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Social studies Common Core RL.8.1 resources under $5
End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building
Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Great for team building! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about l
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3rd - 6th
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Ancient Mesopotamia Gods & Myths Bundle: In-Person, Online, or Distance Learn
You can download this as a:1. PDF/Print activityor2. A ready-to-go TPT Easel Activity. You can assign Easel lessons through Google Classroom or you can copy a link to it and paste it into any learning management system you use with your students. However, for the time being, students will need to log in with a Google email account in order to access the assignment. You can use TPT Easel for free with this resource. Click here for info on how to use TPT Easel for free.Students will adore these
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4th - 10th
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The Odyssey Unit Activities - Character Analysis - Epic Hero Odysseus
The Odyssey by Homer - Qualities of an Epic Hero ! These Odyssey activities are an engaging way for students to look closely at key characters from Homer's Odyssey. A must for your Odyssey unit, this activity asks students to review the qualities of the epic hero, and use those qualities to closely examine the character of Odysseus. This is a great activity to increase comprehension and understanding.✅To complete this assignment, students first review the qualities of an epic hero. Students illu
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4th - 8th
Station Work: Background Knowledge for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
If you've ever taught Mildred D. Taylor's classic novel, then you know it requires a certain level of historical knowledge in order to fully understand.Sharecropping, life in the south after Reconstruction, the Great Migration, and others are topics students need to have a base level of understanding of. The vast majority of this information can be acquired freely through the internet, but the sheer amount of gathering it requires takes an extremely long time. I hope this resource will save you
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6th - 8th
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Murder Mystery Activity w/out the Murder Who Poisoned Willy Wonka
Who Poisoned Willy Wonka is an interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, character, literature or just for a fun and engaging activity. It is also great for classroom parties or bonu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Facebook Character Sketch Lesson Any Novel Full Version 1
Facebook activity templates for any novel or nonfiction text - aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Includes Microsoft Word templates to share with students in a 1:1, BYOD, or paperless classroom.
This IS included in my Literature Activities for ANY Novel or Nonfiction Text, Volume 1.
This is the full version of the Facebook Character sketch lesson in Microsoft Word. *Updated to include NEW Facebook Layout Pages with the new "Timeline" format, separate student copies, a short status-upd
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Reconstruction Era Primary Source Poem Activity
This activity uses a beautiful & moving poem by the Black poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to help students understand the importance of education during the Reconstruction Era. The poem, written in 1872, is fantastic for introducing your students to primary source analysis! Both printable and Google Docs versions of the activity are included here in this download! The activity begins with the poem and an introduction about Frances Harper and her background. The next page is a worksheet wit
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7th - 10th
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End of the Year Activities - Mystery Game - Digital Resource - Team Building
Are you ready to watch your student engagement skyrocket with this end of the year activity?! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning.Keeping students enga
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4th - 9th
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The Salem Witch Trials
This is a one-lesson unit from Reading Through History documenting the events surrounding the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693. It includes a two-page reading along with three pages of questions to accompany the reading. The questions include reading comprehension, guided reading questions, vocabulary activities, who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, and a student essay response. There is enough material to cover thirty minutes of class time. Follow Our Store HereCheck out our Y
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5th - 8th
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End of the Year Break Activities Digital Resources COLONIES Mystery - Team Build
Are you ready to watch your student engagement skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning.Do your students enjoy
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4th - 9th
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Native American Myth: The Earth on Turtle's Back Questions & Creative Activity
Enjoy these engaging and no-prep supplemental activities for The Earth on Turtle's Back from the Iroquois tribe. American Indian creation stories can be difficult for students to comprehend because of the creative and abstract nature of the stories. These materials can help your students engage in the text and analyze the story on a deeper level! Included in this product:★ Tips and annotation notes for reading the myth with your students★ Comprehension questions (with an answer key) ranging of a
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Engaging Native American - Indigenous People Literature Unit Bundle GOOGLE
Whodunit? - Who Stole Dracula's Coffin? - A Classroom Mystery Inference Activity
Who Stole Dracula's Coffin? is an interactive classroom activity that promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time. There are two versions included - one with a named thief and the second, where student consensus determines who committed the crime. Murder mystery game without the murder.This is a great group activity, classroom team activit
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Murder Mystery, Reader's Theater, Games - Halloween Activities BUNDLE
A Long Walk To Water Hexagonal Thinking Activity (Paper & Digital)
Students will love this engaging Hexagonal Thinking Activity focusing on key vocabulary and concepts from Linda Sue Park's book, A Long Walk To Water. This resource includes both a DIGITAL and a PAPER version.What is Hexagonal Thinking? Hexagonal Thinking is a visual tool to help students make connections and organize ideas on a topic. This activity is great for strengthening and deepening understanding of content, and utilizing different learning styles! Students will be engaged and having fun
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Geography Store Growing Bundle
Introduction to Geography / Think like a Geographer - Geography PPT Lesson
Think like a Geographer lesson plan includes a power point presentation, sample foldable activity or students, as well as a note-taking worksheet. Topics include:1. Geography2. The five themes of geography3. Types of geographers4. Geographer's tools5. Geography CareersThe presentation includes a quick pop quiz at the end to review main points throughout the lesson as well as a think pair share wrap-up activity. Students can complete the note-taking worksheet or the foldable or complete bot
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4th - 12th
Murder Mystery Activity - w/out the Murder: Who Poisoned Sherlock Holmes
This interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, character, literature or just for a fun and engaging activity. It is also great for classroom parties or bonus time.This resource inclu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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CC Aligned -- All the Broken Pieces Guided Reading, by Ann E Burg
This is a Common Core-aligned, guided reading packet to go with the novel All the Broken Pieces by Ann E Burg. This packet stretches the entire novel, providing text-dependent comprehension questions, as well as addressing inferencing, analysis of passages, and figurative language. The packet is baseball themed, and includes pre-reading activities, a reading schedule organizer, and an end-of-book writing assignment, too.
My middle school boys love this story, and it is a great exposure for the
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5th - 8th
Mayan Literature - The Popul Vuh
Students will have the opportunity to engage with one of the most enduring works of ancient Mesoamerican literature, the Popul Vuh. The Popul Vuh captures unique aspects of Maya culture, mythology, and understanding of the universe. This assignment allows students to examine primary source material and ask though-provoking questions about the text.
Aztec
Maya
Mayan
Olmec
Inca
Toltec
Plot
Setting
Rising action
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient History
American History
America
American
North Amer
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6th - 12th
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Roaring 20's Research Project: Pre-Reading to "The Great Gatsby" or 1920's Era
In this product is everything you will need for a successful 1920's era project for your students! I used this project to teach my students about the 1920's era from a research format, though I plan to use it in the future for a pre-reading activity before reading The Great Gatsby. Each student will get to select a topic that is most interesting to them. Some options are: Economic Boom and Stock Market CrashThe Great DepressionFlappers and Women's RightsWW1 impactFilm Industry and Celebrity Wors
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Blood on the River Character Traits - Printable & Digital
When you've got a good novel like Blood on the River, you use it to teach ALL the skills! Help students make inferences and analyze character traits using characterization worksheets for Blood on the River characters. These activities can be used during reading as comprehension checks or for review after you finish the novel. If you teach Blood on the River, you won't want to miss the rest of my bestselling Blood on the River Novel Unit!This resource includes the following digital versions:Googl
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Classroom Murder Mystery Activity: Frankenstein: Who Killed the House Maid?
This interactive classroom activity promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a murder mystery set right after Victor Frankenstein creates his monster. No knowledge of the novel is necessary; however, this is a great activity if you've read the novel.This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or just for a fun and enga
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Hunger Games Economics Unit
Use this resource to draw out the rich economic themes in The Hunger Games. The unit includes two parts: 1) economic vocabulary and discussion and 2) a special class activity on the economic concept, "the lawlessness of too many laws."Economic Vocabulary1) Economic vocabulary handouts to enrich the text for students.2) Additional notes about the economic concepts for the teacher to use during class discussion, including specific examples drawn from The Hunger Games and from the real world.3) Com
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5th - 12th
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Aztec and Mayan Primary Source Readings - Vocabulary, Imagery, Foreshadowing
This assignment gives students the opportunity to read a Mayan chant and an Aztec song that almost seem to predict the doom of their civilizations. Students will analyze the readings to determine theme, foreshadowing, mood, and word meanings.
Aztec
Maya
Mayan
Olmec
Inca
Toltec
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient History
American History
America
American
North America
South America
Mesoamerica
Pyramid
Chichen Itza
Glyphs
Archaeology
History
Primary Sources
Writing
Reading Strategies
Vocabulary
Imager
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5th - 9th
Blood on the River Story Theme Activities - Printable & Digital
Teaching theme is easy with a novel study as rich as Blood on the River - and with these straightforward, user-friendly theme graphic organizers and writing outlines, your lesson is done for you!This no-prep resource includes a theme graphic organizer with two pre-filled themes that are prominent central ideas in the story (working together/interdependence and choosing love over fear and anger). Students must then read carefully to find supporting details - such as character quotes, descriptions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Whole Book Quiz & Vocabulary Activities
Follow up your reading of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson with this engaging vocabulary Google Slides digital notebook and Google Form Quiz. The quiz is over the vocabulary words AND the entire short story. The digital vocabulary notebook includes a teacher notebook with answer key. Teachers can place the notebook on their interactive whiteboard and the whole class can drag and drop, match, and write the meaningful sentences together OR it can be assigned individually through Google Classroo
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7th - 12th
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