9th Grade Literature Worksheets

Are you looking for an interesting way to integrate your students' love for anime and your love for literary elements? This front and back worksheet can be assigned virtually or printed for independent work. Students will watch an episode of their favorite anime and analyze for setting, conflict, theme, mood, and symbolism. This resource can be used for extension work, passion projects, or a flex day in ELA.

Character analysis, graphic organizer, and descriptive writing for any novel.

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For grades 6 to 9

This resource is crafted to deepen comprehension and critical thinking through structured sections covering main characters, summary, short-response questions, and long-response questions.

Worksheet Sections:

Section One: Main Characters

• Identifies and explores key characters introduced in Chapter One, Part I, including their roles and relationships within Stephen Dedalus's early life and development.

Section Two: Summary

• Summarizes the main events and themes introduced in Chapter One, Part I, providing students with a concise overview of Stephen Dedalus's formative experiences and initial encounters with societal expectations and personal identity.

Section Three: Short-Response Questions

• Encourages critical engagement with the text through targeted short-response questions that prompt students to analyze character motivations, narrative techniques, and thematic elements presented in the chapter.

Section Four: Long-Response Questions

• Fosters deeper exploration and reflection with long-response questions that invite students to delve into broader themes, such as the portrayal of childhood innocence, the influence of religion, and the beginnings of Stephen's artistic consciousness.

This resource is crafted to deepen comprehension and critical thinking through structured sections covering main characters, summary, short-response questions, and long-response questions.

Worksheet Sections:

Section One: Main Characters

• Identifies and explores key characters introduced in Chapter One, Part I, including their roles and relationships within Stephen Dedalus's early life and development.

Section Two: Summary

• Summarizes the main events and themes introduced in Chapter One, Part I, providing students with a concise overview of Stephen Dedalus's formative experiences and initial encounters with societal expectations and personal identity.

Section Three: Short-Response Questions

• Encourages critical engagement with the text through targeted short-response questions that prompt students to analyze character motivations, narrative techniques, and thematic elements presented in the chapter.

Section Four: Long-Response Questions

• Fosters deeper exploration and reflection with long-response questions that invite students to delve into broader themes, such as the portrayal of childhood innocence, the influence of religion, and the beginnings of Stephen's artistic consciousness.

This is a graphic organizer for A Midsummer Night's Dream that helps students to track the highly confusing "love arrows" between the four young lovers. You can give this to students at the beginning of the play and ask them to track the love arrows as they read. My students have told me that this simple worksheet has helped them tremendously to keep the characters straight!

Answer key with brief explanations of arrow changes is also included for your reference.

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This resource is crafted to deepen comprehension and critical thinking through structured sections covering main characters, summary, short-response questions, and long-response questions.

Worksheet Sections:

Section One: Main Characters

• Identifies and explores key characters introduced in Chapter One, Part I, including their roles and relationships within Stephen Dedalus's early life and development.

Section Two: Summary

• Summarizes the main events and themes introduced in Chapter One, Part I, providing students with a concise overview of Stephen Dedalus's formative experiences and initial encounters with societal expectations and personal identity.

Section Three: Short-Response Questions

• Encourages critical engagement with the text through targeted short-response questions that prompt students to analyze character motivations, narrative techniques, and thematic elements presented in the chapter.

Section Four: Long-Response Questions

• Fosters deeper exploration and reflection with long-response questions that invite students to delve into broader themes, such as the portrayal of childhood innocence, the influence of religion, and the beginnings of Stephen's artistic consciousness.

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Romeo and Juliet is a play created by Shakespeare. It is a tragic romantic story where the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are supposed to be fierce opponents but ultimately fall in love. Due to the ongoing conflict between their families, they cannot be with each other, resulting in their decision to end their lives as they cannot bear the agony of being apart. Romeo and Juliet is a heartbreaking drama written by Shakespeare.

Unquestionably, the primary and most important theme of the play is love. The drama focuses on romantic love, especially the passionate longing that ignites immediately when Romeo and Juliet encounter each other for the first time. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a passionate, thrilling, prevailing force that transcends all other values, loyalties, and emotions.

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The excerpt from "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored" by Clifton L. Taulbert appears in my school's 8th grade red McDougal Littell textbook. This product instructs students to read and annotated a xeroxed copy of the text. Then they have 6 text-based questions to answer in complete sentence that ask them to analyze the text. The questions are on the following topics: characterization, plot, inference, author's craft, and theme. An answer key is included.

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This product features a form for students to recommend books they have read to their peers. My school has a mandatory program for students in which they must read for at least 30 minutes every day and always have their pleasure reading book with them in school. I like to keep a binder of book recommendations from the students themselves with their recommendations for use throughout the year. The feedback I receive for doing this is awesome - kids love that the recommendations are coming from each other... not from me! This is also a great form to distribute at the beginning of the year so that your students can recommend the books they read over the summer. Start your prep for next year early! _________________________________________________________________________ Also, check out these great resources that can be adapted for any novel by Language Arts Excellence: Novel Soundtrack Assignment Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan and Materials Adaptable for ANY Topic Differentiated End of Term Reflection Activities Differentiated End of Year Reflection Activities Differentiated Essay Prompts for use with ANY Novel – FREE!

NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 20-page EDITABLE document invites your students to analyze the literary devices used in The Great Gatsby. This activity promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The worksheets on literary devices will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights!

Here's what you'll find inside:

• Figurative Language Quizzes (x3): Each quiz challenges students to identify the types of figurative language — metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, paradox, etc. — used in 25 quotations from The Great Gatsby. The quizzes cover the figurative language used in chapters 1-3, chapters 4-6, and chapters 7-9 — so you can roll out each quiz after your class finishes three chapters and see whether they're improving. This worksheet can be used either as a fun exercise or as a quiz. This worksheet provides students with great practice at identifying the kinds of literary devices that frequently appear on the SAT, ACT, and AP Literature exams. Answer keys included. (15 pages)

• Sound Devices Worksheet: This worksheet challenges students to explain how a range of sound devices — such as alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia — contribute to the novel's meaning. Fitzgerald was a poetic writer whose ear was acutely attuned to the resonances of sound, and there are many passages in his novel where the sounds of the words help to create an aural ambiance. This worksheet can similarly be used either as a fun exercise or as a quiz. Answer key included. (2 pages)

• Figurative Language Glossary: This bundle also includes a glossary with definitions of the literary devices as well as examples of how they're used in Fitzgerald's novel. You'll want to distribute the glossary to students and give them a night to study it before rolling out the worksheets/quizzes. Fyi, there is no overlap between sentences from Fitzgerald's novel used as examples in the glossary and the sentences included in the worksheets. (1 page)

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