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High school literature simulations
The Tell-tale Heart Mock Trial - Edgar Allan Poe - Real life and Speaking Skills
Ignite your students' passion for "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe with this immersive Mock Trial! Turn your classroom into a thrilling courtroom drama where the lines between fiction and reality blur. Prepare for an educational experience that will leave your students spellbound and craving more!Watch as your students step into the shoes of the characters, ready to take on the roles of the narrator, police officers, mental health psychiatrist, and more in a riveting courtroom showdown.
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â The Tell-tale Heart Activity Bundle - Includes Mock Trial & Full Text - Poe
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:Â 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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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
Lord of the Flies Mock Trial Project Packet
This document contains the files needed to launch and run a Lord of the Flies Mock Trial. The boys have returned from their time on the island, and now Jack must face the consequences of his actions. Students will examine the book by William Golding and conduct a trial based on their findings. Included in this packet are templates for the following trial documents: Opening/Closing Statements, Witness Statements, Direct Examination Questions, Cross Examination Questions, Trail Fact Sheets, and a
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9th - 12th
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Virtual Field Trip: Shakespeare's London {A PreReading Simulation for 7-12}
As you’re preparing to teach one of Shakespeare’s plays, host a simulation where students take a virtual field trip to London! This half digital, half paper experience will provide students background knowledge about The Globe, costuming, architecture, Shakespeare’s birthplace, and also give students the chance to actually “plan” their own trip!
NOTE: This product requires the use of YouTube, link shorteners, and Google sites. It is also very highly recommended that you are working with a c
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Romeo & Juliet: Complete Bundle {Grades 9-12}
Reading Strategies Classroom Murder Mystery (Word Doc Version)
WHO KILLED MISS JACKSON?
TEACHER'S NOTES
Skills: Analyze text, determine importance, infer, synthesize, question, use background information, monitor for understanding, speaking, and listening
Grades: 6-10
Age groups: 10-17
Materials: Character cards, Character Analysis Worksheet
Time: About an hour
Preparation and Rules
Step one:
Explain to the class that you are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer! Give them the ba
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6th - 11th
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"And Then There Were None" Scotland Yard Investigation Packet
I created this packet as a way for my students to stay engaged with the Agatha Christie murder mystery "And Then There Were None". The packet should be printed and distributed to students and then updated as they read the novel, or perhaps updating the packet during class time. Students use process of elimination to rule out potential murderers, with space to list each character's profession, past known criminal activity, and their status (suspect, victim, deceased). It even lists the character
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7th - 12th
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"Monsters are Due on Maple Street" Mock Trial
Assess your students' ability to infer and determine direct and indirect characterization with this fun classroom drama tied to Rod Serling's classic teleplay "Monsters are Due on Maple Street." Packet includes mock trial handout, graphic organizer to be used as students read the teleplay (or watch the "Twilight Zone" episode), and trial rubric.
Grades:
6th - 9th
"Hogwarts mystery" game (Harry Potter Interactive PowerPoint quiz & quest)
An unusual adventure in search of a philosopher's stone beginning in platform 3/4Â guiding you through Hogwarts secret chambers hand in hand with well-known characters. 44 PowerPoint slides with sound and animation effects fully emerging you in Harry Potter's universe. On every slide, there is a ready-made question connected to a book, film or its author. Enjoy a 45-60 minute magical journey with your students! ! IMPORTANT ! 1) As this presentation is a 44-paged PowerPoint with each slide fully
Grades:
K - 12th
Also included in:Â Bundle of PowerPoint thematic quests (History/Harry Potter/Christmas quests)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy: Apocalypse Survival Game
This is a survival game based on the items that the Man and the Boy encounter in the novel The Road. I use this game to introduce the novel on the first day. Student are asked to first individually and then as a group rank 20 items (all found in the novel) in order of importance to their survival after a near-extinction level event.
This activity is very high engagement with the students and is an excellent springboard into the novel itself and talking about the issues the characters will fac
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11th - 12th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Escape Room: Escape from Bob Ewell (Breakout EDU)
Can you break the locks and make it safely back to Atticus Finch before Bob Ewell tracks you down to extract his revenge? Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, setting, and events of To Kill a Mockingbird -- arguably one of the most beloved novels in all of American literature!
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of To Kill a Mockingbird in
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to a New Unit with QR Codes!
Imagine a class Escape Room in REVERSE. Where student teams compete to break IN to a new unit of study, teaching themselves by solving asynchronous BYOD puzzles in a race against their peers and the clock.
Interested?
I've had a ton of fun designing and implementing themed escape rooms in my HS classes, but for as AMAZING as class escape rooms and tools like Breakout EDU can be (for real, they're fantastic!) -- I've found the traditional escape room to be somewhat limited when it comes to its
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9th - 12th
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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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The Tell-Tale Heart Mock Trial
Assembled here are eight individual resources used with 8th graders to conduct a mock trial based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. For my classes, this was a major-fun!- culminating project in the 2nd trimester. However, I think it could easily be adapted to other purposes, including part of an existing unit on mock trials or a short project within a short story unit.
The key skills addressed with this unit are using evidence from text to build and make an argument, as well as speak
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8th - 12th
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The Odyssey Mock Trial - Unit Study - Greek Mythology - Real World Skills Script
Get your students into the characters and events of "The Odyssey" by Homer with this comprehensive Mock Trial resource! Your students will love playing their roles when you transform your classroom into a courtroom!Here’s what you’ll get:✅ Detailed teacher guide, complete with daily lesson plans✅ Introduction Google slideshow✅ Student directions✅ Roles guide✅ Expectations and rubrics for all roles✅ Worksheets for all roles✅ General script✅ Webquest jury duty assignment✅ Links to relevant videos✅
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7th - 10th
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Dear Martin Pre Reading Digital Escape Room
This is an easy and simple way to get students excited about reading Dear Martin by Nic Stone, while giving them some basic content about Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a digital escape room based on a Google Site, but you do NOT need Google accounts to use this escape room!What's included: - Link to the digital escape room website- Detailed lesson plan- Notes sheet to help with escape roomThis digital escape room requires access to a laptop and reliable internet. This can be done individually
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Dear Martin Unit Bundle CCSS Aligned
Harrison Bergeron in 19 Questions
You need a quiz / test for Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. Ten questions would be too short, but 20 conforms to all the expectations of society. That's why you need a 19-question multiple-choice test with no handicaps whatsoever.
It's always fun to see if a bell curve emerges on these kinds of tests, but for this particular test, it would take on more meaning than usual. Also, be sure to the get free film version of this. It's offered by a conservative group (and they'll send you some other
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7th - 11th
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Reading Strategies Classroom Murder Mystery (PowerPoint Version)
WHO KILLED MISS JACKSON?TEACHER'S NOTESSkills: Analyze text, determine importance, infer, synthesize, question, use background information, monitor for understanding, speaking, and listeningGrades: 6-10Age groups: 11-17Materials: Character cards, Character Analysis Worksheet Time: About 2 hoursPreparation and RulesStep one: Explain to the class that you are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer! Give them the background info
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6th - 10th
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A Raisin in the Sun REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to the Play with Monopoly!
The explosive drama of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" meets the most contentious family board game of all time, AND students learn about the historical injustice of redlining and racial segregation while teams compete to break IN to a new unit of study in a REVERSE escape room, teaching themselves and one another by solving asynchronous BYOD puzzles in a race against their peers and the clock.
Interested?
I've had a ton of fun designing and implementing themed escape rooms in my H
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Escape Room: Poetry of Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson (Breakout EDU)
Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock (and your classmates!) as students use knowledge of the poetry, biography, and literary impact of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to change the face of literature! Can you break the locks before the executors of Dickinson's Last Will and Testament see to it that her life's work is destroyed in the fire?For a sneak peek of the sort of adrenaline rush your classes can expect from t
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9th - 12th
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Escape The Room Where it Happens: Hamilton Escape Room (Breakout EDU)
Can you rewind time and save Alexander Hamilton from his fateful Weekhawken duel? Do not throw away your shot! Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, poetic techniques, and events of Broadway's hip hop juggernaut, Hamilton: An American Musical.
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of Hamilton in a high-energy end-of-unit collaborative activity
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9th - 12th
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Hollywood Movie Proposal: Summary of a Novel
Students will explore theme and create an iMovie movie trailer for a book they recently read.
PROJECT INTRO: Imagine that you are the author of the book you have just read. Suddenly the book becomes a best seller. A Hollywood movie studio wants you to make the book into a movie. The movie studio wants you to present a short trailer explaining the theme and central idea of the book. You must also explain why the story, characters, conflicts, etc., would make a good film. Suggest a filming loca
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3rd - 12th
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Shakespeare in Court: Romeo & Juliet Mock Trial Experience
Transform your classroom into a courtroom with this immersive "Romeo and Juliet Mock Trial" resource! Designed for middle and high school students, this comprehensive package offers a unique twist on Shakespeare's timeless tale, providing an interactive way for students to explore legal concepts while delving deeper into the characters and themes of the play.Key Features:Character Pages:Dive into the minds of Romeo, Juliet, and other key characters with detailed character pages that guide studen
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7th - 10th
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