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Free Common Core WHST.6-8.1 resources for Microsoft Word
Manifest Destiny & American Progress Painting Analysis
This is a great way to introduce your Westward Expansion Unit! Explore the painting American Progress by John Gast to compare to the meaning of Manifest Destiny. The kids have lots of fun trying to interpret the picture and what it could mean. This is a great lesson that can help introduce the new movement of expansion not just physically but mentally too.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Killing Julius Caesar Historical Fiction Reading and Argumentative Essay
This is a historical fiction reading with a follow up argumentative essay of the murder of Gauis Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. The story takes the perspective of Caesar's great friend and ultimate betrayer, Brutus. Liberties are taken with historical fact to create an engaging read. The reading is about seven pages long which most middle school students can read in about 30 minutes. It is probably a 7th or 8th grade reading level. The story highlights Brutus' torment as he realizes th
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7th - 10th
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19th Century Social Reforms in Education CRQs Set & 2-Day Lesson Plan
Introducing our comprehensive set of Constructed Response Questions (CRQs) focusing on 19th-century social reforms in education. This product is designed to engage students in critical thinking, historical analysis, and writing skills while exploring the significant reforms that shaped American education during the 1800s.Thank you for visiting and downloading. For the latest new resources, Follow. Please Provide Feedback after use to help build this resource library! Thank you!Key Features:Alig
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6th - 12th
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Africa, The Belgian Congo and Leopold II
A brief overview reading that middle school students information over Leopold II's occupation of the Republic of the Congo. This is a great resource for supplement or adding to your instruction for an Africa unit, particularly one based around the "Scramble For Africa".Included is a word bank, and a guided note template. The instructions mention questions but those have been redacted as they were borrowed from another teacher. My suggestion would be to create a critical thinking or reading compr
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6th - 8th
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Introductions and Conclusions
How to formulate a basic Intro/Conclusion outline.
This doc was created to guide students having trouble with introductions and conclusions for Non-fiction writing. Many struggle because they don't understand what to put without just beginning their first paragraph.
This guide walks students through how to properly outline an expository introduction and conclusion of sufficient substance.
I use this for middle school students who are new to writing essays as well as those who have been doin
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6th - 9th
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Historical Argument Essay Outline
Teach your students to write a historical argument essay with this powerful 1-page outline!
I've used variations on this outline with my 7th graders for years, and they find it incredibly useful for supporting their writing early in the year. With consistent use, they will internalize the outline and in turn learn to "breaking the rules" to increase the creativity of their writing while maintaining a solid backbone of structure.
This outline includes basic structure for a 5-paragraph historic
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6th - 12th
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Argumentative Writing Graphic Organizer
This handout features a graphic organizer on which students can plan for argumentative writing with six paragraphs. Fields within the organizer prompt students to develop an introduction with an argument and claims, three body paragraphs with details to support their claims, a rebuttal, and a conclusion. All you need is a prompt!
Grades:
6th - 9th
Science Literacy: SSS1 Happily Ever - Short Science Stories - Rocks & Minerals
ATTENTION MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS:
Are you frustrated trying to get your students to learn basic science concepts? Pay attention in class? Write coherent essays or answer open-ended science questions?
MAYBE IT’S TIME TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT:
SHORT SCIENCE STORIES
Personalized Science Stories to Engage Middle School Students and Teach Common Core Standards & Science Content Simultaneously
WHAT ARE SSS?
• Engaging short stories that teach or reinforce major science concepts and c
Grades:
6th - 8th
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MYP Middle School TEEL paragraph Graphic Organizer
TEEL (topic, evidence, explanation, link) is a good way to organize expository writing. This is widely used in MYP/IB but can also be used in other curriculum formats. This graphic organizer helps students identify the parts of TEEL writing. I have included a sample task specific rubric I use for one of my units.
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6th - 8th
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Conceptual Framework Poster
Use this Study Scaffold - to help educate and guide your students about how to utilise the Conceptual Framework designed for Stage 4 Visual Arts Education. This scaffold has been differentiated for a variety of diverse learners to support a range of learning abilities.
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Not Grade Specific
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Feedback Abbreviation Codes
Do you ever feel conflicted between giving your kids meaningful feedback on their writing, and getting the work graded quickly enough to be relevant? Creating and using these feedback codes to abbreviate my comments have saved me SO much time! It may seem small like a small adjustment to write "RE" instead of "repetitive", for example, but I guarantee this will save you HOURS of grading!I provide this handout to each student as a resource that could be put in a interactive/writing notebook or a
Grades:
5th - 12th
Ancient Israelite leaders
This a great writing assignment that requires higher level thinking. Creating a RAFT (Role, Audience, Format and Topic) are great ways to engage students while incorporating rigor into their writing. Students can use any source of information (books, internet and etc..) to learn about the leaders (Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and others) of the ancient Israelite world. They evaluate who contributed the most to the creation/rise of Judaism. The RAFT encourages students to be creative and sh
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6th - 9th
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Slaves vs. Factory Workers- A Primary Source
This worksheet contains an excerpt from a book written in 1857 by George Fitzhugh, a Southern writer. In this document, Fitzhugh argues why African-American slaves are better off than free factory workers in the North. There are background questions for the students to answer before they read the quote, followed by questions about the quote itself. On the second page is a quick assessment in which your students must write a 50-100 response to Fitzhugh explaining why he's wrong.Before presenting
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7th - 8th
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Document Based Question DBQ Constitution Ratification T-Chart
Begin the brainstorming process to write an organized DBQ Argumentative Essay on the ratification of the United States Constitution with this t-chart.
See also DBQ Constitution Ratification Writing Organizers for more resources to guide your students through the DBQ Essay writing process including a DBQ Constitution Ratification Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer, DBQ Peer Revision Checklist, and DBQ Essay Reflection.
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6th - 9th
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Age of Exploration Passport
Graphic organizer to be used in conjunction with your Age of Exploration Lessons , and Text.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Staff
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Personal Transformations- Warm Up/Bellwork/Reflection
High School/Middle SchoolA beginning of school year or beginning of second semester warmup/bellwork for students in any subject.A good start on student individual reflection in different areas of life and changes that occur in life/school/etc.
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7th - 12th
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MS-ESS3-1
Mrs V.'s Pennsylvania Middle School Science
I've created a checklist for the Organisms and Cells PA state standards to attach to my Resource binder. This is the best organizational tool when preparing science content and common core in reading and writing. This gives my lessons credibility when my principal opens my binder and sees everything on a few pages during observations.
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6th - 9th
NGSS MS-LS 2-5 Formative Assessment
This product is a 1/2 page Argumentative Paragraph assessment for Next Generation Science Standard LS 2-5 (Life Science).
The assessment is on Ecosystem Services. This is a "sister" product with my other LS 2-5 products:
1) NGSS MS-LS 2-5 Ecosystem Services Research Notesheet
2) NGSS MS-LS 2-5 Summative Assessment
The Summative Assessment product also has a recommended 6-Day teaching sequence! I recommend using this product on Day 2 or 3, after students have conducted research on Ecosystem Ser
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â NGSS MS-LS2-5 Ecosystem Services Lesson/Assessment Bundle
Persuasive Essay Project
This is a file that outlines a Persuasive Essay Writing Project in a straightforward, step-by-step process. This can be printed out for students to write on, or posted in Google Classroom where children can edit it with their persuasive essay idea.
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4th - 8th
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DBQ outline/ 4 Square **EDITABLE**
My first TpT seller!! This aids my students in organizing and outlining their answers for DBQ questions. It is editable so you can tailor the prompts to match your own writing topic. Enjoy!
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Marketing Inventions from China
Students will create an advertisement for significant inventions from China, like silk, the iron plow, moveable type, paper, and others.
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6th - 8th
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Fertile Crescent Writing Task
5 paragraph essay designed to look like a state assessment to prepare students for the writing assessments they will complete at the end of the year.
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5th - 8th
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