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Common Lit: Rasuptin: Mysteries of a Monk's Life and Death Unit PlanCommon Lit: Rasuptin: Mysteries of a Monk's Life and Death Unit Plan
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9th - 10th
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Common Lit: Rasuptin: Mysteries of a Monk's Life and Death

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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 the definitions, choose to have the text read aloud, and have chosen text translated. The following article discusses the influence of Rasputin on the Romanov family. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

guided reading, informational texts, reading comprehension

Additional Tags

commonlit.org, commonlit: rasuptin: mysteries of a monk's life and death, rasputin, romanov dynasty, tsar nicholas ii, informational text about history

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice

Common Core

CCRA.R.10

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