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Valentine's Day Common Core W.9-10.5 resources for Gifted and Talented
Valentine's Day Speed Dating Poetry - Valentine's Day Poetry Writing Activity
Do you need a fun, engaging Valentine's Day activity? Valentine's Day Speed Dating Poetry is a must! This creative poetry task is set up like speed dating, and students will have a blast! On each "date," students will add another line to their poems. There are two poem options, one celebrating love and one criticizing love. Students have never written poetry like this before, and it's never been more fun!This Valentine's Day Speed Dating Poetry includes1. teacher guide2. 28 task tents3. love poe
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8th - 11th
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Conversation Starters Package for Valentine's Day- Activity Package
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on love and relationships.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of love and relationshipsActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of us
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle/High Seasonal Conversation Starters: Growing Bundle
Fun Valentines Day Descriptive Writing Activity for Middle School ELA
Need a fun 1-day lesson for Valentines Day? Don't want to sacrifice academic standards? This printable, CCSS-aligned, no-prep description writing activity will walk your students through brainstorming, drafting, editing, and writing a colorful description of a person, pet, or thing that they love.It's print-and-go and totally self-explanatory, so this holiday writing lesson would make a perfect Valentines sub plan, if needed.What's included: 3 graphic organizers for brainstorming details: for a
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6th - 8th
Writing Satire
Are you looking for a way to challenge your students through higher level thinking in writing that can be screen shared for distance learning? One of the most difficult forms of writing is satire. Here is a PowerPoint which defines satire, gives an example of a short satirical story, uses the gradual release process to guide students to writing their own stories, and provides topic ideas to get students started on their own writing challenge.Click here to save 25% off the price of individual res
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7th - 11th
Greek Mythology Living Art Exhibit Activity - Great Paired with The Odyssey!
Teaching The Odyssey? Dabbling in Greek mythology? Engage your students in a week-long, skill-building activity they will remember for years! "The day we got to dress up like Greek statues was my favorite." "I really like how we got to research Medusa. I learned much more about mythology than just reading about it in a book." "I had another teacher at my last school teach us about Greek mythology. All he did was show a long documentary that put everyone to sleep. This is actually something that
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5th - 12th
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Poetry Writing - Sharing your Memory Rubric Three Day Revision Peer Editing
Poetry Writing! Sharing your memoir. Challenge your class to write a memory poem. A powerpoint presentation includes short video examples of poems to ignite images from the past in students’ minds.Tips about memoir writing are included. Students will work with an "elbow partner" or small group to revise their first draft using a peer editing process.Slides take them through the steps of writing a “hunk of stone”, working with pairs or groups of three to read the first draft, rewriting and submit
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9th - 12th
ABC Poetry Writing - Writing Form to Guide Process - Rubric Sub Plan Creative
Poetry Writing! ABC PoetryCreative poetry writing can be fun! To write a ABC poem, students need to create 26 alphabetic lines of free verse poetry in an acrostic format. Brainstorming, vocabulary development, poetic terms, description and imagery will help prepare students for ELA test assessment.This lesson contains:Powerpoint slides in pings and Google SlidesWriting directions in Word docx and PDFExit pass in Word docx and PDFPoetry rubric to assess writing in PDFThree examples of poems writt
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6th - 12th
Writing Fluency: 90 15 Minute Quickwrites, 40 Writing Topics, Test Prep,Sub
Writing fluency! The Fifteen Minute Quickwrite Unit arms teachers with a writing tool that will increase how much students can write during a timed writing assessment. It also gives students a lifetime skill of improved writing fluency that will help them meet future writing goals. 40 Writing Topics can be used in shared classroom timed writing notebooks to improve fluency and allow students to have fun writing.Product includes:90 Quickwrites (4 pages) in PDF format. Printable.40 Writing Topi
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6th - 12th
Valentine's Day Poetry Unit Writing/Comprehension/Display: "Passionate Shepherd"
This Common Core Aligned unit features the poems "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh. It includes 41 worksheet pages that are the perfect, no-prep activities to support your middle or high school students' reading comprehension and understanding of poetry terms, while inspiring them to write their own poems that are ideal for bulletin boards or classroom displays! Even your most reluctant students will enjoy wr
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5th - 12th
A Valentine by Carroll Poetry Writing/Annotation/Comprehension/Activity/Display
This Common Core Aligned resource featuring the poem "A Valentine" by Lewis Carroll includes 23 worksheet pages that are the perfect, no-prep activities to support your middle or high school students' reading comprehension and understanding of poetry terms, while inspiring them to write their own poems that are ideal for bulletin boards or classroom displays! Even your most reluctant students will relate to this unique Valentine's Day poem that ends with a surprise when the speaker decides to du
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5th - 11th
"A Joke" (Chekhov) short story study guide - Russian Literature
Study unit for a wonderful short story about the magic of first love! Extensive Common Core Standards aligned package for analysis of the timeless classic by A. Chekhov including vocabulary builder, close reading and discussion and 3 interactive notebooks: figurative language scavenger hunt, plot summary worksheet and readers response with writing activity!
Details of the package
In a .zip folder you will find 5 .pdf documents with:
• full text of the story with vocabulary builder activity;
•
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
World Literature: Cultural Studies Research Project
In my World Literature course, I have students complete a year long Cultural Studies project. They pick a country/region with which they are not familiar and research it to better understand a different perspective. They have to then write a ten page research paper focusing on aspects of what they have learned. I usually complete this paper with juniors and seniors, but it can completely be adapted for different age and grade levels; the ultimate message--of learning about perspectives other tha
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: World Literature: Cultural Studies Full Packet [With Bonus Sample Essay]
Fahrenheit 451 Censorship Presentation Group Project
While reading Fahrenheit 451, students work in collaborative groups to research a type of censorship from history including the McCarthy trials, Nazi book burning, censorship in the schools and media, pharmaceutical mind control (prozac, ritalin, etc) and propaganda. Students work together to research these forms of censorship and create presentations for the class using their choice of digital technology. This assignment will take 2-3 days to complete depending on the speed/ability of your stud
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6th - 12th
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Test Prep Bundle: AP Rhetorical Analysis and Poetry Analysis, 5 Classroom Units
Arm your students with a tool box of rhetorical analysis techniques with this product. A powerpoint presentation, Google Slides, pdf, or pings will take them through the construction and analysis of a writing. Studying popular television advertisements will teach them them techniques of argument."How it Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston is an autobiographical essay from the period of the 1920's for students to analyze. Teachers will need to make copies for the class or upload the doc
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9th - 12th
Ode Writing: Poetry Writing, Poetry Form to Guide Writing, Substitute Plan, Fun
Poetry Writing! Writing Odes is FUN! Writing Odes will engage all students. Writing Odes will help student hone their creative writing skills, problem solving skills, writing fluency, imagery, description and knowledge of test assessment poetry terms. Students will watch youtube examples of Odes and will discuss what elements go into writing an Ode.To write an Ode, students need to choose a subject they are passionate about. Tips for writing are given as well as ideas for a writing plan. Example
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6th - 9th
Neruda - Khatun - Apollinaire: Poetry Writing Culinary Arts Essay Analysis
Bring Poetry and Culinary Art Cooking into your classroom with three poetry units celebrating the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Jahan Malek Khatun, and Guillaume Apollinaire.Each free verse poem includes the poetic devices used, an analysis of the poem itself and a model essay.Students may then write their own free verse poems using an included Free Verse Rubric.You might have a class poetry contest and/or Writer's Chair where students may share what they have written.Bonus essays are included for two
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9th - 12th, Staff
Middle/High Seasonal Conversation Starters: Growing Bundle
Get your middle/high school students inspired and talking with a collection of all of our seasonal conversation starters/icebreakers! Our conversation starters packages encourage critical thinking and allow students to discuss topics that are both relevant and important to them while simultaneously increasing their vocabulary and ability to effectively express themselves. Our packages are extremely versatile and have been used as bell-ringers, as supplementary material for topics covered in cla
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Valentine's Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities Resources, Graphic Organizers
Introducing essay writing for Valentine's Day has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative r
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9th - 12th
MY FUNNY VALENTINE'S DAY REVISING AND EDITING EXERCISE
RUBRICS WITH EXAMPLES PROVIDEDHIGHLY ENGAGING PERSUASIVE LOVE LETTERAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGEARMS FOR REVISIONCUPS FOR EDITINGANSWER KEYS ADDED
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9th - 12th
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Two Short Story Forms: Narrative Memoir Writing, Timed Creative Writing, Rubrics
Scar Stories is a Narrative Writing Unit to help prepare students to write essays for test assessment in grades 6 through 12. Timed Creative Writing Stuck in an Enclosed Space is a fun two-day writing experience. Scar Stories description:Classroom activities include discussion of the Survivor television show relating to scars the participants might bring away from the show.Red Badge of Courage character Henry Fleming is also discussed and this activity will work whether the class is reading the
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6th - 12th
Fluency - Writing Fast Fiction - Poetry Writing with Group Words - Quickwrites
Looking for writing resources that will work all year? These three units can be used in a variety of ways throughout the year and will improve your class writing skills. Creative writing, journal writing, fast fiction of fifty-five words, and poetry writing is all covered.I used the Fifteen Minute Quickwrites to prepare students for the timed writing assessment. Starting out with 15 minutes, I increased the time until they were writing well during the state test timelines. I also learned a lot a
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6th - 12th
Global/US Geography Jingle - Creative Song Production
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
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6th - 12th
Poem Analysis: Jaham Malek Khatun, Model Essay, Persian Spice Recipe, Writing
Advieh Persian Spice and the Poetry of Jahan Malek Khatun, Recipes, Free Verse Poetry Writing, Poetry Analysis, Writing AssessmentJahan Malek Khatun's poem translated into English is the showpiece in this product. Poem analysis, poetry devices and study of the poem itself precedes the writing assignment to create a free verse poem. Tips on how to write a free verse poem and a writing assessment rubric for a free verse poem are included. The lesson ties in Culinary Arts with a recipe for the Pers
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9th - 12th
Poetry Analysis: Sonnet 3, Sonnet 31, A Description Such A One as He Would Love
Three poetry analysis units include:Biography of the poets15 Timed Multiple Choice PowerPoint questions about each poemSonnet Writing instructions for creative writing Sonnet Writing Rubric PDF and DOCXSonnet Writing Rhyming Worksheet Google Slides, PowerPoint Slides, Pings, PDFsAnswers for all questionsSee individual units for more specificsExit Pass
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6th - 12th
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