Literary Movements Posters | Gothic, Romanticism, Modernism & More | High School

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Give students a clear visual reference for ten literary movements and modes without turning your classroom walls into a word wall. Each poster pairs a concise definition with a student-friendly Look For list, three recurring visual ideas, and an atmospheric image that helps the concept stick.The col

9th - 12th Literature, Other (ELA)

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

Lord of the Flies Reading Companion | Society Stability Tracker & Analysis

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Students can summarize what happens on the island. This companion asks them to do something more useful: track what happens to the boys' shared society as it weakens, fractures, and finally collapses.In CIVILIZATION UNDER PRESSURE, students return to the same five indicators at six points in Lord of

9th - 12th Literature, Novel Studies, Reading

KING LEAR PRE-READING ACTIVITY | POWER, SUCCESSION & LOYALTY SIMULATION

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Before students meet Lear, Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan, give them the problem first.WHO GETS THE KINGDOM? places students on the Royal Council of a fictional kingdom whose aging ruler wants to give away the work of governing while keeping the title, honor, household, influence, and treatment that c

9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Drama

Also included in: Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities

College Essay Unit | Personal Statement Writing Lessons & Rubric

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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

Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities

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Put students inside the problem before they meet it in the text.This six-resource bundle gives secondary ELA students a reason to think, argue, make decisions, and live with the consequences before plot knowledge tells them whom to support.Each activity is built around a different literary problem.

9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Drama

College Essay Brainstorming Mini-Unit | Find Your Story

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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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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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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Partner Novel Study Project | Literature Circles, Journal, Discussions & Rubrics

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Give students a structured way to read one approved novel with a partner, talk about it across six checkpoints, and keep a record of their developing ideas.Developed and refined through more than a decade of classroom use, this six-week project is designed for high school literature classes and work

9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Writing

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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)

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

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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

The Great Gatsby Complete Unit | Chapter Lessons, Quizzes, Review & Assessment

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Teach all nine chapters of The Great Gatsby with one coordinated post-reading unit. Includes 9 instructional decks, 9 student packets, 18 A/B reading quizzes, 9 teacher guides, an interactive whole-novel review, and a cumulative assessment with two 50-question forms. All materials are included in ed

9th - 12th Literature, Novel Studies, Reading

The Open Window | Saki Short Story | Irony, Characterization & Twist Ending

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Teach Saki’s “The Open Window” in one class period without stopping the story to death. Students read the complete story straight through, briefly sort out the ending, and then go back to examine how Vera gets Framton to believe her. Includes the full public-domain text in a beautifully illustrated

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

Dante’s Inferno Creative Activity | Nine Circles of Hell Lesson | Contrapasso

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Teach Dante’s nine circles of Hell without requiring students to read the entire Inferno.In this two-day creative literature lesson, students first learn how Dante organizes the underworld, why the order of the circles matters, and how contrapasso connects wrongdoing to punishment. Then they use tha

9th - 12th Literature, Other (ELA)