Oedipus timed writing prompt and rubric. Activity asks students to discuss Oedipus' tragic flaw in a one hour timed write. Developed for Freshman GATE students, but can be differentiated for mainstream English classes. Prompt is structured to enable mainstream student writing by leading questions. Rubric included.

Literature Worksheets & Graphic Organizers: Novel or Short Story--6 Graphic Organizers that build student background, create text to self connections, analyze theme, and analyze characters. Includes the following graphic organizers: Theme of Adversity/Conflict (use for any theme or to show types of conflict), Text to Self Connections(2), Sociogram, & Characterization (2). The Sociogram graphic organizer asks students to think critically about texts through creating a graphic representations of