This My Brother Sam is Dead teacher guide contains 137 pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and more! Focus on your teaching with ready-to-go handouts, activities, comprehension questions, and assessments - all in one Guide!
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This Guide includes:
- Pre-Reading Reading: Informational Text Activities on:
- Authors' Biographies with corresponding questions
- Article on The Revolutionary War: Parson's Encampment with corresponding questions
- Article on The Connecticut Militia with corresponding questions
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- Pre-Reading Strategy Note-Taking Activity - Story Impressions
- Vocabulary Lists With and Without Definitions
- Note-Taking and Summarizing Chart for each chapter
- Reading Comprehension Check Questions for each chapter
- CCSS Reading: Literature standards focus on:
- Literary Response and Analysis
- Making Inferences - "It Says, I Say, and So"
- Understanding Foreshadowing
- Point of View
- Uses of Dialogue
- Plot - Graphic Organizer
- Character Web Graphic Organizer
- Setting Chart Graphic Organizer
- Theme Web
- CCSS Language standards-focused activities on:
- Distinguishing Physical and Mental Action Verbs
- Multiple Meaning Word Map
- "Being" Verbs
- Vocabulary Synonyms
- "Helping" Verbs
- Vocabulary Derivations
- Simple Verb Tense
- Etymology
- Figurative Language
- Literary Response and Analysis Model Essays with Literary Analysis writing strategy assignments
- Chapter Reading Quizzes
- Vocabulary Quizzes
- Two Different Final Exam Versions
- Summary of the Novel
- Notes for the Teacher
- Pre-Reading Ideas and Activities list
- Post-Reading Activities - Colonial Project Ideas list
- Essay-Writing Ideas and Prompts
- Alternative Assessment and Extension Activities
- Project and Response to Literature Rubrics
- Complete Answer Key
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