Team of Rivals Teaching Unit

This teaching unit for Team of Rivals provides introductory activities to get your students started, study guide questions and essay prompts for every chapter in the book, post-reading activities, vocabulary assignments, and final assessments. Includes answer keys. Suitable for AP Government and AP US History students and college courses, though this could be adapted for other levels as well. No need to spend hours coming up with your own assignments and assessments -- it has been done for you.

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TEAM OF RIVALS Study Guide Part 1

This is an extensive set of study guide questions for Part 1 of Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Part 1 is the first 11 chapters. Part 2 is coming soon.

Each chapter has a set of questions for students to answer as they read the book. The questions engage the students with the text, requiring them to read closely.

An essay prompt is provided for each chapter, as well.

This study guide is suitable for high school students in history or language arts. Would work well in AP Government or AP US History.

Includes a full set of answers for all of the the study guide questions.

This can be used as an assignment for students as they read Team of Rivals, or as a set of questions to draw from for an exam. The essay questions can be assigned as a separate writing component.

The study guide questions for chapters 1 and 2 are available in the free preview. Please download and take a look to see if this guide will fit your needs.

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A New England Nun study guide

This contains the full text of "A New England Nun" by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman along with a study guide containing 9 questions for that can be used as a review activity or as the students read independently. 

The questions hit different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, allowing the students to reflect upon what they read, as well as let the teacher know whether or not the students comprehend the reading. Includes the answers.

Questions can also be used as a question bank for making exams or quizzes.

The study guide is in Microsoft Word format, allowing you to easily modify the questions to fit your students’ needs. Also works great if you need to email this assignment to someone since it has the text along with the questions.

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A New England Nun Study Guide

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The Scarlet Ibis - Study guide questions

This is a 34-question study guide for the short story "The Scarlet Ibis." Questions vary in difficulty from mere facts and details to harder analytical questions.

Made for 9th or 10th grade level students.

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The Scarlet Ibis Study Guide

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Romeo and Juliet Prologue Activity

In this fun introductory activity for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, students get a chance to act out the Prologue before they start reading the rest of the play.

The handout contains the text and instructions for the presentations. Very fun introduction to one of Shakespeare's most popular works.

Romeo and Juliet Prologue Activity

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