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Are you teaching Creative Writing or would you like to infuse your ELA course with Creative Writing options? These units will allow you to hit on standards that work for any ELA course while helping students develop their voice and style and dive into engaging texts. Representative authors include: Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yann Martel, Joan Aiken, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Roald Dahl, Robert Browning, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Are you looking to reinvigorate your short story lessons? Many of these short story lessons includes both a reading and writing experience for your students to enjoy. All are designed to be completed within one to two days, but there is plenty to extend each to a whole week's worth of plans if you give students time to draft and publish. Representative authors include Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury, and Kate Chopin and range in complexity from dealing with them

Are you and your students stressing with the AP Literature test around the corner? This 5-Day review is perfect right before the test. It utilizes all of the work you have done throughout the class to help students realize how prepared you really have made them, and it provides fun and interactive stations that help them feel relaxed, engaged, and interested. Stations include: Journal/notebook review with handout, multiple choice practice with strategies, reviews of their readings, links to

Are your classroom procedures not working as planned or are you just getting started as a teacher?  Either way, this procedures brochure and Google Slides (as shown in preview) will help you to consider the key components of a smooth-running positive environment where the expectations are clear and students, parents, and administration know the in’s and out’s of your classroom.  Includes Habits of Mind, Skills to Target, Absent or Late Work, Attendance, Hall Pass, Rules, Grading, Short Film, and

If you have tried TPCASTT before, but have not had success this might be the lesson plan and prezi you need to get your students interested in poetry and able to access the huge variety they may get on the AP Test. This 6-7 day unit gets your students to access poetry through looking at a favorite song and comparing it to a poem that has appeared on the AP test in a slideshow format. Students will unknowingly encounter over 40 poems in 6 days and feel prepared to practice and write for the AP L

This is a stand-alone lesson that can be inserted at any point throughout any ELA class. Can be used as a 1-2 day lesson plan depending on how long you want to spend with it. Can even be turned into a gallery walk if you would like to make it a 3-day plan and give students time to create final drafts and illustrate their poetry. Many students already know the Japanese form of poetry, Haiku, but they will be surprised to find there is much more to the art form as well as other types of Japanese

If you are interested in implementing the New Historical Lens with your literature courses, then this is the tool for you.  This will work in the classroom, in a hybrid, or full distance learning model.  You will begin by introducing the lens to your student with the first three slides of the Lens Toolkit; then, you will introduce the novel options of The Water Dancer  or Beloved (you can easily change any or all of the novel options to fit those you have available).  If you are so inclined, yo

If you are interested in implementing the Psychological Lens with your literature courses, then this is the tool for you.  This will work in the classroom, in a hybrid, or full distance learning model.  You will begin by introducing the lens to your student with the first three slides of the Lens Toolkit; then, you will introduce the novel options of Hamlet, Jane Eyre, or Alias Grace (*you can easily change any or all of the novel options to fit those you have available).  If you are so incline

If you are interested in implementing the Feminist Lens with your literature courses, then this is the tool for you.  This will work in the classroom, in a hybrid, or full distance learning model.  You will begin by introducing the lens to your student with the first three slides of the Lens Toolkit; then, you will introduce the novel options of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Awakening, and The Invention of Wings (you can easily change any or all of the novel options to fit those you have available).

If you are interested in implementing the Archetypal Lens with your literature courses, then this is the tool for you.  This will work in the classroom, in a hybrid, or full distance learning model.  You will begin by introducing the lens to your student with the first three slides of the Lens Toolkit; then, you will introduce the novel options of Hamlet, Frankenstein, or Circe (you can easily change any or all of the novel options to fit those you have available).  If you are so inclined, you

If you are interested in implementing the Marxist Lens with your literature courses, then this is the tool for you.  This will work in the classroom, in a hybrid, or full distance learning model.  You will begin by introducing the lens to your student with the first three slides of the Lens Toolkit; then, you will introduce the novel options of 1984, Brave New World, or A Long Petal of the Sea (you can easily change any or all of the novel options to fit those you have available).  If you are s

If you are interested in implementing the Archetypal Lens with your literature courses, then this is the tool for you.  This will work in the classroom, in a hybrid, or full distance learning model.  You will begin by introducing the lens to your student with the first three slides of the Lens Toolkit; then, you will introduce the novel options of Hamlet, Frankenstein, or Jane Eyre (*you can easily change any or all of the novel options to fit those you have available).  If you are so inclined,

Are you looking for a way to help your students get outside during their Distance Learning experience while still reading and writing? This Nature Journal was created for an AP Literature course, but slight modifications could make it an exciting adventure for any class. Students begin by reflecting on why nature is important to them, then read and annotate three autumn poems that all include an outdoor activity and a writing prompt related to the reading. To conclude, students select one of