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Social studies Common Core W.9-10.1b resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
Introduction to Broadcast Journalism Bundle
Teaching Broadcast Journalism? Wondering where to start? This Bundle will help you introduce your students to the basics of Broadcasting and get you started on producing your own school newscasts! If you are anything like me when I was first asked to teach a journalism course fifteen years ago, I wasn't sure where to begin! Although I was teaching three other courses, I spent hours planning and preparing for my journalism class. With no curriculum to guide me and no resources to be had, I felt l
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8th - 11th
Argument Writing Presentation
Argument Writing Presentation - Completely EDITABLE
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE and is also in my Argument Essay Writing Bundle + Editable Presentation and Handouts bundle.
This argument writing presentation is a companion to my Common Core Argumentative Writing Unit.
Use the 80+ step-by-step slides to guide your students in the writing process. The presentation is in Powerpoint (.pptx) format, so you can edit and customize the text to your l
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Hinge Dating Profile for Historical Figures/Book Characters
This fun and creative activity allows students to create a Hinge dating profile for any historical that you may be studying. Students pick a historical figure and using a PowerPoint template put in pictures, quotes, and ideas from their character to create a modern day dating profile, which encourages students to research historical figures and their personal life. I use this for my AP Euro students when I teach 19th century political figures, but it can be easily used with any time period or ev
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9th - 12th
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Hamilton: The Musical + Comprehensive Packet + Auto Graded Movie Guide + Slides
I spent a week creating, sampling, testing, then revising this curriculum in my 7th-12th grade public school classrooms. As a 13-year veteran California educator I wanted to make sure this was a quality and actually useful resource in the real-world-classroom. It's tailored to highly engage Generation Z students. I focus on themes and topics that matter to them, such as: social justice, climate change, and equal rights. I promise you this resource is leaps and bounds above the other offering
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7th - 12th
Argumentative Analysis: Interactive Slide: Barack Obama Speech
Here is an interactive slide which includes: * Link to video: Obama's National Address to School Children * Link to Excerpt of Speech * Paragraphs in each slide to analyze. *Questions that are Common Core aligned. Students have to highlight and write down responses. * Multiple choice question* Short Response Question * Drag and Drop responses for claim, counterclaim, rebuttal, and textual evidence. * and cute GIFS to capture students attention. Very easy to go through. It took about one hour and
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7th - 10th
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THE MAN TO SEND THE RAIN CLOUDS [LESSON ACTIVITIES]
This LESLIE MARMON SILKO "THE MAN TO SEND THE RAIN CLOUDS" [LESSON ACTIVITIES] product allows students to look at themselves and our society. 50+ Slides, Several projects, Group Activities, Graphic Organizers, TASK CARDS assignments, Reader Response, Short response and multiple choice Quizzes are activities in this product. This narrative encourages insightful responses from work. 10th - 12th Graders will love this prose and product. Check it out!SUMMARY:Two men from the Laguna Pueblo tribe—Leon
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: THE MAN TO SEND THE RAIN CLOUDS [BUNDLE]
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
The History of Veterans Day: Powerpoint and Persuasive Writing Prompt
Here is an opportunity for critical thought and persuasive writing for students, using the history of the Veterans Day holiday. The PowerPoint covers the entire history of the holiday. It includes relevant historical photos and excerpts from primary source documents. The activity would work for advanced fourth grade students up though high school as a persuasive writing lesson. It could also be used for class discussion and debate.
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Not Grade Specific
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THE MAN TO SEND THE RAIN CLOUDS [BUNDLE]
This Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Man To Send The Rain Clouds" Short Story BUNDLE provides students a chance to show what they know. Writing Prompts, graphic organizers, quizzes, group projects, and more encourage insightful responses from this canonized work. 10th - 12th Graders will love this BUNDLE. Check it out!SUMMARY:Two men from the Laguna Pueblo tribe—Leon and his brother-in-law, Ken—discover Leon’s grandfather, Teofilo, dead in a faded jean jacket and blue jeans under a cottonwood tree no
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9th - 11th
Serial Podcast/Justice System Unit
This bundle contains a unit plan for using season 1 of the Serial podcast, 12 Angry Men and the Bill of Rights for teaching. The PPT focuses solely on the Serial podcast portion and is focused on ELA skills and standards. However, it can also be used DBQ style for Civics. The attached rubric and checklist are rfor the evidence board project for Serial in which students must evaluate the evidence, make claims and counterclaims and write an argument.
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9th - 10th
Sonnet 9 by Alan Seeger: AP, Compare/Contrast, Short Answer Test Assessment
Sonnet 9: On Returning to the Front after Leave by Alan SeegerReview for Short Answer Test AssessmentTeach your students to write short answer questions and to use a rubric to evaluate their answers. Lesson includes SOAPStone questions and multiple choice questions about Sonnet 9 and the Great War. You may use the powerpoints in whole class instruction or use activities in the lesson to divide the students into small groups. 12 Poetry terms are identified in powerpoint slides. Interactive noteb
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9th - 12th
Test Assessment Non-Fiction, M. Choice, Short Answer, Essay, Google Form Grader
Arm your students with essential knowledge they will need to pass end-of-year assessment tests. Test Assessment Preparation is designed as a whole class test study to look at format(s) and type(s) of test questions. The non-fiction examples given are not designed to be used as actual classroom assessments, but as “toolbox tools” to teach students how to read and answer actual assessment questions.Non-Fiction reading passages about Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Short answer response qu
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9th - 12th
AP Analysis: Poems of the Great War, Compare and Contrast, Short Answer Question
Compare and contrast poetry lyrics! Teach students to compare and contrast for state test assessment. Carl Sandburg’s “Grass” and John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” are both poems written during World War 1. The battlefields are unique to each poem but the overall theme is universal. Both poems are written with voice and passion.Students will compare and contrast content, language, tone, structure and theme to prepare them for the short answer response questions on end-of-the-semester tests
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6th - 12th
Writing Activity: Match the best evidence to the Main Point(1984 Orwell Example)
Use this graphic organizer to help your students realize what evidence best fits a main point. Students identify evidence that will help support the main idea, as well as why the other piece of evidence (quotes) do not work. Great for a discussion! Great for online work!This was used in preparation for a 1984 Essay, however I've included a blank version that can be adapted to any text or essay topic. Easy to use over and over again for any unit.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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World War 1: Rhetorical Analysis Writing Review For AP Test Assessment
Arm your students with a tool box of rhetorical analysis techniques with this product. A powerpoint presentation will take them through the construction and analysis of a writing. Studying popular television advertisements will teach them them techniques of argument. "I Didn't Teach My Boy" by Abbie Farwell Brown (of the Vigilantes) is a persuasive writing from The Great War in docx, pdf, and ping format for students to analyze. Google Slides version included. Teachers will need to make copies f
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9th - 12th
3.7-B: Economic Foundations of Maya, Inca, Aztec (Pre-AP WHG)
This lesson covers 3.7-B: Economic Foundations of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec in the Key Concept Postclassical Americas for Pre-AP World History and Geography. Because I follow College Board and their recommended resources, this lesson actually focuses on the Inca and Aztec and doesn't cover Maya. (I do have a separate reading on the Maya empire, see below.)This lesson includes a PowerPoint and guided notes that review the sources and requires students to answer document-based questions in a "10-2
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8th - 10th
AP Assessment: Hemmingway In Another Country, Short Answer Review, World War I
Arm your students with essential knowledge they will need to pass end-of-year assessment tests. Short Answer Test Assessment is designed as a whole class test study to look at format(s) and type(s) of test questions. The short answer questions given are designed to be used as an actual classroom quiz assessment. They should serve as “toolbox tools” to teach students how to read and answer actual assessment questions.Students and teachers may discuss the format of the questions and talk about a
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6th - 12th
Checking Source Truthfulness - Mini Lesson on Source Reliability
Teach or review with your students about how to check the source of information, examine if evidence has enough support, and corroborate evidence between multiple students. This is formatted as a Google Slides for easy sharing with students, and can easily be downloaded and used as a PowerPoint. Includes both information and questions for each step of checking information, as well as sample websites to use for practicing these skills and speaker notes to aid you with tips and an answer key for s
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Ted Talk Research Project Unit Bundle
An Analysis of the Gettysburg Address
This is a 15 slide Power Point Presentation on the Gettysburg Address. It also includes information about the Emancipation Proclamation and Mount Rushmore.
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Not Grade Specific
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Demystifying the Research Paper (Explainer - Part Two, Stacks)
This slide set accompanies my Demystifying the Research Paper - Activity Set. As part of my new Sources-Driven approach to writing research papers, these slides provide my clear and approachable guidance on how best to form outlines and begin the writing process.As with everything I create for the classroom, I've designed these slides to be brief, direct, and intuitive.
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9th - 12th
Demystifying the Research Paper (Explainer - Part One, Sources)
This slide set accompanies my Demystifying the Research Paper - Activity Set. It contains a series of explainers on how to understand and practice my new Sources-Driven approach to writing research papers. (Included is my clear and approachable guidance for making a thesis.)As with everything I create for the classroom, I've designed these slides to be brief, direct, and intuitive.
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9th - 12th
WWI: Life in the Trenches; an exploration
This lesson provides students with an understanding of life in the trenches during WWI. It includes a multi-media Google Slide and accompanying questions / writing prompts. The lesson combines primary and secondary sources to give students a better understanding of trench life during WWI.
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9th - 12th
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