General Overview of ELA Resources

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 GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES

• • General Grading Guidelines for Written Assignments
  • General Grading Guidelines – SLIDES

BOOK REPORTS

• • Collage on Common Book or Story – See Chapter 1 of Teaching Middle School Language Arts.
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (for two books)
  • Historical Fiction Questions (in-class writing)
  • Narrative Poem
  • Plot Line
  • Summer Reading Oral Report Chart
  • What’s a Mystery?

DRAMA – Study and Playwriting

• • HAMLET –WRITING Hamlet in your own words
  • HAMLET Writing About Hamlet with Rubric
  • HAMLET- Hamlet Recitation Assignment with Grading Guidelines
  • Original Myth Play – Nothing New Under the Sun
  • OEDIPUS Essay Assignment
  • OEDIPUS Essay – Rubric
  • Shakespeare Out Loud in Color
  • Writing a One Act Play – A Two Week Unit

LITERATURE-STUDY AND ANALYSIS

• • A Day No Pigs Would Die VOCABULARY w Definitions and Academic Words Starred
  • AUTHOR PROJECT : Nobel Literature Laureates
  • Elements of Fiction – Setting
  • Essay Prompt for Bean Trees
  • Geometric Character Analysis
  • Handmaid’s Tale Essay Prompt
  • The Handmaid’s Tale Grading Rubric
  • I, Juan de Pareja Exploring Art(Slides in .pdf)
  • Invisible Man – Invisible Man MOTIF Essay #1
  • Invisible Man – Getting to Know the Harlem – In Class Project
  • Invisible Man – Essay Prompt on Motifs#1
  • Invisible Man – Essay Prompt #2 on Motifs with Rubric
  • Invisible Man – Themes Sample Slides in .pdf
  • JEOPARDY GAME -literary-terms-2010 PDF slides (Borrowed. Don’t recall source.)
  • Literary Terms and Definitions
  • Literary Weaving Strips-slides
  • Monkey Bridge – Monkey Bridge: CriNine-Yardsticks-of-Value-FullTextn Teaching Monkey Bridge Slides in .pdf
  • Nine Yardsticks of Value – Introduction
  • Nine Yardsticks of Value-HANDOUT-Summary
  • Nine Yardsticks of VALUE Slides-Roseboro
  • Nine Yardsticks Six Traits Self-Eval Critical Essay

POETRY

• • HOLIDAY MEMORY
  • PANTOUM POETRY HANDOUT
  • PANTOUM WORKSHEET
  • POETRY-AfricanAm History Month Project
  • POETRY-Notebook
  • POETRY- Project – B –Long Version
  • POETRY DISCUSSION Questions
  • POETRY – PATTERN POEM
    
  • Telling T.I.M.E. in Poetry

SPEAKING

• • Abstract Term Speech
  • Abstract Terms Speech Guide for Rough Outline
  • Abstract Terms Speech -Partner Check
  • Spar Debate Can Be Prep for Writing
  • Personal Experience Speech
  • Personal Experience Speech – Self-Reflection
  • Developing Talks to Convince or Persuade

WRITING

• • PIE and TRAIN Structure (pdf slides)
  • DYSTOPIA – Characters and Current Events Essay (The Handmaid’s Tale)
  • Six Traits Peer Feedback – Handmaid’s Tale . pdf
  • Journalism: Human Interest Story about You

Using Art to Assess ELA Standards in Common Core