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Black History Month Common Core RL.6.1 thematic unit plans
Christopher P. Curtis's "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" - 30 Common Core Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 26 rigorous unit learning tasks for Christopher Paul Curtis’s, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham." 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 e
Grades:
6th - 8th
Civil Rights Movement Interactive Read Aloud and Close Reading Unit
This Civil Rights Movement Reading Unit will engage your students as they learn about Linda Brown, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws, sit-ins, and much more while working on six Common Core Standards for reading. Included in the bundle are 11 days of lesson plans along with a 29-page student packet and sample answer key. Each lesson includes a read aloud with scripted think alouds to model thinking involving the common core standards, shared reading where stude
Grades:
4th - 6th
Christopher Paul Curtis's "Elijah of Buxton" - 25 Rigorous Common Core Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 25 rigorous unit learning tasks for Christopher Paul Curtis’s, "Elijah of Buxton." 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 docu
Grades:
6th - 8th
Unit Plan for The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods
The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a young white boy and the Black WWII veteran who saved his life.On Gabriel's twelfth birthday, he gets a new bike--and is so excited that he accidentally rides it right into the path of a car. Fortunately, a Black man named Meriwether pushes him out of the way just in time, and fixes his damaged bike. As a thank you, Gabriel gets him a job at his dad's auto shop. Gabriel's dad hires him with some hesitat
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5th - 7th
Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall Close Reading Poetry Analysis
Close Reading Poetry Analysis of "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall. 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/excerpts such as the novel, "Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq" by Iraqigirl. Poems such as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou or "I, Too" by Langst
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6th - 9th
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Bestest Buddies Book Bingo (Leadership)
Challenge readers of any age to broaden their horizons and diversify their personal libraries with Mr. Troy's Bestest Buddies Book Bingo!The rules of the book bingo are included as well as four (4) pages of journals to put in entries, and one (1) page of tokens to cover spaces.This Book Bingo was designed with Black History Month in mind, but this Book Bingo is vague enough that it can be used for any time of year. The overarching theme of every book is about leadership. Every space occupied mus
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Not Grade Specific
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