Teaching characterization, character traits, and literary devices through Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes will be engaging, thought-provoking, and thorough with this Socratic Seminar and literary devices dystopian short story unit.
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This Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes short story unit is exactly what you need to teach your sixth, seventh, and/or eighth-grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response-focused format.
This unit digs deep into the RL.3 standard that focuses on character traits, characterization, and the literary devices that affect characters. This unit will allow you to use the short story to dig deep into this literature standard.
The backbone of these units is The Socratic Seminar, which pushes students to have discussions with their peers, about the novels (by using the guiding and interpretive questions provided) while using text-based evidence and critical thinking.
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Thank You Ma'am 5 Lesson Unit
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Teacher answer keys and vocabulary for all lessons.
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3 Reading Response Examples for teachers and students to reference.
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4 Literary Devices Mini-Anchor Charts or Student Reference Pages
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2 Reading Response Graphic Organizers
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40+ page Implementation Teachers Guide: Socratic Seminar, Tips and Tricks, Pacing, Student Examples, FAQs, scripted lesson examples, etc.
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PowerPoint, JPEG, and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions
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Digital Student Reading Response Notebooks
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Editable PowerPoint Reading Response Rubrics: Differentiated by grade level.
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Editable PowerPoint Literary Nonfiction Reading Response Rubrics: Differentiated by grade level.
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Small group and individual conference teacher forms
Students' thinking and discussions build a strong foundation of understanding for their reading responses (which will blow you away because of how much they grow throughout the year). This unit digs deep into the RL.3 literature standards as well as covering other sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade CCSS literature standards in an engaging and thought-provoking unit, and all the work is done for you.
Five Character Traits and Characterization-Focused Lessons:
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Lesson 1: Pre-Lesson Set-Up and Class norms for Socratic Seminar
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Lesson 2: Character Traits Interactive Notebook Lesson
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Lesson 3: Direct/Indirect Characterization Interactive Notebook Lesson
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Lesson 4: Character Traits and/or Characterization Reading Response and Socratic Seminar Lesson
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Lesson 5: Comparing Reading a Text to Audio Version of "Thank You Ma'am"
Components Included in Each Lesson:
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Common Core Standard Alignment
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Comprehension questions, guiding/interpretive questions for the Socratic Seminar
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Teacher suggested answers for comprehension questions
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Teacher suggested vocabulary words
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Learning Period
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Closing
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PowerPoint and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions (JPEG images included to upload to Google Slides as well)
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Lesson plans and the Common Core standard alignments are their own file so teachers can easily and quickly access the novel lessons.
In this unit, your students will get tons of support and conversations from their peers, will be exposed to literature and vocabulary at or above their grade level, and become part of a reading community. Yet it still gives you the flexibility to work with groups of students at their particular reading levels.
Prep is quick and easy... Just review the guiding questions, print or display any reference materials, and you're ready for an engaging and results-producing class period! There is no fluff and no busy work in my reading units.
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