Five locks, one confession.

Students crack sequence, vocabulary, evidence, figurative language, and a heartbeat cipher to close the case on Poe's most famous unreliable narrator. Full story text included. Runs with real locks or no supplies at all — and there's a self-checking digital version for Chromebooks. It is

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Every class has a comedian.

This lesson gives all of them — and the quiet ones too — language for the humor they already use. Students define "funny," argue about whether cruelty can be comedy, and take a Comedy Style Quiz that sorts them into one of five styles: the Wordsmith, the Storyteller, the Observer, the Perf

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For your teacher toolbox!

🍎You assign roles, hand out the task, and thirty seconds later one student is doing everything while four watch. The problem usually isn't the roles — it's that students know what a role is called but have no idea what it sounds like. Every card in this pack includes the actual sentences th

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You'll use these often!

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 👍Pros: Designed especially for ELA, includes extension questions, and sample responses. ⭐️Overall rating: 10/10 for built in differentiation

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Break the ice, and more!

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 👍Pros: Activities designed for the whole year!

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Label it!

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 👍Pros: Color and printer friendly black and white

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Bundle it!

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 💵 Price: Save by bundling 👍Pros: Consistent language across 5 resources

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Grit can grow!

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Give students options!

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 👍Pros: One rubric for all 9 options ⭐️Overall rating: 10/10

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Career Research

This complete, ready-to-use Career Research Unit gives high school ELA students a structured, meaningful way to explore potential careers — and connects real-world research skills directly to standards. The centerpiece of the unit is the free, U.S. Department of Labor website My Next Move (www.myne

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I just sued the school system!

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 💵 Price: Save 5% August 10-13 👍Pros: High interest material ⭐️Overall rating: 10/10 for helping students turn their gripes into valuable arguments.

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Bad Bunny or Good Bunny?

This synthesis prompt asks students to write an essay that argues their position on whether high-profile entertainment platforms - such as the Super Bowl Halftime Show - have a responsibility to reflect the full diversity of American culture, or whether they should prioritize broadly shared nationa

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Students who struggle?

Do you have students who struggle with qualifying their arguments? Maybe they have difficulty writing with subtlety, maybe they're black or white thinkers, or maybe it's just the time constraint of the exam. Either way, defending or challenging a given topic is completely acceptable way to

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Timely Teen Topics

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 💵 Price: 5% off August 10-13 👍Pros: Topics teens love to argue ⭐️Overall rating: 10/10

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Sorry or not sorry?

💌 Brand: Ms Nelson Is Not Missing on TPT 💵 Price: On sale tomorrow 👍Pros: Real world apologies

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Get to Know Your Students

An "All About Me" your students will actually want to fill out, and that tells you what you need to know. This editable get-to-know-you activity is the student companion to my *Meet the Teacher* deck. Students add photos (or draw their own) and type right into the boxes, sharing their re

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Fully editable!

Most "meet the teacher" decks are a slideshow *at* your students. This one is built to get them talking from the very first slide. Every student-facing slide ends with a "Your Turn" discussion prompt, so your introduction doubles as a day-one icebreaker and a low-stakes speaking war

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Bundle and save!

Present a complete fall close-reading experience with rigor that still feels like the season. This bundle pairs two fully-designed, print-and-go stations activities — one poetry, one nonfiction — that together move students across literary and informational texts. Both run on the same easy, 45-minu

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