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“The Story of an Hour” Extension Activities: Teacher’s Guide and Notes Lesson Plan“The Story of an Hour” Extension Activities: Teacher’s Guide and Notes Lesson Plan
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“The Story of an Hour” Extension Activities: Teacher’s Guide and Notes

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  • Lesson Plans: "The Story of an Hour" Grade 8 (.html)
  • Introduction (.pdf)
  • Teacher's Guide - All Lessons (.pdf)
  • Scaffolding for Middle School ELLs: The Story of an Hour
  • Student Charts - All Lessons (.pdf)
  • Student Charts - Extension Activities (.pdf)
  • Mini-lesson: Context Clues (.pptx)
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  • Mini-lesson: Irony (.pptx)
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Enhance and extend instruction of "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin with one or all of these ideas. You might want to cover characterization and summary, or improve understanding of context clues and irony. You can cover any combination of those topics and skills with the activities, presentations, worksheets, and other additional materials included here. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

character traits, characters, characterization, irony, literary devices, context clues, summarizing

Additional Tags

irony, context clues, kate chopin, story of an hour, characterization, character trait, summarize, english language arts

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  • Comes with everything you need to complete the activities

Cons

  • These are supplementary materials; initial instruction of the story will need to be taught separately from the included activities

Common Core

SL.8.5 L.8.4.a L.8.5.a

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