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.

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.

This Journalism news writing bundle comes with dozens of writing opportunities for your students to practice and refine their news writing abilities, and for you to assess them. From writing news leads based on nursery rhymes to writing realistic mock stories about high school life, this bundle has all you need to get students writing quality news in your Journalism class. Here’s what’s included in this discounted bundle:

This package includes a set of notes from multiple sources that culminates in a lengthy school-district-based news story. This package includes the following: (1) two-plus pages of notes from a large handful of sources, (2) a writing guide 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. Use this realistic, challenging, and high-interest story as practice or as an assessment.

This is a movie guide for All the President’s Men. This in-depth guide includes about 50 questions and blanks for viewers to answer and fill in as the movie progresses. Most of the questions are plot based or historical in nature, some require internet research, and a few are geared toward a journalist’s perspective. An answer key is included. This package includes both Microsoft Word and PDF versions of the movie guide. Bonus material included: Rap Introduction Battle Activity: This writing a rap assignment for All the President’s Men is a fun way to make connections with some of the key figures in the film or book.

This package is an 18-page guided parallel task for Part 3 of the Common Core Regents English Language Arts Exam. The Part 3 task 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. Included in this package is a non-fiction passage with literary value, 20 guided multiple choice, fill-in-the blank, and true/false questions, a guided planning page, lined essay paper, four exemplar responses, and instructional materials on how to present and analyze text evidence borrowed from another writer. The rubric can be obtained online. The planning page, multiple choice, fill-in-the blank, and true/false questions 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 package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 4 of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both a Microsoft Word document and a PDF. 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 novella. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 25 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. Did you know you can purchase all 6 of my novel chapter quizzes for The Pearl for just $12? That’s a discount compared to buying these quizzes chapter by chapter. And, that bundle comes with an additional resource: 23 Socratic Seminar Prompts for The Pearl. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-pearl-by-john-steinbeck-novel-chapter-quizzes-w-answers-6-quizzes-11219590

This package includes 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. A few student favorites are below. Purchase this package to get the rest. Which word best applies to the doctor: charming, deceitful, necessary? Stand on this statement: The doctor’s servant is a sellout. Which is most important to Kino: the family, the pearl, or the plan?

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 2 of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both a Microsoft Word document and a PDF. 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 novella. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assess and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 25 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. Did you know you can purchase all 6 of my novel chapter quizzes for The Pearl for just $12? That’s a discount compared to buying these quizzes chapter by chapter. And, that bundle comes with an additional resource: 23 Socratic Seminar Prompts for The Pearl. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-pearl-by-john-steinbeck-novel-chapter-quizzes-w-answers-6-quizzes-11219590

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 6 of *The Pearl *by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both a Microsoft Word document and a PDF. 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 novella. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 35 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less. Did you know you can purchase all 6 of my novel chapter quizzes for The Pearl for just $12? That’s a discount compared to buying these quizzes chapter by chapter. And, that bundle comes with an additional resource: 23 Socratic Seminar Prompts for The Pearl. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-pearl-by-john-steinbeck-novel-chapter-quizzes-w-answers-6-quizzes-11219590

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 5 of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both a Microsoft Word document and a PDF. 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 novella. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 25 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. Did you know you can purchase all 6 of my novel chapter quizzes for The Pearl for just $12? That’s a discount compared to buying these quizzes chapter by chapter. And, that bundle comes with an additional resource: 23 Socratic Seminar Prompts for The Pearl. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-pearl-by-john-steinbeck-novel-chapter-quizzes-w-answers-6-quizzes-11219590

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for the FOURTH 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 50 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. – I’m confident you’ll like this quiz. Did you know you could purchase all 4 of my novel quizzes for SPEAK for just $11.00? That’s a discount compared to buying these quizzes marking period by marking period.

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for the SECOND 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 35 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. – I’m confident you’ll like this quiz. Did you know you could purchase all 4 of my 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

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for the THIRD 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. – I’m confident you’ll like this quiz. Did you know you could purchase all 4 of my 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

This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 3 of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both a Microsoft Word document and a PDF. 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 novella. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. 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 30 minutes or less. Want to add in a support? Turn the answer key into a word bank. – Did you know you can purchase all 6 of my novel chapter quizzes for The Pearl for just $12? That’s a discount compared to buying these quizzes chapter by chapter. And, that bundle comes with an additional resource: 23 Socratic Seminar Prompts for The Pearl. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-pearl-by-john-steinbeck-novel-chapter-quizzes-w-answers-6-quizzes-11219590

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

This in-depth 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 80-page unit uses the text of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to teach and reinforce those lessons. In addition to lesson and practice materials to reinforce the necessary writing concepts, this package also includes well-guided novel-based writing tasks, rubrics, exemplars, drills to reinforce, checks for understanding, and quizzes. 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. In addition to common terms such as topic and concluding sentence, the ‘Super Six’ terms below are the main concepts upon which this writing unit is based: 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 claim. 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 claim? Because lead out is analysis, it often involves making inferences. Thus words such as suggests, implies, and indicates are often necessary to use.

Understanding how to organize and write news requires an understanding of the 10 elements of news, and which elements are primarily driving a story. This 13-page product comes with the following: • Clarifying notes on interest vs. importance, the 10 elements of news, and the six question words. The notes detail how each concept can be an important factor to consider when analyzing how or why a story is newsworthy, • Three (3) elements of news QUIZZES with answer keys, • Two (2) elements of news PRACTICE quizzes with answer keys. This is a Microsoft Word document, but the package also comes with a PDF version of the product.

This FREE package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 1 of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The quiz and answer key is both a Microsoft Word and PDF document. 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 novella. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 35 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. This Quiz is FREE! And I’m confident you’re going to love it. So, consider buying my complete novel chapter quizzes for The Pearl by John Steinbeck at the discounted rate of $12.00. https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/the-pearl-by-john-steinbeck-novel-chapter-quizzes-w-answers-6-quizzes-11219590

This FREE package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 1 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 25 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. 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 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