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. This bundle includes a scaffolded reading unit and 36 CCSS-Aligned task cards to accompany this thought-provoking short story.
❤️ 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
• 36 Task Cards:
☞ Task #1- Author’s Purpose
☞ Task #2- Central Idea
☞ Task #3- Theme
☞ Task #4- Characterization
☞ Task #5- Point of View
☞ Task #6- Time Period
☞ Task #7- Real Life Influences
☞ Task #8- Figurative Language
☞ Task #9- Conflict/Resolution
☞ Task #10- Setting
☞ Task #11- Theme & Development
☞ Task #12- Painting a Picture
☞ Task #13- Plot
☞ Task #14- Objective Summary
☞ Task #15- Compare and Contrast
☞ Task #16- Context Clues
☞ Task #17- Movie Poster
☞ Task #18- Be A Critic
☞ Task #19- Picture It
☞ Task #20- Interview the Author
☞ Task #21- Interview a Character
☞ Task #22- Comic Book
☞ Task #23- Instagram
☞ Task #24- Facebook
☞ Task #25- Twitter Feed
☞ Task #26- Trading Places
☞ Task #27- Likes/Dislikes
☞ Task #28- Rewrite
☞ Task #29- Prequel
☞ Task #30- Sequel
☞ Task #31- Diary of a Character
☞ Task #32- Cover Artist
☞ Task #33- Dear Abby
☞ Task #34- Music to My Ears
☞ Task #35- Morning Announcements
☞ Task #36- Word Cloud Collage
