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Middle school vocal music tools for common cores for GATE
Depth of Knowledge and Learning Icons - Digging Deep - Critical Thinking Skills
These focus wall resources are designed to be engaging and meaningful. Help your kiddos reach for deep knowledge and content mastery using a variety of critical, complex thinking skills.Digging Deep Learning Practices assist students in engaging in critical thinking and developing meaningful understanding of concepts.This resource contains both large and small posters as well as “quick cards” that can be displayed on focus walls, resource walls, or simply during specific lessons.Encourage your s
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K - 6th
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Social Media, Digital Citizenship, & the Internet Depth & Complexity Bundle
Teach your students how to be digital citizens using the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This bundle offers Depth & Complexity frames, thought provoking games, and engaging activities all about social media, digital citizenship, and the internet! Students will have the chance to write, collaborate with others, share opinions, create a website and blog about it (on paper), and participate in many other activities.
Never used Depth and Complexity icons or frames in
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2nd - 8th
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Year Long Theater Curriculum Lessons Units Plays Projects Grades 6 to 9 Drama
DISCOUNT 30%! Hey, new teacher! Are you looking for year-long theater education curriculum and help from an award winning, veteran drama teacher? These units are best taught to students in sixth grade through ninth grade, however some units work well with sixth grade. ++++NOTE: I discovered long ago that some students were enrolled in my class without their say so. Consequently, they were reluctant and disengaged from my lessons. So, I changed what I taught them and went in a different direc
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6th - 9th
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Essay Template aligned with Lucy Calkins Boxes and Bullets
Students can use this template to plan and organize their essays for Informative, Persuasive, and Expository essays.
It includes Sentence Starters and Language Frames and lined paper to start their essays on.
The C_ O_ P_ S_ S_ is a checklist for students to check their writing for Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling, and Sentence structure.
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4th - 8th
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A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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Readers Theater Little Girl and Winter Whirlwinds Bulgaria Folktale
Part of a Bundle Need something for after winter break? Something to celebrate spring? Low prep and easy to read or present! This Bulgarian folktale adapted into a reader's theater script with roles for 25+ students is suitable for upper elementary gifted or middle school students studying fairy tales, L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three-day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. Need something for a substitute that lasts several days? Pick up
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4th - 7th
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Broadway Musical Unit Sound of Music Guide Theater Arts WWII Julie Andrews
Part of a Bundle Who doesn't know this beloved musical based on a true story? This one or two-day lesson focuses on the Tony award winning musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews, is is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She fall
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7th - 9th
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Differentiated Instruction CCSS STEM Choice Boards & Extension Menus K-8
Teachers, meeting the needs of all learners through differentiated instruction is more important now than it ever was. With the transition to the Common Core, more English language learners, and differing learning styles and abilities makes it pertinent for teachers to offer activities that appeal to each and every student. This is a collection of choice boards, extension menus, and Think-Tac-Toe boards for all grade levels and content areas. These will allow you to reach all students, ensure th
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K - 8th
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Broadway Musical Units and Study Guides| Theater History| Musical Storytelling
GROWING BUNDLE SAVE A BUNCH!! Here are 10 units (360 pages) and study guides focused on Tony Award winning, classic Broadway musicals--The Music Man, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, The King and I, South Pacific and Peter Pan and Sweeney Todd (which should be considered a classical). Students study, research, synthesize and apply the information with opportunities for individual, distance and/or cooperative learning. Plus, free lesson about Audra McDonald! Note: This is a GROWING bu
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8th - 10th
Customized Theatre Arts Units High School Teacher’s Choice Curriculum Drama
BUNDLE! This particular bundle was created for a high school teacher who requested it. Save up to 20 to 30% (depending upon how many resources you select) on this bundle. Allow my 38+ years of teaching theater classes benefit your and your students. YOU can do the same thing! Any two lessons can be bundled if you merely write me through my Questions/Answers page. Any grave level, any category, any lesson. THE PRICE WILL DEPEND UPON HOW MANY PRODUCTS ARE BUNDLED. Plus, I give you a free produ
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8th - 11th
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Error Analysis: Multiplication
Higher Order Thinking Task Cards
Newly update with new graphics: This is a set of critical thinking task cards. Students are required to analyze a traditional algorithm multiplication problem to find the single error. Students are then required to use their math knowledge and vocabulary to describe the problem. Then students write an extended response to help fix the error.
The task cards in this packet can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom: individual work stations, partner/ gro
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4th - 7th
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Drama Class Music Create Your Own Juke Box Musical Grades 7 to 9 Playwriting
Are your students familiar with Broadway Juke Box Musicals? Think Mama Mia and Jersey Boysyes. Teach them all about this fun genre through this unit! This Dramamommaspeaks unit is the ultimate teaching companion for educators looking to instill a passion for musical theater, foster creativity, and deepen their students' understanding of this unique genre. By the end of the six days your student will have a better appreciation of musical theater and its complexities as well as the challenges of
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7th - 9th
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Multiple Intelligence (MI) PowerPoint (Secondary Version) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Argumentative Grade 8
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, charts, quotations, environmental print, fiction, or poetry. In line with PARCC demands.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "argumentative" because the student will be forced to establi
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7th - 9th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Explanatory Grade 6
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to respond to a question by making a definitive answ
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5th - 7th
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Fairy Tale Camp Two to Three Weeks in Length One Act Play Drama Curriculum
Embark on an enchanting journey with the DramaMommaSpeaks Fairy Tale Adventure curriculum! Designed to ignite creativity and foster confidence, our immersive program offers eight dynamic lessons encompassing costume design, set creation, chanting, movement, storytelling, tableau theater, sound effects, and stage properties. Through hands-on workshops and interactive activities, young actors explore the magic of fairy tales while honing their acting skills and unleashing their imaginations. Culmi
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4th - 7th
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One Act Plays Folk Tales International Legends Grades Fourth and Up Royalty Free
BUNDLE: SAVE 30% Created for the classroom teacher and easy to produce! 290 pages of 9 multicultural plays with units, (each 15 minutes in length) appropriate for a public performance, however they were created with the classroom in mind. Students strengthen their study of other cultures, reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. Even reluctant students enjoy these scripts. Royalty Free! Do you follow me? If not, I hope you w
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6th - 8th
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Dodecahedron - A 3-D - Novel Study - Book Project - to Fit Any Novel!
This is a student all time favorite of mine over the past 10 years. It is fun, engaging, and makes an absolutely beautiful final project to display.Typically, I do this while reading a class novel to enhance our study of the book (click here to find book specific projects) But this particular project is meant to fit any novel and can be done independently while students read their novel or as a book project after they finish reading.The project is easily differentiated and adapts to all learners
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Dodecahedron - Book Study Bundle - Upper Grades
Costume Design Wicked Musical Tony Award Winner Color Palette Characterization
Elfaba and Glenda anyone? This low prep lesson (50 pages) about costume design is focused on characters of Wicked, the Broadway musical which gives the students an opportunity for differentiation to be costume designers as well as study it. The product is broken in to two class periods, although it could be used for a one-day exploration of the subject. This is a super lesson for a substitute to teach! Gifted students in grade 9 may enjoy this, too! However, it was created for middle school st
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Wicked Musical| Menzel| and Chenoweth Biographies and Costume Design
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This song describes the tragic loss of twenty-nine men when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. The product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the rhyme scheme, literary devices, and various strategies used by the author to convey his message. A summary chart is included and answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Perils of the Sea Unit: A Collection of Shipwreck Poems and a Song
Broadway Musical 5 Day Unit Study Guide Hamilton Using Google Slides! Theater
Part of a Bundle This Pulitzer and Tony award winning unit is now adapted for the GOOGLE CLASSROOM. Steeped in American history and present day rap, this Hamilton unit is an excellent arts integration--in a language arts or American history class, a drama or a gifted/talented class. Students have an opportunity to become very familiar with the production itself and its journey to Broadway. There is enough material in this unit for 1 to 5 days of instruction. Select a little or a lot! Teachers c
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Theater Arts Units and Lesson Plans Using Google Slides
Argumentative Essay Brainstorm Outline - College Prep
Many students have difficulty writing an argumentative essay... and this document is the perfect solution!
It doubles as a brainstorming/outline worksheet, and requires students to provide both evidence to support their claim as well as analysis of the evidence they choose.
Furthermore, it requires one of the most important components of an argumentative essay that students often forget or ignore... counter-argument.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Text Dependent Explanatory Prompt Bundle
The new common core standards and PARCC assessments will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, reference materials, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
These writing prompts contain three texts each for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to
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1st - 6th
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Halloween Sound Effects and Radio Commercial Playwriting Drama Unit 5 Days
Are you a drama teacher or educator looking to infuse a thrilling and fun dose of Halloween spirit into your classroom? This five day Halloween themed resource is here to help you captivate your students' imaginations and foster their love for dramatic storytelling through the use of sound effects and playwriting. Plus, everyone is going to have a whole lot of fun doing so. Note: If you own my Halloween sound effects lesson or my radio theater unit which includes the radio commercial, I have
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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