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Common Core W.7.9 activities $5-10
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Activity: Primary Source Analysis and Questions
The Declaration of Independence can be a daunting document for teachers to explain to students, but this primary source lesson will help students understand the major themes and concepts within the document itself. Though Thomas Jefferson's Declaration was written in the 18th century, this worksheet has proven to be a fantastic, big-picture way for today's students to study such an important writing without becoming overwhelmed. The Declaration is really just a big "break-up letter" from the co
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Civics & US Government Lesson, Activities, Simulations and More: The Bundle
Growth Mindset Research Projects - 3D Projects and Activities for Growth Mindset
During this project, students will first learn about growth mindset by reading an informational article about Carol Dweck’s work. Then, they’ll select a famous person in history with a growth mindset. They’ll choose from 14 famous leaders and pioneers in their fields for the basis of their research. Students will research their famous person as they respond to targeted research questions. While researching, they’ll be on the lookout for ways that the famous person had a growth mindset. Next
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4th - 8th
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Poetry Analysis Resource for Grades 4-8
Poetry can feel overwhelming to teach and even more frustrating for students. I created this resource to help my students learn the poetic devices and demonstrate how we can use them to analyze poems. I've found this approach works well for boosting confidence, engagement, and understanding with my middle school students.This PDF printable resource is broken down into 8 lessons, covering all of the poetic devices and finishing with analysis worksheets for students to demonstrate their understand
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5th - 8th, Staff
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Also included in:Â Poetry Unit Bundle CCSS Standards-Based
Arthurian Legends Unit - King Arthur Projects - Knights and Chivalry Activities
A fully integrated English, Social Studies, and Art unit on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. This King Arthur unit or Arthurian Legend unit includes reading passages, questions, and activities on Lancelot, King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the code of chivalry, and more! These make great additions to an Arthurian Legend Interactive Notebook. This unit can be done on its own as an English unit on Legends, but also makes an excellent complement to
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans - No Prep English Sub Plans - March
Analysis Booklets & Writing Mini-Unit: Use with ANY Essay!
Do your students struggle to choose, lead into, cite, and analyze evidence? Need them to give more detail in their answers or explain data, direct quotes, and facts in writing? Use this booklet and quiz set to give them a crash course on analysis before your next assessment!
These TWO instructional mini-booklets, plus all the subsequent follow-up, are great whether students are learning analysis for the first time or you're doing review/ differentiation with older students:
Booklet #1: What is
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7th - 12th
Ugly Sweater Christmas Project | December Reading Activity 6th, 7th, 8th
This 6th-8th grade Holiday project based learning activity is the best Christmas season activity! In this fun project-based learning (PBL) activity for 6th-8th grades, your students will use key standards in a real-life scenario! These standards include reading comprehension, collaboration, revision, and design. Differentiation is included!Driving Question: How can I design an ugly sweater that has a winter or holiday theme and use related symbolism for advertising in a class catalog? Students a
Ancient Egypt Gods - Egypt Mythology Unit - Ancient Egypt Projects - Religion
This 80 page Ancient Egypt Mythology unit contains engaging Ancient Egypt projects for your upcoming unit on the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt. These engaging Ancient Egyptian gods activities contain informational text, graphic organizers, foldable activities, and templates, and make perfect additions to your Ancient Egypt Interactive Notebook. A variety of Ancient Egypt projects and activities are included. Very little teacher prep is required – simply print and teach!While all of the res
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4th - 7th
Also included in:Â Ancient Egypt Unit Projects and Activities - Egypt Map - Pyramids Worksheets
In-Text Citations Worksheets and Activities - MLA 9 - How to Write Citations
Updated for MLA 9th Edition! Teach students how to write in-text citations using MLA 9 with these scaffolding worksheets and activities. Includes anchor charts with in-text citation examples! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with these In-Text Citations Worksheets for MLA 9:✏️ “Skeleton of a Citation” Reference Poster with MLA Citation Examples✏️ Anchor charts for Parenthetical and Narrative In-Text Citations✏️ Multiple-Choice Questions: For
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7th - 12th
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"Casey at the Bat" Unit - Poetry Lessons and Poetry Activities
This is an extremely detailed, CCSS-aligned unit. Student read and analyze the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. It is designed to help students analyze what the poem says explicitly as well draw inferences from the text. Students will determine the poem’s theme and analyze the theme development over the course of the text. In addition, students will investigate word choice, figurative language, and mood. Students will acquire a range of general academic and domain-specif
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5th - 8th
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SOAPSTone Text Analysis Strategy - Lesson, Activities, and Graphic Organizers
SOAPSTone Text Analysis StrategySOAPSTone is an acronym for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, and Tone. It is the BEST way I have found to teach analytical skills to students. You can use this strategy with poetry, nonfiction, speeches, videos, commercials, and even fiction passages (such as monologues). I use SOAPSTone as the starting point for all deep and meaningful text analysis that occurs in my classroom. This resource has the tools you need to teach the strategy as well as tw
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7th - 10th
Character Traits Essay - Literary Essay Writing for ANY Text
Character Traits Essay – Informative Writing - Here’s a literary essay made easy and ready to use with ANY text! This step-by-step resource is designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process of writing a character analysis essay. Easy-to-follow templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs! Includes a model essay, motivating pre-writing activities, rubric, and character traits list. Standards-aligned with differentiation.NOTE: This is a print resour
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5th - 8th
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Novel Study
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson is a terrific historical fiction read! Students will become absorbed in this book as they adventure along with main character, Isabel. Inside this product you will find four quick comprehension quizzes to check for student understanding of the book. The literal quiz questions range from multiple choice to true/false to fill-in-the-blank. There is a recommended four week pacing guide. There are four Interactive Notebook lessons focusing on The American Revolution,
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Novel Study Bundle
Informational Texts Close Reading Activity and Project
Need a meaningful, standards-based and engaging activity to make it to December break? The Holiday Hustle is the perfect project for Secondary ELA right before the Holidays! This three week unit teaches students how to deconstruct advertisements and informational texts as they study and analyze two different holiday ads and three informational articles about advertising. After analyzing ads and informational articles, students create two projects: a Deconstructing Advertisements Guide for Teens
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7th - 10th
Writing a Research Paper Escape Room: Engaging MLA Citation & Test Prep Activity
Have you been searching for easy and fun ways to engage students in your research paper unit?This escape room activity is perfect for any research paper/MLA format unit! It is lower prep than most escape rooms and uses ALL DOK levels! You can use this escape room in the middle of your unit, as review, or the end for fun. This resource is sure to keep your students engaged and working hard in your research paper unit!What's Included:Escape Room Tips & TricksClues!Google Form Option: Instead o
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Outsiders Novel Study
This reading literature guide is a unit novel study of The Outsiders popular novel by S.E. Hinton. Lessons and activities for The Outsiders novel study include both printable and digital lessons, assessments, activities, and worksheets to use with your students. The Outsiders Novel Study includes:vocabulary terms - worksheets and digital resources are includedcharacter charts - printable and Google Drive compatible versions includedguided reading questions - both hard copy and Google Drive Digi
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6th - 8th
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Ugly Christmas Sweater: DĂ©cor and Party Invitation Writing and Design Activity
Imagine this: You or a character of your choosing, have just been invited to attend an ugly sweater Christmas party. You will now have the opportunity to evaluate and carefully select the décor for this festive Christmas event. There are four activities included in this file. They can be used as individual Christmas writing activities or as a complete unit, as they all go hand in hand, yet offer something different in each activity.
Four Christmas writing options to choose from:
• Ugly Christma
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Christmas Writing Activities BUNDLE: Middle and High School Holiday Writing
Argument Writing Presentation
Argument Writing Presentation - Completely EDITABLE
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE and is also in my Argument Essay Writing Bundle + Editable Presentation and Handouts bundle.
This argument writing presentation is a companion to my Common Core Argumentative Writing Unit.
Use the 80+ step-by-step slides to guide your students in the writing process. The presentation is in Powerpoint (.pptx) format, so you can edit and customize the text to your l
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6th - 12th
Also included in:Â Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream: Week-long Unit with Station Activities
MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Week-long Unit with Station Activities!Why teach “I Have a Dream” with Stations? Frankly, there are just so many wonderful concepts to explore with this great American speech that it would be a shame to only devote your classes’ attention to one or two aspects. “I Have a Dream” is a treasure trove for English teachers! Not only is it one of the most significant speeches in American history, it also provides the perfect opportunity to utilize nearly all the Common Core info
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7th - 10th
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Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck Close Readings & Activities
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck Close Readings & Activities
Six close readings, one per chapter, focus on key scenes from Of Mice and Men, and could be assigned for homework or used as in-class activities. Each close reading includes a passage from the text and directions for annotation of the text as well as three after reading activities: creation of a graphic organizer, a text-based response, and a text-based drawing. Students will also analyze characters, theme, and conflict and respo
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck Bundle of Resources
Sherlock Holmes Unit Bundle
The Sherlock Holmes stories are a breeze to teach with this cohesive unit! The BritLitWit Sherlock Holmes Unit Bundle includes introductory materials to orient students to the texts, resources for three stories, a final assignment (with three variations), and bonus materials for variety and fun! Here are the contents in more detail:Sherlock Holmes Introductory Slides: Includes a five-question anticipation guide that gets students thinking about the importance of observation and the popular appea
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7th - 12th
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Thank You Ma'am Maam Activities Short Story w. A Ted Talk: Digital Workshop
In this digital short story workshop students can read (or listen to) Thank You, Ma'am by Langston Hughes and analyze conflict, theme, inference, plot, and character motivation while answering text-dependent questions and prompts using R.A.C.E. strategy, and completing engaging activities. Here's What You Will Get:✔️ 22 text-dependent questions and prompts (CCSS)✔️ Pre-reading Activity: Personal connection and building background knowledge✔️ ACTIVITY: Trace the theme through conflict and resolut
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7th - 9th
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Also included in:Â MAY END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES For Google Classroom Schoology Seesaw
A Wolf Called Wander Novel Study Discussion Question Cards
This product includes 176 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the novel A Wolf Called Wander, written by Rosanne Parry. This book is a wonderful fiction novel based on the true story of a wolf called OR-7. This novel opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Adventure, Animals, Wolves, Nature, Survival, FamilyThis book is an especial
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3rd - 6th
Restart Novel Study Informational Texts & Activities
The informational texts will build your students’ knowledge about memory, the brain, amnesia, and the processes involved in memory formation. Students will learn about the brain’s structures, brain plasticity, and the different types of memories that shape our everyday lives. When synthesized with a reading of Restart by Gordon Korman, the information will prompt critical thinking and analysis about the significance of memory in day-to-day life. By the end of this unit of study, students will ha
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Restart by Gordon Korman Novel Study
Greystone Secrets The Strangers Novel Study Classroom and Distance Learning
This product includes 250+ comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts for teaching and studying the novel Greystone Secrets The Strangers, written by New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book is a suspenseful story full of plot twists and action. It will keep students engaged and guessing as it explores the disappearance of Kate Greystone, the mother of Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone. The book has a special
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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