This 8 day short story unit for “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut contains scaffolded close reading activities and a no-prep argumentative writing task that will engage your middle school students. These reading comprehension resources are designed to support struggling readers, ELL/ESL, and special education students, such as differentiated activities, chunked text, and guided reading questions.
❤️ Why You’ll Love This Resource:
✅ Saves You Time with Quick and Easy Prep
✅ Scaffolded Lessons to Meet the Needs of All Learners
✅ Clear Student Directions and Criteria
✅ Strategies and Activities for Student Collaboration
✋ What Standards and Skills Are Addressed?
• Citing Text Evidence
• Context Clues
• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Objective Summary
• Theme
• Inferences
• Elements of Plot
• Characterization
• and MORE!
✍ What’s Included:
- Probable Passage
- Differentiated Vocabulary and Context Clues Activity
- “Harrison Bergeron” Close Reading Activity
- “Harrison Bergeron” Assessment
- “Harrison Bergeron” Argumentative Writing Task
→ Task #1- Prewriting.
→ Task #2- Rough Draft
→ Task #3- Self/Peer Assessment
→ Task #4- Final Drafts:
- Argumentative Writing Reference Sheet
- Argumentative Writing Task Rubric
- “Harrison Bergeron” Choice Board Activity
- Teacher Models and Answer Keys
- Lesson Presentation
- “Harrison Bergeron” Lesson Outline Notes + Annotated Teacher Guide
