Thanksgiving ELA Activity: Nonfiction Gratitude Study
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRI.9-10.1
CCSSRI.9-10.2
CCSSRI.9-10.5
CCSSRI.9-10.6
CCSSRI.9-10.7
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- Google Drive™ folder
Pages
10 pages
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Description
This lesson is PERFECT to integrate into an ELA classroom to teach students how to analyze nonfiction and tie into the themes of gratitude and thankfulness before Thanksgiving!
This product includes:
- A Google Slides PowerPoint that acts as your lesson plan, listing the duration, learning targets, and Common Core Standards for this lesson. It also provides a step by step breakdown for how I taught it to my 10th grade students!
- A PDF comprehension sheet for the TED Talk called "Want to be Happy? Be Grateful" by David Steindl-Rast.
- Students answer some questions WHILE watching and some after.
- TWO editable Google Documents to complete a small research assignment to find an article about the SAME topic of gratitude. They will then analyze the effectiveness of the article and compare it to the TED Talk
- I include an "on grade level" version that has students searching for their own article just using an online search engine AND a "scaffolded" version that has 3 example, shorter articles students can choose from.
Total Pages
10 pages
Answer Key
Not Included
Teaching Duration
90 minutes
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRI.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRI.9-10.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRI.9-10.5
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
CCSSRI.9-10.6
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
CCSSRI.9-10.7
Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.
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