Grade 12 ELA course activities

August 08, 2024 19:29

This list contains the Reading and Writing activities for our Grade 12 English Language Arts course.

Type	Lesson	Reading Title	Author	Category	Subcategory
Texts	Part 1: Epic Poetry: Gilgamesh	from Gilgamesh: A New English Version	Stephen Mitchell translation	Fiction	Epic Poetry
Texts	Part 2: Epic Poetry: Gilgamesh	from Gilgamesh: A New English Version	Stephen Mitchell translation	Fiction	Epic Poetry
Texts	Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature: Beowulf	from Beowulf: A New Verse Translation	Seamus Heaney translation	Fiction	Epic Poetry
Texts	Characterization in Grendel	from Grendel	John Gardner	Fiction	Epic Poetry
Texts	Satire in The Pardoner's Tale	from The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	Fiction	Narrative Poem
Texts	Chivalry in the Middle Ages: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	W.S. Merwin translation	Fiction	Narrative Poem
Texts	Central Ideas and Context: Utopia	from Utopia	Thomas More	Fiction	Fictional Travel Narrative
Texts	Speeches of Queen Elizabeth I	"Message to Her Army at Tilbury" and "Response to Parliament's request that she marry"	Queen Elizabeth I	Nonfiction	Speech
Texts	Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan England	from Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethn England	Ian Mortimer	Nonfiction	Historical Nonfiction
Texts	Part 2: Summarizing Central Ideas about Elizabethan England	from Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethn England	Ian Mortimer	Nonfiction	Historical Nonfiction
Texts	Part 3: Text Structure in an Informational Text	from Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethn England	Ian Mortimer	Nonfiction	Historical Nonfiction
Texts	Hamlet, Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan Theater	Act I, scenes i and ii	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Hamlet, Part 2: Word Choice and Tone	Act I, scenes iii-v, Act II, scene i	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Hamlet, Part 3: Figurative Language and Allusions	Act II, scene ii	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Hamlet, Part 4: Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations	Act III, scene i	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama	Act III, scenes ii and iii	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Hamlet, Part 6: Applying Literary Criticism	Act III, scene iv, Act IV, scenes i-iv	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Hamlet, Part 7: Plot and Character	Act IV, scenes iv-vi	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Hamlet, Part 8: Themes	Act V, scenes i and ii	William Shakespeare	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Poetic Structure in Pope's Essay on Man	from Essay on Man	Alexander Pope	Fiction	Poem
Texts	Central Ideas in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft	Nonfiction	Essay
Texts	Satire in Swift's "A Modest Proposal"	from "A Modest Proposal"	Jonathan Swift	Nonfiction	Satirical Essay
Texts	Comparing Eighteenth-Century Texts on Slavery	from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species from Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African	Ottobah Cugoano Ignatius Sancho	Nonfiction	Essay Letter
Texts	Word Meaning in the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language	Excerpt from Samuel Johnson's preface to his dictionary	Samuel Johnson	Nonfiction	Essay
Texts	Enlightenment Ideas in America	"The Declaration of Independence" and "The Declaration of Sentiments"	Thomas Jefferson Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Nonfiction	Speech
Texts	Introduction to Romanticism	""I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud"" ""Kubla Khan""	William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Fiction	Poetry
Texts	Themes in the Poetry of Keats	""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" ""Ode to a Nightengale""	John Keats	Fiction	Poetry
Texts	Haiku and Romantic Poetry	Haikus of Basho, Buson, Issa	Basho, Buson, and Issa	Fiction	Poetry
Texts	Part 1: Gothic Fiction: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Part 2: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Plot Development and Conflict	From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Part 3: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Making Inferences and Predictions	From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Part 4: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Theme	From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Part 5: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Summary and Plot Development	From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Part 6: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Character	From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Part 7: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Conflict and Resolution	From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"	"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe	Fiction	Poem
Texts	Part 1: A Comedy of Manners: The Importance of Being Earnest	The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I	Oscar Wilde	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Part 2: Literary Devices in The Importance of Being Earnest	The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II	Oscar Wilde	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Part 3: Characterization in The Importance of Being Earnest	The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III	Oscar Wilde	Fiction	Drama
Texts	Comparing and Contrasting Two Versions of The War of the Worlds	from The War of the Worlds Excerpt from The War of the Worlds radio broadcast	H.G. Wells Orson Wells	Fiction	Novel Drama
Texts	Style in Poems by Rabindranath Tagore	"Song IV" and other poems	Rabindranath Tagore	Fiction	Poem
Texts	Sound and Structure in Pems by Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats	""An Irish Ariman Foresees His Death"" ""Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night""	Dylan Thomas W.B. Yeats	Fiction	Poetry
Texts	Analyzing US World War II Political Messages	1943 State of the Union Address	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Nonfiction	Speech/Propaganda
Texts	Argument in George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"	"Politics and the English Language"	George Orwell	Nonfiction	Essay
Texts	Part 1: Texts Details and Context Clues in an Informational Text	Excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects	Neil McGregor	Nonfiction	Informational Nonfiction
Texts	Part 2: Summarizing an Author's Viewpoint in an Informational Text	Excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects	Neil McGregor	Nonfiction	Informational Nonfiction
Texts	Part 3: Using Media to Extend Understanding of an Informational Text	Excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects	Neil McGregor	Nonfiction	Informational Nonfiction
Texts	Analyzing Ekphrastic Poetry	“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” “Musée des Beaux Arts”	William Carlos William W.H. Auden	Fiction	Poetry
Texts	Fantasy Literature: J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring	from The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien	Fiction	Novel
Texts	Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”	"Digging"	Seamus Heaney	Fiction	Poem
Texts	Allusions and Perspective in Derek Walcott’s Midsummer	from Midsummer	Derek Walcott	Fiction	Poem
Texts	Historical and Cultural Context in "Civil Peace"	"Civil Peace"	Chinua Achebe	Fiction	Short Story
Texts	Analyzing a Procedural Text: How to Find Out Anything	from How to Find Out Anything	Don MacLeod	Nonfiction	Procedural Nonfiction
Texts	Analyzing Career Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Web site	“Career Planning for High Schoolers”	Elka Torpey	Nonfiction	Web Text/ Public Document
Texts	Purpose and Format in “The Leader in the Mirror”	Leader in the Mirror	Pat Mora	Nonfiction	Essay
Projects	Creating a Time Travel Brochure	Create a brochure that convinces readers to travel to Elizabethan England.
Projects	Creating a Storyboard	Create a multimedia storyboard for a live adaptation of Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be” soliloquy.
Projects	Creating a Movie Poster	Create a movie poster that effectively advertises the film adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Projects	Creating a Museum Exhibit	Create a virtual museum exhibit based on an object that you believe to be culturally significant. Develop informative text that discusses the object, choose multimedia to enhance your exhibit, and design the exhibit to be visually appealing.
Essay Prompts	Writing a Narrative Application Essay	Write a narrative essay about a person you consider to be a hero. Share an experience that shows what you admire about that person and what impact he or she has had on you.
Essay Prompts	Writing an Informative Essay about Utopia	Write an informative essay in which you explain your vision of a utopia. Describe three aspects of your utopia using supporting details.
Essay Prompts	Writing a Research-Based Informative Essay about Language	Write an informative essay explaining what has caused the English spoken today to be different from the English spoken in earlier centuries.
Essay Prompts	Writing a Literary Analysis Essay about Poetry	Write an analytical essay explaining how three romantic poems connect to William Wordsworth’s ideas about poetry.
Essay Prompts	Writing an Argumentative Essay about an Ethical Issue	Write an argumentative essay in which you state and defend a claim about whether it is ethical to target uninformed consumers.
Essay Prompts	Writing an Analysis of Media Messages	Write an analytical essay in which you analyze and evaluate the techniques used in World War II propaganda.
Essay Prompts	Writing an Argument About How to Define Success	There are many views on what it means to be successful. Think about what success means to you. Write a well-reasoned argument in which you define and defend what it means to be successful in life. Support your definition with strong reasons and carefully chosen evidence.
Short Writing Assignments	Part 3: Writing to Analyze the Epic Hero in Gilgamesh	Write two paragraphs that analyze two points about why Gilgamesh is an epic hero. Be sure to use more than one example from the text to support each point.
Short Writing Assignments	Part 4: Writing to Evaluate Mortimer's Style	Write a paragraph that evaluates the effectiveness of Mortimer’s style in The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.
Short Writing Assignments	Hamlet, Part 8: Themes	Write two to three sentences summarizing how the play develops a theme related to the topic of revenge. Be sure to use objective language and include at least one example from the text.
Short Writing Assignments	Satire in Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (continued)	Write a paragraph that objectively summarizes Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and explains his purpose.
Short Writing Assignments	Part 7: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Conflict and Resolution	In four to five sentences, explain how this passage connects to the theme “Evil can never truly hide itself.”
Short Writing Assignments	Part 4: Writing an Argumentative Paragraph about an Informational Text	Write a paragraph that states and defends a claim about which object from The History of the World in 100 Objects is the most historically significant. Choose one of the following objects: the Benin plaques, The Great Wave, the Sudanese slit drum, or the suffragette-defaced penny.
Short Writing Assignments	Writing a Persuasive E-mail	Write a formal persuasive e-mail to a community leader to address a social concern.
Short Writing Assignments	Writing a Personal Statement	Write a personal statement about how your education has prepared you to take on your next step after high school.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 1: Epic Poetry: Gilgamesh	Identify a feature of epic poetry in the passage. In three to four sentences, explain its impact on the epic’s plot.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 1: Epic Poetry: Gilgamesh	In three to four sentences, explain how repetition affects the story told in this part of Gilgamesh.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 2: Epic Hero: Gilgamesh	Write two to three sentences explaining how Gilgamesh demonstrates the characteristics of an epic hero. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Short-Response Prompts	Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature: Beowulf	Listen to an excerpt from Beowulf here. Write two to three sentences explaining what you notice about the language of the poem.
Short-Response Prompts	Characterization in Grendel	These passages from Beowulf and Grendel describe feasts in Hrothgar’s hall. Write three to four sentences comparing and contrasting how the people are characterized in each passage. Use details from the text to support your answer
Short-Response Prompts	Writing a Narrative Application Essay	Write a few sentences explaining what you think makes someone a hero.
Short-Response Prompts	Writing a Narrative Application Essay	Think about a topic that addresses the prompt. Then, describe your topic, including the subject and a story you may tell.
Short-Response Prompts	Writing a Narrative Application Essay	Write a few lines of dialogue based on this scenario. Chester is heading home after his first day at a new school when he realizes that he left his wallet in his locker. He needs money for a bus ride home. He sees his new classmates nearby.
Short-Response Prompts	Writing a Narrative Application Essay	Read this story, which is in chronological order. Write a version of the same story, this time starting the story in the middle.
Short-Response Prompts	Writing a Narrative Application Essay	Write a reflection to include in your narrative essay. Be sure to write about how your experience has left a lasting impact, how it has changed your thinking, or how it connects to another area of your life or to the world.
Short-Response Prompts	Satire in The Pardoner’s Tale	Imagine that you were writing a modern version of The Canterbury Tales. List five people or types of people you would choose to represent a cross-section of your community.
Short-Response Prompts	Satire in The Pardoner’s Tale	Consider Chaucer’s use of satire in The Canterbury Tales. What purpose does this satire serve? Write three to four sentences connecting details from the story to what you know about medieval England.
Short-Response Prompts	Chivalry in the Middle Ages: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	How do the values of chivalry affect the characters in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Short-Response Prompts	Central Ideas and Context: Utopia	Identify and critique a central idea of Utopia. State the specific details with which you agree or disagree, and explain your position.
Short-Response Prompts	Parts of Speech: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives	Revise this sentence by replacing all gerunds with infinitives. “I keep telling people that I love dancing, writing, and to paint.”
Short-Response Prompts	Parts of Speech: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives	Revise this sentence by changing all of the infinitives to gerunds. “To run competitively means to learn everything about yourself while having the time of your life.” Revise this sentence by changing all of the infinitives to gerunds. “To run competitively means to learn everything about yourself while having the time of your life.” Revise this sentence by changing all of the infinitives to gerunds. “To run competitively means to learn everything about yourself while having the time of your life.”
Short-Response Prompts	Speeches of Queen Elizabeth I	Write two to four sentences comparing the excerpts from Queen Elizabeth’s speeches. Be sure to consider each speech’s purpose and use of rhetorical appeals.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan England	In three to five sentences, identify and explain the effect of the point of view in this passage.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 2: Summarizing Central Ideas about Elizabethan England	Think about the central ideas in “Hygiene, Illness, and Medicine.” Write three to four sentences that summarize the chapter.
Short-Response Prompts	Introduction to Elizabethan Theater: Hamlet, Part 1	Write two to three sentences explaining how the introduction of the ghost in Act I of Hamlet helps draw the audience into the play.
Short-Response Prompts	Figurative Language and Allusions in Hamlet, Part 3	Hamlet says, “Denmark’s a prison.” Write two to three sentences in which you identify the type of figurative language Hamlet uses here and analyze its meaning and effects.
Short-Response Prompts	Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations of Hamlet, Part 4	Write four to five sentences describing how the two adaptations of Hamlet are similar and how they are different. Include an explanation of how the adaptations affected your understanding of Hamlet’s character.
Short-Response Prompts	Comparing and Contrasting Interpretations of Hamlet, Part 4	Write three to four sentences explaining which adaptation of Hamlet you think is more successful. Use specific evidence from the adaptations to support your claims.
Short-Response Prompts	Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama in Hamlet, Part 5	Write two to three sentences explaining what makes Hamlet a round character. Use at least one specific example from the text to support your claims.
Short-Response Prompts	Plot and Character in Hamlet, Part 7	Write two to three sentences explaining how Ophelia changes over the course of the play. Include at least one plot event that causes Ophelia to change.
Short-Response Prompts	Poetic Structure in Pope’s Essay on Man	Write two to three sentences describing the effects of Pope’s use of repetition in the passage.
Short-Response Prompts	Central Ideas in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Write an objective summary that includes two to three central ideas from the dedication to Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Short-Response Prompts	Satire in Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”	Whom or what is Swift criticizing in his satire, and what techniques does he use to make his point? Write a two- to three-sentence response, using examples from the text to support your answer.
Short-Response Prompts	Satire in Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” (Continued)	Write a one- to two-sentence paraphrase of the passage. Be sure to maintain an objective tone.
Short-Response Prompts	Comparing Eighteenth-Century Texts on Slavery	Read the passages, and then write two to three sentences comparing the authors’ approaches and purposes. Cite specific evidence from the texts to support your claims.
Short-Response Prompts	Word Meaning in Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language	Read the passages. Then, write two to three sentences explaining how the meaning and connotation of the word lexicographer differs in each passage.
Short-Response Prompts	Introduction to Romanticism	Write two to three sentences comparing the two poems and explaining how each poem reflects the time period in which it was written.
Short-Response Prompts	Themes in the Poetry of Keats	Write two to four sentences comparing the themes of the two poems. Use evidence from the texts to support your answer.
Short-Response Prompts	Haiku and Romantic Poetry	Write two to three sentences explaining the similarities and differences between the haiku by Bashō and the first stanza of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Consider each poem’s structure and use of motifs.
Short-Response Prompts	Speaking and Listening: Planning a Multimedia Presentation	In four to five sentences, write a brief plan for your presentation. Explain the steps you will take to create your presentation.
Short-Response Prompts	Speaking and Listening: Planning a Multimedia Presentation	Imagine that you need to change your presentation to convince a group of your peers to support a fundraiser for clean water. In a few sentences, explain what changes you would make to your original presentation.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 1: Gothic Fiction: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Write two to four sentences explaining how Stevenson generates suspense in the first two chapters of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Include specific details from the text.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 2: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Plot Development and Conflict	Write two to three sentences explaining how this passage creates suspense.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 5:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Summary and Plot Development	Recall important events that have taken place so far in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In your own words, summarize chapters 1–8 of the story.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 5:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Summary and Plot Development	In five to six sentences, summarize the events in “Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative.” Think about the chapter’s important details and events.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 5:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Summary and Plot Development	In three to four sentences, explain which climactic moment you believe is the true climax of the story. Defend your response using specific details from the story.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 6:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Character	Reflect on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In five to six sentences, explain how Dr. Jekyll develops.
Short-Response Prompts	Creating a Movie Poster	Craft an effective tagline for a movie poster that depicts Dr. Jekyll mixing the potion that will turn him into Mr. Hyde.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 1: A Comedy of Manners: The Importance of Being Earnest	In three to four sentences, explain how this passage uses humor to critique Victorian views about the importance of family.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 2: Literary Devices in The Importance of Being Earnest	Write two to three sentences explaining the pun on the name Ernest in the passage and how the pun connects to a serious issue or question.
Short-Response Prompts	Comparing and Contrasting Two Versions of The War of the Worlds	In three to four sentences, explain how the medium of the story, a radio broadcast, affects its aesthetic impact.
Short-Response Prompts	Comparing and Contrasting Two Versions of The War of the Worlds	In two to three sentences, compare and contrast the aesthetic impact of the novel The War of the Worlds with that of the radio broadcast adaptation.
Short-Response Prompts	Style in Poems by Rabindranath Tagore	Read Tagore’s poem and analyze the use of apostrophe. Draw a conclusion and write two or three sentences about the overall effect that apostrophe has on the reader.
Short-Response Prompts	Sound and Structure in Poems by Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats	Write a short paragraph comparing and contrasting the themes in “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” and “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Your response should include at least one example of how each poem uses sound or structure to develop its theme.
Short-Response Prompts	Analyzing US World War II Political Messages	In two or three sentences, explain what President Roosevelt is asking of his audience. Include examples of rhetoric from the speech that support your explanation.
Short-Response Prompts	Analyzing US World War II Political Messages	Write two to three sentences in which you compare and contrast the messages of the advertisement and the speech. Include examples to support your explanation.
Short-Response Prompts	Argument in George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”	Write two to four sentences in which you identify Orwell’s purpose for writing and describe how he achieves that purpose. Include one or more examples from the text to support your ideas.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 1: Text Details and Context Clues in an Informational Text	Write two to three sentences explaining how the image reinforces the text.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 2: Summarizing and Author’s Viewpoint in an Informational Text	Write a brief summary of the chapter about ""The Great Wave"".
Short-Response Prompts	Part 3: Using Media to Extend Understanding of an Informational Text	Use this space to take notes as you listen.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 3: Using Media to Extend Understanding of an Informational Text	Write three to five sentences explaining one way that listening to the podcast enhanced your understanding of the text.
Short-Response Prompts	Analyzing Ekphrastic Poetry	In three to five sentences, compare and contrast the poems’ descriptions of the painting. Use details to support your answer.
Short-Response Prompts	Sound and Structure in Poems by Dylan Thomas and W. B. Yeats	Write a short paragraph comparing and contrasting the themes in “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” and “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Your response should include at least one example of how each poem uses sound or structure to develop its theme.
Short-Response Prompts	Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”	Write three to four sentences in which you compare and contrast Seamus Heaney’s poem “Digging” and the haiku by Bashō.
Short-Response Prompts	Analyzing US World War II Political Messages	In two or three sentences, explain what President Roosevelt is asking of his audience. Include examples of rhetoric from the speech that support your explanation.
Short-Response Prompts	Analyzing US World War II Political Messages	Write two to three sentences in which you compare and contrast the messages of the advertisement and the speech. Include examples to support your explanation.
Short-Response Prompts	Argument in George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”	Write two to four sentences in which you identify Orwell’s purpose for writing and describe how he achieves that purpose. Include one or more examples from the text to support your ideas.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 1: Text Details and Context Clues in an Informational Text (A History of the World in 100 Objects)	Write two to three sentences explaining how the image reinforces the text.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 2: Summarizing and Author’s Viewpoint in an Informational Text (A History of the World in 100 Objects)	Write a brief summary of the chapter about The Great Wave.
Short-Response Prompts	Part 3: Using Media to Extend Understanding of an Informational Text (A History of the World in 100 Objects)	Write three to five sentences explaining one way that listening to the podcast enhanced your understanding of the text.
Short-Response Prompts	Analyzing Ekphrastic Poetry	In three to five sentences, compare and contrast the poems’ descriptions of the painting. Use details to support your answer.
Short-Response Prompts	Creating a Museum Exhibit	Take a few minutes to think of an object that you would like to research. In the space below, briefly explain what object interests you and why.
Short-Response Prompts	Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”	Write three to four sentences in which you compare and contrast Seamus Heaney’s poem “Digging” and the haiku by Bashō.
Short-Response Prompts	Allusions and Perspective in Derek Walcott’s Midsummer	Identify and analyze two allusions in Midsummer. Write a short paragraph explaining what these allusions reveal about the speaker’s perspective.
Short-Response Prompts	Historical and Cultural Context in “Civil Peace”	Write one to two sentences identifying an event from your life that could be an inspiration for a fictional story.
Short-Response Prompts	Analyzing Career Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Website	In three to four sentences, discuss how the structure of “Career Planning for High Schoolers” is effective in supporting a reader’s understanding of the text.
Short-Response Prompts	Purpose and Format in “The Leader in the Mirror”	Write three to four sentences explaining how Mora’s choice to express herself in two different modes relates to her goals as a writer.
Short-Response Prompts	Speaking and Listening: Formal Debate	Based on the evidence you have, write one sentence that gives the claim you will support as the affirmative for this resolution: “Standardized tests should no longer be required for college admission.”

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