I, too, love my phone, but let's get down to basics.
My available resources constitute this, that, and the other to get students to inspect text more closely, to think more deeply, and to express that thinking more clearly and thoroughly. Easier said than done. The resources in my store might help.
I, too, love my phone, but let's get down to basics.
My available resources constitute this, that, and the other to get students to inspect text more closely, to think more deeply, and to express that thinking more clearly and thoroughly. Easier said than done. The resources in my store might help.
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 three-player or three-team game allows students to review and reinforce content from Homer’s Odyssey, the major points of the Trojan War, and other popular myths. This fun product includes 60 Jeopardy answers and questions over TWO ROUNDS of play, and FOUR unique Final Jeopardy options. This game utilizes the classic Jeopardy PowerPoint template created by the legendary Mark E. Damon. I have found that the score keeping functionality of this PowerPoint game works well on computers operating Windows.
Below are the categories for both rounds:
Round 1 (a touch easier):
Land, Ho!
Humans
The Trojan War
Beasts of Burden
Visitors and Visits
Gods
Round 2 (a touch harder):
The Cast in 1st Person
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Gods
Pets and Animals
Heroes Before the War
Other Myths
If you like this product, check out the Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy Game, which includes ONE ROUND of play and TWO unique Final Jeopardy options. The game not only reinforces plot and characters, but famous lines, Shakespeare’s use of language, and the bard’s life and times.
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 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).
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 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 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 SIX (6) fill-in-the-blank chapter quizzes with answer keys for Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck.
The quizzes and answer keys come as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
These are great open-book reading quizzes that assess and reinforce comprehension, and can be graded quickly. On average, each quiz includes 30 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 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 Julius Ceasar Study Guide includes the following:
A. A 15-word vocabulary list and accompanying activities
B. A PowerPoint presentation with accompanying cloze notes on (1) the historical figure Julius Caesar, (2) the geography, (3) the opening of the play, and (4) William Shakespeare and The Globe Theatre. An answer key for the cloze notes is included
An embedded video used in the PPT can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI
C. Extensive close notes on the plot of the play, broken down by act and scene. An answer key for the cloze notes is included
D. A quiz for acts 1-3
E. A guided activity for exploring the concept of tragic hero
F. A guided activity for practicing funneled introductory paragraphs, and essay prompts for a culminating assessment.
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 seven (7) excellent fill-in-the-blank quizzes with answer keys for Walter Dean Myers’ Monster. The quizzes and answer keys are provided as Microsoft Word and also PDF documents.
Quizzes are organized by page numbers using the Harper-Collins paperback version copyrighted 1999. The quizzes are broken down by these pages:
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
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.
These are great open-book reading quizzes that assess and reinforce comprehension. On average, each quiz includes 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.
This package includes four (4) excellent fill-in-the-blank quizzes with answer keys for SPEAK by LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON. The quizzes cover each of the four marking period sections that divide the novel. The quizzes and answer keys are both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
These are great open-book reading quizzes that assess and reinforce comprehension, and can be graded quickly. On average, each quiz includes 40 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 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 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 seven (7) excellent fill-in-the-blank chapter quizzes with answer keys for LORD OF THE FLIES by WILLIAM GOLDING. The quizzes are organized by chapters (1, 2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12).
The quizzes and answer keys are both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
These are great open-book reading quizzes that assess and reinforce comprehension, and can be graded quickly. On average, each quiz includes 40 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 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 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 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.
Romeo and Juliet Unit Bundle
This big bundle contains the following:
A unit for teaching students how to select, present, and analyze text evidence from Romeo and Juliet
A Common Core Part 3 English Regents Exam Guided Parallel Task
A huge study guide with cloze notes and important passages (very popular)
20 very good multiple choice questions for an assessment on the balcony scene
An open-text cloze note quiz for act 3, scene 1 (the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio)
Descriptions
Selecting, Presenting, & Analyzing Text Evidence in 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.
Romeo and Juliet Common Core Part 3 English Regents Exam Guided Parallel Task – 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.
Romeo and Juliet Study Guide, Cloze Notes, and Important Passages – This Romeo and Juliet study guide includes 17 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.
Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene Close Read 20 Multiple Choice Quiz Test – This product is a close read / multiple choice quiz of Act 2, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, also referred to as the balcony scene. This close read includes 20 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.
Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 1 Cloze Note Close Read Quiz Test – 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.
Bundle Description
This To Kill a Mockingbird bundle includes the following:
• an 80-page writing unit focusing on presenting text evidence to support a claim
• a novel quizzes package that includes 8 quizzes spanning all chapters (w/ answer keys)
• a close read and writing task using Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” that focuses on analyzing writing strategies such as contrast, imagery, and diction. This close read comes with a culminating writing task that parallels the Part 3 of the Common Core English Regents Exam
• a close read of a missionary meeting excerpt from chapter 24
• a brief reading guide for the showdown between Atticus and Heck Tate in chapter 30
• Socratic Seminar prompts
• a partners reminder and organizer for partnered work
