General Overview of ELA Resources
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GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES
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- General Grading Guidelines for Written Assignments
- General Grading Guidelines – SLIDES
BOOK REPORTS
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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