Description This mini-research project invites students to learn about the Heroes of the Holocaust, shifting the focus away from perpetrators and toward the brave, compassionate...
Description Tell your students to put on their thinking hats with this engaging critical thinking and discussion lesson built around the Six Thinking Hats strategy. This instruc...
Description Have your students analyze characters from S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders in a fun and engaging way — Character Collabs! Your students will use several character...
Description This independent novel study project allows students to choose a book of their choice while still engaging in structured, meaningful reading and response work. Desig...
Description This lesson and activity invites students to write their own original poems while making poetry writing fun, creative, and accessible for middle school ELA students ...
Description Engage your students in a meaningful study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams with this classroom-ready lesson plan. This resource supports a close look at the s...
DescriptionYour students will love solving puzzles in this 360° Digital Escape Room for the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. This activity is designed to work for a...
DescriptionAssign your students a one-pager poetry analysis project and have them demonstrate their understanding of any poem by creatively blending written analysis with visual...
Description “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton challenges students to think deeply about human nature, choice, justice, and consequences. Famous for its unresolved e...
Description These digital picture writing prompts are engaging visual story starters designed to inspire narrative writing and quick writes in middle school and high school ELA ...
Description This lesson introduces students to the three types of irony and builds a strong foundation for understanding verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. It ...
Description This resource provides a complete literary analysis of “We Ate the Children Last” by Yann Martel, making it an excellent choice for teaching dystopian literature or ...
Description This resource includes 175 growth mindset bell ringers, giving you a daily warm-up assignment for the entire school year. With no printing or prep required, students...
Description This resource for “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros includes engaging reading questions, a strong activating strategy, and a creative after-reading project, making it a we...
Description This Poetry Packet includes five classic poems that students will read, annotate, and analyze, making it an excellent fit for a middle school poetry unit in 7th, 8th...
Description This resource provides an extensive short story vocabulary lesson designed to support reading comprehension and literary analysis for any short story or fiction unit...
Description Allusions are an important form of figurative language that shape tone, meaning, and author’s intent in literature. This lesson teaches students how to identify, int...
Description This is a ready-to-teach unit for “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty. Set during the Irish Civil War, “The Sniper” follows an Irish soldier whose split-second decisions...
Description In this paired texts poetry analysis activity, students read and respond to the classic poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Housman before listening to and ana...
Description This short story analysis resource is the perfect addition to your dystopian fiction unit or short story unit. In this engaging lesson, students will read “Examinati...
