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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 lesson includes a non fiction paired text that hits on the major theme of the teleplay: That fear and prejudice turn people into monsters. The lesson includes the article, 3 short answer questions where students need to support their answers with evidence from the text and then a graphic organizer comparing major elements of the teleplay with the non fiction text. A sample answer key is provided. After students complete the graphic organizer I go on to have them write 4 paragraph essay comp

Students read a text excerpt and determine what the character wants, what is in their way, and what type of conflict the character is facing. This product is meant to pair with the conflict powerpoint and conflict whiteboards which are also for sale.

This lesson plan includes a detailed power point with teaching instructions in the notes section. Includes an "into" activity, learning objective, 2 modeled examples and guided practice. You can buy the whiteboard printables for guided practice and "modeled steps" to aid in expert thinking separately as well as the . paired independent practice worksheet for students to complete on their own to assess understanding of the lesson.

This is a worksheet to help students practice inferring character traits from a text excerpt. The worksheet asks students to underline what the character says/does, list adjectives to describe the character's words and actions and then determine one trait that sums up the adjectives they have listed.

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 includes a non fiction paired text that connects Margot's depression to Seasonal Affective Disorder. The lesson includes the article, 2 short answer questions, a graphic organizer, and a constructed-response question that requires students to use evidence from both the article and the short story. Students need to support their answers with evidence from the text and then a graphic organizer comparing the causes and symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder to what happens to Margot as

This is an essay prompt for Rod Sterling's teleplay "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." It has the prompt and a graphic organizer with sentence starters that outline a five paragraph essay. This resource is a Word document and can be modified if needed.

In this double lesson, students apply for virtual classroom employee jobs! After applying for jobs, the class also co-creates classroom agreements or norms. The employee jobs include an attendance clerk, tech manager, and class manager. The slides also show both Google Classroom Assignments I created to go along with each lesson. This is about 100 minutes of virtual class time and is a great way to start the year!

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 vocabulary activity for the teleplay "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. 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 their pre

This is a power point that models for students how to differentiate between and analyze similes and metaphors using steps. The power point has guided practice that can be completed on the whiteboards (sold separately). There is also an independent practice worksheet that is meant to be paired with this lesson as well (sold separately).

This worksheet has students identify the author's purpose by reading the text excerpt and using modeled steps to determine between inform, entertain, persuade, or explain. This handout is BEST PAIRED with the Author's Purpose PPT LESSON as independent practice to assess students' understanding of the material.

This worksheet has steps to help students identify the author's purpose (inform) and then explain using details and evidence from the text how they knew the author's purpose. The guided steps help students construct a small paragraph explaining their answers for each text excerpt. This product is BEST PAIRED with the Author's Purpose PPT LESSON.

An introduction to plot google slide deck. Slide deck starts with an introduction to plot then has a model of how to do a plot diagram/chart using a fable. After the model, there is a guided practice for the class to do together with the fable "The Elephant and the Tiger." Finally, students watch the Pixar short "Big Buck Bunny" write down main events and then create a plot diagram for the movie.

This lesson plan could take 2-3 days depending on how long your periods are. First, students are given direct instruction on theme. Then, there are two models on how to identify theme. This lesson includes 5 guided practice partner activities for finding theme as well as an extension activity for analyzing theme in movies and books that allows for some student choice. This resource includes my lesson plan (and pacing), a full answer key for the guided practice, and student examples from the exte

This is a lesson plan including handout for students to preview the vocabulary in Roald Dahl's "The Landlady." Students are expected to determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words using context clues from the text. The PDF lesson plan (which can be viewed as slides) goes through the process and steps for students to practice on the skill of using context clues. A paced lesson plan is also included at the end.

This worksheet has steps to help students identify the author's purpose (persuade) and then explain using details and evidence from the text how they knew the author's purpose. The guided steps help students construct a small paragraph explaining their answers for each text excerpt. This product is BEST PAIRED with the Author's Purpose PPT LESSON.

This is a PPT to introduce the idea of tone and mood. In this lesson there is an "into" activity using visuals, a stated learning objective, 2 examples with modeling, a graphic organizer, and guided practice with clearly defined "steps." Students use whiteboards to complete the guided practice as a class and share their responses. There is also "independent practice" on the last slide that you can simply cut and paste into a word document for students to complete on their own in class using what

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