English Language Arts Bell Ringers Unit 2 - 45 Warm-Ups (Grades 9-12)

Start every class with a focused five-minute warm-up. This is Unit 2 of the English Language Arts Bell-Ringers full-year set: 45 daily prompts covering Literary Analysis.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 45 daily bell-ringers (Weeks 10-18), organized as nine ready-to-print weekly pages
• One page per week: five prompts, Monday through Friday, with answer space
• A complete answer key for every prompt
• A standards page listing the CCSS codes and content covered

TOPICS

• Plot structure and conflict, characterization, point of view and narrator reliability, setting and mood, theme, drama and dramatic irony, Shakespeare's language, poetry and form, and imagery, symbolism and allusion.

WEEKLY ROUTINE

• Monday vocabulary, Tuesday a short reading, Wednesday an analysis task, Thursday a quick check, Friday a higher-order question
• About five minutes a day; hand out Monday, collect Friday

FORMAT

• Print-first PDF, US Letter, low-ink, two-sided friendly - no logins or apps required
• Reading passages are original writing; the only quoted lines are public-domain Shakespeare - no copyrighted text to clear
• Grades 9-12; works as a daily opener, spiral review, AP or exam warm-up, or emergency sub work

SAVE WITH THE FULL YEAR

• This unit is one of four. Buy the English Language Arts Bell-Ringers Full-Year set (180 prompts) to get all four units together and save.

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TERMS OF USE

• For single-classroom / single-teacher use. Do not redistribute or post publicly.
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