Whole Store Bundle for High School English (Reading, Creative Writing) - For Google Drive Only

Support the development of narrative writing and close reading skills for high school with this growing bundle supplemental resources for teaching creative writing, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, The House on Mango Street, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, The Hobbit, Catcher in the Rye, Dracula, Lord of the Flies, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, more than 200 short stories representing a variety of authors and genres, and more. Featuring over 2,000 individual resources, this bundle offers flexibility to differentiate lessons and satisfy the academic needs of high school English students of diverse ability levels.

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Materials are designed to help students develop proficiency in demonstrating a range of abilities:

• To apply knowledge of complex literary devices to texts including foreshadowing, situational irony, dramatic irony, hyperbole, personification, metaphor, symbolism, theme, and more 

• To analyze context clues and draw logical inferences about character motivations and other elements of plot

• To discern details that illustrate contrasts between characters

• To define complex words by taking into consideration denotative definitions, connotative definitions, and context clues 

• To find and articulate relevant textual details in support of claims

• To discern mood and tone in context

• To discern author’s intent

• To conduct brief research and articulate historical and autobiographical parallels

• To analyze text structures

• To analyze text to determine the function of an excerpt

• To analyze a text for how it conforms to the conventions of a particular genre

• To explore how the author unfolds events to create effects such as suspense

• To establish formal tone, paying attention to conventions of written English 

• To take leadership in class discussions, addressing nuances in the author’s craft to help peers understand literature from different perspectives

• To pose/respond to questions relating to plot, broad topics, and character development

• To demonstrate literal comprehension of plot, including character relationships, settings, and conflicts

• To isolate true statements from false options

• To summarize key details

• To conduct brief research on subjects and apply knowledge gained to various performance tasks

• To craft creative, coherent narratives that are consistent with the conventions of a particular genre

Novels covered include:

• 1984 by George Orwell

• A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck

• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• Dracula by Bram Stoker

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

• Feed by M.T. Anderson

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 

• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin

• The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer

• The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Shakespearean texts covered include:

• As You Like It

• Hamlet

• Julius Caesar

• King Lear

• Love's Labour's Lost

• Macbeth

• Much Ado About Nothing

• Othello

• Romeo & Juliet

• The Merchant of Venice

• The Taming of the Shrew

• The Tempest

• Twelfth Night

Short stories covered include ( * = public domain text included): 

• "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf *

• "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka *

• "A Journey" by Edith Wharton *

• "A Mild Attack of Locusts" by Doris Lessing

• "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett *

• "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry *

• "All the Years of Her Life" by Morley Callaghan

• "Barbie-Q” by Sandra Cisneros

• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Beware of the Dog" by Roald Dahl

• "Black Angel" by Nancy Springer

• "Bliss" by Katherine Mansfield *

• "Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird" by Toni Cade Bambara

• "Cat and Mouse in Partnership" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Charles" by Shirley Jackson

• "Cinderella" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Clever Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Cool Air" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Dagon" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe

• "Désirée’s Baby" by Kate Chopin *

• "Donkey Cabbages" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne *

• "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros

• "Ex Oblivione" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "From Beyond" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Gift of the Magi" by O’Henry *

• "Gwilan’s Harp" by Ursula K. Le Guin

• "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

• "History Lesson" by Arthur C. Clarke

• "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "Hypnos" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "In the Vault" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl

• "Little Red Cap" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Lose Now, Pay Later" by Carol Farley

• "Memory" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Middle Woman" by Orson Scott Card

• "Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin" by Marvin Kaye

• "Old Bugs" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Old Woman Magoun" by Mary E. Wilkins

• "Polaris" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "Priscilla and the Wimps" by Richard Peck

• "Rapunzel" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Raymond’s Run" by Toni Cade Bambara

• "Rumpelstiltskin" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell *

• "Sleeping Beauty" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Souvenir" by Jayne Anne Phillips

• "Spunk" by Zora Neale Hurston

• "Stolen Day" by Sherwood Anderson

• "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston

• "The Beast in the Cave" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Beginning of Grief" by Larry Woiwode

• "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov

• "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Businessman" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Cats of Ulthar" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain *

• "The Chaser" by John Collier

• "The Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket" by Jack Finney

• "The Cop and the Anthem" by O. Henry *

• "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving *

• "The Dinner Party" by Mona Gardner

• "The Dog and the Sparrow" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Duke’s Children" by Frank O’Connor

• "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen *

• "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Frog King" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield *

• "The Godfather" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Goose Girl" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• "The Hound" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Imp of the Perverse" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Island of the Fay" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter *

• "The Juniper Tree" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov

• "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry *

• "The Legend of the Christmas Rose" by Selma Lagerlöf *

• "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen *

• "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson *

• "The Lurking Fear" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Maiden Without Hands" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" by Leslie Marmon Silko

• "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Monkey’s Paw" by W.W. Jacobs *

• "The Moon-Bog" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell *

• "The New Dress" by Virginia Woolf *

• "The No-Guitar Blues" by Gary Soto

• "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane *

• "The Open Window" by Saki *

• "The Other Gods" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Outsider" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Owl" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Portable Phonograph" by Walter Clark

• "The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Quiet Man" by Maurice Walsh

• "The Raven" by the Brothers Grimm*

• "The Sentimentality of William Tavener” by Willa Cather

• "The Sphinx" by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Star" by H.G. Wells *

• "The Star Beast” by Nicholas Stuart Gray

• "The Stolen Farthings" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "The Stone Boy" by Gina Berriault

• "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

• "The Storyteller" by Saki *

• "The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe *

• "The Terrible Old Man" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Test" by Theodore Thomas

• "The Tomb" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Tree" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen *

• "The Very Old Folk" by H.P. Lovecraft *

• "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin

• "The Wind Blows" by Katherine Mansfield *

• "The Wives of the Dead" by Nathaniel Hawthorne *

• "The Wolf and the Fox" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

• "Three Wise Guys: A Christmas Story" by Sandra Cisneros

• "To Build a Fire" by Jack London *

• "Tom Thumb" by the Brothers Grimm *

• "Who Am I This Time?" by Kurt Vonnegut

• "You’re Ugly, Too" by Lorrie Moore

• "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• and more

Creative Writing resources include:

• Gothic Horror Narrative Project Materials

• Science Fiction Narrative Project Materials

• Fantasy Fiction Narrative Project Materials

• Adventure Fiction Narrative Project Materials

• Fairy Tale Narrative Project Materials

• Realistic Fiction Narrative Project Materials

• Media Review Project Materials

• Grammar Practice Worksheets

  • Complete Sentences & Fragments

  • Subjects & Predicates

  • Main Verbs & Helping Verbs

  • Transitive & Intransitive Verbs

  • Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

  • Common Usage Errors

  • Apostrophes

  • Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

  • Comparative & Superlative Adverbs

  • Singular & Plural Indefinite Pronouns

  • Possessive Pronouns

  • Demonstrative & Interrogative Pronouns

  • Numerals

  • Active Voice

  • Verb Tenses

  • Compound Subjects and Verb Agreement

  • Commas, Conjunctions, and Semicolons

  • Word Roots

  • Capitalization Errors

  • Verbals

  • Synonyms

Journalism/Digital Media resources include:

• Writing for Video Production

• Journalistic Functions Google Slideshow

• Journalistic Ethics Google Slideshow

• Interviewing Skills Google Slideshow

• Determining Newsworthiness Google Slideshow