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Facilitate reading comprehension and sharpen literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering Carl Stephenson’s short story “Leiningen Versus the Ants.” A plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Conduct brief research as needed to answer a question about historical context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Make rational predictions about the protagonist’s future behavior Apply knowledge of literary devices including allusion, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, simile, and situational irony Consider themes in context Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Facilitate reading comprehension and sharpen literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering Alice Munro’s coming-of-age short story “A Red Dress.” A plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Describe tone in context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Discern the functions of several characters (Lonnie, Mary, and Raymond) Apply knowledge of literary devices including metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, situational irony, and symbolism Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Facilitate reading comprehension and sharpen literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering Gina Berriault’s short story “The Stone Boy.” A plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Evaluate the role setting plays in terms of advancing the story Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Evaluate whether the parents’ response to the tragedy is fair to the protagonist Apply knowledge of literary devices including foreshadowing, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, situational irony, and more Consider themes in context Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Use these vocabulary enrichment activities covering Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter to frontload assigned readings and enhance comprehension of plot. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the novel during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these activities, students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words and discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences. A total of 129 words are addressed: Abashed, abhorrence, abode, abstruse, accost, admonish, alloy, appellation, assent, augur, bedizen, behoof, bequeath, beseech, besmirch, bestow, blight, boorish, caper, caprice, chirurgical, colloquy, commence, conjecture, contrive, contumely, cordial, counsel, countenance, decorously, defunct, deleterious, demeanor, desolate, despotic, dolefully, duplicity, eccentricity, effluence, eldritch, emaciated, eminent, emissary, emolument, etherealize, evanescent, evoke, exhortation, feign, fervent, forlorn, fortitude, futile, gait, gallant, gesticulate, guillotine, haggard, heedful, ignominious, imbibe, imbue, imperious, implore, importunate, inauspicious, incredulity, indefatigable, inimical, inscrutable, invariably, inviolable, irksomeness, irrefragable, jocularity, loquacity, lurid, magistrate, meddle, meed, mien, mirthful, misanthropy, multitudinous, necromancy, nugatory, obstinacy, pacify, palliate, panoply, pathos, petulant, piety, plashy, plebian, plumage, potentate, precede, precocity, preliminary, principal, probity, propinquity, quaff, repudiate, retribution, sagacious, scowl, scrofula, scurrilous, sedulous, sojourn, somniferous, sportive, sunder, superfluous, torpid, transitory, tremulous, tumult, unadulterated, upbraid, utopia, vehemently, venerable, vicissitude, wan, warily, and wellnigh.

Evaluate general reading comprehension and eliminate assessment planning responsibilities with this bundle of plot-based quizzes covering the entirety of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Each quiz may double as a guided reading worksheet to support engagement and promote accountability. Answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.