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Elie Wiesel's Night Chapters 6-9 Close Reads and Activities Bundle

By Curly and Carbonated

This bundle has everything you'll need to help students through the final few chapters (6-9) of Elie Wiesel's Night. All of the page numbers and quotations used in this resource use the Marion Wiesel translation of the memoir, but all of the text in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.4

$7.00

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Elie Wiesel's Night Chapters 4-5 Close Reads and Activities

By Curly and Carbonated

This bundle has everything you'll need to help students through Chapters 4-5 of Elie Wiesel's Night. All of the page numbers and quotations used in this resource use the Marion Wiesel translation of the memoir, but all of the text in the files is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.4

$7.00

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Elie Wiesel's Night Chapters 1-3 Close Reads and Activities

By Curly and Carbonated

This bundle has everything you'll need to help students through Chapters 1-3 of Elie Wiesel's Night. All of the page numbers and quotations used in this resource use the Marion Wiesel translation of the memoir, but all of the text in the files is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.4

$8.00

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MLA 9 Formatting Student Resource Booklet and Presentation

By Curly and Carbonated

If it's research paper time in your high school ELA classroom, you may be tired of answering the same easy, technical questions 438 times in one class period. You know the students can find the answer to their questions if they will just access the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.W.7, CCRA.W.8

$3.00

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Parent Permission Letter and Email Templates for ELA Classroom Library

By Curly and Carbonated

Do you have a great collection of Young Adult titles in your classroom library but are nervous to give your students access to these titles? Open and clear parent communication is key to working together to provide a student with independent

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Classroom Management

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Professional Documents, For Parents, Google Apps

$2.00

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First Day for High School English: Back to School Activity Bundle

By Curly and Carbonated

Ready to refresh your back to school plans? These resources will help you get to know your students, set your students up with an engaging collaborative activity, and move into a series of activities for introducing a year-long essential question

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Back to School

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.3

$10.25

$8.50

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A Year-Long ELA Essential Question Intro Activity for the Beginning of the Year

By Curly and Carbonated

What does it take to be successful? This is a question that is so relevant to high schoolers' lives as they start to envision what they want their futures to look like. By posing this question as a unifying focus for the course, it will allow

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Back to School

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.9, CCRA.SL.5

$3.75

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First Day Enneagram Personality Test & ELA Summer Reading Activity

By Curly and Carbonated

I love to use these two activities for high school on the first and second day of class because it gives the teacher a break for talking about the syllabus and procedures, and communicates that you want to get to know your students and their unique

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, W.9-10.1

$3.00

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Things Fall Apart Complete Six-Week Unit Bundle

By Curly and Carbonated

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is such a powerful and important text, but it can be overwhelming to figure out how to approach it with a room full of high schoolers who may not be able see its relevance and importance because they are hung up on

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.9

$47.50

$35.00

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Things Fall Apart Close Reading Analysis and Writing

By Curly and Carbonated

If you don't have 100% of your students reading every single page of the novels you read as a whole group, they can still get so much out of the novel study with developing close reading skills. Move students from simply labeling and highlighting

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.10

$5.00

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Things Fall Apart Analysis Activities

By Curly and Carbonated

You may have your big essay, project, or culminating assessment in mind but just aren’t quite sure what to have students do in between reading deadlines. Sound familiar? If so, this bundle of engaging, meaningful analysis activities is for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.9, CCRA.R.10

$9.00

Online Resource
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Things Fall Apart Reading Quizzes and Literary Analysis Essay Writing Topics

By Curly and Carbonated

You might have your reading due dates all planned out but aren’t quite sure what to have them do on those reading deadlines that isn’t a waste of precious instructional time. This product includes editable reading quizzes for Chapters 1-5. 6-13,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Assessment, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics

CCSS:

CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.5

$5.00

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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Things Fall Apart Pre-Reading Activities and Lessons Bundle

By Curly and Carbonated

Things Fall Apart is such a powerful novel, but without necessary background knowledge to approach it, this novel can fall flat. This is a series of introductory activities and lessons to engage students in the culture, context, and importance of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.10

$14.50

$11.00

Bundle

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Igbo Webquest to Build Background for Things Fall Apart

By Curly and Carbonated

Before teaching Things Fall Apart, it's so important for students to have some background knowledge for the novel in order to grasp the complexity and rich Igbo culture Achebe portrays. This product is a student-paced, 100% no-prep activity that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

CCRA.W.7, CCRA.W.8, CCRA.W.9

$3.00

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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Literary Superlative Awards for End of Year ELA Activity

By Curly and Carbonated

It's the end of the year: testing is over, major works are finished, and there's still a week of school left. Students have gotten their yearbooks and seen the senior superlatives, and instead of assigning students awards, have the students assign

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.00

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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Taming of the Shrew Plot Event Bingo Cards

By Curly and Carbonated

Piquing students' interest in the plot and keeping it is crucial to the success of reading a Shakespearean play with high schoolers. If you have a couple of competitive students, look no further for a resource that they can use throughout the whole

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

$2.00

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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"The Danger of a Single Story" TED Talk Lesson with Digital Workbook

By Curly and Carbonated

Although we – as English teachers – know the importance of stories, students may need help to see why stories are so much more than just entertainment. This 90-minute lesson introduces students to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk” The Danger of a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Homework, Webquests

$2.50

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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Student-Paced Introduction to Shakespearean Language Activity

By Curly and Carbonated

When students hear that they are about to read Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Hamlet or any other Shakespearean play, they audibly groan and complain how hard it is for them to understand the language. As English teachers, that’s

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Homework, Webquests

$3.00

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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FREE Things Fall Apart Pacing Guide with Student Bookmark

By Curly and Carbonated

This FREEBIE includes invaluable resources for both you and your students if you are teaching Things Fall Apart! For your students, there is an editable and printable bookmark will give them all the information they need to keep the characters and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Study Guides, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.10

FREE

Online Resource
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Elements of Culture Multi-Day Scaffolded Lesson

By Curly and Carbonated

This three part lesson will scaffold students to be able to identify and explain unique elements of culture. Students will brainstorm several cultural groups to which they belong, see examples of how other cultural groups share common

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.W.2

$6.00

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Google Drive™ folder

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I have taught 3 years of middle school and am in my 5th year of teaching high school ELA.

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