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Literature simulations for Google Apps
The Lady or The Tiger by Frank Stockton with Simulation - Print & Digital
This lesson on the short story “The Lady or The Tiger” by Frank Stockton can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. All resources are Google Drive resources (primarily Google Docs unless otherwise noted as Google Slides, Google Forms, etc.). These resources include support for struggling readers and writers and/or special education students, such as an adapted text, chunked questions, graphic organizers and suggested transitions for writing. This lesson focuses on the skills of
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8th - 9th
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Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle: Teaching Literary Elements - Print & Digital
The Odyssey: 10 Minute Trojan War : Pre-reading activity
Welcome to an exhilarating and knowledge-packed lesson plan that will equip your students with a deep understanding of the Trojan War, a crucial prelude to comprehending The Odyssey. Through the utilization of a printable kit and the dynamic storytelling technique called "The Woosh," learners will embark on an immersive journey, reenacting the decade-long conflict in a condensed ten-minute form. This proven strategy not only fosters enjoyment but also offers an unparalleled opportunity to introd
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7th - 10th
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Macbeth Mock Trial: Shakespeare and Problem-Based Learning
Do you want to do simulations, trials, and PBL activities, but don’t have time to do the complex design? Would you love to teach the art of both fair and foul argument while balancing the Bard? This lesson offers any class reading Macbeth (or other Shakespeare plays featuring crime or injury) a chance to put a character on trial. With legal expertise, roles, rules, and procedures, you can teach close reading and argumentation while also having some fun. This unit gives students a chance to play
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8th - 12th
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Virtual Field Trips Growing Bundle #3 - Interactive Story - STORYventures
Let's take many Virtual Field Trips this year!!! This No Wheels Field Trip Collection will make this the best year ever! 1 more field trip COMING SOON.... a little hint..... These virtual field trips are going to focus on our favorite stories and authors at their place of work! They are STORYventures!!! Interactive story adventures area a great way to reimagine the virtual field trip experience. Where can a book take us? So Many Places!!So far each new STORYventure just gets better and better!!
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room NO PREP! Escape to Winter Break
This digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key ELA skills while being a completely NO PREP activity for you!This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be participating in a scavenger hunt at their school's Holiday Jubilee in hopes of not only winning, but also escaping to winter break. Students will have to solve 22 clues and complete 14 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the next section and finish the scavenger hunt. This will keep stu
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE No Prep!
Utopia vs. Dystopia Mini-Project
In this mini-project, students are introduced to the concept of utopian society while being equally exposed to the inverse -- the concept of dystopian society. I've used it before as an introductory piece before reading The Hunger Games to help give students a better understanding of what's in store regarding Panem (the country that the novel takes place in). I've also seen it be used by colleagues who have taught The Giver.This project is formatted as a Google Slide presentation and has student
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6th - 8th
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Experiencing the American Dream: A Monopoly Simulation Activity
Would you like your students to experience how socioeconomics impact the American Dream? This activity engages students in the game of Monopoly, but with a twist. In this simulation students play Monopoly in groups. After the rules are established, students learn they will gain or lose money and property based on the game piece they selected. As they play the game, they grapple with the idea of the American Dream and if it is equally attainable. The activity closes with a reflection.
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9th - 12th
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SPENT Simulator Assignment | Glass Castle Companion Assignment
How do you get students to build empathy when they've never experienced poverty? How do you get a student to care and build background knowledge when they don't understand certain decisions they've never had to make? ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE SPENT SIMULATOR. Prior to reading The Glass Castle written by Jennette Walls, have students participate in this engaging simulation while completing comprehension questions and reflecting along the way. WHAT YOU GET WITH THIS RESOURCE: one Google Doc assignment
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10th - 12th
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Final Writing Activity for The Cay by Theodore Taylor: Last Letter to Timothy
The Last Letter to Timothy is a final writing activity for the novel, The Cay by Theodore Taylor. After reading the novel, students take on the role of Phillip and write a final "goodbye" letter to Timothy. This includes a student direction page, including stated CCSS, graphic organizer and requirement /rubric page with movable pieces, digital stationary with friendly letter aligned text-boxes, and a student exemplar. All but the background is editable, so change if needed. Otherwise, this i
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5th - 8th
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City of Ember Role Play Lesson Plan / Resource Pack
This product comes with a google doc lesson plan, google slide instruction to be shared with the class, and google form exit ticket.This lesson is based on the book City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. The recommended age for this book/lesson is 4th-6th grade.Built based on Indiana state standards for fourth grade.
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4th - 7th
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Moon of the Crusted Snow: "Surviving An Apocalypse" Pre-Reading Activity!
Waubgeshig Rice's novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, is a unique and compelling take on the apocalypse narrative, written, this time, with an Indigenous lens. The story follows Evan Whitesky and his community as they navigate a widespread power outage from their reserve in Northern Canada. Published in 2018, Moon of the Crusted Snow is a high-interest novel that engages all learners. Although it was published two years prior to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many events within the nov
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9th - 12th
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Alberta Language Arts Review 360° Digital Escape Room
This resource is a NO PREP way to review Language Arts concepts with your students! Using a 360° image with live links hidden throughout, students in grades 6-9 can complete this activity in less than an hour independently!Concepts covered in the escape room challenges include:- Figurative Language- Reading ComprehensionAll you need to do is provide the link to the Escape Room, and sit back while your students work diligently.
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6th - 9th
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Virtual Field Trip Growing Bundle #4 - BEST PRICE NOW! - STEAM
Let's take many Virtual Field Trips this year!!! This No Wheels Field Trip Collection will make this the best year ever! 4 more field trips COMING SOON... So far each new trip just gets better and better!!! I literally am having the time of my life planning and researching these trips! Every single trip is a trip that I will personally use with students in the upcoming weeks! Students LOVE them! I hope yours does, too! There will be fun and more seasonal field trip additions, as well! GET IT NO
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2nd - 4th
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Create Your Own Utopia Slideshow
This slideshow offers a guided structure to the Create Your Own Utopia activity. You can use this to help your students go through the thinking process needed to understand dystopian fiction or to discuss societal elements in general. This is also included in the "Dystopian Fiction Introduction" bundle with more ready-made resources to make the experience easy for you to implement!
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Dystopian Fiction Introduction
Create Your Own Utopia Student Activity (Digital Version)
This activity pairs well with our "Create Your Own Utopia Slideshow" and is included in our "Dystopian Fiction Introduction" bundle! Students are assigned this document (in groups or individually) and must use the questions to create their own utopian society with their choice of visual representation of that society (map or aesthetic board). You can have students share their pretend societies and/or use them with the activities included in the bundle for further context and reflection.
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Dystopian Fiction Introduction
Lost at Sea: A Simulation Activity
In preparing to read past Chapter Three of The Cay, I created an interactive group activity to use to simulate being lost at sea and stranded on a deserted island. It asks students to make decisions and then reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of those decisions. This can be used, however, for many other stories, such as Lord of the Flies, Robinson Crusoe, and others.
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5th - 11th
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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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Who Would You Save Activity
The best way to get students thinking about essential questions is to put them into a situation which makes them think. This is one of my most favorite activities to do with students because it gets them thinking morally and logically. Students will read through the situation where they are stranded on an island and have to choose 3 people to save; everyone else will die. The people they have to choose from will not be an easy choice as they all have positive and negative qualities. After they c
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9th - 12th
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WebQuest Lost 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A Note for Parents and EducatorsThis activity is designed to help rising sixth graders classify marine life based on which ocean they live in. It is recommended that prior to the activity children will have read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: A Graphic Novel or a different form of the classic novel. However, this is not required to complete the WebQuest. Prime students for the activity by having them think about marine life in general and discuss what they already know in groups. For the WebQuest
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5th - 8th
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MS-LS2-5
Monsters on Maple. Intro Activity Slides (Hysteria Simulation / game)
This is a simulation game / activity I had used with my kids to introduce the short story "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." This was used to both introduce the idea of Hysteria through experience, as well as scaffold the prompt I later gave at the end of the unit (Were there actual monsters terrorizing the neighbors1. or was it all hysteria?).This game should be used at the very beginning of the unit and should be played in at least 2 - 3 rounds. In this game, there will be groups of stud
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6th - 7th
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Also included in: Monsters on Maple Intro activity Hysteria Simulation (Spy V. CIA)
Social Media Template (7 Posts)
Awesome for history teachers and ELA teachers!Let your students choose a character from the chapter or book they're working on and let them bring that character to life ... online!Easy differentiation with purchase of 5 post template!
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4th - 12th
Monsters on Maple Intro Activity SPY V. CIA Paper Team Mission Cards
This is a simulation game / activity I had used with my kids to introduce the short story "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." This was used to both introduce the idea of Hysteria through experience, as well as scaffold the prompt I later gave at the end of the unit (Were there actual monsters terrorizing the neighbors1. or was it all hysteria?).This game should be used at the very beginning of the unit and should be played in at least 2 - 3 rounds.In this game, there will be groups of studen
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6th - 7th
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Also included in: Monsters on Maple Intro activity Hysteria Simulation (Spy V. CIA)
ELA Skills: Attorney's Closing Argument: "2BR02B"
This activity has students expand their understanding of a text by making an inference as to the guilt or innocence of the protagonist. Students will preview a format for writing closing arguments which includes addressing the opposing side's argument. This activity requires students to create a claim, and support it with evidence from the text as well as reasoning. Finally, students will need to write the closing argument in a formal tone as though the case was really being presented in front o
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6th - 10th
Othello: A Socratic Seminar
Everything you need to take your students through a final assessment based on Shakespeare's Othello. 17 slides of instructions, open-ended questions, and great imagery.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Othello: The Bundle
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