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In this folder, you will find all three of my Work Keys Writing review activities for a discounted price. Included are: ACT Work Keys Cloze Reading Activity for Business Writing 1ACT Work Keys Cloze Reading Activity for Business Writing 2 ACT Work Keys Cloze Reading Activity for Business Writing 3

Engage your students in a fun and engaging pre-reading activity for Tara Westover's Educated! Prior to watching a brief video of Tara Westover speaking on a TV show, students will be shown a quote or phrase. With a partner, they will discuss whether this is a real quote from Tara Westover or if this might be a quack (fake and made up). The partners record their predictions on a chart and update it after watching the video to show if their predictions were correct or not. This is a great way t

This zip file includes a PPT explaining all of the symbolism in Poe's "The Masque of Red Death," a student worksheet to record the details of each room, and a teacher answer key. Check out my other resources in my store!

Use this extended anticipatory guide to pique students' interests prior to reading Tara Westover's Educated. This anticipatory guide includes sentence stems for a dyad share about each statement. After reading, the students will return to the anticipatory guide and reflect on whether or not their opinion on the statements has changed. This activity is thought-provoking and encourages student interaction and participation. The sentence stems are a great support to English Learners who may be in

Use these resources to show your students how the works of Edgar Allan Poe have been incorporated into pop culture. Included are two examples of pop culture involving "The Raven," and one example of pop culture using "Annabel Lee." Check out my other resources in my store!

This activity was designed for my English 11 class. The activity was created for students to reflect on the sorrows in the world before, during, and after reading Walt Whitman's poem, "I Sit and Look Out." First, students reflect on what brings them sorrow. Next, students consider what brings Walt Whitman sorrow. Finally, the students compare and contrast the sorrows that Walt Whitman discusses with the sorrows that they listed previously. The activity can segue into a discussion about the

This is a very basic graphic organizer and pre-writing page for my 9th grade English Learners below ACCESS level 2.0. The packet includes an assignment description, a graphic organizer, and a fill-in pre-writing sheet. The pre-writing sheet covers three paragraphs: introduction and thesis, one body paragraph, and a conclusion.

If your English Learners are like mine, it's difficult for them to figure out how to form a cohesive paragraph. I find that my students often have big jumps of logic in their writing. On this practice page, the students are given three topic sentences in a chart, along with a list of twelve sentences. The students must cut and paste the sentences into the correct category by using the topic sentence as a guide. The students can then see how the topic sentence informs the reader of what that pa

Help your students easily visualize the themes of American Romanticism by filling in this graphic organizer after reading!

Students will practice measuring to the nearest inch by measuring various classroom objects and an object of their choosing.

This is a graphic organizer I created to help my second grade students plan to write poems using alliteration. The vocabulary used on this page accompanies the 6+1 Traits of Writing curriculum. I used this in April to go along with National Poetry Month.

Students will sort keywords used in word problems and determine if the word is dealing with addition or subtraction.

This document includes the directions for a three paragraph character analysis essay. It also includes a pre-writing/ graphic organizer page for students to use to help them format their papers.