Description

Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging The Fault in Our Stars activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.

To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your resources in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added Google Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of question aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).

TEXT: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green
LEVEL: 7th-12th
TOTAL: 312+ slides in lesson plan unit
→ Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included
Enjoy! And enjoy the larger infinities!

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Save $$$ and buy the bundle. → → → Print Version → → → Digital-only Version → → → Combo Version

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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS LITERATURE RESOURCE
♥ Love your novel units. They are amazing and well thought out.
♥ I really loved this. I was able to adapt it to fit both my junior foundations course and my grade level course. It was a good way for my students to track what they found out and decipher the literary devices they came into contact with.
♥ Lots of room to use product as it works in my self contained classroom. Was easy to differentiate and still get the higher order thinking I am looking for.
♥ This is has been a great resource. I have used all of it in teaching this unit.
♥ one word….AMAZING!!
♥ The Quickwrites/Journals have been a great way to start each day. I’ve also received some pretty deep responses from my students. Great Job!

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LITERATURE PLAN CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped

★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity (→ print : → digital)
– answer thematic questions to get students thinking about the novel
– 14 slides of activity and slideshows
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Google Earth Introduction Tour (→ print : → digital)
– The Literal Heart of Jesus, Holliday Park, Funky Bones, Amsterdam, Oranjee, Peter Van Houten’s house, Anne Frank Haus, Speedway Gas Station, and even the Cemetery…they even get to see much of it in 3D zoomed in to the street view. It’s rockin awesome.
– 28-location 3D tour across the midwest and Europe
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9

★ Plot Chart Analyzer Diagram Arc (→ print : → digital)
– organize the 6 parts of the plot
– 2-slide analyzer & suggested answer key
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the 6 different types of conflict in stories
– 2-slide analyzer & suggested answer key
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Characters Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 5-page analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3

★ Settings Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the main settings using novel quotes
– 2-slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ Figurative Language Instructional Slideshow (→ print : → digital)
– We set out to make the most helpful, most compelling, most graphically attractive teaching resource for you to introduce your learners to all the various figurative language. This 70+ slide slideshow will help you introduce how every many you need to teach your level of learners.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Figurative Language Activity (→ print : → digital)
– analyze and complete 55 figures of speech specific to the novel
– 18-slide bundle (3 parts)
– Similes vs. Metaphors
– Figurative Language Analysis
– Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Analogies, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Puns, Symbols
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4

★ Symbols Analyzer (→ print : → digital)
– analyze the 6 different symbols in the story
– 8-slide analyzer
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2

★ 14 Comprehension Pop Quizzes (→ print : → digital)
– a 5-question pop quiz per chapter
– 44-slide slideshow
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not do well.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.10

★ Journal – Quickwrite Writing Prompts (→ print : → digital)
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 69-prompt slideshow
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1

★ Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Activity (→ print : → digital)
– 7-slide discussion activity about Maslow’s theory and how it connects to our characters
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1

★ Vocabulary List and Quiz Assessment (→ print : → digital)
– 120 vocabulary words from the novel
– four 30-question lists & quizzes
– 16-slide bundle includes list of words, quiz, and answer keys
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4

★ Bomfalleralla (Van Houten’s Rap Song) (→ print : → digital)
– This is the Swedish rap song that Peter Van Houten plays for Hazel and Augustus. Be forewarned, the translated lyrics are not acceptable for all ages.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Poem Study – An Imperial Affliction – Certain Slant of Light (→ print : → digital)
– 4-slide analyzer
– study the poem and its meaning in our novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Poem Study – Nothing Gold Can Stay (→ print : → digital)
– 4-slide analyzer
– study the poem and its meaning in our novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Poem Study – Red Wheelbarrow – Poem XXII (→ print : → digital)
– 4-slide analyzer
– study the poem and its meaning in our novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

★ Essay and Speech (→ print : → digital)
– 3 response to literature essay options for students to choose from; optional delivery of essay as a speech
– Includes essay topics and speech grading rubrics
– 11-slide bundle
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1

★ Movie vs. Novel Analysis (→ print : → digital)
– 2-slide analyzer
– compare & contrast the movie and novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7

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WHAT IS CREATED FOR DIGITAL?
★ Our Created for Digital resources take all the trusted, quality instructional tools you know and love and convert them into the digital format you need for your online learners.

Why go Digital?
··· Paperless. No printing.
··· Instant saving … students work in the file.
··· 1:1
··· Technology Proficiency
··· Works on Chromebooks, Android Tablets, and other devices
··· Engaged students
··· Easy group work
··· Paper trail of revisions for teacher to see

Includes:
··· Teacher Tutorial – access link and how to use this with your learners
··· Microsoft OneDrive user instructions – a step-by-step visual tutorial. This will only take minutes!
··· All slides can be used over and over again.

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OTHER THE FAULT IN OUR STARS INFINITIES
→ Digital 1:1 Complete Unit
→ For-Print Complete Unit
→ Digital-Print Combo Unit

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