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7th grade Language Arts final exam study guide

By Ms. Durkin

This 8 page study was originally created for a 7th grade language arts final exam. It includes questions on all levels for topics such as historical fiction, analogies, Greek and Latin roots, MLA citiation, pronoun antecedent agreement, and much

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Other (ELA)

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

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Study Guides, Handouts, Printables

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Past, Present, and Future verb tense worksheet

By Ms. Durkin

This half sheet worksheet challenges students to put verbs in the past, present, and future tense. Some of the words are irregular. Then, students must write three sentences in three difference tenses using the words they just conjugated. This

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Spelling

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Handouts, Printables, Lesson

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MLA Citation Stations

By Ms. Durkin

This activity challenges students to use the MLA citation "formulas" to cite a book, magazine, encyclopedia, newspaper, and website that they can find around your classroom. The "formulas" are on the page, but students must use their high level

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

W.7.8

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Subordinating Conjunctions Poster

By Ms. Durkin

This colorful, easy to read poster displays the most commonly used subordinating conjunctions that students need to know, and reminds them that subordinating conjunctions begin adverb clauses. The poster uses the easy-to-remember acronym: ON A WHITE

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

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Posters

CCSS:

L.7.1b

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Awesome Emancipation Proclamation PowerPoint

By Ms. Durkin

This 6 slide PowerPoint presentation leads the teacher easily through a discussion about the Emancipation Proclamation, from African American's important role in the Civil War to the 13th Amendment. The PowerPoint is full color with graphics and

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, U.S. History

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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African Americans in the Civil War

By Ms. Durkin

This 5 slide PowerPoint presentation leads the teacher easily through a discussion about African American's important role in the Civil War. It is full color with graphics and pictures, and discusses African American soldiers, slavery, and the

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, U.S. History

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

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Following Map directions

By Ms. Durkin

This worksheet was used for teaching technical writing, specifically writing and following directions. There is a map and directions from point to point and students must follow the map and answer the questions. This was originally created for 7th

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Reading

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

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"Tangerine" by Edward Bloor prereading activity

By Ms. Durkin

This worksheet challenges students to make predictions about the novel "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor before reading. It prompts students to look at the important aspects of a novel and write full sentence predictions. There is a short answer question

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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Civil War battle map

By Ms. Durkin

This printable handout challenges students to fill in the blanks next to the symbol on a map of the United States where the major Civil War battle took place. This is a printable handout originally created for 5th grade social studies, but would be

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, U.S. History

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

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Text features worksheet

By Ms. Durkin

This worksheet is a chart challenging students to find many nonfiction text features in any book or textbook, define it, draw it, and write the page number they found it on. This was originally created for teaching nonfiction text features (sidebar,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

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Simple and Fun Persuasive PowerPoint

By Ms. Durkin

This simple and fun persuasive PowerPoint uses graphics and examples to teach five persuasive strategies: Facts, Reasons, Illustrations, Examples, and Statistics, or... FRIES! It walks students through the definitions of those strategies, shows

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

W.7.10

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Text structure review writing activity

By Ms. Durkin

This six question activity prompts students to recall the different text structures and use them in writing. The questions give students a structure and topic to write about. This was originally created and used in 7th grade language arts, but would

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Other (ELA)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

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Coat of Arms creation template

By Ms. Durkin

This Coat of Arms template has "Sir" and "Lady" at the top of each coat of arms where students can fill in their names. It was originally used in a middle grades English language arts class when reading medieval times literature. It is a Word

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Arts & Music, Literature

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, ...

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Activities, Printables

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My "Summer" poem, based on "Summer" by Walter Dean Myers

By Ms. Durkin

This one page worksheet challenges students to write their own poem based on "Summer" by Walter Dean Myers. Students choose a topic and describe it like Myers described summer in his poem. This worksheet was orginially used to 7th grade language

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Poetry

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Lesson

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"The Sword in the Stone" activities: timeline and comparing

By Ms. Durkin

This activity is meant to accompany the viewing of Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" movie. Students are asked to write down six events in order on a timeline. Then students are prompted to compare and contrast the movie with the story, "Young

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Movie Guides

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"House on Mango Street" Sally lesson plan

By Ms. Durkin

This is a one-day lesson plan on the vignette "Sally" in the book "House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros. It is a close reading lesson that was created for 7th grade language arts, but would be perfect for any middle grades reading or language

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

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Sentence types activity

By Ms. Durkin

This 10 question activity challenges students to use their knowledge of the four types of sentences (simple, compound, complex, compound complex) to answer the questions correctly. This activity can be used as a warm up, an individual activity, a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Grammar

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Homework

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Middle School vocabulary quiz

By Ms. Durkin

This 15 question middle school vocabulary quiz tests students on some of the 1,000 words every middle schooler should know! The quiz includes matching with word and definition and fill in the blank questions with 10 vocabulary words. The quiz has

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Handouts, Assessment, Printables

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Sentence types scavanger hunt!

By Ms. Durkin

This document is a scavanger hunt for students, challenging them to find sentences of different types (simple, compound, complex, compound complex) around the classroom! The worksheet prompts them to look in their textbook, binder, on posters around

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Other (ELA)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games

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Affect vs. effect activity

By Ms. Durkin

This worksheet teaches students the appropriate times to use affect and effect. This worksheet tells students each rule, gives a sentence example for each, and gives students a space to write their own example. This was originally created to teach

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Grammar

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts

$1.00

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