Literature Analysis Lessons/Activities

This board showcases literary analysis activities for middle school and high school students. Find lesson plans that teach secondary students how to develop comprehension, critical thinking, and writing skills that motivate them to keep questioning verbally and in writing. Enjoy Teaching Literary Analysis Every Day.
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Literature Task Cards: Nurture S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Thinking
Self-Guided Task Card packets offer students the kindling they need to grow academically. Their confidence levels rise because their thinking skills are gaining mental muscles. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachwriting #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteachingenglish
Writing: Let Mother Goose Motivate Writers
Mother Goose rhymes motivate and develop middle and high school students' analytic thinking and writing skills. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteachingenglish
Analyzing Literature: Keep Questioniing!
Offer students the opportunity to think for themselves, and to have confidence in their thinking. Ultimately, we want students to “Show us what they are thinking." Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachwriting #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #iloveteachingenglish #ELAteachers
The Canterbury Tales: Prologue: Genres, Satire Lessons & Activities
Enjoy this more focused product for a limited study of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #iloveteachingenglish #classroom #classroommanagement #ELAteachers
Conflict Analysis Activity: "It's Time for Cause and Consequence"
Students explore the permanent connection between Character-Conflict-Resolution. When they have completed the required work,they will be more aware of how every action leads to a reaction, and how both impact the Resolution. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #iloveteachingenglish #ELAteachers
Analyzing Literature: Four Critical Thinking Activities
Empower students to create strong literary analysis homes with lessons and activities that strengthen their critical thinking skills and comprehension of any text they are studying. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachwriting #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #ELAteachers
Play: The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
With its historical significance and timeliness with contemporary news stories, this play is excellent for a cross-curriculum study of the Salem Witch trials (1692), and the 1950s U.S. Red Scare. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteachingenglish #ELAteachers
Literature: Creating Drama
Creating drama is a natural for young people. These activities offer them the chance to combine their realities with the fiction that they design. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachwriting #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #iloveteachingenglish
Literature: Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Engage students with lessons and activities for studying this dystopian novella. It includes a sample agenda calendar, allegorical elements, propaganda techniques, writing ideas, assessments,and more. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #ELAteachers
Literary Analysis: MAKING the MOST of TIME
This self-guided packet offers a personalized schedule and activity choices which empower students to keep their skills in motion. It's great for Independent Study. teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Literary-Analysis-Independent-Activity-CCSS-MAKING-the-MOST-of-TIME-681650 Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #middleschoolideas #highschoolideas #teachersfollowteachers
Analyzing Literature: Four Critical Thinking Activities
These activities will strengthen students' comprehension of any text that they are studying with activities that address four of the elements of literature. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #iloveteachingenglish #ELAteachers
Literary Analysis: It's Time for Cause and Consequence
In this conflict analysis activity, students analyze the permanent connection between Character-Conflict-Resolution and recognize how every action leads to a reaction, and how both impact the Resolution. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteachingenglish #ELAteachers
Novel Pairings: Issues in Literature
Time passes... Issues don't. They just change their wording to fit societal expectations. Students pair stories from Then and Now to analyze. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #ELAteachers
Analyzing Literature: Tying It All Together
Understanding how the elements of literature create resilient structures empowers students to build sturdy academic homes. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachwriting #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #researchactivities #englishclass #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #iloveteachingenglish #classroom #classroommanagement #ELAteachers
Reading Analysis Activity: You Are Invited
For "You are Invited!," students choose the type of party, the guest list, the menu, and more using the information they have gleaned from a text that they have been studying in class or reading independently. Download – Print/Digital – TEACH! #teachenglish #teachliterature #teachliteraryanalysis #teacherspayteachers #homeschool #teachersofinstagram #middleschoolteachingideas #highschoolteachingideas #teachersfollowteachers #igteachers #iloveteaching #iloveteachingenglish #ELAteachers