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Common Core RI.8.4 resources for Microsoft Word and for homeschool
Study and Discussion Guide for I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai
Guide an entire class, small group, or individuals through an enlightening study of the autobiography I Am Malala: The Girl who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. Readers will naturally have their own questions as they read and discuss, but these guiding questions will keep readers on track to get the most meaning from this true story of courage and activism. Perfect for an interdisciplinary English/social studies unit, I Am Malala touches
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8th - 12th
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Poetry Workbook, understanding Protest Poems and Songs
This comprehensive 41 page Unit of work, workbook focusing on how protest poems and songs are associated with movements for social changes - protest, resistance and empowerment. Include are explanations, analysis and extensive activities to learn how literary techniques enhance language, sounds and words. Students can listen to songs, and read poems to gain a better understanding of change. Everything you need to teach this unit of work, and which engages and motivates students to learn and chal
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7th - 10th
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Autobiography- Lady Bird Johnson - JFK Assassination - Point of View - Tone Mood
I am a strong believer that all texts must have meaningful content. Student's today are so immersed in their technology that history fades into the past. They don't have any interest in seeking it out so as teachers, we need to ensure they read it anywhere and everywhere. That is where this memoir from Lady Bird Johnson's A White House Diary - Excerpt comes in. The colorful language and meaningful writing brings the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination to life from a new perspective. It is the
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8th - 10th
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Geography of Central America: 1 Page Reading & Map Assignment
This assignment was created for distance learning. I have a 1 page reading on the geography of Central America. It covers terms like the Central Highlands canopies, ecotourism, and more! It explains the natural disasters the area experiences and a quick history of the Maya, Spanish colonization, and the region since independence.Quick Reads are great for online or distance learning as you can post it to a Google Classroom or send it to students in print form! They can be used as bell ringers,
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7th - 12th
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Geography of South Asia: 1 Page Reading & Map Assignment for Distance Learning
This one page reading contains information about the nations that make-up South Asia, the religions, the Himalayan Mountains, the rivers and plains, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and more! There are 5 questions from the reading and vocabulary terms for the students to fill out. Additionally there is a matching map assignment that can easily be done online or at home for any student as they simply have to identify what "A" is.Quick Reads are great for online or distance learning as you can post i
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7th - 12th
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Elie Wiesel's Night - Common Core Learning Tasks - 30 Rigorous Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 30 rigorous unit learning tasks for Elie Wiesel’s "Night." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informational
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8th - 10th
Tom Sawyer Novel Guide - Distance Learning!
THIS IS A WHOLE UNIT WORTH OF STUDENT WORK!!!AMEN.Here's what you'll get...1. Essential Questions & Main Focus: Legacy2. Author Exploration of MARK TWAIN, complete with links, quotes, a short biography, and photos for students to analyze.3. A close/critical reading of an article that explains the SETTING, exploring the idea of steamboats, the Mississippi River, political climateof the Civil War, etc.(links to videos, full articles included, quotes, etc)4. CHARACTER CHART for EVERY character.
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6th - 9th
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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Quiz and Review
"A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord quiz, answer key, and review for students. Objectives covered include inference, drawing conclusions, word meaning, descriptive details, genre, text evidence, and word choice. Based on common core and higher-order thinking skills and questioning techniques, this quiz comprehensively covers chapters 1-10. Check out other resources from the novel:A Night to Remember Chapter 3 Close Reading AnalysisA NIght to Remember Vocabulary
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7th - 12th
Classic Poems to Teach Specific Themes and the Paired-Texts to go with them
Have you searched and searched for poetry to match the theme you are teaching? Unit planned? Check out the lists of poems, quotes, short stories, songs, articles, novellas, novels, and excerpts that can be used to pair with the themes below. Check out the other lists available in the store as well. Cross-curricular and great for test prep. In person on online teaching. The lists included in this pack Back to School, New Beginnings, Perseverance, and How Sports Inspire Us. Check out some of the p
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Sharon Draper's "Darkness Before Dawn" - 21 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 21 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sharon Draper’s, "Darkness Before Dawn." This novel is the 3rd in her Hazelwood High series. The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This re
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6th - 10th
Texas Revolution- The Alamo- Cloze Reading
This Texas Revolution cloze reading covers the Alamo, the Battle of San Jacinto and the annexation of Texas by the United States. This is a great and fun reading comprehension activity to helps your students learn about the Texas Revolution while continuing to work on their reading comprehension skills.
This comes with an answer key as well.
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6th - 9th
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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Quiz Chapter 8-10
This is a quiz for chapters 8-10 of the novel "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord about the historical sinking of the Titanic.The novel pairs well with theanalysis of other documents about the sinking of the "unsinkable" Titanic.Great for close reading virtual learning/distance learning where the student can take it to a higher level using the text. If you are looking for great test practice for virtual learners, check out the rest of Teach Well ELA's close reading activities.Check out other it
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Anne Frank WebQuest & Interactive tour of the Anne Frank House w/EASEL & KEY
Prior to reading The Diary of Anne Frank, this WebQuest using the Anne Frank Museum website acquaints students with Anne Frank and her family and other characters involved in her story. The worksheet provides links and images to help students navigate through the virtual tour of the annex, which includes interesting facts and actual photos from the annex. It also includes questions about the other characters involved in the story.To assign, you can use the printable download or assign as an EAS
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6th - 11th
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Also included in:Â The Diary of Anne Frank the play UNIT BUNDLE with supplemental readings
Morse Code Today Close Reading Analysis STEM Science
Common Core Test Practice for STEM, Math, and Science can be hard to find for areas taught that help ELA teachers able to integrate and correlate with teaching teams for PLC and theme-related teaching.The non-fiction document included is a common core-based story and set of questions for middle school to high school with higher-level thinking objectives that include word meaning, word choice, author's claims, non-fiction writing, citing text evidence, and making connections.Check out the other S
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS4-3
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" Analysis Questions
This document has instructions for while students are reading to help with their understanding of the text. It also contains 10 questions which require students to analyze the speech and decipher the meaning, structure, tone, emphasis and importance of this iconic speech. This can be done in class, as an exit ticket or as a homework assignment.
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8th - 12th
Nuremberg Trials - Reading/Response Activity
Your students will learn all about the process of the tribunals that prosecuted the remaining Nazi officials for the war crimes they committed during World War II, including the holocaust. With this article, I have included my works cited page and five questions that align with the ELA common core standards.What I did with my students was post the five questions up in different points in my classroom and have students work in pairs, moving station to station to answer the questions. This gets st
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8th - 11th
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death - Word Cloud / Imagery / Main Ideas
On March 23, 1775, the Virginia delegates met to discuss the issue of joining the Revolution. Before the vote was taken, Patrick Henry addressed the delegates. After his powerful speech, delegates voted for Virginia to join the American Revolution. This speech has been placed into a word cloud which students examine for examples of imagery and main ideas. This is a great way to encourage higher order thinking!
American Revolution
American History
Declaration of Independence
Boston
Critical T
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4th - 12th
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I-B-A Lesson/Ch # 7 {Crossword Puzzle # 1}
This CROSSWORD activity consists of 15 words and clues from "Business E-mail," Chap./Lesson # 7 of the Internet Business Associate ( I-B-A course.) Note: P-D-F FORMAT with Answer SheetCROSSWORD "WORD BANK"attachment Mail Delivery Agent browser e-mail GNU Privacy Guard
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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More Classic Poems to Teach Specific Themes and the Paired Texts to go with Them
Have you searched and searched for poetry to match the theme you are teaching? Unit planned? Check out the lists of poems, quotes, short stories, songs, articles, novellas, novels, and excerpts that can be used to pair with the themes below. Check out the other lists available in the store as well. Cross-curricular and great for test prep. In person on online teaching. The lists included in this pack Dystopian stories, Epidemics Across Time, and America's Past from different perspectives and cul
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
It feels a shame to be Alive by Dickinson War Poetry Close Reading
Close Reading Poetry Analysis of "It feels a shame to be Alive" by Emily Dickinson during the war she lived through. Analyzing poetry is an art. How do you get better at it? Practice. Here is an easy way to teach close reading with self-guided questions that help the student gain understanding of breaking down lines of poetry.This poem pairs well with a using short stories and other poems such as "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randell Jarrell or "The Dirge" by Christina Rossetti as a g
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8th - 12th
8 Stations for "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr. - common core skills
Each station uses the speech for analysis activities. The activities require deeper level thinking using common core standards. The stations are set up so that the directions for each are each placed on individual pages that could be placed in folders. Each student then has their own answer sheet to record information from stations. I've aligned the stations to reading common core standards, but the activities would work in higher grades or history classes. The stations are a word document, so y
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7th - 12th
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Affect vs. Effect Worksheet - Grades 6-9
a grammar sheet showing the proper use of Affect vs Effect, Gale-Johnson, language arts, handouts, worksheets, interactive notebooks,
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6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Troublesome Words Worksheet Bundle for Grades 6-9
Growth of Business and Labor Unions
Includes: article about industrial revolution and graphic organizer picking out the main idea and key details from all 3 sections of reading.
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7th - 12th
Even More Classic Poems to Teach Specific Themes and the Paired Texts to go with
Have you searched and searched for poetry to match the theme you are teaching? What about the non-fiction newspaper articles from the past that correlate with the fiction and theme being taught? Unit planned? Check out the lists of poems, quotes, short stories, songs, articles, novellas, novels, and excerpts that can be used to pair with the themes below. Check out the other lists available in the store as well. Cross-curricular and great for test prep. In person on online teaching. The lists in
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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