English Language Arts Bell Ringers Unit 1 - 45 Warm-Ups (Grades 9-12)

Start every class with a focused five-minute warm-up. This is Unit 1 of the English Language Arts Bell-Ringers full-year set: 45 daily prompts covering Rhetoric & Argument.

WHAT'S INSIDE

- 45 daily bell-ringers (Weeks 1-9), 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

- Ethos, pathos and logos, audience and purpose, claims and thesis statements, evidence and warrants, counterclaims and rebuttal, logical fallacies, and rhetorical devices from anaphora to loaded diction.

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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