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This Drive folder contains the following: Total Lesson Plans for the 3/4 week unit complete with differentiation (Read Me)Pre-Reading / Short ResponseEnd of WWII (Japan-centered) PPT--statistics on Hiroshima and Nagasaki including picturesAllegory Presentation / Guided Questions for Allegory PPTModified Allegory of the Cave Active Viewing Questions Expository Essay Instructions and Writing Template Differentiated Expository Essay Chunking Worksheet

If you're running short on time and need something to clear your plate, this Literary Criticism Bundle can free up the next nine weeks! Inside this bundle are PPTs over the major forms of literary criticism, a student workbook, a lesson plan guide, practice questions and sessions, writing prompts, final essay prompts, and more!

This PowerPoint delves into how Reader Response actually works! It goes into the several types of reader response and pairs well with any lesson on deconstructionism or meaning making. It includes a practice section with an excerpt from Peter Watts's Blindsight and questions to answer!

Need a whole unit planned out? Need a lot of resources fast? This nine-week unit is a crash course in literary criticism, covering key elements of Traditionalism versus Formalism, Deconstructionism, Reader Response Theory, Psychoanalysis, Ecocriticism, Feminist Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism, and Postmodern Criticism. If you want to download the associated PowerPoints, that makes the whole lesson, but if you don't, then this can still be paired with your own PowerPoints and lessons. This help

The Georgia American Literature Milestones stump students every year. Now, it's time to stump the Milestones in turn! This is a guide stitched together out of a litany of resources, articles, and charts. Manually crafted and compiled, this packet addresses seven major sections of concern for students preparing for the milestones. Nearly every section includes vocabulary lists, devices, strategies, and practice for each major concept. The appendices include timelines for American literature (des

This is a 3/4 Week Unit plan for the 1954 Godzilla in the original Japanese with subtitles. This lesson plan follows the same guidelines as a DBQ and can be used as a replacement. It includes informational text requirements, political cartoon analysis, and essay instructions complete with modifications and accommodations for differentiation for both high- and low-performing students.

This is the first installment of a Literary Criticism primer for high school or low level college classes! This PPT covers a primer on Traditionalist Criticism, Formalist Criticism, New Criticism, and discusses how to merge them into a holistic approach. It also includes a practice section with questions on Ocean Vuong's "Toy Boat," which can be found on Poetry Foundation.

This is the Student Workbook for the Literary Criticism Unit Lesson Plan! This coincides with lessons on Literary Criticism and serves as a practice workbook for students to go along with every lesson. Get the bundle!

48 vocabulary words for vocabulary practice, literary devices, and key literary terms! These are printable and can have the definitions written on the back for more interactive work to prepare students. This vocab pack would be an excellent end of year flashcard review or a unit review!

This is a PowerPoint presentation introducing symbolism and allegory to pair with Godzilla 1954. Required Readings for this presentation are both Godzilla 1954 and Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

This document is an extensive guided question document that guides students through the four days of the Godzilla 1954 film. It is broken into four distinct days so that teachers may chunk the assignment in conjunction with the film.

This PowerPoint outlines the four waves of feminist ideology and the major themes of feminist criticism. It includes a mini lesson with context on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and would pair well with contemporary feminist poetry!

This PowerPoint guides students through understanding deconstructionist thought and criticism! It includes the many facets of deconstructionist thought as well as questions to ask and a practice section with which to answer questions!

Taking some of the philosophies from Harry Noden's Image Grammar, this printable workbook allows students to have basic practice with absolutes, appositives, participles, action verbs, and adjectives out of order! Each page has a detailed explanation, examples, and practice work!

Taking some of the philosophies from Harry Noden's Image Grammar, this printable workbook allows students to have basic practice with absolutes, appositives, participles, action verbs, and adjectives out of order! Each page has a detailed explanation, examples, and practice work!

A 27-question poetry assessment for the end of a poetry unit, the end of the year, or just a formative to see if students are retaining concepts! This quiz covers poetic and rhetorical devices, rhyme scheme, and structures of Denise Levertov's "Another Spring," Luci Tapahonso's "It Has Always Been This Way," and Anne Sexton's "The Starry Night"!

This is an 8-slide PPT for introducing Historical Context! This PPT integrates an introduction to Multiple Perspective Reader Response, Othering, and other integral concepts. The PPT can work well with cross-curricular lesson plans and historical fiction texts!

This is a 15-question worksheet that covers vocabulary in context! Ten out of the fifteen multiple choice questions are from works of literature, and the other five are examples of vocabulary in conversational context. This is great for context clue practice and SAT vocabulary review! Words have been referenced against various SAT prep lists! The answer key is included on the last page of the packet!

This PowerPoint covers an introduction to Postmodernist theory, complete with tenets of Postmodernism, popular authors, and questions to ask.

This PowerPoint is an introduction to psychoanalytic literary criticism through Freud and Jung! It integrates the two schools of thought to give sample questions for practice, which is included! There are general questions for the criticism as a whole and specific questions for the practice.