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This handout explains what tone and mood are and provides guided steps to help students identify tone and mood with sample text excerpts. There are a bank of words to help students describe the tone and the mood of each text excerpt. This is a common core lesson that has students justify the tone and mood by citing which words and phrases from the text help to justify the tone and mood.

This is a vocabulary activity for the teleplay "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." Students practice predicting the vocabulary word in context which is a common core standard and then identify the clues that helped them to determine the meaning of the word. After making their prediction and citing the clues that helped them to reach their prediction, students look up the word in the dictionary and put the definition in their own words. After looking up the word, I have students cross out the

This lesson is designed to teach students roots and affixes. The powerpoint comes with instructions in the notes section for the pacing of the lesson. Includes guided practice, a group activity, whole class activity, and mixed review. Sold separately: Roots independent practice with more mixed review questions and illustration section.

This is a basic detention slip for missing or incomplete work that can be sent home for a parent to sign. It is a Word document that can be edited as needed.