English teacher for upper schools with a passion for literature. My resources eschew flashy, clip-art-infested layouts for clean, focused, and advanced worksheets and activities for students and teachers.
English teacher for upper schools with a passion for literature. My resources eschew flashy, clip-art-infested layouts for clean, focused, and advanced worksheets and activities for students and teachers.
This no-prep bundle of activities is designed to enable the in-depth teaching and preparation of the poem “Winter Song” by Elizabeth Tollet. The poem is also on the AS & A-Level English Literature curriculum for exams in 2024-2025.
The unit includes:
1) Short biography and introduction to the poet
2) The poem text with line numbers to facilitate a close-reading, including historical context and explanatory notes where necessary.
3) Pre-Teaching Activities: to facilitate teaching the poem & exam prep in class. I’ve focused on 18th-century England and traditional gender roles.
4) After Reading Activities: ideal as a follow-up to reading the poem in class. For "Winter Song, I’ve focused on a visual analysis of the poem.
5) Close-reading & Analysis Questions, with a particular focus on poetic devices and the AS & A-Level English Literature exam criteria.
6) Exam Practice Questions, modeled after the AS/A-Level English Literature Assessment Criteria (AO1-AO4). These can be used as a mock exam with your students.
7) In-depth, detailed model answers for all activities, questions, as well as model answers for the practice exam questions, again based on AS & A-Level Exam Criteria (A01-AO4).
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This teaching unit focuses on Volume 2, Chapters 12-19 (or Chapters 35-42 overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s revolutionary use of irony in the novel (verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony).
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper - The Role of Letters in Pride and Prejudice: This activity goes into considerable depth, exploring the role of letters in Pride and Prejudice, as a way to move forward plot, develop character, or revisit central themes.
3. Exam Practice: Passage-Based Response: This activity enables exam practice for IGCSE & AS/A-Levels in a structured, scaffolded manner that focuses on the exam assessment criteria.
4. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
***Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!***
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 3, Chapters 11-19 (or Chapters 53-61) overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s ending to the novel, and another in depth look at her language, style, and characterisation.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper: Analysing Language & Style in Pride and Prejudice: This activity goes into considerable depth, exploring Austen’s use of various rhetorical devices, including abstract nouns, the rhetorical balance of three, balanced sentences throughout her novel. The various activities are carefully scaffolded to build upon each other and to simultaneously test students’ understanding of the novel as a whole.
3. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
Happy teaching!
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This teaching unit focuses on Volume 3, Chapters 1-10 (or Chapters 43-52) overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Pemberley, Lydia and Wickham’s elopement, and the attendant analysis of themes throughout the novel so far.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Four fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper: Analysing Themes in Pride and Prejudice: This activity goes into considerable depth, exploring the role of themes in Pride and Prejudice. In addition to a preliminary exploration of the most prevalent themes, a follow-up activity looks at Austen’s variations on the theme of pride throughout the novel.
3. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
This is an after-reading, whole book assessment for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The assessment includes questions that focus on the following topics / learning objectives central to the novel:
Contexts
Settings
Themes
Characters
Assessment duration: 45 minutes - 60 minutes.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
Naturally, I’ve included Teacher’s Guide & Answers for all assessment questions.
I haven’t included a preview of this product for obvious reasons…
**Feedback is always welcome!
Happy teaching!**
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 18-23 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s humour as a vehicle for social criticism.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Austen’s Wicked Wit: TED-Ed: Satire and Social Criticism: This activity uses the TED-Ed video “The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen” as an engaging and informative way to show how Austen’s humour works and how it is used by the author in various ways that add complexity to her novel. Scaffolded activities that test comprehension and introduce key concepts but also require higher-order critical thinking skills accompany the activity and provide a lens to let students re-focus what they’ve learned to Pride and Prejudice, and Volume 1 in particular
4. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
**Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!**
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 3-8 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
Thes comprehensive unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz: A fun quick, quiz activity to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit.
2. Close Reading: Find the Quote Quiz: This is another fun activity that facilitates an engaging close reading of the most pertinent quotes or statements from the chapters. The quotes have been carefully selected so that you can also use them to segway to the main digging deeper activity.
3. Digital Kahoot!-Activities: I’ve created and included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of the first two activities that you can alternatively do with your students!
4. Uncovering Context: Jane Austen’s Life and Times: This is a structured, scaffolded and guided passage-based close reading and analysis activity that uses a letter by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra Austen (August 1805) to bring Regency England and the context of Pride and Prejudice to life. The learning objectives include:
*Students will be able to identify key social customs and expectations of the Regency era, as depicted in Jane Austen’s letter.
Students will be able to recognize the significance of social obligations and expectations in the context of the novel.
Students will be able to understand the role of women in Regency society, based on Austen’s observations.*
5. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes the learning objectives, detailed model answers as well as the link to the alternative Kahoot! activities.
***Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!*
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 13-17 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s humour - be it her use of comic relief characters or her introduction of Mr Collins as a caricature and a character of social commentary and satire.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Austen’s Humour: Comic Relief in Pride and Prejudice: This activity introduces the concept of comic relief in dramatic stories and provides a guided analysis of Austen’s use of comic relief in the novel. The focus is on characters such as Mr Bennet, Mrs Bennet and Mary Bennet as minor characters that provide plenty of comic relief in the first part of the novel.
3. Austen’s Humour: Mr Collins as Caricature: This activity takes a closer look at Mr Collins, and how Jane Austen introduces him as a caricature of the Regency clergyman as well as a ridiculously humorous vehicle for social criticism.
4. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
**Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!**
This unit of work focuses on Chapters 2-3 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapters 2-3, it includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapter 2-3 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 2-3 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Analyzing Language - Igbo Proverbs - This activity facilitates a closer look at and discussion of the many Igbo proverbs used in Ch. 1-3 of the novel.
4. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapters 2-3 of the novel - including a character analysis of Unoka and a summary and analysis of Chapters 2-3. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights, as well as for students working independently in a home-schooling setting or in a distance learning environment.
I hope you find everything you were looking for here.
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This FREE no-prep unit provides introductory activities for Chinua Achebe’s iconic African novel Things Fall Apart. The unit includes:
1. Exploring Expository Writing: An in-depth introductory text that provides insights into the following aspects of the novel:
critical reception & worldwide success of Things Fall Apart
context & background
2. Discussion Questions: A range of discussion prompts that test understanding of the text, on the one hand, and provide food for thought and extended critical discussion.
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This unit of work focuses on Chapter 1 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapter 1, it includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapter 1 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapter 1 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Analyzing Character: Unoka vs. Okonkwo - This activity provides a scaffolded, guided opportunity to compare and contrast Unoka and Okonkwo as presented in Chapter 1. The activity also introduces the concept of foil characters in literature.
4. English or Igbo? - The Languages of Things Fall Apart - this activity provides insight and discussion prompts to look at Achebe’s language and style choices for the novel. The provided discussion questions facilitate a closer look at the purpose and effect of Achebe’s simple syntax, short sentences, and infusion of the novel with Igbo proverbs and vocabulary. This is activity is certainly the most advanced of the range of activities provided.
5. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapter 1 of the novel - including a character analysis of Unoka and a summary and analysis of Chapter 1. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights, as well as for students working independently in a home-schooling setting or in a distance learning environment.
I hope you find everything you were looking for here.
Feedback is greatly appreciated!
This unit of work focuses on Chapters 4-5 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapters 4-5, it includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapter 4-5 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 4-5 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Analyzing Language - Figurative Devices - This two-fold activity first reviews important figurative devices that are often used in the novel (alliteration, simile, personification, imagery, hyperbole, dramatic irony, etc.), and then uses key quotes and passages from the novel Ch. 1-5 to test students’ understanding of the concepts reviewed, including a critical engagement with the purpose and intended effect of figurative language in Achebe’s writing.
4. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapters 4-5 of the novel - including a summary and analysis of Chapters 4-5. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights, as well as for students working independently in a home-schooling setting or in a distance learning environment.
I hope you find everything you were looking for here.
Feedback is greatly appreciated!
This unit of work focuses on Chapters 6-7 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapters 6-7, it includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapter 6-7 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 6-7 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Analyzing Language - Direct & Indirect Characterization - This two-fold activity first reviews the important concepts direct and indirect characterization, followed by a close reading exercise that tests students’ understanding of these concepts as well as their close reading & inference skills.
4. Writing Practice - Essay Writing: Ikemefuna’s Death - This activity uses the key scene and event of Ikemefuna’s death in Chapter 7 to provide prompts and to guide the students through the process of writing an essay. This can be used to review students’ holistic understanding of Chapters 1-7 of the novel, it can be seamlessly connected to the characterization activity, and also provides an excellent opportunity for exam practice, where appropriate.
5. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key with model answers for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapters 6-7 of the novel - including a summary and analysis of Chapters 6-7. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights, as well as for students working independently in a home-schooling setting or in a distance learning environment.
Feedback is greatly appreciated!
This unit of work focuses on Chapters 10-11 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapters 10-11 it includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapter 10-11 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 10-11 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Making Connections - Allegorical Fables - This activity introduces students to allegorical fiction and folk tales and their purpose in film / popular culture and literature.
4. Making Connections - Allegorical Fables in Things Fall Apart - This activity builds upon the ‘Allegorical Fables’ activity and facilitates a close look at the various allegorical folktales Achebe incorporates into Part One of Things Fall Apart. Ultimately, this will give students another point of access to this masterpiece and a way to appreciate Achebe’s literary craftmanship even more.
5. Creative Writing Task - Write Your Own African Fable: This activity provides ideas and prompts for students to get creative and to write their own African fables. This is a great way to wrap up this unit and an alternative, creative form of assessment.
6. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key with model answers for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapters 10-11 of the novel - including a summary and analysis of Chapters 10-11. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights.
**Perfect for independent study and distance learning. Feedback is greatly appreciated!
This unit of work focuses on Chapters 8-9 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapters 8-9 it includes the following:
1**. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions** for Chapter 8-9 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 8-9 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Making Connections - Allusions in Literature - This activity introduces students to allusions and their purpose in film / popular culture and literature.
4. Making Connections - Allusions in Things Fall Apart - This activity builds upon the ‘Allusions in Literature’ activity and facilitates a close look at the various religious and literary allusions Achebe makes in these chapters of the novel, taking into account the purpose and deliberations behind the use of these illusions in the novel. Ultimately, this will give students another point of access to this masterpiece and a way to appreciate Achebe’s literary craftmanship even more.
5. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key with model answers for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapters 8-9 of the novel - including a summary and analysis of Chapters 8-9 and a character analysis of Ekwefi, a character developed considerably in Chapter 9. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights, as well as for students working independently in a home-schooling setting or in a distance learning environment.
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This unit of work focuses on Chapters 12-13 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapters 12-13 it includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapter 12-13 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 12-13 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Analysing Language - Symbolism - This activity introduces students to the use and importance of symbolism in literature and other texts (such as political campaigns etc.)
4. Analysing Language - Symbolism in Things Fall Apart- This activity builds upon the introduction to symbolism activity - and guides students through a close reading and inference activity in which they have to reflect on Achebe’s use of symbols in Part 1 of the novel.
5. Extension Writing Task - Essay: This activity provides ideas and prompts for students to write an essay in which they analyze the use of symbols in Chapters 12-13 of the novel. This activity and the prompts can be expanded to include a retrospective of Part 1 of the novel if you like.
6. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key with model answers for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapters 12-13 of the novel - including a summary and analysis of Chapters 12-13. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights.
***Perfect for independent study and distance learning.
Feedback is greatly appreciated!*
This FREE unit of work focuses on Part 2, Chapters 14-15 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart.
As a comprehensive unit for Chapters 14-15 it includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapters 14-15 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 14-15 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. The Novel in Context - A Brief History of Colonial Africa - This activity provides a brief history of the colonization of Africa by Europe and Western powers, accompanied by comprehension and discussion questions.
4. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key with model answers for all the activities as well as a teacher’s guide for Chapters 14-15 of the novel - including a summary and analysis of Chapters 14-15. This is designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights.
**Perfect for independent study and distance learning. Feedback is greatly appreciated!
This comprehensive unit of work focuses on Part 2, Chapters 16-17 of Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart, and includes the following:
1. Comprehension, Close Reading & Discussion Questions for Chapters 16-17 of the novel.
2. Identify the Quote Quiz - this activity provides an alternative, quicker, and potentially more fun way to check reading and comprehension of Chapters 16-17 of the novel - with quotes that students have to recognize and contextualize.
3. Analyzing Language - Figurative Devices - This two-fold activity first reviews important figurative devices that are often used in the novel (alliteration, simile, personification, imagery, hyperbole, dramatic irony, etc.), and then uses key quotes and passages from the novel Ch. 14-16 to test students’ understanding of the concepts reviewed.
4. Analyzing Nwoye’s Character Development: Passage-Based Close Reading - Chapters 16-17 include various key scenes and moments in Nwoye’s character development. This passage-based close reading activity provides selected passages and guided questions to trace this foil character’s development throughout the novel both retroactively and with a direct focus on Chapters 16-17. Key Concepts such as motifs, symbolism, and foil character are reviewed/revisited, too.
4. Teacher’s Guide + Answer Key - this provides a detailed answer key with model answers for all the activities - designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights.
Perfect for independent study and distance learning. Feedback is greatly appreciated!
This is a print-and-use whole-book (after-reading) essay assessment for Chinua Achebe’s iconic African novel Things Fall Apart, and it includes:
1. Whole Book Essay Questions: A range of essay questions address key issues and central concerns of the novel as prompts for a final, summative assessment
2. Essay Assessment Criteria & Rubric: An essay assessment rubric & list of criteria that can be used to easily assess the essay responses (should they be used as an assessment).
3. TEACHER’S GUIDE with MODEL ANSWERS for all the comprehension questions, the bildungsroman activity, as well as model essay responses for ALL the essay questions of the assessment to help teachers. Perfect for independent study or distance learning.
NB: I’ve included 2 versions of the instructions & questions.
Version 1 presumes that the students can use Things Fall Apart as an open-book source of reference (without any notes, however!)
Version 2 presumes that the students do not have access to the text.
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One of my favorite novels to teach, I’ve revisited and revised my Things Fall Apart resources and included a comprehensive range of activities for the entire novel.
Each unit included in this comprehensive bundle focuses on different aspects of this African classic worth teaching (and standards-aligned)
Examples of the activities included in each unit are:
1. Comprehension & Close Reading Questions for each chapter of Things Fall Apart
2. Let’s Get Quizzical! - Quote Hunt Quiz for each chapter (a great way to quickly review comprehension and reading with students, these quote hunt quizzes can be used as a springboard for close reading and other activities.
3. The Novel In Context - These activities focus on various aspects of the novel’s context of composition and interpretation, including the history of Nigeria, colonization, the role of women, Igbo culture, traditions, etc.
4. Analyzing Characters / Themes / Setting / Figurative Devices / Symbols / Conflicts etc. - these are a range of guided close reading activities; each focuses on different literary aspects of the novel, selected as most appropriate for each chapter. A great way to facilitate a closer look at key aspects of this literary masterpiece and to practice key close reading and inference skills.
5. Creative Writing Tasks - a range of creative writing prompts and tasks for each chapter, allows your students to engage with the story, characters, main ideas, etc. of the story in a more personal, creative, and empathetic manner.
7. Making Connections - these activities introduce/focus on the various allusions/connections made to other literary works and texts in Things Fall Apart, including Greek tragedy, the concept of the tragic hero, and W. B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” (which inspired Achebe’s title of the novel - Things Fall Apart). These are crucial activities and materials to teach a more in’de
8. Teacher’s Guide (Model Answers + Commentary + Analysis) - Each unit of work (for each chapter) includes a comprehensive teacher’s guide, which itself includes model answers for all the activities as well as a detailed plot summary and analysis of the respective chapter, designed for teachers who are new to the novel, or veterans who wish to gain fresh insights, as well as for students working independently in a home-schooling setting or in a distance learning environment.
9. I’ve also included all my pre-reading and post-reading activities and assessments in this bundle!
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