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This resource is designed to save teachers time and effort while increasing student engagement and learning. Lessons are Common Core aligned, ready-to-print and cover all ELA skills. An 81 page unit planner is included as a bonus file, offering a variety of unit plans.

What’s Included:
Reading: Literature
Short Stories

• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
• The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
• The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury
• The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
• All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
• Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes
• A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
• Gryphon by Charles Baxter
• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse by William Saroyan
• Ray Bradbury Analysis Worksheets
• Dystopia Characteristics & Checklist

Poems

• We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
• Dear Future Generations: Sorry by Prince Ea
• If by Rudyard Kipling
• If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking by Emily Dickinson
• Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
• Vincent by Tim Burton
• Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco
• I’m Nobody! Who are You? by Emily Dickinson
• Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
• I, Too by Langston Hughes
• Emily Dickinson Poetry Worksheets
• Langston Hughes and Tupac Shakur Comparison Table

Novels

• The Giver by Lois Lowry (Novel Study, Movie Worksheets, Informational Texts + Paired with Harrison Bergeron and Create a Dystopia)

Informational Texts

• Famous Scientist’s Letters to Children
• The Danger of a Single Story TED Talk
• Global Culture and Traditions Magazine
• Comparing Informational Texts - Environmental Conservation vs. Development
• The Harlem Renaissance
• W.E.B. Du Bois & Marcus Garvey
• Halloween Informational Texts
• Elon Musk Informational Text
• Mansa Musa Informational Text
• Musk & Musa Comparison
• Objective Summary Writing

Writing
Argumentative

• Claim Evidence Reasoning & Counter Claim Relay Race
• Assessing Source Credibility
• Write Persuasive Letters
• Transitional Words & Phrases World List
  Informative
• Educational Speech
• Write a Blog Post
  Narratives
• Baseline Writing - Creative Short Story Writing
• Point of View
• Dialogue and Character Voice
• Movie Trailer Activity
• Horror Writing

Speaking & Listening

• Is Social Media Beneficial or Harmful?
• Classroom Court
• Do We Live in a Utopia or a Dystopia? Debate
• Should Zoos Exist? Debate
• A Wrestler’s Guide to Confidence
• Speeches for Various Contexts
• Do Footballers Earn Too Much Money? Debate
• Socratic Seminar Guide

Language

• 100 Vocabulary Words
• 7th Grade Spelling
• Denotations and Connotations
• Root Words
• Cumulative & Coordinate Adjectives
• Phrases and Clauses
• Sentence Types
• Baseline Grammar
• Capitalization