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This product will help your students read and analyze Ruth McBride Jordan's obituary after reading James McBride's The Color of Water. The text is chunked into 11 different sections and each part has a corresponding question. The questions require students to examine the rhetorical choices of the writer as well as make connections to The Color of Water. For me, it's a lovely way to pay tribute to Ruth and her legacy as a way of giving this unit closure. It's in a Google Doc, so you can either

This Google Doc helps students analyze the Epilogue and Afterword to James McBride's The Color of Water. Print out the 8 question document or post it to your Google Classroom! A suggested answer key is included. Please help my little business grow!Did you know that you can receive $ credit towards future TpT purchases by reviewing this product? Please leave a review at the product page or through "My Purchases" under "My Account" at TpT. Thank you!

This Google doc helps students analyze Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron". You can print the doc or have students complete it digitally. I've included the full text of the piece on the left side of the doc and chunked it to correspond to 20 analysis questions on the right. Students will answer questions on symbolism, imagery, figurative language, characterization, tone, foreshadowing, syntax, word choice, and theme. An answer key is included for your convenience. I use this as part

This Google Classroom- ready worksheet asks students to analyze Hughes' famous poem "Harlem (What happens to a dream deferred?) " line-by-line. Perfect for distance learning! The doc includes 3 columns: the first contains the full text of the poem, the second poetry analysis questions, and the third is blank for students to write their answers. The questions address word choice, form and structure, tone, mood, author's purpose, sensory details, theme, and figurative vs. literal meaning. A sug

This resource has two parts: a vocabulary worksheet and a quiz for 12 vocabulary words that appear in Baldwin's "My Dungeon Shook" from The Fire Next Time. As the students read the text, they'll complete a worksheet that requires them to determine the meaning of 12 vocabulary words using context clues. Afterwards, they'll look up the correct definitions of the words. Also included is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. The questions are rigorous and meaningful, and have 5 choices each (a,b,c,

When I read Night with my students, our focus is how imagery contributes to the author’s purpose of examining how cruelty fuels dehumanization. This product gives you everything you need to track the imagery, check for understanding with 2 paragraph response prompts, and a final test. I’ve included many examples you can refer to as exemplars for the tracking chart, sample paragraph responses, and the Essential Question that you can hang on your board. The final test includes 10 rigorous multip

This product bundles all of my Roll of Thunder products together at a discount! You'll have 5 reading check quizzes, individual chapter activities, a Socratic Seminar, and even a movie viewing guide! Please help my little business grow!Did you know that you can receive $ credit towards future TpT purchases by reviewing this product? Please leave a review at the product page or through "My Purchases" under "My Account" at TpT. Thank you!

This product bundles all of my Independent Reading products together. Please check out the products individually so you can see exactly what is included. Thank you so much!

This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by breaking it down line-by-line! Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside. As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the

This bundle includes three resources that go along with the movie The Great Debaters. You will receive a graphic organizer that requires students to track the adversities faced by the debate team during and/or after viewing, a poetry analysis tool for "I, Too", which Denzel Washington as Professor Tolson recites during the movie (one of my favorite parts!), as well as a fun, interactive speed dating discussion activity for after viewing. Please check out each product individually using the

The excerpt from "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored" by Clifton L. Taulbert appears in my school's 8th grade red McDougal Littell textbook. This product instructs students to read and annotated a xeroxed copy of the text. Then they have 6 text-based questions to answer in complete sentence that ask them to analyze the text. The questions are on the following topics: characterization, plot, inference, author's craft, and theme. An answer key is included. Please help my little business

This is an analysis of my FAVORITE quote from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which appears on page 79 of my version of the text (the one with the red cover and book of matches). There are 4 questions that can be used as a Do Now/Bellringer, Exit Ticket, partner activity, or even as a homework assignment. Answers are included! It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awarenes

This is a very simple double entry journal assignment. Over the course of the week, students are asked to read their book at home and in class. As they read, they will practice reading strategies and identifying literary concepts. They will cite their quote on the left, and analyze it on the right. A special thank you to Mae Hates Mondays for the clipart used in this product! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Students-at-Work-Freebie-2611203Please help my little business grow!Did

While students watch the 1978 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry movie, they will fill out the Venn Diagram on the front and answer movie analysis questions on the back. Finally, they will use the information on the Venn Diagram, their answers to the questions, and their knowledge of the novel to answer a paragraph response question. Interested in other ROT,HMC resources? Check out the following links below! 1. Are you in need of a set of 5 quizzes to test your students' understanding of the novel

This is an assignment that asks students to identify 6 examples of adversity that the Wiley College Debate team had to overcome on the left, and explain how they did so using evidence from the movie on the right. Lastly, they are asked to make 2 connections to works of literature they've recently read. I show this movie after reading a number of pieces from the 8th grade Pearson text about African Americans facing diversity, studying relevant court cases, and reading the novel "Roll of Thunder

As students read their independent reading/ reading workshop book over the course of the week, they will select 5 words or phrases that the author used that stood out to them, or had a particularly strong impact. They will put the 5 words, definitions, and an analysis of how the author used them onto one piece of blank paper. The end result will be one page of visually appealing information. I used this for independent reading, but you could use it for a specific novel or even literature circ

This product is in the form of a Google Doc, so it's perfect for uploading right to Google Classroom for Distance OR in-person learning! After you purchase, you'll see a word doc that contains the link to the Google Doc. Make a copy and you're good to go! This paired text analysis requires students to first read and analyze the allegory "The Terrible Things". There are questions that ask about author's purpose, symbolism, and comprehension. Next, students will read, annotate, and analyze th

This 2-page assignment requires students to make an inference and a prediction based on 6 quotes pulled from pages 69-88, which is the first half of chapter 4. They make predictions and inferences about TJ's character, TJ and Stacey's friendship, Mr. Morrison's character, the situation with Mr. Tatum, When TJ "goes back for his cap", and the incident at the Wallace Store based on quotes from the text. You could have them do it while reading individually, with a partner, or in a small group. I

This 3-page document goes along with "Turkeys" by Bailey White, which is in the Pearson 6th grade yellow textbook that my district uses. There are 7 questions about Main Idea on the front, and a paragraph response on the back that requires students to use details and evidence from the text in their answer. I have included an example paragraph to use as a model. Please help my little business grow!Did you know that you can receive $ credit towards future TpT purchases by reviewing this product

In my copies of Fahrenheit 451, Neil Gaiman introduces the novel with an essay written in April 2013. It's called: “Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and What Science Fiction Is and Does”. If the introduction isn't in your texts, you can find the full piece by searching the web. This activity requires you to make copies of the essay for each student. Step 1 directs them to actively read and annotate the text. Step 2 requires them to answer seven questions about the essay. They will need to refer