Free Poster: Developing Themes in Literature
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by J MASON EMERSON
6th – 12th Grade

CHRISTMAS CAROLS! (FUN PACKET FOR ALL INCLUDING SPANISH ELL’S) presents selections from Christmas carols in English as well as gives the Literal (word-for-word) Spanish, which makes it easier for students of Spanish-language backgrounds to understand the English words in the carols better and thus be able to more easily and quickly learn them and get an accompanying boon for their vocabulary and grammar. Some German carols have also been added, with the Literal English given for them.
Contents: Angels We Have Heard On High, Deck The Halls, The First Noel, Go Tell It On The Mountain, Jingle Bells, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Joy To The World, O Christmas Tree, Silent Night, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, Upon The House Top, We Wish You A Merry Christmas; then come:
Christmas Hymn Links Worldwide!;
List Of Popular 1900s-2000’s Christmas Songs.
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REASONS TO CONSIDER PURCHASING FROM THIS STORE: 1. Tons of resources, 2. so much reusable over the years ahead, 3. buying it is more convenient than trying to make it yourself, 4. students enjoy the fun components so that they stay more on task learning more and better, 5. most word searches have a format helping teach information with the words, 6. most resources have reading components tied into with other components making them more handy and helpful, 7. They have an attractive, professional appearance, 8. Many resources have some Spanish to help ESL/ELL students to not be totally left out; 9. the prices are right; and, 10: you’ll love it that your students stay busy learning like happy bees at the honey hive of knowledge, your classroom, even as they have in mine since these have been teacher and students-tested.
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Paragraph Writing Activity in conjunction with Frankenstein
Very often, students have difficulty with the analysis process involved in literature. Where they not only have to analyse, but now have to apply their newfound skills to a well-developed paragraph, some students become overwhelmed with the process.
This particular activity will focus on both the analysis and writing a paragraph using the PEEL method.
Paragraph writing and analysis are two essential components in essay writing. To facilitate this process, I have created a lesson where students can become more comfortable with the revision process through modelling the proper steps from beginning to end. The lesson includes a modelling of the writing process from understanding the topic to the final draft. See preview for details
This lesson can only be used after students have read chapter 19 from the novel Frankenstein.
5 pages total
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Thesis writing is often an abstract concept for students and it is one of the most important things to know when writing an essay.
This FREE activity will help students to correct problematic thesis statements, while learning how to compose their own.
There are lessons for two periods prepared for you :
1) Attempting to write a thesis statement based on the following topic: Do we have the right to play God when it comes to human life?
2) Group activity where students must identify the weaknesses in 5 thesis statements and rewrite them to make them better.
Included:
– A comprehensive lesson plan (two days)
– The Student Activity Sheet
– Comprehensive Answer Sheet
5 pages total
You may also be interested in the following resources:
Step-by-Step Thesis Writing Poster
Thesis Writing Activity with PowerPoint Presentation
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This PowerPoint presentation is a great way to introduce Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
This PowerPoint is devised to contextualize Golding’s novel in order to help students better understand and appreciate the novel.
There are 14 slides in total.
Included in this activity is:
– Introduction about the author
– A short film clip about the war and the fear it evoked
– Information about the story
– Information about Golding’s message
– Information about themes
– Information about the significance of the title
– Group discussion questions to serve as a pre reading guide
– Important elements in the novel
There are no spoilers for students in this presentation. The information prepares them for what they will read in order to better appreciate it and to develop themes later on.
This activity is also part of a larger Lord of the Flies unit:
Click here to preview the Lord of the Flies Unit (No prep required)
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The bundle includes 13 pages and two to three days worth of lessons.
This is a practical and simple way to guide students through the analytical process.
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The Fishbowl activity is mostly useful during literature circles or in a novel study. Quite literally, the group in the center is being watched by the rest of the class, while they are discussing elements of fiction. This activity is a very important tool in order to teach students how group discussions should run, what is to be said, and how it is to be said. Many times the leader of the discussion doesn’t know how to prompt members to elaborate upon their contributions. This will certainly help.
In addition, it is often difficult for a teacher to evaluate these discussions, which is the reason I have created this package. It is easy to use and you can merely check boxes to quickly assess each member of the groups.
This package contains:
• An explanation of The Fishbowl Activity
• How to run a Fishbowl Activity (within the realm of a literature circle)
• Why such an activity is important
• Evaluation sheets one can use to easily evaluate the discussions and roles of students
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Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their own success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer evaluations.
Included within this document are over 20 different self-evaluation grids.
These self-evaluation grids are also very helpful to teachers:
Helps the teacher justify the final mark;
Helps the teacher create meaningful evaluation grids;
Helps to identify students’ weaknesses and strengths;
Helps parents and students better understand the task required;
Helps teachers create rubrics for the final evaluation.
This package was created in a Word document in order to be easily modified and changed according to the individual teacher’s needs.
This self-evaluation package contains self-evaluation grids for:
Newspaper article
Short story writing (intermediate and senior)
Essay writing (various different types)
Essay evaluation rubrics (for teacher –with and without sources)
Independent study unit
Research paper
Skits
Board game
Group work
Opinion piece
Editorial
Friendly letter
Debate
Movie review
Journals
Scrapbook
Seminar
Speech
Riddle writing
It’s teaching made easy!
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This handout has been created to help both teachers and students learn how to develop themes in literature properly.
This handout includes step by step instructions on how to develop a theme in paragraph form.
I hope you enjoy it! It’s teaching made easy!
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The goal of this game is to help students memorize and understand FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE through the use of games. Playing rather than memorizing is a fun activity that will engage students in a classroom.
Included in this purchase is the MASTER SHEET, which contains the answers, attractive STUDENT CARDS, which you can print and cut out in colour (on card stock and laminate for sustainable use), and A SET OF RULES explaining how the game works.
This package contains 23 cards and 12 extra blank cards in case you have a bigger class.
It’s teaching made easy!
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Please note that this document does not work with a Mac computer.
Automated Comment Generator for THE ESSAY
This document has been created to help teachers evaluate students’ essays quickly and efficiently while including as many detailed comments as possible. It is created in a Microsoft Word document so that you can easily modify it to suit your particular classroom needs. (You also have the option to copy and paste the entire page, or certain elements.) The document is completely modifiable, even the comments. The “grunt work” has been done for you.
This quickens the evaluation process and will help the teacher to write down information more quickly. This particular document has been embedded with drop down boxes with comments on: persuasion, information presented, analysis, style, structure, communication, sources and format.
Take a look at the preview for a better idea of what this product can do for you.
You may also be interested in:
Speech Evaluation with drop down boxes
FREEGroup Work Comment Sheet with Drop Down Boxes
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Poetry: The Art of Interpretation – is designed to teach students how to interpret, appreciate, and analyse poetry.
There are 9 complete lessons (estimated to last approximately 60 minutes), therefore 2 weeks of lessons.
This complete, no prep unit is a great way to start! This unit includes a student guide, 9 detailed lesson plans, 2 multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a detailed answer key with annotated poems and answers, and an end of the unit evaluation with rubric, and answer key.
Just print it and teach it.
Poetry is a very subjective form of art. Some poems you love and others, you hate. What we need to realize is that this is the beauty of poetry. Poetry is not a mystery to be solved. Rather, it is the masterful manipulation of language that has the power to transform the ordinary and to immerse its reader into the world created by the author.
This unit incorporates art to help students understand and appreciate the beauty within words. In addition, students will learn how to analyse themes in poetry though paintings and art work.
This HUGE bundle includes:
Each lesson focuses on a different skill set including:
– Knowledge and manipulation of figurative and poetic language
– How to read and understand (appreciate) poetry
– How to analyse poetry
– How to annotate poetry
– How to paraphrase effectively
– How to use symbols
– How to effectively develop themes from poetry
– Creative writing
– Creative activities to learn how to analyse
The unit includes a student packet (20 pages), a teacher packet (with 9 complete lessons), and a comprehensive answer key with annotations to poem (with 17 pages). See preview for more details.
Poets studied include: (8 poems total)
– Billy Collins – “Introduction to Poetry”
– Anne Marriott – “As You Come in”
– Phyllis Gotlieb – “First Person Demonstrative”
– Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
– Robert Frost – “Nothing Gold can Stay”
– John Crowe Ransom -“Janet Waking”
– Woodruff – “I am a Poem that Tells a Lie”
– Tennyson – “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
The unit also includes:
1 – The teacher guide (Contains 9 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )
2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (20 pages)
3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities (saving you time – 18 pages).
4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)
5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED
6 – Images to project or print
7- An end of the unit creative evaluation, which includes clear and concise directions and rubric. (In a Word document for easy modifications)
– An interactive multimedia Jeopardy game to review figurative language and poetic devices (PowerPoint – no internet required)
– A multimedia PowerPoint on how to read and interpret poetry
– A PowerPoint presentation on how to interpret symbols and imagery in literature (19 slides)
– A final culminating evaluation with evaluation rubric (left in Word format for easily made modifications)
The unit has been created in such a way as to simplify the teacher’s life. Photocopy the 3 packages included and don’t worry about it for the rest of the unit. You literally can begin teaching it without any other preparation.
A total of 43 pages + 64 slides are included in this package.
This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.
Other poetry units you may enjoy:
Poetry Unit (for senior students)
Poetry Unit for Intermediate Students
It’s teaching made easy!
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This document will help the teacher assess the quality of the novels that were chosen for the literature circles.
It’s teaching made easy!
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This document has been created as a preamble to the literature circle. In order to ensure success of literature circles, the teacher must first choose novels that will interest students and challenge them academically. This document has been created to do just that.
I hope it helps.
If you enjoy this document please leave a comment at my store.
It’s teaching made easy!
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For ease of use, the Lesson plan bundle, the answer key, as well as the Student booklet are all modifiable in a Word document. Add to it, change it, and make it your own.
Everything you need to teach The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is found in this unit.
• Includes journal prompts to further students’ understanding and to further understand thematic development in the novel.
• PowerPoint presentation with historical context and background information
• (Optional) PowerPoint presentation about the origins of evil furthering understanding of Golding’s themes
• Guess Who? Game to help students trace character development in a fun and practical way
• Student work book with all of the photocopies, student activities, comprehension and thematic questions, etc… (Photocopy the booklet once and you don’t have to think about it for the rest of the unit.)
• Links to audiobooks for easy chapter reading.
• The Answer Key for all student work.
• Includes comprehensive chapter notes to help with reviewing chapters previously read and allowing students to take notes concerning important information.
All tests have two versions – which is nice when you teach more than one group at a time.
• Test on the first 7 chapters (2 different versions – both in a Word document for easy modifications. Answer keys provided for both evaluations.)
• Final evaluation includes 2 different options. Option 1: 2 different unit test versions (two different tests – answer keys for both are included), Option 2: an Essay with all materials included (evaluation grid, outline package, etc.…)
• 17 complete and detailed lesson plans to guide and orient your students. Journal prompts with ideas to further discussion, step by step instructions… This makes for super easy planning.
• A Jeopardy Game (on PowerPoint) to review the novel and to prepare for the final evaluation
The unit includes 103 pages and 76 slides.
Guide to lessons’ focus points:
Lesson 1: introduction of background and historical context
Lesson 2: Focus on leadership
Lesson 3: Introduction to the symbolism in the novel
Lesson 4: Characterization
Lesson 5: Writing exercise (paragraph and argument development)
Lesson 6: Reading period
Lesson 7: Civilization vs. Savagery (Includes cyberbullying and dangers of social media, etc.…) Practical applications from the novel.
Lesson 8: Review analysis skills
Lesson 9: Test on chapters 1-7 (Choice of multiple choice questions or development questions)
Lesson 10: Reading period
Lesson 11: Thematic Meaning activity
Lesson 12: Characterization (character development)
Lesson 13: Literary conflicts in the novel
Lesson 14: Symbolism
Themes: 15: Themes
Lesson 16: Novel review and Jeopardy game
Lesson 17: Evaluation (Choice of two unit tests or an essay)
You’ll never have to worry about what you will be teaching on any given day, and the unit is modifiable for your convenience.
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Lesson on Sonnets
This mini bundle includes a sonnet from William Shakespeare (#130) and a sonnet from Elizabeth Browning (How do I Love Thee?). In this activity, students will compare the different tones and forms from both poems. One is beautiful and romanticizes love, and the other sees love realistically (and a little meanly if you ask me). Students will identify the different types of sonnets, the figurative language found within their lines, and will have the opportunity to write their own.
Students get to see another side of Shakespeare from his sonnet. Students always love his realistic, yet sarcastic portayal of love.
The mini bundle includes:
– a detailed lesson plan for the teacher
– student notes (the poems) and activity
– an annotated copy of the poems as well as a comprehensive answer key.
The entire unit contains 4 pages.
This lesson is part of a larger poetry bundle:
Click here to preview the Poetry Unit for Senior Students
I hope you enjoy your purchase!
It’s teaching made easy!
by The Creative Classroom
5th – 12th Grade

This zip file includes the Facebook Character Profile in three formats: Powerpoint, Keynote, and PDF. Students are able to create a Facebook page for characters they have read about in short stories, poetry, or novels.
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by It’s a Teacher Thing
Kindergarten – 12th Grade

Free! The Positive Thought Posters were created with the idea of spreading just that: POSITIVE THOUGHTS. I wanted something in my classroom that kids could read when their eyes are wandering. I also have them on the door, so when students leave the posters are the last thing they see. Recently, I’ve put them up all over our campus for the entire middle school population to enjoy.
I hope you find them inspiring.
ENJOY! You might also enjoy a few of my other products:
Combined Text Evidence Proof Frame Bundle
Reading Response Fans with Categorized Prompts
Literature Circles Unit for Book Clubs
Bundled Seasonal Figurative Language Task Cards
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• Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you’ll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you.
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by Meg’s Crayons
Pre-Kindergarten – 12th Grade

This freebie is to help those teachers that have used ripped corners from notebooks, sticky notes that don’t stick and coffee stained paper to write a last minute note to send home. These cute-i-fied notes offer the opportunity for you to send home a last minute note that has some pizazz for FREE! Want to add your signature or email?! GO FOR IT! This product is editable and was created to make your life easier.
What are you waiting for?!? Grab it now!
**You can add your own text boxes once the product is open in Powerpoint**
If you have any questions or difficulties, please email me at anewboxofcrayonsblog@gmail.com. Thanks!
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Lesson on tone in poetry
This mini bundle includes Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and has a focus on the importance of tone.
The mini bundle includes:
– a detailed lesson plan for the teacher
– student notes (the poems) and activity
– an annotated copy of the poems as well as a comprehensive answer key.
The entire unit contains 5 pages.
This lesson is part of a more comprehensive bundle:
Click here to check out my Poetry Unit for Senior Students
It’s teaching made easy!
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This rubric was created to help students understand exactly what is expected of them for this evaluation. It is also an excellent tool to assess students’ progress and final product.
This self assessment rubric is part of bundle as well.
Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their own success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer-evaluations.
It’s teaching made easy!
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TEACHING THE ESSAY – AN EASY TO USE GUIDE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
The Teaching the Essay package has been devised as a resource to help guide students develop their essay writing skills. This comprehensive package includes details on how to structure an essay as well as how to develop arguments. This visually attractive handout contains practical examples and guides students with revision questions to keep them on track.
The package focuses on: (Package contains 13 pages)
– Format (Introduction – thesis, development, conclusion)
– Developing arguments
– Tips for writing
– Practical examples
– Quote insertion and selection
– Comprehensive transitions list
– How to analyse
– Paragraphing and how to format arguments within the paragraphs
– Style and flow (transitions)
– Revision questions
– Practical essay analogy
– Strategies in writing
I have been using and revising this document for over 10 years and it has proved to be a most useful tool for teaching the essay.
It’s teaching made easy!
by SpanishPlans
5th – 11th Grade

FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!
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Teach grammar in a creative and meaningful way. No more boring grammar. grammar
Simplify your life and make grammar fun and effective.
One of the biggest challenges I had in my English classes was how to fit in grammar with everything else I had to teach. I would give students grammar pages and then we would correct them together. It was tedious and it took forever! What’s more is that students were not learning the way I wanted them to. They wouldn’t apply what they had learned from the grammar pages and activities.
I found a solution!
Grammar Circles. Grammar Circles are very similar to literature circles in the sense that students are teaching one another grammar. It is a fun and functional way to teach and learn grammar. Although, this may be done individually, it can also be completed as a group where students, through a specific process outlined in the package, teach one another grammar. They also correct the work together, so the teacher has very little to do.
The package includes:
1) A Student Packet – which contains the Literature Circle directions, the notes, directions, and activities, and a “Mark Calculation” page to keep track of their marks. (16 pages)
Activities included focus on:
-the logistics of the sentence (the basic parts)
-the prepositional phrase
-the adjective phrase
-the adverb phrase
-the verbal phrase
-the appositive phrase
-the independent and subordinate clauses
-subjects and predicates
-fragments
-run-on sentences
-types of sentences
2) A teacher Guide with easy to follow instructions on how to organize the Grammar Circles.
3) The Answer Key – devised to allow students to correct their own work and learn from one another.
For those who are from Ontario, Canada – this unit adheres to the Grade 9 English Curriculum (academic). The unit can be taught in any grade to about sentences.
(27 pages total for this unit)
You may also be interested in:
Parts of Speech Grammar Circles (Superhero Themed)
Super Hero Themed Parts of Speech Posters (FREE)
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Do you run out of meaningful criticism for your students’ high school papers and work?
I created this comment bank because I had the same problem. After a little while, you don’t know what to write on a student’s test.
The Comment Bank has been constructed to save the Language Arts teacher time when offering constructive and helpful comments on students’ evaluations. Marking papers in any Language Arts class is always a lengthy process. Increasingly, teachers are being asked to write more detailed comments to highlight students’ strengths and weaknesses, and sometimes we run out of ideas. Being the vigilant teachers we are, and wanting to help our students achieve their potential is and will always be one of our priorities. To this end, when marking students’ papers, writing down everything we want to say to them about their papers would be a very lengthy process. I have decided to share my personal comment bank with you.
The bank comments on the following areas:
-Structure
-Communication
-The next step
-Mechanics
-Style
-Persuasion
-Analysis
The package contains 7 pages of comments, which are divided by levels of accomplishment A, B, C and D. (levels 100 to 50)
Included in this package are over 120 comments for students. You can get inspiration from these pages to handwrite your comments, or you can do what I do and copy/paste your comments into a word document, print, and staple the comment to the students’ evaluations. This is a real time saver. Parents, students, and school administration LOVE this method of feedback. And, this way, it takes much less time to be much more efficient. I hope you enjoy it!
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This “Cheat Sheet” was designed to help students while writing in English. This at a glance 2 page sheet is colorful and has an easy to find layout to help students remember certain important things while they write.
I allow my students to use this in class when writing a test. This is not a grammar lesson, but it will remind students about the grammar they’ve learned in the past.
Some of the reminders included:
– parts of speech
– transitional words
– quotation marks (how and when to use them)
– basic sentence structure
– spelling tips (plurals of nouns and IE rule)
– puncutaion rules (apostrophe, colon, semicolon
The other side of the page has comma rules:
– with coordinate conjunctions
-with introductory elements
– with other elements (dates, parenthetical expression, nouns in a direct address)
– with adjectives
-with apositives
It also contains tips on things to avoid, such as writing a paragraph shorter than 4 sentences. And, it contains a list of things to do, such as make sure that your paragraphs contain at least 2 pieces of evidence.
It’s teaching made easy!
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Poetry Unit for Senior Students (Bundled)
Many teachers hate teaching poetry because they don’t know where to begin. This unit will make you and your students love poetry. This complete, no prep unit is a great way to start! This 2 and a half week unit includes a student guide, 12 detailed lesson plans, 2 multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a detailed answer key with annotated poems, and an end of the unit evaluation with answer key.
Just print it and teach it.
This HUGE bundle includes individual lessons devised to teach students the importance of:
• Figurative language (its uses and effects)
• How to read poetry
• How to understand and apply symbolism and imagery
• The importance of rhythm
• The importance of tone and attitude in a poem
• Types of poetry
• How to analyse poetry
• How to appreciate poetry (even when you don’t understand it)
This unit’s focus is the analysis of poetry and teaches students how to make inferences, which is a skill they must learn for their other subjects as well.
Poems include authors such as: Emily Dickenson, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Thomas Gray, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Pearl Jam, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman. The Unit includes 21 different poems.
The unit has been conceived to last 12 days – with 65 minute periods (although they are easy to modify).
The unit includes:
1 – The teacher guide (Contains 12 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )
2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (26 pages)
3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities (saving you time).
4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)
5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED
A total of 63 pages + 36 slides are included in this package.
This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.
Check out my other NO PREP poetry units:
Poetry Unit for Intermediate Students
Poetry Unit: The Art of Interpretation
If individual lessons are what you are looking for, try these, which are part of this unit:
Poetry and Imagery – Langston Hughes
Poetry Lesson on Sonnets (Shakespeare and Browning)
Free Poetry Lesson: Analysing Poetry (NO PREP)
Lesson on Allegory and Symbolism Analysis in Poetry is ready to teach (NO PREP).
by The Lab
6th – 12th Grade

Interactive Notebook activity to summarize the steps in preparing a soluble salt.
This activity works well as a review before or after a lab.
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Preparing Salts (Copper chloride lab)
Preparing Salts (Zinc sulpahte lab)
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Paragraph Writing Activity in conjunction with Frankenstein
Very often, students have difficulty with the analysis process involved in literature. Where they not only have to analyse, but now have to apply their newfound skills to a well-developed paragraph, some students become overwhelmed with the process.
This particular activity will focus on both the analysis and writing a paragraph using the PEEL method.
Paragraph writing and analysis are two essential components in essay writing. To facilitate this process, I have created a lesson where students can become more comfortable with the revision process through modelling the proper steps from beginning to end. The lesson includes a modelling of the writing process from understanding the topic to the final draft. See preview for details
This lesson can only be used after students have read chapter 19 from the novel Frankenstein.
5 pages total
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