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Informational text Common Core RL.9-10.4 interactive notebooks
Native American History & Literature | Alcatraz Occupation 1969 | Irony & Satire
Want to teach a powerful lesson on the act of resistance that sparked a movement? The Occupation of Alcatraz was a powerful 19-month long protest in which the Indians of All Tribes lived on Alcatraz Island and created a small society; the occupation sparked the Indian Activist movements of the late 20th century including the Occupation of Wounded Knee, The Trail of Broken Treaties and the more recent Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock among many other actions.Besides being an exam
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Night Elie Wiesel Activities | Pre-Reading Unit: Bullying, Hate Crimes, Genocide
Looking for rigorous and engaging lessons that will help your students understand why they should learn about the Holocaust and other genocides?This 3-5 day unit covers bullying, hate crime, and genocide by exploring a TED Talk, famous quotes, a poem, an essay by Elie Wiesel, an opinion piece, and a study done on Holocaust knowledge and awareness. Students will start their unit on Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, or genocide with curated texts that will get them thinking, discussing, analyzing, a
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare: High Interest Paired Passages
If you want to teach a successful unit on Shakespeare’s classic play, it is essential that your students make connections to the ideas and issues that matter to them. These powerful activities will make Romeo and Juliet relevant to your students. This unit of Romeo and Juliet activities focuses on many of the most important themes of the play: teens, gangs, violence, death, and revenge.Get your students writing, discussing, analyzing, and working through the most important and challenging esse
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance Literary Nonfiction Unit: Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois
Looking for an engaging and academically rigorous unit to add to your Harlem Renaissance studies? Focusing on excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois, “The Negro-Art Hokum” by George S. Schuyler, as well as the entire essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” by Langston Hughes, this unit explores themes of what it means to be an African American artist in the twentieth century.This unit on three seminal nonfiction texts will get your students completing close readings of
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Jimmy Santiago Baca: Literary Nonfiction | Chicano & Native American Literature
Looking for a compelling unit on contemporary Chicano nonfiction? This powerful essay by Jimmy Santiago Baca is a great choice for exploring why literature matters. Telling the story of how Baca first found his love for reading and writing, this essay is also a great choice for discussing themes around identity, self expression, metaphor, and the American prison system. In this lesson, students will start off by freewriting on engaging bellringer prompts and trying their hand at writing figurat
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Introduction to the Holocaust
Take your introduction lesson to the next level with these interactive guided notes. Each page follows alongside the Yad Vesham youtube videos with fill in the blank, turn-and-talk, real-world connections, media comparative analysis, and written response tasks. The questions model after common core standards using student friendly language.
Here is the link to the video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4Nc4AFjMQ&list=PLj1tRCohZq81aYbpsLMKimSXh2TibtwJW
Grades:
7th - 12th
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