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High school informational text handouts for Easel under $5
Citing Sources Packet: MLA Style 8th Ed. + Test (Distance Learning Enabled!)
Here is a great way for students to learn and practice how to properly cite their sources in the updated MLA 8th Edition style. How to cite from books, websites, and magazines are clearly and simply explained. How to cite from encyclopedias is also explained (though the process is very similar to citing from a book).- Page One: Students are provided simple clear examples of how to cite from Websites, Books, Magazines, and Enyclopedias. Below each labeled example students are provided space to cr
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5th - 10th
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World War II: Rationing, Victory Gardens, War Bonds, Rosie the Riveter
Students will read and do activities to aid in their understanding of what was done on the homefront during World War II to help win the war. There are short pieces to read and activities on rationing, Rosie the Riveter, Victory Gardens, Scrap Metal Drives, and War Bonds.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: World War II Bundle
Paired Texts: Frederick Douglass & Malala Yousafzai - Close Reading Essay Lesson
This lesson connects three texts: Robert Hayden’s poem “Frederick Douglass,” an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom, and the New York Times article “Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N.” It also makes learning relevant for your students through real-world connections, while meeting ELA standards by employing nonfiction texts.Use this lesson to give your students practice with close reading and the synthesis of ideas. Activity handouts focus on b
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
ROMEO and JULIET Introduction History Background Texts, Activities PRINT, EASEL
This is a great resource to introduce Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and provides a chance to use informational text with your students.The resource includes:1) two reading passages that include a brief history of the playwright as well as the play. The passages total about 1000 words in length and are both illustrated;2) a list of ten vocabulary words found in the passages (5 from each) for students to define;3) six questions on the two passages that encourage critical thinking and measure unde
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8th - 11th
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Christmas Activities Winter Holiday Parody and Satire Song Exercise
CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW. Christmas and the winter holiday season have wonderful traditions, including festive holiday songs and carols. This unique, engaging lesson plan uses favorite Winter holiday songs to facilitate students' understanding of parody and satire. Students will listen and sing along with classic holiday songs and then analyze humorous parodies/satires of those original songs. After analyzing other satires, studens will create their own parodies/satires of holiday songs to shar
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7th - 12th
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Paired Texts - Henry David Thoreau & Newspaper Article
In this lesson, students read and analyze nonfiction texts: excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and an online newspaper article “Tiny House Movement Thrives Amid Real Estate Bust." After close reading the texts, they select a writing activity from a choice board that makes relevant connections.In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for online learning with EASEL by TpT.Students begin by writing a journal about their most essential activities and consider how they
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Class Debate Prep
This product will assist your students in ensuring complete preparation for their debates. These sheet can be used for any topic, so you can reuse these over and over again.Product Includes:- Debate Prep Sheet (tells them what to research)- Debate Organization (how the speech should be conducted)- Debate Rubric- Discussion Tracker (with teacher explanation)Also check out my Speech Class Materials product for 17 units of speech related topics!
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the 3 philosophies that influenced Chinese culture; Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism. They will also do close reads and use question starters from Bloom's taxonomy to write three different leveled questions about the influence of these philosophies on China.
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6th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Graphic Organizer for Any Nonfiction Speech or Text
This simple graphic organizer for introducing students to rhetorical analysis is perfect for analyzing rhetorical appeals in any nonfiction text or speech. This resource is included in AP English Language and Composition Unit 2 as well as the Rhetorical Analysis Big Bundle.This graphic organizer will help students move from analysis to writing. After reading and analyzing how the author constructs his or her argument, students will identify the speaker, purpose and audience of the text, and reco
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9th - 12th
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Human Body Systems Study Guide Digital and Print
Biology Study Guide for Human Body Systems. A set of seven handouts for the study of different human body systems. Includes handouts on the nervous system, the digestive system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, muscular and skeletal system, the integumentary system, and the immune system. Each handout is accompanied by a worksheet for defining vocabulary terms, which can also be used as assessment. Use this resource as a supplemental study guide for your unit. Also includes exposi
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7th - 10th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Close Reading and Speech Writing Lesson
Make your study of Martin Luther King, Jr. a literacy lesson with a primary source. Students complete a close reading of Dr. King's prophetic speech “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” and use their reading as inspiration for their own writing. In pre-reading activities, students learn about the context of the speech and define vocabulary. Next, they complete an activity to understand allusions, and then after reading the speech, they analyze its structure using a graphic organizer. They use the sa
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Bundle: Writing with Mentor Texts - American Authors
Bias in the News/Media: Student Resource Page & Worksheet (DIGITAL)
Are you studying media bias? Use this handy one-page reference sheet to teach your class about four common types of bias in the news: labelling, omission, placement, and source selection. Then, use this three-page digital or printable worksheet for students to analyze ANY news article. This flexible worksheet allows you to tailor articles to student interest and/or reading levels, easily creating a differentiated classroom. If you're teaching bias in the news, check out this introductory slidesh
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Bias in the News/Media Bundle
World War II: Causes, Allied and Axis Powers, Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Students will learn about the causes of WWII, identify Axis and Allied European powers on a map, read about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and analyze primary sources. Memoirs from an American seaman aboard the U.S.S. Arizona, and a Japanese bomber pilot recollecting December 7, 1941 are also included.There are close reads, critical thinking, and compare and contrast activities.
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: World War II Bundle
Marine Mammals Web Search for Print, TpT Digital Activity Distance Learning
Marine Mammals Online Web Search for TeensMarine Mammals Web Search for Print, TpT Digital Activity Distance LearningThis is a 20 question web search document you can use with high school/middle school students. Your students will search for questions related to marine mammals. Yes, an answer sheet is included :o) Print out the sheets or use Adobe Reader and have students type their answers straight into the PDF file.Zombies in Pop Culture Online Web SearchParanormal Online Web SearchHalloween
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9th - 12th
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el 16 de septiembre - la independencia de Mexico
This lesson was designed to introduce el 16 de septiembre to beginning and Spanish I students. The lesson includes: 1. Article/Articulo 2. Cloze Sentences/Oraciones 3. Matching Activity 4. Answer Keys 5. 16 de septiembre cards in color and black and whiteThis lesson can be used in beginning, Spanish I, ESL, bilingual and dual language classes.
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Mexican Holidays Reading Passages and Activities Bundle
Informational Text Report, (middle school or high school). Close reading
Use this graphic organizer to help students while they read through any informational article or text. I like to use them when students read through the small informational books in my classroom about various science topics that are not covered by our textbook. My struggling readers find this to be a particularly helpful resource!Tips for TpT Shoppers:How to receive credit on TpT to use for future purchases:• Go to your My Purchases page. Under each purchase you will see a Provide Feedback butt
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5th - 12th
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Essay Prompt and Outline Sheet with articles
This includes two Articles "The History of Narcissistic Personality Disorder" and "Selfies, Facebook, and Narcissism: What's the Link? Exploring the link between Facebook and Narcissism" plus a graph titled "College Students' Narcissistic Personality Inventory Scores 1982-2006" . After reading these two articles students are given a prompt for an expository essay on narcissism. There is also an outline sheet included for students to use in order to help them organize their essay. Plus a rubric f
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Essay Writing
The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth: ELA Anchor Chart and Activities (Gr. 7-12)
Use a dynamic ‘Hero’s Journey’ and 'Monomyth' anchor chart and activities to explore repeating motifs in literature with middle and high school English Language Arts and Humanities students! Note: The following educational digital download is compatible with PDF, Google Workspace, and Easel.Classroom Use Suggestion — This resource features a concise anchor chart outlining the stages of the hero's journey. Begin your literature unit, whether it's on 'Percy Jackson,' the 'Odyssey,' 'A Midsummer Ni
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7th - 12th
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Empiricism vs. Rationalism: Classroom Philosophy Lesson for Middle & HS
How the mind works is an essential philosophical problem that forms the basis for a theory of knowledge. In this ready-to-go 45-minute jargon-free lesson, introduce your students to two famous theories - one touting that the mind is like a blank sheet of paper and the other that ideas are built-in to the mind like a muffin tin is pre-set with the shape of muffins (before you even bake 'em in the oven)! Which worldview makes the most sense? Introduce your students to this very important epistemol
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Acts and Taxes Chart - American Revolutionary War
Students can keep track of many of the more important acts and taxes imposed on the colonists in the Pre-Revolutionary War time and during the war. They fill-in the date of the act or tax, what the act or tax did and how the colonists reacted to it.
Grades:
5th - 10th
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems #1 Science CER Reading/Writing Prompt
As current science teaching practices and ELA teaching practices continue to evolve, teachers are encouraged to incorporate more nonfiction text into classroom practice. This short nonfiction text is based on current news.This CER document provides a vehicle for nonfiction text reading analyzed through the lens of Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning. We want our students reading more science and constructing arguments in a scientific manner. This text can be used as a bell ringer, included in a sub
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6th - 12th
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MS-LS2-1
Call of the Wild JACK LONDON Biography Texts Activities PRINT and EASEL
This resource includes five biographical passages aboutJack London: his background, his childhood, his life as a teenager, his early writing career, and his later years. They average around 350 words in length. Each passage stands alone and can be used individually or as bellringers/warm-up activities over several class periods. There are comprehension and vocabulary questions for each of the texts, on the right hand panel.The biography is also included in one continuous text of three pages if
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7th - 10th
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Wave Properties #2 Science CER Reading/Writing Prompt
As current science teaching practices and ELA teaching practices continue to evolve, teachers are encouraged to incorporate more nonfiction text into classroom practice. This short nonfiction text is based on current news.This CER document provides a vehicle for nonfiction text reading analyzed through the lens of Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning. We want our students reading more science and constructing arguments in a scientific manner. This text can be used as a bell ringer, included in a sub
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6th - 12th
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MS-PS4-1
Analyzing Persuasive Speeches by Kennedy and Reagan
This includes handouts of two speeches: " Ich Bin Ein Berliner" by president John F. Kennedy and " Tear Down This Wall" by president Ronald Reagan. It includes a graphic organizer to help students compare rhetoric and persuasive techniques in both of these speeches in terms of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.*Update* Available under TpT Digital Resources which adds an interactive layer on top of the pdf for distance learning.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Informational Text Bundle
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