11th Grade Lessons

Duolingo French Podcast listening activities Episode 98 Josephine Baker le cible

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Frenchified

These Activities to accompany French Duolingo Podcast Episode 98: The Secret Life of Josephine Baker - Josephine, le cible will help your students with their listening comprehension skills while also entertaining them.Each podcast is in both English and French - so even novice-high students can enjo

9th - 12th French

Also included in: Josephine Baker French Duolingo podcast listening activities & worksheets

Josephine Baker French Resistance | Duolingo Podcast Listening Activities

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Frenchified

Build French listening comprehension with activities for Duolingo French Podcast Episode 100 about Josephine Baker and the French Resistance. Novice-high learners get structured vocabulary, during-listening notes, and post-listening comprehension practice in English and French.Each podcast is in bot

9th - 12th French

Also included in: Josephine Baker French Duolingo podcast listening activities & worksheets

Josephine Baker French listening Activities for Duolingo Podcast Episode 10

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Frenchified

These Activities to accompany French Duolingo Podcast Episode 101: The Secret Life of Josephine Baker - Josephine, l'heroïne will help your students with their listening comprehension skills while also entertaining them.Each podcast is in both English and French - so even novice-high students can en

9th - 12th French

Also included in: Josephine Baker French Duolingo podcast listening activities & worksheets

French Movie Talk: Hey Deer | Passé Composé & Imparfait Activities

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Frenchified

Use the animated short Hey Deer for a French movie talk and comprehensible input lesson. This level 2 resource retells the confused deer’s story with passé composé and imparfait, then guides students through pre-viewing and post-viewing activities.The deer shovels snow every morning and goes to bed

9th - 12th French

French reading comprehension passé composé & imparfait The Broccoli Haired Boy

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Frenchified

This fun intermediate level French reading comprehension activity is a short story about a boy who has broccoli hair - not just the cut, but his hair is made of broccoli! The story is written in the past tense, in two different versions. In the intermediate low version, you will see the passé comp

9th - 12th French

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French Christmas Activities | Noël Movie Talk & Worksheets

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Frenchified

Bring seasonal comprehensible input to French class with French Christmas activities built around a short Conte de Noël movie talk. Students preview key vocabulary, follow a teacher-ready story script, and complete pre- and post-viewing worksheets based on the Intermarché holiday video.This item inc

9th - 12th French

Comma Rules Review Lesson | Guided Notes, Practice, Slides & Exit Ticket

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Plotting Something

Comma Rules Review LessonReview seven essential comma rules with a complete, low-prep lesson designed for secondary ELA. This resource gives you the materials you need to teach or reteach common comma conventions, guide students through examples, provide meaningful practice, and quickly check unders

7th - 11th English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Rhetorical Appeals & Devices Mini Unit | Ethos, Logos, Pathos Activities

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Plotting Something

Teach rhetorical appeals and devices without stopping at simple identification.The Art of Persuasion is a ready-to-use secondary ELA mini-unit that helps students understand how speakers and writers influence an audience—and why their rhetorical choices matter.Students begin with an accessible Feel

9th - 12th English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

First Week ELA Diagnostic Without the Dread | Close Reading & Writing Sample

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Plotting Something

Start the year with a real English lesson that gives you useful information about your students without making the first week feel like a test. In this low-pressure activity, students read an original short story, discuss possible interpretations, and write a brief evidence-based response.Student-fa

8th - Higher Education Close Reading, Literature, Writing

Greek Theater & Tragedy Background | PowerPoint, Guided Notes & Teacher Guide

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Plotting Something

Give students the background they need to understand how Greek tragedy worked before they begin reading the play itself. This classroom-ready lesson introduces the performance space, actors and masks, the chorus, dramatic structure, and essential tragedy terms through a coordinated presentation and

9th - 12th Literature, Drama

Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

Antigone Pre-Reading Background | Oedipus Family Tree, Context, Guided Notes

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If your students jump into Antigone without enough context, the opening scene can feel confusing from the start. This resource gives them the background that matters most—without turning pre-reading into an overlong mythology lecture.Students work through the House of Thebes family tree, the key Oed

9th - 12th Literature, Drama

Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

Edgar Allan Poe Biography & Background | PowerPoint, Guided Notes, Themes & Work

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Plotting Something

Introduce Edgar Allan Poe with a concise biography and background lesson that gives students the literary context they need before reading his stories and poems. Rather than turning Poe’s life into a list of sensational facts, this lesson connects his biography to the themes, techniques, and literar

8th - 12th Literature, Poetry, Reading

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

Antigone Tragic Hero Analysis | Antigone vs Creon | Literary Analysis Lesson

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Which character best fits the tragic-hero idea in Sophocles' Antigone? This post-reading lesson asks students to build the strongest case for both Antigone and Creon before they decide. Students compare the characters' choices, warnings, reversals, recognition, responsibility, and final costs, then

9th - 12th Literature

Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

The Fall of the House of Usher Unit | Edgar Allan Poe Reading Guide & Quizzes

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Plotting Something

Teaching “The Fall of the House of Usher” is difficult for one simple reason: students cannot analyze what they cannot follow. Poe’s prose is dense, the plot is strange, and the story’s best ideas only land when students know what is actually happening.This 8–9 day guided-reading unit gives students

9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Reading

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Close Reading Mini Unit, Analysis & Quizzes

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Help students understand what happens in “The Raven” before asking them to interpret its symbolism and psychological horror.This close reading mini-unit follows Poe’s poem chronologically, with a stanza-numbered reading text, vocabulary support, a student analysis packet, and coordinated lesson slid

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Poetry

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

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Plotting Something

Give students the background they actually need to enter Sophocles’ Antigone, then bring them back to the text for allusions and post-reading analysis.This four-resource bundle combines Greek theater and tragedy background, story-specific pre-reading context, a collaborative mythology/allusions proj

9th - 12th Literature, Writing, Drama

Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

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Plotting Something

Teach a complete Edgar Allan Poe sequence with three coordinated resources that move from author background into close reading of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Raven.” Together, the resources provide approximately 2½–3 weeks of instruction for grades 9–12, depending on class length and h

9th - 12th Literature, Poetry, Short Stories

House Taken Over by Julio Cortázar | Close Reading, Ice Age Comparison & Quizzes

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Plotting Something

Students can follow what happens in “House Taken Over” and still miss the strangest part: Irene and the narrator barely resist as their world gets smaller. This lesson sequence slows the story down, makes the house and both takeovers concrete, and then moves students into ambiguity, evidence, and in

9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

College Essay Unit | Personal Statement Writing Lessons & Rubric

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Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay can be frustrating. Students often think they need a dramatic story, choose a prompt before they have anything meaningful to say, or end up writing the same version of “this experience taught me to never give up.”This unit takes a different approach.The College Essay: Find

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Brainstorming Mini-Unit | Find Your Story

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Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay often gets stuck before students ever begin drafting. They insist nothing important has happened to them, assume they need a dramatic life event, or grab the first familiar topic they can think of and immediately turn it into a generic life lesson.Find Your College Essay S

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Revision Workshop | Personal Statement Editing

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Plotting Something

Your students have written the college essay. Now comes the part that is often harder to teach: real revision. This three-lesson workshop is designed for students who already have a complete or nearly complete personal statement. Instead of focusing only on proofreading, students look closely at wha

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Drafting Workshop | Personal Statement Voice & Structure

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Plotting Something

Your students have a college essay idea. Now they have to turn it into an essay. This five-lesson workshop is designed for the middle of the college essay process: after brainstorming, but before final revision. Students work on reflection, natural voice, prompt choice, structure, and beginnings and

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

For Use with Strawberry Spring by Stephen King | AP Lit Halloween Case File

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Plotting Something

Bring a little fog into your AP Literature classroom. This two-day case-file lesson for Stephen King's “Strawberry Spring” asks students to investigate the evidence, commit to a theory, and reconsider what they thought they knew after the ending.The Halloween atmosphere gives students a reason to le

10th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

Lord of the Flies Complete Novel Unit | Reading Guide, Quizzes, Test & Essay

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Plotting Something

Teach William Golding's Lord of the Flies with a complete, coherent novel unit that supports students from pre-reading through final assessment. Rather than relying on disconnected worksheets, this resource keeps one central line of thinking in view: what civilization restrains - and what happens wh

9th - 12th Literature, Novel Studies, Reading