This Romeo and Juliet study guide includes 18 pages of notes on the plot of William Shakespeare’s play. These extensive and accurate notes are broken down by acts and scenes. About half of the notes on the play are in cloze note form. An answer sheet for the cloze note blanks is included in this package. The other half of these notes are made up of important passages with ample room for translation, interpretation, text-based support activities, or any short close reading activities you see fit. All passages pulled for these notes contain line numbers from the play.

These eight (8) mock stories offer a great chance to practice the concepts and skills learned from the lead writing and news writing instruction in your journalism class. Simply revise the notes to meet who, what, when, and where for your specific school district, and you’ll have excellent and realistic stories with which your students can practice their news writing skills. This package includes the following: (1) notes for 8 realistic mock stories (all high school related), (2) writing guides based on the six question words and the elements of news, (3) a host of lead writing examples, (4) a news writing rubric, (5) and an explanation of these concepts: elements of news, interesting vs. important, and the six question words.

This three-player or three-team game allows students to review and reinforce content from Homer’s Odyssey, the major points of the Trojan War, and other popular myths. This fun product includes 60 Jeopardy answers and questions over TWO ROUNDS of play, and FOUR unique Final Jeopardy options. This game utilizes the classic Jeopardy PowerPoint template created by the legendary Mark E. Damon. I have found that the score keeping functionality of this PowerPoint game works well on computers operating Windows. Below are the categories for both rounds: Round 1 (a touch easier): Land, Ho! Humans The Trojan War Beasts of Burden Visitors and Visits Gods Round 2 (a touch harder): The Cast in 1st Person Whose Line is it Anyway? Gods Pets and Animals Heroes Before the War Other Myths If you like this product, check out the Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy Game, which includes ONE ROUND of play and TWO unique Final Jeopardy options. The game not only reinforces plot and characters, but famous lines, Shakespeare’s use of language, and the bard’s life and times.

This package includes a 14-slide PowerPoint presentation, and guiding cloze notes with answers. This PowerPoint presentation and accompanying set of cloze notes uses a writing prompt and exemplar derived from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” to teach students how to present and analyze textual evidence to support an thesis or claim. Specifically, this PowerPoint outlines through notes and examples five steps to successfully present and analyze text-based evidence to support a thesis or claim. The writing vocabulary used in this lesson is as follows: LEAD IN - Gives context to the quotation. When? Where? In brief, what’s been happening plot-wise leading up to this quotation? ATTRIBUTIVE TAG - Whose words were borrowed? Montresor tells readers or Fortunato says DIRECT QUOTATION - Purposefully selected because something about it makes it the best evidence for the thesis CITATION - MLA in-text citation (Author 283). LEAD OUT - Analysis. How or Why does this quotation help the argument being presented? As part of the analysis, the LEAD OUT often picks apart the author’s use of word and phrase choices, including literary elements and techniques used. How do these writing choices made by the author support the thesis? To create blank cloze notes for this lesson, simply print multiple PPT slides on one side of piece of paper.

These three mock stories will help students practice the art of news writing. This package includes the following: (1) three sets of notes for writing mock news stories, (2) a news writing guided based on the six question words and the elements of news, (3) a news writing rubric, (4) and an explanation of these concepts: elements of news, interesting vs. important, and the six question words.

This product is a writing task that requires reading through chapter 30 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This writing task guides students through the process of supporting a claim with text evidence. To support the claim, students will select the best text evidence from 8 potential pieces, present that text evidence in a written paragraph, and also analyze how or why the text evidence presented supports the claim. This 10-page product includes a vocabulary list for understanding the necessary writing concepts for presenting text evidence, the writing task, 8 pieces of text evidence to evaluate, page numbers for the text evidence, a guided planning page for organizing the presentation of evidence, a starter response for struggling writers, a lined page for the written response, and two choices of rubrics for scoring. Below are the six concepts used in this package for teaching students how to present text evidence: TRANSITION — A word or phrase used to connect one idea to the next. LEAD IN — Gives context or background information to the text evidence. When are we? Where are we? In brief, what’s been happening plot-wise leading up to this text evidence? ATTRIBUTIVE TAG — Whose words were borrowed? Are those words best described as narration, thinking, or dialogue? TEXT EVIDENCE — Purposefully selected because something about it makes it some of the best evidence to support a(n) thesis, claim, argument, stance, statement, or answer. CITATION — MLA in-text citation (Author 283). LEAD OUT — It’s analysis. It answers HOW or WHY the text evidence helps support the argument being presented? As part of the analysis, the LEAD OUT often picks apart the author’s use of word and phrase choices, including literary elements and writing techniques used. How do these writing choices made by the author support the thesis? Because lead out is analysis, it often involves making inferences. Thus words such as suggests, implies, and indicates are often necessary to use. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/to-kill-a-mockingbird-presenting-text-evidence-writing-unit-75-pages-12178928

This product is a writing task that requires reading chapter 15 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This writing task guides students through the process of supporting a claim with text evidence. To support the claim, students will select the best text evidence from a given passage, present that text evidence in a written paragraph, and also analyze how or why the text evidence presented supports the claim. This 11-page product includes a vocabulary list for understanding the necessary writing concepts for presenting text evidence, the writing task, the passage, a guided planning page with exemplar, a starter response with one piece of text evidence, a key for identifying the necessary writing concepts, and two choices of rubrics for scoring. Below are the six concepts used in this package for teaching students how to present text evidence: TRANSITION — A word or phrase used to connect one idea to the next. LEAD IN — Gives context or background information to the text evidence. When are we? Where are we? In brief, what’s been happening plot-wise leading up to this text evidence? ATTRIBUTIVE TAG — Whose words were borrowed? Are those words best described as narration, thinking, or dialogue? TEXT EVIDENCE — Purposefully selected because something about it makes it some of the best evidence to support a(n) thesis, claim, argument, stance, statement, or answer. CITATION — MLA in-text citation (Author 283). LEAD OUT — It’s analysis. It answers HOW or WHY the text evidence helps support the argument being presented? As part of the analysis, the LEAD OUT often picks apart the author’s use of word and phrase choices, including literary elements and writing techniques used. How do these writing choices made by the author support the thesis? Because lead out is analysis, it often involves making inferences. Thus words such as suggests, implies, and indicates are often necessary to use.

This product is a writing task that requires reading chapter 31 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This writing task guides students through the process of supporting a claim with text evidence. To support the claim, students will select the best text evidence from a given passage, present that text evidence in a written paragraph, and also analyze how or why the text evidence presented supports the claim. This 10-page product includes a vocabulary list for understanding the necessary writing concepts for presenting text evidence, the writing task, the passage, a guided planning page, lined paper for the written response, a written exemplar, a key for identifying the necessary writing concepts, and two choices of rubrics for scoring. Below are the six concepts used in this package for teaching students how to present text evidence: TRANSITION — A word or phrase used to connect one idea to the next. LEAD IN — Gives context or background information to the text evidence. When are we? Where are we? In brief, what’s been happening plot-wise leading up to this text evidence? ATTRIBUTIVE TAG — Whose words were borrowed? Are those words best described as narration, thinking, or dialogue? TEXT EVIDENCE — Purposefully selected because something about it makes it some of the best evidence to support a(n) thesis, claim, argument, stance, statement, or answer. CITATION — MLA in-text citation (Author 283). LEAD OUT — It’s analysis. It answers HOW or WHY the text evidence helps support the argument being presented? As part of the analysis, the LEAD OUT often picks apart the author’s use of word and phrase choices, including literary elements and writing techniques used. How do these writing choices made by the author support the thesis? Because lead out is analysis, it often involves making inferences. Thus words such as suggests, implies, and indicates are often necessary to use.

This close reading activity for a passage from James Hurst’s “The Scarlet Ibis” analyzes the author’s use of diction, imagery, mood, and foreshadowing to explore deeper purpose and meaning. The culminating writing activity asks students to write about foreshadowing as it relates to the author’s use of diction, imagery, and mood. This package includes • A passage from “The Scarlet Ibis” • Eleven guiding questions about the author’s craft • One culminating extended response question • A writing rubric • Exemplars for the guiding questions

Teach students about symbolism, and assess the depth of their understanding with this highly guided writing task that uses James Hurst’s “The Scarlet Ibis.” This 30-plus page product (MS Word, PDF, and PPT) includes a variety of necessary lesson materials and teacher materials, including: A bare bones research “project” on scarlet ibises; An active reading task centered on setting (important later); A 12-slide PowerPoint lesson on and activity for symbolism; A guided close-reading activity to help students begin making connections between Doodle and the scarlet ibis (teacher materials included); A graphic organizer for that thinking (teacher materials included); Several lesson materials and necessary vocabulary for teaching students how to present text evidence in writing; The writing task (essay) and rubric; A cheat sheet for selecting the best text evidence (for differentiation); Lesson materials and two examples for teaching students how to funnel an introductory paragraph; A graphic organizer for mapping the text evidence, including its presentation to readers (teacher materials included).

This 10-item multiple-choice quiz is three pages long, and assesses students’ knowledge of the plot of James Hurst’s classic short story. BUT, this quiz also asks students to demonstrate their understanding of foreshadowing, diction, metaphor, setting, purpose, and symbolism. A few selections ask students to analyze the author’s language choices in provided passage, and others require inferential thinking. This quiz and answer key comes as both a Microsoft Word document and a PDF.

This traditional matching quiz assesses students on 25 of the major players in Homer’s Odyssey. The following characters from the Iliad also make an appearance on this quiz: Helen, Paris, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Achilles, mostly because I use them to establish background before reading the Odyssey. An answer key for this character quiz is included. The quiz comes as two files: Microsoft Word and PDF.

This package includes four (4) excellent fill-in-the-blank quizzes with answer keys for SPEAK by LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON. The quizzes cover each of the four marking period sections that divide the novel. The quizzes and answer keys are both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. These are great open-book reading quizzes that assess and reinforce comprehension, and can be graded quickly. On average, each quiz includes 40 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less. These fill-in-the-blank quizzes not only assess general plot comprehension, but also ask students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.

Bundle Description This To Kill a Mockingbird bundle includes the following: • an 80-page writing unit focusing on presenting text evidence to support a claim • a novel quizzes package that includes 8 quizzes spanning all chapters (w/ answer keys) • a close read and writing task using Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” that focuses on analyzing writing strategies such as contrast, imagery, and diction. This close read comes with a culminating writing task that parallels the Part 3 of the Common Core English Regents Exam • a close read of a missionary meeting excerpt from chapter 24 • a brief reading guide for the showdown between Atticus and Heck Tate in chapter 30 • Socratic Seminar prompts • a partners reminder and organizer for partnered work

This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for PAGES 1-25 of Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The quiz and answer key is both a Microsoft Word and PDF document. This quiz is organized by page numbers using the Harper-Collins paperback version copyrighted 1999. This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension. This quiz has 25 blanks. Students who read finish in 20 minutes or less. Want to add in extra support? Turn the built-in answer key into a word bank! Want to remove a support? Delete the in-text citations for direct quotations! These quizzes can easily be adapted for a variety of levels. – Also for purchase on TES is my complete novel quizzes package for Monster, which includes seven quizzes broken down by these pages ranges: QUIZ 1 — 1-25 QUIZ 2 — 25-58 QUIZ 3 — 59-114 QUIZ 4 — 115-170 QUIZ 5 — 171-199 QUIZ 6 — 200-243 QUIZ 7 — 244-281 https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/monster-by-walter-dean-myers-complete-novel-quizzes-7-quizzes-11219572

This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for PAGES 171-199 of Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The quiz and answer sheet come as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. This quiz is organized by page numbers using the Harper-Collins paperback version copyrighted 1999. This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension. This quiz has 25 blanks. Students who read finish in 20 minutes or less. Want to add in extra support? Turn the built-in answer key into a word bank! Want to remove a support? Delete the in-text citations for direct quotations! These quizzes can easily be adapted for a variety of levels. – Also for purchase on TES is my complete novel quizzes package for Monster, which includes seven quizzes broken down by these pages ranges: QUIZ 1 — 1-25 QUIZ 2 — 25-58 QUIZ 3 — 59-114 QUIZ 4 — 115-170 QUIZ 5 — 171-199 QUIZ 6 — 200-243 QUIZ 7 — 244-281 https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/monster-by-walter-dean-myers-complete-novel-quizzes-7-quizzes-11219572

This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for PAGES 244-281 of Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The quiz and answer sheet come as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. This quiz is organized by page numbers using the Harper-Collins paperback version copyrighted 1999. This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension. This quiz has 35 blanks. Students who read finish in 20 minutes or less. Want to add in extra support? Turn the built-in answer key into a word bank! Want to remove a support? Delete the in-text citations for direct quotations! These quizzes can easily be adapted for a variety of levels. – Also for purchase on TES is my complete novel quizzes package for Monster, which includes seven quizzes broken down by these pages ranges: QUIZ 1 — 1-25 QUIZ 2 — 25-58 QUIZ 3 — 59-114 QUIZ 4 — 115-170 QUIZ 5 — 171-199 QUIZ 6 — 200-243 QUIZ 7 — 244-281 https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/monster-by-walter-dean-myers-complete-novel-quizzes-7-quizzes-11219572

This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for PAGES 200-243 of Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The quiz and answer sheet come as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. This quiz is organized by page numbers using the Harper-Collins paperback version copyrighted 1999. This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension. This quiz has 30 blanks. Students who read finish in 20 minutes or less. Want to add in extra support? Turn the built-in answer key into a word bank! Want to remove a support? Delete the in-text citations for direct quotations! These quizzes can easily be adapted for a variety of levels. – Also for purchase on TES is my complete novel quizzes package for Monster, which includes seven quizzes broken down by these pages ranges: QUIZ 1 — 1-25 QUIZ 2 — 25-58 QUIZ 3 — 59-114 QUIZ 4 — 115-170 QUIZ 5 — 171-199 QUIZ 6 — 200-243 QUIZ 7 — 244-281 https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/monster-by-walter-dean-myers-complete-novel-quizzes-7-quizzes-11219572

This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for PAGES 59-114 of Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The quiz and answer sheet come as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. This quiz is organized by page numbers using the Harper-Collins paperback version copyrighted 1999. This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension. This quiz has 30 blanks. Students who read finish in 20 minutes or less. Want to add in extra support? Turn the built-in answer key into a word bank! Want to remove a support? Delete the in-text citations for direct quotations! These quizzes can easily be adapted for a variety of levels. – Also for purchase on TES is my complete novel quizzes package for Monster, which includes seven quizzes broken down by these pages ranges: QUIZ 1 — 1-25 QUIZ 2 — 25-58 QUIZ 3 — 59-114 QUIZ 4 — 115-170 QUIZ 5 — 171-199 QUIZ 6 — 200-243 QUIZ 7 — 244-281 https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/monster-by-walter-dean-myers-complete-novel-quizzes-7-quizzes-11219572

This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for PAGES 115-170 of Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The quiz and answer sheet come as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. This quiz is organized by page numbers using the Harper-Collins paperback version copyrighted 1999. This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension. This quiz has 25 blanks. Students who read finish in 20 minutes or less. Want to add in extra support? Turn the built-in answer key into a word bank! Want to remove a support? Delete the in-text citations for direct quotations! These quizzes can easily be adapted for a variety of levels. – Also for purchase on TES is my complete novel quizzes package for Monster, which includes seven quizzes broken down by these pages ranges: QUIZ 1 — 1-25 QUIZ 2 — 25-58 QUIZ 3 — 59-114 QUIZ 4 — 115-170 QUIZ 5 — 171-199 QUIZ 6 — 200-243 QUIZ 7 — 244-281 https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/monster-by-walter-dean-myers-complete-novel-quizzes-7-quizzes-11219572