This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 7-8 of William Golding’s LORD OF THE FLIES. The quiz with answer key is a both a Microsoft Word and PDF document. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 40 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. 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 passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. Other Lord of the Flies resources you might be interest in: LOTF Complete Novel Quizzes Chapter 1 QUIZ Chapter 2 QUIZ Chapter 3-4 QUIZ Chapter 5-6 QUIZ Chapter 7-8 QUIZ Chapter 9-10 QUIZ Chapter 11-12 QUIZ

This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 2 of OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 30 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less. 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 passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. Other Of Mice And Men Resources You Might Be Interested In: Complete Novel QUIZZES (6 QUIZZES) Chapter 1 QUIZ Chapter 2 QUIZ Chapter 3 QUIZ Chapter 4 QUIZ Chapter 5 QUIZ Chapter 6 QUIZ

Teach students the art of writing leads with this beginner activity that asks them to capture the gist of a nursery rhyme in news lead format. This activity is both fun and a great way to have starter conversations about news writing, particularly the role of timeliness, attributing sources, and handling alleged crimes. This package includes the following: (1) 15 classic nursery rhymes ready to be translated into news leads (complete with directions and guiding questions), (2) One page of example nursery rhyme news leads, (3) a specific lead writing rubric for assessment, (4) notes on the following concepts: 10 elements of news, interesting vs. important, and the role of the six question words in lead writing. Have some good laughs in class while students learn the basics of writing news leads.

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.

Juliet’s Potion Concerns: A Close Reading & Writing Task This guided writing task begins with a close read of act 4, scene 3, and culminates in a writing task that asks students to identify the best adjective to characterize the majority of Juliet’s potion concerns, and to support that claim with evidence from the text. In addition to the 13-question close reading guide (with answers), this product also comes with an outline for organizing text evidence, a rubric, examples for how to acknowledge the opposition, examples for how to analyze specific language in the text evidence, examples for how to write about an author’s use of diction, and a guide for easy-to-implement presenting text evidence vocabulary. This product is excerpted from a 35-page presenting evidence unit, which is available in my shop for just $10: Selecting, Presenting, & Analyzing Text Evidence in Romeo and Juliet

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 six (6) excellent fill-in-the-blank quizzes with answer keys for The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The quizzes and answer keys are both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. 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 novella. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. These are great open-book reading quizzes that assess and reinforce comprehension, and can be graded quickly. On average, each quiz includes 25 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. Want to add in a support? Turn the answer key into a word bank. *This bundle includes a bonus: 23 time-tested and unique Socratic seminar questions and prompts for The Pearl by John Steinbeck. These question and prompts are designed to promote deeper understanding, critical thinking, collaboration, and effective communication through preparation and intellectual dialogue.

This package is a 17-page guided parallel task for Part 3 of the Common Core Regents English Language Arts Exam. Part 3 asks students to read a passage, and in a well-developed, text-based response identify a central idea of the text and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. This package focuses on the language use in an excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. This package includes an 18-question close reading guide to help students understand the text, and begin to analyze its literary value. This package also includes a guided planning page, lined essay paper, four exemplar responses, and instructional materials on how to present text evidence borrowed from another writer. The rubric can be obtained online. The close reading questions and planning page guide students toward identifying a central idea, and analyzing a writing strategy used in the development of the text. 9th graders wrote the exemplar responses. Overall, this is a quality parallel task for 9th and 10th graders especially.

This unit teaches students how to make inferences, how to make an inferential claim, and how to support that claim in writing using the best evidence available. While this unit is entitled Making Inferences with Art, students will practice making inferences from traditional text as well, including poetry, maps, and logic inferences. Students will also learn the basics of organizing a written response. This writing unit introduces or reviews important content vocabulary, including synonym, literal, criticize, infer, imply, valid, claim, elaborate, insightful, analyze, and BRATS paragraph Brainstorm the answer Restate the question Answer the question Two or Three Text details to supper the answer Summarize the answer vs. Brainstorm, Topic Sentence, Supporting Sentences, Concluding or Wrap Up Sentence The inferential writing tasks draw on Norman Rockwell paintings that are fun and promote discussion. Fun and important unit!

This culminating essay for Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak asks students to analyze the author's use of trees to symbolize the protagonist's healing process. This package contains an overview, task, 12 passages from the novel for use as text-based evidence (with page numbers), and a writing rubric. Some pre-teaching on the literary element symbolism and how to properly use text-based evidence is necessary.

This product is a close read of act 2, scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, also referred to as the balcony scene. This close read includes 22 multiple choice questions, an answer sheet, and an answer key. The text used for this close read is the one from Holt’s Elements of Literature, Third Course. A text with the same line numbering will also work. There are many out there. The text of the balcony scene is not included as part of this product. The multiple choice questions that accompany this close read focus on several concepts beyond plot comprehension, including imagery, metaphor, simile, personification, characterization, tone, author’s purpose, and form (line numbering). Use this product as a guided close read, or use it as an assessment. I usually give students at least two reads (audio and partnered) before presenting them with these guided questions. It takes me about 3 or four days with short writing assignments and discussions built in.

This product is a guided parallel task for Part 3 of the Common Core English Regents Exam that utilizes a section of the balcony scene from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This product is leveled for ninth graders, but is suitable for sophomores and juniors as well. This package comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents. The exemplars are PDF. The following is included in this package: a directions page that utilizes the language of Part 3, including central idea and writing strategy, the balcony scene text, six multiple choice questions that guide students toward thinking about a writing strategy to analyze (imagery, metaphor), an answer sheet and multiple choice answer key a guided planning page, notes for teaching students how to present textual evidence, and three PDF formatted Part 3 student exemplars (written by ninth graders).

For a fuller product description, check out the early image previews that accompany this package. SELECTING, PRESENTING, AND ANALYZING TEXT EVIDENCE USING SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET This writing package provides teachers with what’s needed to teach students how to select, present, and analyze text evidence to support a claim in writing. This 35-page unit uses the text of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to teach and reinforce those lessons. This product comes as a package of both PDF and Microsoft Word documents. In addition to lesson and practice materials to reinforce the necessary writing concepts, this package also includes a well-guided writing task and rubric, drills to reinforce concepts, checks for understanding, a quiz, and lots of examples, including how to acknowledge the opposition, and how to write about an author’s use of diction. While the terminology used to teach students how to select, present, and analyze textual evidence is not complex, some of the writing concepts will be new to students. This package scaffolds the process to allow students the opportunity to study the writing concepts, identify the writing concepts in other people’s writing, analyze how those writing concepts function, practice applying the concepts in guided workouts, apply those concepts in their own writing, identify the concepts in their own writing, analyze the effectiveness of those concepts in their own writing.

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 28-31 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The quiz and answer key comes as both PDF and Microsoft Word documents. This quiz includes 35 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assess and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. 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 re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. I’m confident you are going to love this quiz, so consider buying my complete novel chapter quizzes for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee at the discounted rate of $12.00. The complete novel chapter quizzes are organized by these chapters: 1-4, 5-8, 9-11, 12-16, 17-19, 20-22, 23-27, 28-31 To Kill a Mockingbird Complete Novel Quizzes

This package includes eight (8) excellent fill-in-the-blank quizzes with answer keys for *To Kill a Mockingbird *by Harper Lee. The quizzes and answer keys are Microsoft Word documents. Quizzes are organized by multiple chapters in this fashion: 1-4, 5-8, 9-11, 12-16, 17-19, 20-22, 23-27, 28-31 These are great open-book reading quizzes that assess and reinforce comprehension, and can be graded quickly. On average, each quiz includes between 25 and 35 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.

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 5-8 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The quiz and answer key comes as both PDF and Microsoft Word documents. This quiz includes 25 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assess and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. 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 re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. I’m confident you are going to love this quiz, so consider buying my complete novel chapter quizzes for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee at the discounted rate of $12.00. The complete novel chapter quizzes are organized by these chapters: 1-4, 5-8, 9-11, 12-16, 17-19, 20-22, 23-27, 28-31 To Kill a Mockingbird Complete Novel Quizzes

This package is a close reading task for an excerpt out of chapter 24 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This package includes a 78-line passage, 28 guided questions and fill-in-the blanks, an answer key, a culminating writing assignment, and an initial activity to give purpose to reading the chapter in its entirety. The close read focuses on a line Miss Maudie delivers in chapter 24: “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?” The events leading up to her words, and what happens immediately after, often leave students dizzy and unable to follow. This close reading task clears up confusion, and strengthens both their understanding of Miss Maudie and the town of Maycomb. Below is the context and directions given to students during the guided close read: Context: In chapter 24, through Scout’s narration, readers attend a missionary circle meeting for the women of the church. Some of the neighbors are invited for refreshments. Aunt Alexandra is hosting the all-female affair in her brother’s home, and has invited Scout to attend. It’s an effort to introduce her to the world of women. In the passage provided, the social-hour conversation has just turned from the African tribe Mrs. Grace Merriweather appears to care so much about to more local topics, including Maycomb’s African American community and the recently completed trial of Tom Robinson. Much of the passage details the conversation between Mrs. Grace Merriweather and Mrs. Gertrude Farrow, who, according to Scout, are the first and second most devout (religious) ladies in all of Maycomb, respectively. Our narrator, however, loses the thread of conversation when she starts daydreaming. It’s your job to closely read between the lines to figure out what happens in this awkward social situation. Directions: Closely read the passage provided and reference the specific details in it as you answer the questions below on a separate sheet of paper:

This FREE 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 keys into word banks! 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 product is a cloze note activity for introducing some of the highlights of the Trojan War, as told in Homer’s Iliad. It’s often used as background before exploring Homer’s Odyssey.

This FREE package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for the FIRST MARKING PERIOD of SPEAK by LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON. The quiz with answer key is both a Microsoft Word and PDF document. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 40 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. 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 re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. 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. – This Quiz is FREE! And I’m confident you’re going to love it. So, consider buying all four of my complete novel quizzes for SPEAK for just $11.00. That’s a discount compared to buying these quizzes marking period by marking period. https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/speak-by-laurie-halse-anderson-complete-novel-quizzes-four-quizzes-with-answer-key-11219552