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Are you looking for some creative assessment ideas to use with your secondary ELA students? These ideas are sure to help you get going with some fresh and innovative ways to discuss characters, theme and more in your class novels.
I recently assigned a one pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. This Night one pager project was the perfect way to finish the memoir!
This Edexcel GCSE Art Coursework project explores architectural spaces, daily life and routine. It was completed by Samantha Li and was awarded full marks.
If The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers suffers from anxiety of influence, it doesn’t show. His gothic maritime horror film depicting a psychosexual power struggle between bullying ‘wickie’ Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and his guilt-ridden assistant Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) off the coast of 1890s Maine draws on many literary works, paintings and films. It’s less a text than a trove. Literary influencesThe film originated with the attempt of Eggers’s co-writer brother, Max, to develop a screenplay from a late Edgar Allan Poe fragment about a Norwegian noble who exults in his solitude as a lighthouse keeper but experiences forebodings. The brothers merged the idea with the story of Thomas Griffith and Thomas Howell, quarrelsome real-life wickies who in 1801 served at the Smalls Lighthouse west of Pembrokeshire in Wales. When Griffith died, Howell placed the decomposing corpse in a makeshift coffin and lashed it to railings outside. The sight of one of Griffith’s arms flapping in the wind is said to have driven Howell mad. He anticipates the paranoid murderer-narrator of Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) and Winslow.
The Giver Novel Study Package contains a complete 115 page novel study on The Giver by Lois Lowry. Everything you need to teach a complete The Giver unit is included. Detailed Giver questions, answer keys, Giver activities, vocabulary words, character analysis, and engaging Giver final projects are all included in this Giver literature guide. A variety of graphic organizers and Giver worksheets are also included. All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, foldables, templates, and rubrics! Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach! ✅150+ PAGES OF RESOURCES!!! ✅Be sure to check out the preview for detailed information and images of some of the great activities included in this resource! This creative and engaging package includes the following: ⭐Reader’s Notebook Setup Information: Several pages of information on the benefits of Reader’s Notebooks. Detailed information on how to set up a Reader’s Notebook for the unit is also included. However, you do not need to do this unit as a Reader’s Notebook. It can easily be done as a traditional Novel Study, Literature Circle, or Independent Novel Study – it is up to you! A fun cover page is also included. ⭐Main Character Graphic Organizers: Graphic Organizers for each of the main characters in the novel, to help review key features using text evidence. ⭐Comprehension Questions: Detailed comprehension questions for all chapters. A detailed answer key is also included! ⭐Reading Response Activities: A variety of creative reading response activities and graphic organizers are included - creative worksheets, pre-reading activities, character analysis, and graphic organizers. These pages have been specifically created to engage upper elementary and middle school students. These activities make gorgeous additions to Interactive Notebooks! Many of the included resources target key comprehension strategies like visualizing, making predictions, and connecting to text. ⭐Close Reading Resources: Several pages of my best selling close reading resources have been included in this package. This includes several pages describing the close reading process, a detailed text annotation guide, a page of information to aid partner discussion, and a page of tips and tricks to show students what to look out for when close reading. These resources can be used at any time throughout the novel, to aid in deep thinking and comprehension. ⭐Vocabulary Words: A full set of vocabulary words, separated into chapter groups, are included. An answer key is provided. ⭐Vocabulary Worksheets: A variety of different vocabulary graphic organizer activities to use along with the included vocabulary words are included. ⭐Vocabulary Fill in the Blank Practice Pages: Several different fill in the blank practice pages for vocabulary practice are included. Answer keys are included. ⭐Vocabulary Foldable Activities: Fun foldable activities to go along with all of the vocabulary words are included. These make great interactive notebook additions! ⭐Vocabulary Mazes: Three fun vocabulary maze activities are included, with answer keys, to help students practice the vocabulary words. ⭐Journal Starters: A full page of journal writing prompts to get students thinking about the novel. ⭐Pre-Reading Activities: Several different pre-reading activities are included. This includes activities for making predictions and thinking about the concept of "utopia". ⭐The Giver Community Pamphlet Project: Full instructions for students to create a pamphlet advertising the community Jonas lives in. A great way for students to reflect on the novel’s setting! ⭐Create Your Own City Project: Detailed instructions for students to create cities of their own! This is a great final project that really gets kids thinking! ⭐Symbolism Activity: Students use the template provided to locate and explain key symbols from the story. ⭐Plot Diagram: Students use the included plot diagram to record key events of the novel. ⭐The Giver Thematic Essay Assignment: Full instructions are included for students to complete an essay on one of the central themes of the novel. 5 different themes with brief explanations are provided for students to choose from. A planning template is also included. ⭐ Paired Non-Fiction Reading Passages - four different non-fiction reading passages focusing on topics related to the novel are included. Two versions of each passage are included - with and without built in annotation activities. Comprehension questions, answer keys, and fact gathering templates are also included! Topics include: ✅Dystopian Literature: Exploring Bleak Futures and Thought-Provoking Realities ✅Exploring the World of Lois Lowry ✅The Importance of Remembering: A Lesson Learned from The Giver ✅Censorship and Controversy in Children's Literature Your students will master a variety of skills during this unit, including: •Making Predictions •Connecting to Text •Visualizing a Story •Summarizing key events •Pulling key details from text •Providing text evidence to support their answers •Formulating Questions •Vocabulary Mastery •Determining Importance •Monitoring Comprehension •Making inferences •Comparing and Contrasting •Character Development •Close Reading and Annotation Skills •Prompted Writing What other people are saying about Novel Studies by Creative Classroom Core: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"I love love this for a novel study. The activities were just right to keep a classroom of many reading levels engaged. " -Krystal K ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Thank you for this resource of one of my favorite books! The sheets were perfect to pull from to compile work for my fifth grade enriched reading group. It really helped them think about key aspects of the book. :)" -Kaedra C ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"I appreciated the versatility of this resource. I could pick and choose which aspects I wanted to use and it changes each year I teach the novel depending on the needs of my students. Great resource!" - Patricia V ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"I used this resource to create interactive notebooks for my students as we read The Giver. The resource had a ton of activities, so I picked the ones I knew would be beneficial for my group and the time I had allotted to teach the unit. 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Perhaps if you follow this blog, or have come here via Pinterest like some 680,000 of you (seriously, there were 15,000+ visits last month?!), you have noticed that I have not posted in over a year and wondered what's up?? I mentioned in an earlier post that maintaining our school blogs became less encouraged at one point, so I sort of slowed down and was mostly posting within our school's class pages for parents to see. Then, during the last school year, my family made the decision to move to a new state, and I suppose I just started to focus on wrapping up nine glorious years at Calvert School and I stopped blogging altogether. Last June, I moved south and this year I have been staying home part time with my son and actually making some art of my own (I paint pet portraits! See below :)). I miss teaching so very much, and I still visit this blog every month or two to approve/publish comments and reply to them. I am happy and humbled that so many people are inspired by my lessons and my students' work, and it is so cool to still feel connected in some way to the Art Education world through comments and questions from other teachers! I hope to one day find a new school home and continue to do what I know I do best- teach ART! - and then you might see me pick up here again too! (if interested in commissioning a portrait, check out www.larisakamp.com)
Sometimes, we're using project-based learning and other times, we're just doing projects. Here's a project based learning ideas checklist to help clarify.
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