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Before watching Newsies, students can complete this 24-question, 12-point Webquest to learn more about the historical context of the movie. The four categories are Key Terms, Child Labor, 1899 History, and Pulitzer/Hearst. Sources are linked in the directions for each section and a key is provided.

Various products used in AP Lang and Comp, including vocabulary, rhetorical analysis, and satire.

After reading tuesdays with morrie by Mitch Albom, students will choose three "life lessons" quotes from Morrie to analyze (strategically grouped so they will complete one about ambition, relationships, and compassion no matter what they choose). They have three activities and must complete each with the quote of their choosing. This assignment provides choice in two different ways, opportunities for collaboration, demonstration of reading and writing proficiency, and application/experience of

Use with a selection of similar poems to break students into smaller groups. Have them become the expert on their poem and then create heterogenous groupings so they can share information with each other.

Using SNO's Award-Winning Sites collection, students will be encouraged to peruse a few high school news online publications. There are questions to direct them to respond to the presentation and content of the site and connect it back to their own experience with writing the school newspaper. They are provided with six site options and must give feedback on three of them.

This worksheet uses a clip from the movie "The Glass Castle," based on the book by Jeanette Walls, to practice dialogue punctuation (via transcript of scene), theme (using TDA-style analysis), and sensory details (describe as if you were the narrator). The YouTube clip is linked in the instructions and there is an answer key included with this PDF.

This chart encourages students to connect a real-life example of mob mentality with the teleplay "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." An article on the Rosewood Incident to use is included.

Worksheet for Chapter 5 of The Outsiders on "Nothing Gold Can Stay."

This can be used as an introduction to "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe to annotate the first few paragraphs, focusing on mood and unreliable narrator.

This worksheet can be used with any poems for analysis. Students choose six questions to answer out of the twelve given. Questions are grouped by general concept so they will be answering a little bit of everything about the poem.

This worksheet introduces a few rules of using quotation marks in writing and provides practice questions.

The Jigsaw Protocol allows students to close read a large text in smaller parts and then share with their classmates. The attached worksheets apply to an informative or argumentative text, or a smaller text selection. There are opportunities for summarizing, paraphrasing, key terms, rhetorical analysis, author's main claim, etc.

This graphic organizer is to compare and contrast two texts.

This worksheet encourages close reading of the song "If I Die Young" to pair with "The Lady of Shalott."

Walks students through writing a 10% summary of an article from the NY Times (Collins writing)

This worksheet gives information on words often misused, e.g. accept/except, imply/infer, and there are a few questions at the end to practice.

After reading, students will choose to write an informative, argumentative, or explanatory essay response on "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Questions that align with the abridged version of Flowers for Algernon to be answered as students read.

Use this worksheet with any piece of writing for students to analyze the audience.