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 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 package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 23-27 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The quiz and answer key comes as both PDF and Microsoft Word documents. This quiz includes 30 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 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.

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 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 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 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 original two-page summary of Mercutio and Tybalt’s death scene in Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet makes for a great cloze note activity or reading assessment. This unique and student-friendly reading contains 40 blanks that must be completed with both paraphrased responses and answers “directly from the text.” The cloze note format is guidance enough for students to have success understanding the events of this pivotal scene that culminates in the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt. Ninth graders typically do well with this activity following one reading of the scene. This activity is only for lines 1-138 of Act 3, Scene 1. Answer key is included.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.