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Close reading simulations $5-10
Pioneer Unit / Oregon Trail Game
Do you love the game Oregon Trail? This unit includes a whole class version of the game!
This is a Problem Based Learning Unit all about the pioneers of our great nation. I created this unit for my second graders, but you could use it for older children too. This unit is very detailed. It integrates ELA skills, social studies, history, and provides the opportunity for creativity as well as FUN!
The children get to "go along" in the journey. This unit has three parts. Check out the Preview Fil
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2nd - 5th
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The Great Gatsby: Chapter 8 & 9 - Gatsby's Funeral & Close Reading {EDITABLE}
If you're teaching The Great Gatsby, you might need a few extra ideas to get you through chapters 8 and 9. How about some small group close reading and throwing a funeral for Gatsby? This product includes a wide variety of lessons to help students through close reading and literary analysis, including a writing project where students compose either an elegy or eulogy for Gatsby. These lessons and activities are COMPLETELY EDITABLE on Google Drive and can be used to supplement your current plan
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â The Great Gatsby: Activity, Lesson & Assessment Bundle
The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Coal Mining Simulation
This simulation is about coal mining, but does so much more than just having students take the chocolate chips out of a cookie!
Students have the opportunity to:
1. Build background knowledge of coal mining
2. Create a coal mining company and work with financial decisions
3. Go coal mining (yes, with chocolate chip cookies!), but coal companies will have events occur to them during and after the simulation (when they sell their coal)
4. Learn about strip/surface mining and reflect
5. Listen to a
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4th - 7th
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Reader's Theater: Honoring the Heroes of September 11th
Students will actively engage in dialogue that will increase their awareness of the events surrounding September 11th through a kid sensitive script based on a true story focusing on the human spirit. Stitches of Love tells the sweet story of the power of healing provided through a rescued flag from Ground Zero and the journey it made around our country to its final resting place in the 9/11 Memorial. By providing 16 individual parts, more students will have a chance to practice fluency, use th
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3rd - 6th
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Tell Tale Heart - Argument Stations, Mock Trial
A set of eight (8) stations where students find the best evidence to support their given role of prosecution or defense. Includes:Lesson plans8 stations with portions of the textstudent pages for both the defense and prosecution, including a page for students to write one, cohesive argumentative stance to present at the podiumslideshow with a timer (can be changed out for another time that better fits your class set-up) and rules/expectations for stations
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6th - 8th
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Engaging Fahrenheit 451 Activities for the beginning, middle, and end!
You get four solid products in this bundle: My intro activity to F451 (can be spread out over 1-3 days, a reading guide for pages 1-21 & another reading guide for pages 76-88) & the most engaging guided imagery and close read assessment where students close read Montag's first view of the fire and the last view of the fire. See details in each product.
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Not Grade Specific
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Windmill Synthesis Stakeholder Scenario Debate Activity (AP Lang practice!)
Inspired by the College Board's AP Lang 2019 Windmill Synthesis prompt, students will participate in a community stakeholder meeting where they will be assigned a community role member's role with opinions about potentially converting the state of Georgia to primarily windmill energy. Students will look through sources to gather evidence based on their role's opinions, then work together to host a meeting where they present their ideas and mix and mingle as their roles. Students will practice sy
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9th - 12th
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French Mystery Game with Clues and Answer Sheet
Embark on an exciting adventure with our mystery game inspired by Super Mario Brothers: "Who Stole Princess Peach?" Designed specifically for high school students, this deduction game will challenge their critical thinking skills while immersing them in a fun and thrilling universe. The entire game is in French. Just publish the presentation and share the link with your students. Be sure to delete slide 19 with the Answer Key before playing with your students.Features:Engaging Scenario: Students
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9th - 12th
Stranger Things Short Playscripts in English
Short Stranger Things playscripts in English perfect for reader's theater, short plays, and drama instruction. Practicing reader’s playscripts is a fun way to build reading fluency! When the scripts play out stories known by students this practice becomes interdisciplinary combining reading fluency, vocabulary, literature, public speaking, and fun.The scripts are simple and most appropriate for 4th-6th grade students, depending on reading level and ability. They are ready to be printed and use r
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4th - 12th
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Angles and Demons: A Journalist/Bystander/Police Simulation about Evidence
Take on the role of journalist, police on the scene of a jewelry heist, or a bystander who watched it all go down in this interactive simulation about reliable testimony and evidence. Uses gathering evidence tools, interviewing skills, and inferences to draw upon! Pack includes bystander cards, journalist logs, and police report, as well as the scenario to read to your class to get them started on gathering evidence, creating narratives, and drawing inferences about the event. Inspired by events
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9th - 12th
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Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby - Full Lesson (with Focus on Unreliable Narrators)
This product is a full lesson for teaching "Chapter 1" of The Great Gatsby: learning objective, opening activity, developmental questions, explicit teaching notes, workshop guidance, and a thorough breakdown of the events and key concepts in Chapter 1. Since students meet Nick Carraway in Chapter 1, the lesson focuses on the definition and role of an unreliable narrator. Moreover, the lesson models for students how to lead discussions on any chapter of The Great Gatsby (or any book for that m
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rosa Parks Bundle (Escape Room/Differentiated Reading Passages)
This bundle has two great Rosa Parks resources that will keep your kids engaged.-Virtual escape the room-DIFFERENTIATED comprehension readings and quizzes
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3rd - 8th
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