Students will complete close textual reading questions aligned with Common Core shifts for literacy. Scroll to "ELA 11-12 Winter Dreams" to access download.
Students will complete close textual reading questions aligned with Common Core shifts for literacy. Scroll to "ELA 11-12 A Modest Proposal" to access download.
Students will complete close textual reading questions aligned with Common Core shifts for literacy. Scroll to "ELA 11-12 Declaration of Independence" to access download.
This fun, interactive 20-question activity will give students practice in identifying sentence fragments. Each question gives immediate feedback on whether your answer was correct or not and fun cyber prizes for correct answers.
This activity emphasizes the importance of teaching reading and writing strategies for students to use with informational text.
Students will examine Gertrude's behavior in Shakespeare's Hamlet and synthesize what they know about Gertrude in order to perform her character in a scene and evaluate where Gertrude's loyalties lie.
This lesson encourages students to pick a turning point in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and show how the action of the play would have been significantly altered had a different decision been made or a different action taken. Students will use a graphic organizer to analyze the plot of the play, create a plot outline of an altered play, and present their new stories to the class.
Harriet Tubman's first journey to Canada on the Underground Railroad is fraught with danger, harsh conditions, and uncertainty. In order to keep her disillusioned party of runaway slaves safe during the long journey, she bolsters their spirits by telling stories of freedom and singing spirituals. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students select and research a real-life hero. They then prepare short lectures for their classmates based upon the research they gain from a variety of primary and secondary sources.
This resource includes informational paried passage mini-assessment that includes two articles and one accompanying recording, thirteen text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students), and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS. Articles included are “High Schools Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens,†by Michelle Trudeau and “High schools will keep starting too early. Here’s why" by Dan Weissman.
The highwayman is an eighteenth century thief, who promises to return to his love Bess, the landlord’s daughter. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This resource includes nonfiction two texts, a link to a video, and 13 text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students). Also includes explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.
This resource contains a collection of worksheets and activities on the proper use of homophones, homonyms, and homographs
In this lesson students will collect and create bumper stickers to examine how writing can influence people.
This webpage contains theme-based discussion prompts for each vignette in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, as well as a selection of follow-up activities.
In this lesson students use a school map to create a charted course and a corresponding written description of the directions for travel from class to class, beginning with an arrival location in the morning and ending with a departure location in the afternoon.
A student worksheet on recognizing differing points of view in the newspaper.
In this lesson students analyze comics for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal (ethos, logos, pathos). Students then write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of each rhetorical appeal.
This TED video teaches students how modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentences which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.