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Facilitate reading comprehension and sharpen literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering Joyce Carol Oates’ Gothic short story “Where Is Here?” A plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, a vocabulary definitions handout, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, 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 Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Make rational predictions about the protagonist’s future behavior Apply knowledge of literary devices including ambiguity, euphemism, foreshadowing, symbolism, and more 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

Evaluate general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching chapters 20, 21, 22, and 23 of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. A plot-based quiz, close reading worksheet, vocabulary definitions handout, crossword puzzle, word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly Consult reference materials as needed to learn or verify word meanings Discern the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Determine the function of the given excerpt Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Compare the content of Perry’s most recent letter to Kenny to his previous letters Apply knowledge of literary devices Choose relevant textual evidence in support of a claim Write about complex literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Evaluate general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching chapters 16, 17, 18, and 19 of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. A plot-based quiz, close reading worksheet, vocabulary definitions handout, crossword puzzle, word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly Consult reference materials as needed to learn or verify word meanings Discern the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices with emphasis on foreshadowing Choose the best textual evidence in support of an idea Write about complex literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Evaluate general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching chapters 13, 14, and 15 of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. A plot-based quiz, close reading worksheet, vocabulary definitions handout, crossword puzzle, word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly Consult reference materials as needed to learn or verify word meanings Discern the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Determine the function of the given excerpt Describe tone in context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Choose relevant textual evidence in support of a claim Write about complex literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Evaluate general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. A plot-based quiz, close reading worksheet, vocabulary definitions handout, crossword puzzle, word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly Consult reference materials as needed to learn or verify word meanings Discern 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 Apply knowledge of literary devices with emphasis on alliteration Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Evaluate general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. A plot-based quiz, close reading worksheet, vocabulary definitions handout, crossword puzzle, word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly Consult reference materials as needed to learn or verify word meanings Discern the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Evaluate the positive and negative aspects of a particular situation Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices with emphasis on dramatic irony, personification, and simile Write about complex literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Evaluate general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. A plot-based quiz, two close reading worksheets, a vocabulary definitions handout, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly Consult reference materials as needed to learn or verify word meanings Discern the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Determine the function of an excerpt Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Isolate examples of figurative language Conduct brief research to identify parallels between the narrator and the author James Baldwin Select textual evidence in support of a claim Write about complex literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Use these vocabulary enrichment activities covering Walter Dean Myers’ Fallen Angels 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 6 definition handouts, 6 crossword puzzles, 6 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Ninety-one words/concepts are addressed: adhesions, agitate, ambush, armorer, artillery, AWOL, barrage, battalion, bayonet, beckon, bivouac, cache, chaplain, charred, chortle, contingent, cordite, correspondent, cosmolene, cot, crimson, DDT, dreary, drone, fatigues, flail, flitter, formaldehyde, foxhole, frag, gale, giblet, giddy, gruff, guerrilla, hamlet, hemophilia, hemorrhoids, hoarsely, hooch, hymn, impassively, infiltrate, insignia, interdiction, intricate, jive, latrine, malaria, menacing, merciful, mill, mortar, napalm, non-denominational, pacify, paddy, perm, phosphorus, piaster, plasma, projectile, protrusion, racket, reconnaissance, regiment, requisition, reverent, rickety, ricochet, salve, sheepish, shelling, shrapnel, skirmish, smirk, sniper, sporadic, stamina, stationery, stewardess, sullen, surveillance, Tet, thatched, The Shirelles, theology, tracer, truce, veer, and vigilance.