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Multiple-choice questions…some people love them, some people hate them. What if, when presented with a multiple-choice question, students had to not only choose the correct answer, but they had to rank each option from most correct to somewhat correct to somewhat incorrect to most incorrect?

This close reading and analysis writing resource provides a step-by-step guide to writing a strong literary analysis of a fiction or nonfiction text. It includes a page of instructions, including definitions of Layers of Meaning; a graphic organizer students can use to plan their own writing; and a sample paragraph analyzing Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

I hate name games. Painfully awkward, these games have never magically connected me to people just because they’ve repeated, “Her name’s Laura and she likes lla

This Macbeth character tracker lets students analyze how his thoughts and actions evolve from noble to tyrannical. #macbethstudyguide #shakespeareinclassroom #literaryanalysis #engagingela

In the stack of marking that I took home, promising myself I’d do before Spring Break ended, sits a stack of Of Mice and Men literary analysis essays. As we worked on them, we had a fair numb…

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