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Poem story Salem Witch Trial - Stories poems witches tales long poems rhyming poetry story creative writing poetic verse - Christy Ann Martine Pretty Words, Beautiful Words, Story Poems, Salem Witch Trials, Dark Quotes, Strong Quotes, Poem Quotes, Peace Quotes, Qoutes
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Poem story Salem Witch Trial - Stories poems witches tales long poems rhyming poetry story creative writing poetic verse - Christy Ann Martine
Prohibition Dinner Party. Role playing. Seating Arrangements Sandoval Lesson US History 11th grade High school 8th Grade History, Ap Us History, Teaching Us History, World History Lessons, High School History, History Education, History Projects, Study History, History Teachers
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Prohibition Dinner Party. Role playing. Seating Arrangements Sandoval Lesson US History 11th grade High school
Please enjoy four free assignments over this short story from Hemingway. This assignment, formatted like a standardized test, has 12 multiple choice questions over the selection. Guided Reading Questions, Reading Circles, Literary Elements, Choice Questions, American Literature, Student Activities, Common Core Standards, Hemingway, Short Stories
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Please enjoy four free assignments over this short story from Hemingway. This assignment, formatted like a standardized test, has 12 multiple choice questions over the selection.
A quick write having students think about H.H. Holmes's own words. Works well as a bell-ringer or as a ticket out the door. Teaching Literature High School, High School Ela, High School English, High Schools, English Lesson Plans, English Lessons, English English, Quick Writes, Creative Teaching
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A quick write having students think about H.H. Holmes's own words. Works well as a bell-ringer or as a ticket out the door.
A rubric for evidence-based responses to questions. Constructed Response, Unit Plan, Novel Studies, Daily 5, Interactive Notebooks, Rubrics, Math Centers, Task Cards
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A rubric for evidence-based responses to questions.
Help your students get to know their classmates by having them complete this activity. Tinder App, High School Relationships, Online Dating Chat, Apps For Teens, Google Play Apps, Best Dating Apps, Dating Tips For Women
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Dating Tips For Women
Help your students get to know their classmates by having them complete this activity.
A three-page biography of Hemingway, this product has suggestions but no activities.
A three-page biography of Hemingway, this product has suggestions but no activities.
This is an easy 2-to-a-page 3-2-1 summarizer for "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Teaching American Literature, Tom Walker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Summary, Devil, Toms, Tech Company Logos, Education, School
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This is an easy 2-to-a-page 3-2-1 summarizer for "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This activity can be used best as a reflection or extended thinking activity toward the end of your Revolutionary literature period in American Literature. Students will need some knowledge of the seminal American Revolutionary documents and literature skills for analysis. Whole Brain Teaching, We Will Rock You, Word Wall, Graphic Organizers, Day Use, Sight Words, Found Out
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We Will Rock You
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This activity can be used best as a reflection or extended thinking activity toward the end of your Revolutionary literature period in American Literature. Students will need some knowledge of the seminal American Revolutionary documents and literature skills for analysis.
An entertaining frame narrative that is useful for teaching students to analyze text for the purpose of understanding character. This lesson includes a side-by-side text and questions for students. The teacher key is formatted the same way. The summative assessment requires students to write a twelve-line poem that describes the protagonist. Summative Assessment, Canfield, Heyday, Close Reading, Analyze, Protagonist
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An entertaining frame narrative that is useful for teaching students to analyze text for the purpose of understanding character. This lesson includes a side-by-side text and questions for students. The teacher key is formatted the same way. The summative assessment requires students to write a twelve-line poem that describes the protagonist.
You can easily incorporate the following RAFTT Writing Assignment into your course work over The Devil in the White City. The assignment is ready to print. Each student chooses the Role, Audience, Format, Topic, and Tone for the assignment making the writing his or her own creation. Ap English, Writing Assignments, Learning Styles, White City, Incorporate, Audience, Role
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You can easily incorporate the following RAFTT Writing Assignment into your course work over The Devil in the White City. The assignment is ready to print. Each student chooses the Role, Audience, Format, Topic, and Tone for the assignment making the writing his or her own creation.
This activity is a scavenger-style timeline activity for students who have finished reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Students will answer questions regarding the ages of the characters and the timing of events in the novel to deduce the years in which events occur. The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald, Scavenger, Timeline, Students, Novels, Teacher
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This activity is a scavenger-style timeline activity for students who have finished reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Students will answer questions regarding the ages of the characters and the timing of events in the novel to deduce the years in which events occur.
A lesson on using context clues to understand the definitions of unfamiliar words. This lesson is included in The Devil in the White City Reading Guide in our store for $24.99. Context Clues, Definitions, Lesson, Understanding, Tools, Guide
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A lesson on using context clues to understand the definitions of unfamiliar words. This lesson is included in The Devil in the White City Reading Guide in our store for $24.99.
Vocabulary list with 24 terms used within the play, including legal terms relevant to understanding the play. Word bank and key provided. Vocabulary List, Word Bank, 12th Man, Handouts, Angry, Terms, Teachers
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Vocabulary list with 24 terms used within the play, including legal terms relevant to understanding the play. Word bank and key provided.
This lesson is designed to be taught near the end of the book. It uses the Prendergast story line in The Devil in the White City as well as the Burnham plot line to analyze author's use of suspense. Included in this document is an activator, lesson materials including teacher's key, and summarizer. Burnham, Suspense, The Book
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This lesson is designed to be taught near the end of the book. It uses the Prendergast story line in The Devil in the White City as well as the Burnham plot line to analyze author's use of suspense. Included in this document is an activator, lesson materials including teacher's key, and summarizer.
A multiple choice over the first two chapters of Larson's creative nonfiction, this activity calls for students to read for meaning and to understand the elements of Realism and Naturalism in American literature. Erik Larson, Quiz Me, Multiple Choice, Realism, Nonfiction, Meant To Be
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A multiple choice over the first two chapters of Larson's creative nonfiction, this activity calls for students to read for meaning and to understand the elements of Realism and Naturalism in American literature.
This four-page document includes a tri-foldable note page on Modernism (obviously bare-bones) and a graphic organizer asking for a component of Modernism, textual evidence to support the characteristic, and a sentence to further explain (ACE method in a graphic organizer). Thomas Wolfe, Textual Evidence, Modernism, Intro, Sentences, Bare
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This four-page document includes a tri-foldable note page on Modernism (obviously bare-bones) and a graphic organizer asking for a component of Modernism, textual evidence to support the characteristic, and a sentence to further explain (ACE method in a graphic organizer).
A fifteen-question, multiple-choice quiz over the chapters entitled "Don't be Afraid" through "Pilgrimage," this assignment works as a true reading check. Only four questions ask students to identify literary terms or to paraphrase. The other eleven are recall questions. Literary Terms, Paraphrase, Dont Be Afraid, Recall
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A fifteen-question, multiple-choice quiz over the chapters entitled "Don't be Afraid" through "Pilgrimage," this assignment works as a true reading check. Only four questions ask students to identify literary terms or to paraphrase. The other eleven are recall questions.
Use Poe's short story to have students practice ACE questions by writing a statement and supporting it by using textual evidence and their own words. Have students practice paraphrasing to clarify understanding. Reinforce students' understanding of narrative frame and figurative language. Interactive Notebook Activities, Simile, Figurative Language, Poe
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Use Poe's short story to have students practice ACE questions by writing a statement and supporting it by using textual evidence and their own words. Have students practice paraphrasing to clarify understanding. Reinforce students' understanding of narrative frame and figurative language.
Get the image of a personal response dialectical journal out of your mind! Students are required to make literary responses to selected readings over H. H. Holmes in Erik Larson's book about the Chicago World's Fair. Students will peer evaluate each other's journal entries, using rubrics that are included. Out Of Your Mind, English Writing, World's Fair, Journal Entries, Peer
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Get the image of a personal response dialectical journal out of your mind! Students are required to make literary responses to selected readings over H. H. Holmes in Erik Larson's book about the Chicago World's Fair. Students will peer evaluate each other's journal entries, using rubrics that are included.
This is a RAFTT designed for use with any study related to the Trojan War. You could use it with the Iliad, Odyssey, Greek Mythology study, or other related lessons. There is a rubric included. The end student product is set as a short poem of 12-15 lines. Types Of Poems, Trojan War, Short Poems, Student Writing, Greek Mythology, Odyssey
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This is a RAFTT designed for use with any study related to the Trojan War. You could use it with the Iliad, Odyssey, Greek Mythology study, or other related lessons. There is a rubric included. The end student product is set as a short poem of 12-15 lines.
This is an argumentative writing assignment for Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown." Three prompts are given with a quick rubric included. The file is in an editable .doc file so that you can modify your length requirement or tweak the prompts if desired. Argumentative Writing, Goodman, Doc
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This is an argumentative writing assignment for Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown." Three prompts are given with a quick rubric included. The file is in an editable .doc file so that you can modify your length requirement or tweak the prompts if desired.
This is an argumentative writing assignment for Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown." Three prompts are given with a quick rubric included. The file is in an editable .doc file so that you can modify your length requirement or tweak the prompts if desired.
This is an argumentative writing assignment for Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown." Three prompts are given with a quick rubric included. The file is in an editable .doc file so that you can modify your length requirement or tweak the prompts if desired.
A standards-based quiz, this assignment will work as a guided reading assignment or as a cold-read assignment. Ten multiple choice questions, three of which are over a specific passage included on the handout, make up this quiz. The quiz is over the two chapters entitled "The Necessary Supply" and "Becomingness." Guided Reading, Quiz, Ten, Supply
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A standards-based quiz, this assignment will work as a guided reading assignment or as a cold-read assignment. Ten multiple choice questions, three of which are over a specific passage included on the handout, make up this quiz. The quiz is over the two chapters entitled "The Necessary Supply" and "Becomingness."
Poe's short story is in one column with questions and activities placed in an adjoining column. It is easy to read and easy to follow. Edgar Allan Poe, Column, Companion, Readers, Activities
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Poe's short story is in one column with questions and activities placed in an adjoining column. It is easy to read and easy to follow.