Common Core Teacher 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?
• Book Talk Slides 

WRITING

• PIE and TRAIN Structure (pdf slides)
• PIE Paragraph– A Recipe for Success
• DYSTOPIA – Characters and Current Events Essay (The Handmaid’s Tale)
• Six Traits Peer Feedback – Handmaid’s Tale . pdf
• Journalism: Human Interest Story about You
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Using Art to Assess ELA Standards in Common Core

POETRY

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

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 Devices — Fiction
• Literary Terms and Definitions
• Literary Weaving Strips-slides
• Monkey Bridge – Monkey Bridge: Critiquing an Evaluation
• Monkey Bridge – Background Information 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 – Sample of Assignment (pdf)
• Nine Yardsticks Six Traits Self-Eval Critical Essay

 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