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Drama Cards: 32 printable GAME CARDS for use for acting activities

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Never have to think of a drama activity again! Drama Game Cards includes 32 creative acting games. It will keep your drama kids engaged and begging for more. A teacher idea guide is included and printable reference sheet. The cards come in two

Subjects:

Drama, For All Subject Areas, Oral Communication

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

$4.00

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Back to School Speed Dating Icebreaker for middle and high school students

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Your middle and high school students will love this dynamic back-to-school Speed Dating/Speed Meeting icebreaker activity. They'll participate in fast-paced conversations, discussing get-to-know-you questions from 30 printable 3-D speed

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Activities, Printables, Games

$3.50

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Write Persuasive Commercials: Master Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Public Speaking

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Ignite persuasive skills with "Sell It!" - an engaging public speaking activity that cultivates creativity and mastery of ethos, pathos, and logos. This resource includes a teacher guide, slideshow with commercial examples, note pages, graphic

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Oral Communication, For All Subjects

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

SL.9-10.4, CCRA.SL.4

$4.50

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IMPROMPTU Topics & Feedback Forms | 160 Topics & Included Rubrics

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Are you looking for public speaking topics and quick feedback forms? Your students will be ready for impromptu speaking with these 160 speaking topics and rubrics for quick peer feedback and/or teacher assessing. Impromptu speaking is perfect for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Oral Communication, For All Subjects

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

SL.6.4, CCRA.SL.4

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Desk tags for middle and high school students: My pronouns are name tags

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

Make all your students feel included and "heard" with these WHATS MY PRONOUN name tags for older students. These desk tents asked students to write their preferred name and pronoun(s). There are 10 different two-sided templates. Students simply

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Back to School, Social Emotional Learning

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Printables

$2.50

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Public Speaking Activity: Famous Failure Speeches|Digital & Print | CCSS aligned

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

Famous Failures is a public speaking activity where students write an INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH. Students create speeches on overcoming failure. This includes a teacher guide with Google links, an overview presentation with video links on failures by

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Oral Communication, For All Subjects

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

SL.9-10.4, CCRA.SL.4

$4.00

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How to give an IMPROMPTU Speech Public Speaking Activity |Print & Digital

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Look no further for a comprehensive guide through writing and delivering an IMPROMPTU SPEECH. It includes a Teacher Guide, Overview of Impromptu Public Speaking with various examples, Digital Student Notebook, and 5 printable impromptu graphic

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Oral Communication, For All Subjects

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

SL.6.4, CCRA.SL.4

$4.50

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Drama Cards: 40 printable scenario cards to use for acting activities

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

Are you tired of coming up with scenarios for your students to act out? Drama Scenario Cards includes 40 creative acting cards, that will keep your drama kids engaged and begging for more. A teacher idea guide is included. The cards come in two

Subjects:

Drama, For All Subject Areas, Oral Communication

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.50

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson BUNDLE | Writing, Vocabulary, Simulation, & Quiz

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This BUNDLE of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson resources is sure to make an impression on your students. It hooks them from the beginning with the memorable introduction. It's followed by "The Lottery" simulation. Having students use strong word

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Google Apps

$11.00

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Whole Book Quiz & Vocabulary Activities

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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

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.8

$3.50

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Introduction, Simulation, & Writing Activity

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Are you looking for the most memorable introduction and activity tied to "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. This is one my students most favorite lessons. Use this Google Slideshow to introduce "The Lottery", then have students participate in a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.7.3d, W.8.3d, W.9-10.3d

$4.50

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Discussion and Comprehension CHOICE BOARD

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Follow up your reading of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson with this engaging discussion and comprehension Google Slides CHOICE BOARD. Students select one of the "stones" and are taken to a higher-level, CCSS aligned discussion & activity

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.8

$3.00

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Debate Topics: 120 argumentative debate, discussion, & writing prompts/editable

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Debate Topic Cards includes 120 argumentative prompts that can be used for debates, discussions, and writing. 60 of the debate topics are serious and 60 are less serious/funny. You will never have to search for engaging debate topics again. Just

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Oral Communication

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.00

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Set 4 Jamboard Templates: 9 Figurative Language Graphic Organizers/Google

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

Are you ready to jazz up your Jamboards? Do you want your students to collaborate, while still social distancing? This set of 9 Figurative Language Jamboard Templates is perfect for cooperative learning and whole class discussions. Jamboard is an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, For All Subjects

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

$3.50

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Analyze a Suspense Story: Choose a story and complete plot organizers, FREE

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Students choose a classic suspense story from American Literature (link provided in resource) and then complete two graphic organizers over plot (CCRA.R.3-analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a

Subjects:

Literature, Short Stories, Halloween

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.6.3, RL.7.3, RL.8.2, RL.9-10.2, CCRA.R.3

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Philosophical Chairs: An engaging class or group debate over any topic, Google

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

Philosophical Chairs is an engaging AVID and best practice strategy, where students challenge peers’ thinking by using respectful dialogue, evidence for claims, prior knowledge, logical reasoning, and persuasion. This includes everything you need

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.7.1, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.SL.4

$3.50

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Google Drive™ folder

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Digital Index Card Templates: for ALL SUBJECTS, editable flash cards, Google

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

These Digital Index Cards will become a staple to your Google reusable templates. They are a digital version of the tried and true index cards. There is no paper involved, can live in Google Drive forever, and are "safe" during this COVID-19 time

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, For All Subjects

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Flash Cards, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

$3.50

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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Digital Brain Breaks: 8 brain break exercises w/ internet timers, Google

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Do your students need a break from the computer? Embed Digital Brain Breaks into your Google Classroom, Google Sites, virtual classroom, etc. Throughout the day take 30 second brain breaks and get your students up and moving. Students select a

Subjects:

Physical Education, For All Subject Areas, For All Subjects

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$3.00

Online Resource
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Free Class Chatspeak Acronym Posters: Funny, net slang acronyms, editable

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

Grab these FREE chatspeak, netslang, netspeak (whatever you call it) posters! Relate to students using their type of text language, but tie it back to learning. These can be taken seriously or you can just make them plain funny. I've provided a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

FREE

Digital Download ZIP (4.63 MB)

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Digital Paperless Stickers: 20 stickers, Google Classroom, distance learning

By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

We live in a digital world and student work is becoming more and more paperless. How do we recognize student work in this new environment? Digital Paperless Stickers are the perfect choice. Just “stick” (copy & paste or insert image) and

Subjects:

Graphic Arts, For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Assessment, Clip Art, Google Apps

$3.00

Digital Download ZIP (2.12 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I've taught elementary, multi-age, middle school, and have coached high school speech and debate. I am currently teaching 7th grade and LOVE it!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe in bringing learning alive each and everyday. I love to create and teach engaging lessons to students. I believe that ALL students can succeed and it is my job to create those memorable moments.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Teacher Year Finalist (final four)- 2012 Teacher of the Year 2012

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Masters +30-- I've started my doctorate.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I have four beautiful daughters and am married to an awesome teacher. I love to travel, scrapbook, act, and create engaging lessons.

GRADES

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Science, Social Studies, Elections - Voting, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Physical Education, Drama, Health, ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, African History, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning