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Common Lit: Excerpt From Walden

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" by Ida B. Wells, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From Pride and Prejudice

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Common Lit: Excerpts From Jane Eyre

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpts from Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From "A Christmas Carol": The Second of the Three Spirits

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from 'A Christmas Carol': The Second of the Three Spirits" by Charles Dickens, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From Far From the Madding Crowd

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Far From the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From "The Trip of Le Horla"

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from "The Trip of Le Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From the Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Act Iii, Scenes I, Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from the Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Act III, Scenes I, II" by William Shakespeare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From "On Drought Conditions"

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from "On Drought Conditions"" by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From "Civil Disobedience"

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with Henry David Thoreau's "Excerpt from 'Civil Disobedience'" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From "Susan B. Anthony, the Woman"

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from 'Susan B. Anthony, the Woman'" by Helen Dare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From "Our America"

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with Jose Marti's essay "Excerpt from 'Our America'" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From Honky

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Honky" by Dalton Conley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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Common Lit: Excerpts From "Song of Myself": 1, 2, 6, 52

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpts from 'Song of Myself': 1, 2, 6, 52" by Walt Whitman, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From the Prince

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with " Excerpt from The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From Frankenstein: Chapter 16

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Frankenstein: Chapter 16" by Mary Shelley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From the Jungle

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From the Tempest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from The Tempest" by William Shakespeare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From "Roughing It": Lost in the Snow

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from "Roughing It": Lost in the Snow" by Mark Twain, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From Five Weeks in a Balloon

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Five Weeks in a Balloon" by Jules Verne, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From the Odyssey: The Sirens

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from the Odyssey: The Sirens" by Homer, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Common Lit: Excerpts From Three Sisters

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpts from Three Sisters" a play by Anton Chekhov, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: Excerpt From My Mother's Voice: The Proclamation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...