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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

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$31.99

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

$5.99

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

$5.99

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

$7.99

Literary Analysis Posters | Theme, Tone, Diction, Syntax & More | Secondary ELA

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Plotting Something

Give students a literary analysis reference they can actually use.This 10-poster collection goes beyond simple definitions. Each poster helps secondary ELA students notice important textual choices, distinguish commonly confused concepts, and move from identifying a technique to explaining how it sh

9th - 12th Literature, Writing

Also included in: Literary Posters Bundle | Literary Movements & Analysis | 20 Secondary ELA Poste

$8.99

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

$5.99

Literary Posters Bundle | Literary Movements & Analysis | 20 Secondary ELA Poste

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Plotting Something

Build a cohesive literary reference wall with 20 secondary ELA posters covering both major literary movements and the analysis concepts students use to explain how texts create meaning.FULL DESCRIPTIONGive students the literary landscape AND the analytical tools to navigate it.This bundle combines t

9th - 12th Literature, Writing

Bundle (2 products)

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Cursed Object Auction | Halloween ELA Activity | Gothic Creative Thinking Game

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Plotting Something

Turn Halloween into an atmospheric estate auction where students bid on mysterious objects—then discover exactly what they brought home.The Cursed Object Auction is a one-class-period Halloween ELA experience for grades 9–12. Students work in teams with $600 in fictional money, inspect six estate-ca

9th - 12th Literature, Other (ELA)

Also included in: Halloween ELA Activities Bundle | 4 Gothic Games, Mysteries & Simulations

$5.99

Would You Survive Gothic Literature? | Halloween ELA Activity | Gothic Game

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Plotting Something

Turn Halloween into a Gothic survival game where every choice changes what students know - and how much the house has gotten inside their heads.Would You Survive Gothic Literature? is a one-class-period Halloween ELA activity for grades 9-12. Students work in teams as one fictional heir trapped insi

9th - 12th Literature, Other (ELA)

Also included in: Halloween ELA Activities Bundle | 4 Gothic Games, Mysteries & Simulations

$5.99

The Last Broadcast | Halloween ELA Activity | Inference & Suspense Simulation

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Plotting Something

Your students are monitoring a local emergency feed when the updates stop making sense.The Last Broadcast is a one-period Halloween ELA mystery simulation for grades 9–12. Students become the emergency relay team at a local radio station while an ordinary fog advisory turns into reports of motionles

9th - 12th Reading, Reading Strategies, Writing

Also included in: Halloween ELA Activities Bundle | 4 Gothic Games, Mysteries & Simulations

$5.99

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

$24.99

Literary Séance | Halloween ELA Activity | Character Inference & Writing Game

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Plotting Something

Ten voices have arrived. None will tell your students its name.Literary Séance is a one-period Halloween ELA mystery that asks students to identify classic literary characters from a sequence of staged “manifestations” — then write one final message in character and challenge classmates to identify

9th - 12th Creative Writing, Literature

Also included in: Halloween ELA Activities Bundle | 4 Gothic Games, Mysteries & Simulations

$5.99

The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe | Drawing & Extended Metaphor Activity

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Plotting Something

Let students picture Poe's palace before they decide what it means. In this two-part lesson, students closely read and draw "The Haunted Palace," then return to the poem to trace its tonal shift, identify its human features, and discover how the palace becomes a picture of Roderick Usher's mind.FULL

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Poetry

$4.50

Halloween ELA Activities Bundle | 4 Gothic Games, Mysteries & Simulations

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Plotting Something

Want Halloween lessons that feel seasonal without turning the week into filler? This bundle gives you four complete, one-period ELA experiences for grades 9–12. Each resource uses a different setup - an auction, a Gothic survival game, an emergency broadcast mystery, and a literary-character inferen

9th - 12th Literature, Writing

Bundle (4 products)

$23.96

$17.99

Gothic and Dark Literature Literary Quote Posters | 10 Secondary ELA Posters

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Plotting Something

Create a moody, literary classroom display with 10 Gothic and dark-classic quote posters featuring public-domain quotes from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more.Bring classic literary

9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Other (ELA)

$7.99

Gothic Literature FREE Activity | Poe Close Reading & Gothic Elements

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Plotting Something

Need a quick way to introduce Gothic literature without turning it into an elements checklist? This free Gothic literature activity pairs a student-friendly field guide with a continuous public-domain excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Students identify details that cre

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Reading

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The Monkey's Paw Lesson | Gothic Suspense, Foreshadowing, Irony & Ambiguity

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Plotting Something

KeKeep “The Monkey’s Paw” tense instead of turning it into a worksheet marathon. This two-day secondary ELA lesson uses a few deliberate reading stops, then asks students to go back and examine how W. W. Jacobs builds suspense through warning, irony, pacing, Gothic atmosphere, and ambiguity.“The Mon

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

$5.99

Jeopardy-Like Review Game Template - Uniquely Different, Any Grade or Subject

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TWFScience

Fully linked and ready to use Jeopardy-Like Review Game Template. Download the Preview file to see how it works. I've included 2 working questions.Specifics:- space for 25 questions- all questions contain 10 second timers to use if you wish- all hyperlinks meaning that clicking on a price takes yo

1st - Adult Education English Language Arts, Math, Science

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Albert Einstein - The Father Of Science - A Famous Scientist Reading

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TWFScience

Albert Einstein - The Father Of Science? - A Famous Scientist Reading - Disciplinary Literacy. This reading is a comprehensive look at the life, the troubles, and the triumphs of Albert Einstein. It also includes a set of Reading Comprehension and Extension questions along with the answer key.This r

8th - Adult Education Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Science

Also included in: Famous Scientist Reading Comprehension Bundle | Einstein, Neil deGrasse Tyson

$4.27

Niels Bohr - A Famous Scientist Reading - Google and Office Versions

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TWFScience

Niels Bohr - A Famous Scientist Reading - Disciplinary Literacy. This reading is a comprehensive look at the life, the troubles, and the triumphs of Bohr. It also includes a set of Reading Comprehension and Extension questions along with the answer key.This resource is suitable for high school stude

8th - Adult Education Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Science

Also included in: Famous Scientist Reading Comprehension Bundle | Einstein, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Free

Sir Isaac Newton - A Famous Scientist Reading - Google and Office Versions

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TWFScience

Sir Isaac Newton - A Famous Scientist Reading - Disciplinary Literacy. This reading is a comprehensive look at the life, the troubles, and the triumphs of Newton. It also includes a set of Reading Comprehension and Extension questions along with the answer key.This resource is suitable for high scho

8th - Adult Education Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Science

Also included in: Newton's Three Laws of Motion Worksheets & Activities Bundle | 1st, 2nd, 3rd Law

$4.27

Neil deGrasse Tyson - A Famous Scientist Reading - Google and Office Versions

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TWFScience

Neil deGrasse Tyson - A Famous Scientist Reading - Disciplinary Literacy. This reading is a comprehensive look at the life, the troubles, and the triumphs of Tyson. It also includes a set of Reading Comprehension and Extension questions along with the answer key.This resource is suitable for high sc

8th - Adult Education Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Science

Also included in: Famous Scientist Reading Comprehension Bundle | Einstein, Neil deGrasse Tyson

$4.27