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8th grade close reading cultural activities
Native American Literature Unit: Poems, Myths, Non-fiction in Digital & Print
Looking to add some fresh activities for Native American literature to your classes' studies? You have come to the right place! Your students will love these beautifully designed slides that will not only capture their attention but also provide them with interesting Native American reading selections and engaging activities that require analyzing, creating, thinking, writing, and reflecting. Printable version included!This Native American Literature Digital Unit includes► 2 poems► 2 myths► a no
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7th - 12th
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The Butterfly, a Holocaust Poem - Close Read and Short Answer Response
Looking for a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims? With respect and dignity, Pavel Friedmann's poem, The Butterfly, guides students through a close reading of the text, a paired short answer response, and the option to create their own butterfly in honor of Holocaust victims. The teachers in my middle school found this activity to be a meaningful closure to a Holocaust unit. If you’re looking to sample poetry close reading, CLICK HERE to sign up and download my free poetry sub plans. Downl
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5th - 9th
Fairy Tale Analysis Unit High School - Cinderella Around the World Folktale Unit
Looking for a multicultural folk literature unit for your high school or advanced middle school students? Throughout this relevant and engaging fairy tale unit, students have an opportunity to study multiple Cinderella fairy tales from a historical perspective. Grimm's Cinderella is used as the anchor short story for in-class work and discussions. Then, students will have the opportunity to explore many other cultural versions of Cinderella by completing an independent research project. By the e
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8th - 12th
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ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Back to School Reading Lesson | ESL Activities
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. What’s Included:Digital Version of Lesson3 Levels of Differentiated Text Au
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3rd - 12th
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
Easter Reading Comprehension Passages - Leveled Pack
Students will learn how Easter symbols such as the Easter bunny, Easter baskets, and Easter eggs came about. Students will learn about Easter traditions from around the world, and all about their favorite Easter candies.This article contains 10 text dependent questions. Some questions require students to select more than one answer.Skills covered in this article include idioms, personification, making inferences, main idea and details, capitalization, and text structure. This pack contains the p
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4th - 8th
Earth on Turtle's Back & When Grizzlies Walked Upright Native American Myths
Bundle of 2-3 days worth of activities to introduce Native American Mythology, including an editable slide presentation in both PowerPoint and Google Slides, a link to an online game matching morals to children's stories, reading comprehension worksheets, a pre-reading fill in the blank cloze activity (printable or digital), a compare and contrast worksheet and a writing or class presentation assignment that has students creating their own origin myths about their least favorite school rules. U
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7th - 11th
Langston Hughes "I, Too" + Walt Whitman "I Hear America Singing" Poetry Analysis
This purchase includes an individual poetry analysis of the two poems, "I, Too" by Langston Hughes and "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman. Between these two poems, students will address: tone, repetition, rhythm, theme, allusion, symbolism, alliteration, and irony.Students will then answer a constructed response question that requires them to reflect on both poems as well as their own personal experiences. An editable copy (word document) is included in this resource as well in case you wo
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7th - 11th
Also included in: Black History Month ELA Activities
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story Comparison
This side-by-side chart is great for comparing Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story. Viewing West Side Story allows students to understand the themes of Shakespeare's play with a more understandable interpretation.
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7th - 12th
MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Analysis
This graphic organizer helps students close read an Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech (NOT full speech - excerpt of speech, can see from preview). Student annotate the text then answer questions for understanding and comprehension.Now includes an "answer key" with possible answers!
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4th - 8th
WE BEAT THE STREET Chapters Comprehension Questions (20 PAGES)
This packet includes 20 pages of comprehension questions and vocabulary practice. The questions encompass every type of learning, requiring students to analyze, evaluate, identify, illustrate, and much more!
There are interactive comprehension questions for all of the 22 chapters in the novel. This is a very thorough and well-edited collection of questions. It has been very beneficial to students, as they read the coming-of-age novel.
* NOTE: This is designed as a 3 week-long packet; it is als
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5th - 8th
World Folklore & Mythology Close Reading Unit: (6-9) Weeks Bundled Unit
This is a COMPLETE and comprehensive unit!
(12 Tests, 100+ slides, 18 stories, 30-page student activity packet)
It focuses on folklore from all around the world. It Includes folklore from North America, South Pacific (Samoa), Europe, Greece and Rome, Africa, and Asia.
This Unit is designed for grades 6-10 with attached CCSS standards for grades 9-10..
This an ideal unit for the early parts of your year as students are just beginning to understand literary elements. The readings are short enou
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6th - 10th
ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Black History Month: ESL Distance Learning
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
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4th - 12th
Biografías de la herencia hispana / Hispanic History Month Biographies Bundle
Incluido en este producto encontrará unos materiales para ayudarle a enseñar sobre las vidas de algunos hispanos importantes.Incluido encontrará lecturas (de dos páginas) y actividades para las siguientes 5 personas:- Sonia Sotomayor- José Feliciano- Selena- Celia Cruz- Cesar ChávezLas actividades incluidas son:- KWL (lo que sé, lo que me pregunto, lo que aprendí)- Hoja de comprensión- Características del personaje- Datos importantes- Líneas cronológicas- Plantillas de biografía- Escritura acerc
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3rd - 8th
Plato- Allegory of the Cave Common Core Lesson
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a great piece of literature to introduce students to Ancient Greek philosophy, and it has the added bonus of promoting education in a thought-provoking way.
This Common Core aligned activity includes a condensed version of "The Allegory of the Cave," which matches a memorable eight minute cartoon video that can be accessed on YouTube (web address provided in the worksheet). Additionally, there is a Common Core-styled activity sheet that provides a variety of s
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8th - 12th
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September 11th (9/11) Close Reading Passage & Comprehension Questions
Our teens today were not born when the September 11 attacks occurred, yet this event impacts us all today. This 9/11 reading passage and comprehension question set can be used as a close read and covers the tragic events of the day, the impact on America, the decisions of Congress, and the memorial that was built in New York. Also included in this resource is a set of 4 photos/graphics for your students to analyze the artist's message. Carefully educating our students on this day in history is
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: September 11th: Reading Passage and Photo Analysis Activity BUNDLE
Dear Basketball Poem Questions (Poem Included) by Kobe Bryant
The sudden loss of Kobe Bryant has sent shock-waves throughout our children. I wanted to cover him in class for those that loved him. After looking and looking for a good set of questions and not finding any to suit my needs, I took his "Dear Basketball" poem and created 15 common core style questions to encourage analytical skills, knowledge of the structural elements of poetry, and comprehension. Even though you can find copies of the poem online, I included it as a convenience. You are pa
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4th - 12th
Tell-Tale Heart by Poe. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. ESL Beginner Unit.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to ESL and ENL beginners and newcomers. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. Please open up the preview for details to make sure the text is right for your classroom -- it will be a challenge for your ELLs, but hopefully worth it.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also pri
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Flamenco Cultural Reading on Spanish Dance (English Version)
This 4-page file includes:~A 2-page reading on flamenco. The reading discusses in detail the origins of this artistic dance form. Each of the three parts receives its own paragraph: the dancing, singing and guitar playing. The reading also mentions some current flamenco artists. The reading is preceded by a detailed list of specialized vocabulary.~A worksheet based on the reading with nine comprehension questions.~Answer key. Here is a link to an amazing performance by Sara Baras to show student
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7th - 10th
World War I: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Causes of WWI)
Take a closer look at the causes of World War I with this reading passage and comprehension set about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia. This resource includes a one-page reading passage and a page of comprehension questions.Your students will learn:- A brief background about Archduke Franz Ferdinand & political tension- The events of the day leading up to his assassination- Who carried out the assassination and why (nationalist)- A brief breakdown of the even
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5th - 8th
Drug Awareness Research Project
This Webquest is a worksheet to accompany students' exploration of the NIDA for teens Drug Abuse Awareness website, found at teens.drugabuse.gov/. It guides them through the website pages and asks comprehension questions.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Australian Poetry Close Reading MULGA BILLS BICYCLE by Banjo Paterson
This Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading using Australian Poet Banjo Patterson's 'Mulga Bill's Bicycle' helps students learn to dig deep in poetry analysis. This great Australian poem is fun story of an overconfident horseman who decides that riding the newly invented bicycle will be too easy for him.Workshop takes 2-3 lessons. This great poem analysis can be printed in a small booklet. Perfect for snippets of analytical thinking and textual analysis practice between other units, or for a
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Grades:
8th - 11th
ESL Lesson Plans: Frida Kahlo Close Reading: ESL Distance Learning
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Native American Literature Unit: Poems, Myths, Non-fiction
Looking to add some fresh activities for Native American literature to your classes' studies? You have come to the right place! Your students will love these beautifully designed slides that will not only capture their attention but also provide them with interesting Native American reading selections and engaging activities that require your students to analyze, create, think, talk, draw, and reflect.This Native American Literature Unit includes► 2 poems► 2 myths► a nonfiction text ► Daily less
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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