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12th grade Thanksgiving close reading cultural activities
Native American Literature Unit: Poems, Myths, Non-fiction in Digital & Print
Looking to add some fresh activities for Native American literature to your classes' studies? You have come to the right place! Your students will love these beautifully designed slides that will not only capture their attention but also provide them with interesting Native American reading selections and engaging activities that require analyzing, creating, thinking, writing, and reflecting. Printable version included!This Native American Literature Digital Unit includes► 2 poems► 2 myths► a no
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7th - 12th
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Thanksgiving Activities Nonfiction Lesson on Hot Topics: Black Friday
This informational text lesson for Thanksgiving is ready-to-go to engage your high school students this November. With leveled texts, standards-based questions, creative activity, and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate! Student Experience: The encroachment of Black Friday into Thanksgiving Thursday has been a trend years in the making. This mini unit is designed to get students not only thinking and questioning this topic, but also analyzi
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE
Tell-Tale Heart by Poe. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. ESL Beginner Unit.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to ESL and ENL beginners and newcomers. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. Please open up the preview for details to make sure the text is right for your classroom -- it will be a challenge for your ELLs, but hopefully worth it.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also pri
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fairy Tale Analysis Unit High School - Cinderella Around the World Folktale Unit
Looking for a multicultural folk literature unit for your high school or advanced middle school students? Throughout this relevant and engaging fairy tale unit, students have an opportunity to study multiple Cinderella fairy tales from a historical perspective. Grimm's Cinderella is used as the anchor short story for in-class work and discussions. Then, students will have the opportunity to explore many other cultural versions of Cinderella by completing an independent research project. By the e
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8th - 12th
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Día de Acción de Gracias (Thanksgiving) Spanish Class activities ALL LEVELS
At my school, we have a two day week before we are out for Thanksgiving break.
I have my Spanish 1 students answer questions about their own Thanksgiving celebrations & make their own personal turkeys to display the things for which they are thankful. Everything is done in Spanish. The students love telling about themselves and celebrating holidays, so we both win - they have fun, and I get to see them use Spanish!
For my upper level students, we read a passage (all in Spanish) about
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3rd - 12th
ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Back to School Reading Lesson | ESL Activities
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. What’s Included:Digital Version of Lesson3 Levels of Differentiated Text Au
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3rd - 12th
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
Indigenous Peoples' History & Culture: Digital Choice Board Activity
Whether you're celebrating Indigenous People's Month in November or are incorporating more indigenous voices and experiences to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different resources across the categories of: stories, poetry, art, books and tradition.The goal of a choice board is to primarily provide choice to students - an opportunity to self-navigate their interests and explore new ideas. This activity can be used as a bell ri
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations
Dia de Accion de Gracias - Spanish Lesson about Thanksgiving
Students of Spanish II or Spanish I will study about Thanksgiving traditions, foods, and history. Students will also compare/contrast the traditions in the USA to those in Puerto Rico. (Spanish I students will probably need some teacher scaffolding to be successful with this lesson. The vocabulary will be comprehensible, but there are a few incidents of preterite tense in the reading.)The lesson contains pre-reading activities, vocabulary practice, an original article in easy Spanish, compreh
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7th - 12th
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Lesson Plan
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a great introduction to Thanksgiving, particularly for EFL or ESL students who don't know a lot about the holiday. It covers the Thanksgiving football game, the turkey dinner, the theme of gratitude and friendship, even a name-drop of the Mayflower and Miles Standish! Students are led to discuss Thanksgiving traditions, the meaning of Thanksgiving, and key holiday vocabulary. The movie also lends itself to discussing hospitality and being a good guest as Peppermin
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story Comparison
This side-by-side chart is great for comparing Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story. Viewing West Side Story allows students to understand the themes of Shakespeare's play with a more understandable interpretation.
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7th - 12th
Mexican Hot Chocolate & Concha Gratitude Craft & Bulletin Board - Span & Eng
Mexican hot chocolate and concha hands-on craft to teach about gratitude. The resources are included in both Spanish and English. This is a great way to incorporate culture and SEL into the classroom... and some crafting fun!Students will:fill in a list of what they are grateful for according to the alphabet. Write the top items they are grateful for on the heartsColor, cut, and glue together the Mexican hot chocolate, concha, and heartsOptional: A second page is included to make this project 3D
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9th - 12th
Thanksgiving Reading in Spanish | Lectura Día de Acción de Gracias
Reading 100% in Spanish on the importance of Thanksgiving in the United States, and I combined it with another short article on how latinos celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States.The product includes:2 short readings combined into 1 reading.Multiple choice reading comprehension questions written in AP style formatA creative writing activity where students write what they are thankful for this year.Written 100% in Spanish.Editable to make changes.Images to scaffold and make the reading more
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Thanksgiving Poetry & Nonfiction Lesson for Teens: Entitlement or Gratitude?
This poetry and info text paired lesson for Thanksgiving is designed to spark a deep discussion and analysis of poetry with your high school students. With an easy-to-prep format for you, and standards-based, text-based activities for students Student Experience: Students will explore the idea of entitlement v. gratitude as they dig deeply into the layers of this beautiful poem. The subtle ironic tone of this lesson will challenge your students to reflect on their own lives and choices. Its
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE
ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Black History Month: ESL Distance Learning
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
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4th - 12th
World Mythology
A complete three to four week unit on mythology from around the world. Includes Mythologies from 8 different cultures, worksheets, myth packets, creatures from different mythologies, a project, and a jigsaw activity.The myth unit covers creation myths in the 1. General Asian Mythology 2. Celtic Mythology 3. Egyptian Mythology 4. Greek/Roman Mythology 5. Islander Mythology 6. Native American Mythology and 7. Norse Mythology. In addition to Local Myths from my area. You will need to do your own re
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Hero's Journey/Ender's Game/World Mythology Bundle
Dystopian Projects and Activities
This dystopian package includes the following 6 projects and activities to pair with a dystopian unit. I have also paired these activities with a Holocaust unit, and Social Justice unit.
1. Dystopia Introduction (Power Point) – This activity asks students to review a series of images, colors, words, and sounds, and give an emotional assessment of each. At the end, students are then asked to reflect on their emotional reactions and explain what a world might look like where these items, emotion
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9th - 12th
Martin Luther King, Jr. Paired Text Lesson, Printable/Digital
With this no prep activity for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, you'll be set to share important messages for Black History Month as well as meet several standards while engaging your high school students creatively. The resource includes everything you need to be successful while covering Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essay "The Purpose of Education." Student Experience: This lesson takes King's "The Purpose of Education" and pairs it with a song from popular culture, Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Native American Literature Activities
Includes: A. Close Reading Activity comparing Iroquois’ Creation Myth “The World on the Turtle’s Back” and Onondaga’s Creation Myth “The Earth on the Turtles Back” with Blooms-leveled questions. B. Modern-Day, Real-World Creation Myth Examples (clips) and analysis questions. C. Perspective Sponge Activity with discussion questionsD. Two-Version Creation Myth Writing Assignment with two Common Core Rubrics (Constructed Response and Extended Response) Link for the video (Jessie's Girl) is: https:
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11th - 12th
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Plato- Allegory of the Cave Common Core Lesson
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a great piece of literature to introduce students to Ancient Greek philosophy, and it has the added bonus of promoting education in a thought-provoking way.
This Common Core aligned activity includes a condensed version of "The Allegory of the Cave," which matches a memorable eight minute cartoon video that can be accessed on YouTube (web address provided in the worksheet). Additionally, there is a Common Core-styled activity sheet that provides a variety of s
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8th - 12th
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Washington Irving: "The Devil and Tom Walker" Assessment with Answer Key
From Electric English...
This is a three-part assessment. The first is simply true and false questions; the second is multiple choice; while, as a rule, I try to avoid this type of simplified question and answer, it is still good to give the students practice.... After all, they will see these types of questions on standardized tests. The third section asks students to make inferences from their reading, from Irving's life experiences, and from their class discussions, then to apply that knowled
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Damos Gracias / Acción de Gracias Cultural Webquest - Spanish, Thanksgiving
Expose your students to more culture with this webquest! This is a perfect lesson for your Spanish classes during before the Thanksgiving break to celebrate el Día de Acción de Gracias and focus on thankfulness & gratitude. The various activities can be used for independent work, partner work, as cultural bell ringers or a sub plan. This webquest is ready-to-use in all classroom settings (traditional, distance, hybrid learning, etc.). About this resource: This Google Slides webquest will all
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Dear Basketball Poem Questions (Poem Included) by Kobe Bryant
The sudden loss of Kobe Bryant has sent shock-waves throughout our children. I wanted to cover him in class for those that loved him. After looking and looking for a good set of questions and not finding any to suit my needs, I took his "Dear Basketball" poem and created 15 common core style questions to encourage analytical skills, knowledge of the structural elements of poetry, and comprehension. Even though you can find copies of the poem online, I included it as a convenience. You are pa
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4th - 12th
My Digital Thanksgiving Presentation - History of Holiday & Family Traditions
If you're looking for something fun, educational, and personalized for the week of Thanksgiving, this virtual project is great for all grades 6-12! This 24-slide Google Slides (interactive) presentation will combine the historical component of Thanksgiving and students' personal traditions, as they present their research findings and personal memories with the class. The project is in ENGLISH.This project can be assigned to students in ANY subject, as a fun project for the week of Thanksgiving
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5th - 12th
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