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Common Core W.7.3 lessons for Easel Activities
End of Year Activities: Graduation Cap Art Project & Template for Middle School
Need an end of year art activity for your May or June bulletin board? Imagine these graduation cap projects in your hallway with a writing prompt. The step by step drawing tutorial and PowerPoint also makes perfect no prep, emergency art sub plans for middle school.A fun roll a dice game, ‘you pick’ worksheet, and digital spinners helps kids choose patterns for their graduation cap. Moreover, boost their confidence and creativity. And, it’ll help cash-strapped teachers like you plan end of year
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5th - 8th
Pixar-like Shorts: Films For Christmas/Winter Activities Literary Elements Theme
Pixar-like Short Film LITERARY AND NARRATIVE WRITING Workshop: HEY DEER!Looking for a fun way to teach theme, plot, setting, and narrative writing. This winter themed workshop is both rigorous and adorable! It can be used for a Christmas activity, but it is also a great winter activity, appropriate for students who don't celebrate this holiday.Students will use the graphic organizers to analyze the plot of Hey Deer!, then use STORYBOARD templates to plan and write their own narrative. DIFFERENTI
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Pixar-like Short Films ELA Christmas Activities Literary Devices Elements
Descriptive Writing Unit - Middle School Writing Activities - No Prep Writing
This package of descriptive writing activities contains a variety of engaging descriptive writing mini lessons to improve writing for upper elementary and middle school students. Using the descriptive writing graphic organizers and writing prompts provided, students practice word choice and write their own descriptive paragraphs. All resources are classroom tested and include detailed instructions and creative handouts. Very little teacher prep in needed – simply print and teach!While all of the
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans - No Prep English Sub Plans - March
The Hero's Journey Greek Mythology Unit - Middle School
Achilles, Perseus, Atalanta, Theseus! The Greek Heroes and Heroines stories are among the most exciting in all Greek Mythology. Introduce middle school students to The Hero’s Journey or monomyth and eight Greek Hero myths with these fun and engaging resources and lesson plans!This No-Prep, Print-and-Go Greek Heroes unit will save YOU time and your students will enjoy the thrilling stories and engaging activities. Student assignments are balanced with practicing literacy skills, writing and creat
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7th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Greek Mythology Unit Bundle for Middle School
Christmas Writing Activity: Revising Lyrics of Christmas Songs
Christmas Writing Activity - Revising the lyrics of Christmas Songs. Get students engaged in some creative writing before the holidays. Fun! Students can rewrite some of their favorite Christmas songs, such as White Christmas, Jingle Bells, and The Grinch. Three writing templates to get them started. If students get stuck, have them think of synonyms for the missing words. Print and Digital Resource: Includes an Easel Activity ready for learning with digital tools. Assign it online in Google Cla
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Greek Mythology Unit - Gods and Goddesses - Middle School
Greek Mythology is full of interesting characters, but perhaps none so intriguing as the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece! This FUN no-prep middle school unit examines each goddess and god individually. Students will be able to recognize each deity’s Greek and Roman name, his or her title or realm, the symbols associated with him or her and become familiar with the major myths involving each god or goddess. Not only will this resource save YOU time, but your students will enjoy learning abou
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Greek Mythology Unit Bundle for Middle School
40 Fun Writing Prompts for Secondary Students Crazy Picture Prompts
This awesome set of funny and crazy picture prompts are perfect for inspiring even the least motivated too-cool Secondary English students to get into creative writing. A great range of images to help them get writing!Perfect for ELA English students from Year 6 to Year 10 or 11, depending on where you are. These fun creative writing prompt worksheets look best in color, but still look good and work well printed in black and white. Set out in separate worksheets, ready to print and go. Awesome f
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Picture WRITING PROMPTS for Secondary Students BUNDLE
Emergency Sub Plan! Beginning Acting| Character Analysis
This one to two day low prep lesson focuses on a particular acting exercise--character analysis. It is created for an introduction to theater or beginning acting class. Students view a segment of a play or musical (filmed live if possible), use the questions provided to write a short analysis, (short expository writing) and write about a character of their choosing. Need an emergency lesson or substitute? This is one I used many times when I was in a fix. This product can be used with any p
Grades:
7th - 9th
World Building: Creative Writing Generative Exercises
How do authors create worlds so real it feels like readers can jump into them? Inspire your students to think like authors, and deeply consider their worlds and the way that they impact character behavior. Move beyond physical descriptions to include culture, government, as well as the characters' personal world and their closest relationships. You can use these: During Planning --To generate ideas before students embark on a novel writing or short story writing project,During Revision --To fles
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4th - 12th
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Writing Prompts: 48 Quick Write Task Cards & Grammar Skills Practice with Easel
Writing Prompts on 48 printable task cards. Quick writes with grammar connections. These writing prompts will help develop good writing skills for expository, narrative and argument writing. The 48 writing prompts also include a grammar application...such as subject and predicates, sentence structure with compound and complex sentences, pronouns, verbs, direct objects, etc. Students will enjoy the engaging imaginary and real-life scenarios and will practice grammar skills in context. Please see
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6th - 8th
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Pig - Roald Dahl Short Story - 7 Day Lesson Plan
The irrational behaviour of Roald Dahl's characters in his fast paced short story Pig will have students laughing and engaged from the very first paragraph. What's included:- Teaching guide- Common core standards- Pre-reading activities- Literature circles guide- Vocabulary activity- Post-reading (comprehension and close reading) questions- Persuasive essay activity with guidelines and rubric- Creative writing activity- Online jeopardy game- Answers to all of the aboveThe story story is not prov
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â Most Popular Middle School Short Stories - Classic Authors
Distance Learning Short Story The Monkey's Paw Close Reading Writing Research
The short story, The Monkey's Paw, is a great story to introduce students to the horror genre. There is an annotated text included via a Google Slides link to encourage students to practice note taking and identifying areas they might be confused.This lesson includes working with:- Literary Devices- Vocabulary- Inferences- Theme- Plot- CharactersThis lesson includes : (with rubrics)- Argument Writing- Creative Writing- Inquiry-based Research Writing ProjectCheck out these other close reads avail
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â The Monkey's Paw Short Story Close Reading Test Bundle Distance Learning
Drama Lesson| Christmas Creative Writing with Given Circumstance
This lesson focuses on a play-writing exercise--the monologue and beginning acting. Each student is handed a slip of paper for a particular Christmas character with a given circumstance which they must write into a monologue. If time allows, the students perform their monologues. Students don't even realize they are studying play-writing. This can be adapted for other holidays, too. It's such fun! This lesson was created for a creative dramatics, introduction to theater or creative writing
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6th - 7th
Also included in:Â Drama Units Christmas Folk Tales Design Sound Effects Readers Theater Plays
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