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Middle school close reading simulations in English (UK)
Dust Bowl Mystery: Inquiry-Based Intro. to Great Depression!
The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl have fascinated kids and adults for years. Use this mystery to harness that fascination and engage students in an inquiry-based investigation that they will remember all year long!This lesson is SO FUN when used as an introduction to a unit about The Great Depression. I let them try to solve the mystery first and THEN tell them that our next unit will be about The Great Depression. It's the perfect way to get them asking questions and build genuine curiosit
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4th - 8th
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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
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Julius Caesar: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Julius Caesar, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can instan
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Romeo and Juliet: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Romeo and Juliet, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can ins
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mock Election and Voting Simulation Unit
Let’s Get Out and Vote! This election simulation takes students from registering with paper applications or online, to researching the candidates, making campaign signs, voting in a mock election paper-based or online; you decide! Students collect the votes in a graph to decided who the winnign candidate is. Its a fun way to teach civil responsibility and learn about the election process. This unit is organized to be completed in 4-5 days. It has a plan at the beginning of each day along with
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3rd - 8th
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Dealing with Murder Series: 2 Cases - Fatal Error and Dead & Breakfast
NOTE: While generally similar in process to the Unsolved Crimes cases, the Dealing with Murder cases have one significant difference. Rather than being given all of the case information at once, the information in the Dealing with Murder cases is provided in four sections in an effort to be more realistic and better represent the process of an actual investigation.
The Dealing with Murder cases merge science and literacy as students are required to be critical and active readers as they conduc
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7th - 12th
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Short Story Unit Saki's The Open Window
Saki’s The Open Window is the perfect short story for any class. An excellent study of fear and horror by subtext and a peek into the era of Victorian social etiquette. If you are looking for a short story that is gripping, with a twist in its tale. Then this short story is for you.
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This download contains 5 hours of activities including: numerous pre-reading activities, 5 pages of historical context for the Victorian era, comprehension ques
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in: Short Story Bundle
Crime Scene Investigation Reports Bundle Worksheets - True Crime - For Any Text
Unlock the door to real-world learning experiences with this Crime Scene Reports Bundle! It's the secret ingredient you've been missing for immersive learning that brings text and characters to life. This resource is perfect for inferencing skills, mock trials, pretend investigations, or any scenario where your students can put their critical thinking and creativity to the test.Included are three versatile templates in PRINT and DIGITAL:✅ Police/Incident Report: Dive deep into the world of law e
Grades:
7th - 10th
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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Project Based Learning | Football Math and Reading - FUN for Super Bowl 2024
Get your students excited about the upcoming Super Bowl with this fun and engaging football-themed project! In this activity, students will imagine being a FOOTBALL MANAGER and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills. Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity, so that students can further enha
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5th - 8th
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Animal Farm Activity Bundle - Includes Mock Trial - Unit Plan - George Orwell
Immerse your students in the captivating world of Animal Farm by George Orwell with these FIVE resources! Encourage close reading, foster critical thinking, and spark lively discussions as students delve into the characters and events of the novel.Here are resources included in this bundle:⭐️ Animal Farm Character Trading CardsEach card features a vibrant illustration of a key character from the novel, along with essential details and quotes. Engage your students as they collect, analyze, and di
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7th - 10th
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The Knights Tale - Chaucer
An 18 slide PowerPoint exploring The Knight's Tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Includes:
A summary of the story
Character analysis including the knight himself
Key tasks exploring character and plot
Key questions to provoke thought and reflection on the story
Grades:
5th - 9th
Othello: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Final version we are using:
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Othello, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and y
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Character Analysis bookmarks, foldables and worksheets (for any text)
Studying character and character analysis are central to the study of literature. Students need as much support as possible to help develop their independent character analysis skills.
These bookmarks, foldables and worksheets will help your students explore the characters they need to study in any literature text.
Ideal for middle or high school students.
Contents:
# 9 character foldables 10pgs
# 9 character bookmarks 12pgs
# 9 character analysis worksheets 9pgs
# 1 blank character folda
Grades:
7th - 12th
Pride and Prejudice Volume I Test
A test covering Volume I (Chapters 1-23) of Pride and Prejudice. It includes:
*10 Matching
*7 character ID (focusing on the Bennet sisters)
*10 Quote ID
*Short answer
This test is a nice blend of plot-based questions and analysis. The plot-based focus allows students to get solid footing with the basic of the story while experimenting with analysis.
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8th - 12th
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Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
Engage students with this yearlong set of Reader’s Theaters that follows the new learning standards for 4th grade Ohio Social Studies throughout the early history of our state and country! These 15 plays are perfect for the integrated classroom as they are each differentiated by reading level, contain a larger than normal number of character parts (for whole class participation), and are written with a high interest, historically accurate focus! Not only will students see major historical events
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3rd - 6th
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The London Eye Mystery Complete Novel Study PDF
This is an updated version of my previously posted novel study sets. This updated version includes questions ALL 41 chapters of the book. It also includes 4 quizzes to be used after each section of the novel. The quizzes only pertain to the chapters read since the last quiz. Each quiz is a collection of questions from the homework pages. If you are looking for a test to cover the whole book, see my other listing. This set does not include an answer key as most of the questions are "brain" questi
Grades:
4th - 6th
Visualizing Activities Reading Skills BUNDLE
This is a BUNDLE of reading activities to encourage students to visualize as they read, to increase their comprehension. The tasks involve students visualizing and verbalizing their ideas: connecting with the images, and higher order thinking, without the stress of de-coding.What's included? There are 320 task cards: 8 for each of these skills, in each set:1) Cause and Effect2) Prior Knowledge (Inference)3) Predicting4) Sequencing5) Comparing and Contrasting6) Fact and Opinion7) Making Generali
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3rd - 6th
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Echo Mountain Novel Study
About the Novel: After losing almost everything in the Great Depression, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed wilderness of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy after a terrible accident leaves her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie.Ellie is a girl who takes matters into her own hands, and determined to help her father she
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4th - 6th
Hamlet: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Hamlet, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can instantly und
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Comprehensive Novel study and guides
Over 2500 questions on The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesThe sets include for each of the 31 chapters, questions on:10 open ended questions10 multiple choice questionsSets of 5 questions on each theme of the chapterSets of 5 questions on each character of the chapterQuestions on keywords in the bookIn addition to this each chapter hasa summarya list of the keywords and their meanings Descriptions about the characters in each chapterDescription about the themes from each chapter All files in word
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Common Tone and Mood Words Activity
This activity provides students with modeled instruction on determining an author’ tone and the mood that is created by an author’s specific word choice. Activity provides a review of the definitions of tone and mood, a brief discussion on the difference between connotative and denotative meanings and an activity that requires students to determine words that carry positive, negative or neutral connotations. Students then analyze literature excerpts to identify positive, negative and neutral w
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8th - 11th
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THE HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS - BUNDLE OF READING PASSAGES
This is a bundle of 10 'cloze' reading passages about the history of 10 Christmas Traditions. There are comprehension, vocabulary, and reflection questions + Key. There is a digital interactive Google Slides version of this product for distance learning purposes.In this zip file you will find:Printable PDFs of all the products separately with the passage readings and the questions The links of a copy to the interactive Google Slides versionsa bonus file with all of the separate files together al
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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