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Evaluating Arguments Digital Escape Room!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Need an engaging, fun, educational, rigorous activity for your students? Look no further! Students love learning through digital escape rooms, and this one is no different! This digital escape room can be a pre-teaching, during unit, or

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.5, RI.8.6, RI.8.8, W.8.1, W.8.1a, W.8.1b

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Introducing Shakespeare Digital Escape Room

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Fun and engaging with NO PREP WORK FOR YOU! - introduce your students to Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare's biography, the language he helped create, and basic information about a drama's structure, and The Globe Theatre! This digital escape

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Internet Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$5.00

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Google Forms™

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My Dream Future - A College and Career Research Unit

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Want a fun and exciting way to help students understand what it will take to get them to their ideal future? This is the unit for you!Great for AVID classes, advisory, study or life skills, or as a unit for any college and career class. Students

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, For All Subject Areas, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

W.9-10.2, W.9-10.2a, W.9-10.2d, SL.9-10.2, SL.9-10.4, SL.9-10.5, SL.9-10.6

$9.99

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World Music Unit - 22 Countries! (readings and clips for high engagement!)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Your students will LOVE this and it will save you a TON of time. Fabulous resource where students will have a solid grasp of world music types by the end. Check out the reviews on this unit, teachers are raving about what a great value it brings!FUN

Subjects:

Music, Vocal Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

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

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Activities

$10.00

Digital Download ZIP (7.72 MB)

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National Boards - Knowledge of Students Guide / Bundle / Component 4

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Congratulations on working on your National Boards certificate! National Boards is a rewarding and challenging journey and we would love to help you on your way. As two Nationally Board certified teachers, we know exactly the massive undertaking

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Professional Development, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Professional Development

$5.00

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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Ultimate Movie Guide Bundle (w/Quizzes and One Pager's & Answer Keys)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a GROWING Movie Guide Bundle for Broadway movie musicals! This includes movie guides with answer keys (+time stamps). These work great as a quick sub plan, building kids musical theater knowledge, prepping for reading a play, etc.This bundle

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Movie Guides

$51.49

$42.00

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A Muppet Christmas Carol Film Guide, One Pager, and Quiz! With Answer Keys

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Kids will LOVE A Muppet Christmas Carol film bundle.It includes a Film Guide:20 Questions include:Storyline QuestionsCharacterization AnalysisThematic Critical Thinking QuestionsReflection Questions for the film as a wholeQuestions are multiple

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.9, CCRA.R.7

$5.99

$5.00

Bundle

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Ethos Pathos Logos (Rhetorical Appeals) Advertisement Project

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Fun way to end a unit on ethos, pathos, logos (Rhetorical Appeals). This can be used for up to 4 class periods, but could also be shorted down into 2-3 class periods if needed. Students receive a project packet where they choose something to be

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

$4.00

Digital Download DOCX (2.14 MB)

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Ultimate Movie Guide Bundle (Growing - w/Answer Key and Time Stamps)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Movie Guides

$29.50

$23.00

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Famous Musical (Broadway) Composers Bundle!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

GREAT at home activity (or in a lab at school) where students watch clips from Youtube to develop an understanding of the famous musical theater composers crom Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Alan Menken, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

$16.00

$11.00

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Broadway Musical Analysis Bundle (1900s-present day)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

GREAT at home/distance activity (or in a lab at school) where students watch clips from modern musicals (Classics, 1970s-2000, and Modern) and analyze them. Students will analyze performances for set design, costumes, lighting, acting choices,

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.10

$7.50

$6.00

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Drama Class Open Scenes Project!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a wonderful project for theater students to practice their acting and character development skills. This is an open scene project (sometimes referred to as ambiguous scenes) where students have to create an entire background scene with

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Activities

$5.00

Digital Download DOCX (0.02 MB)

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Identifying and Analyzing Juxtaposition in (Film, Fiction, AND Photography)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a fun way to introduce the concept of juxtaposition using youtube clips (Up, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Wizard of Oz), pictures, and examples from literature. The top of the worksheet has a definition, two sentence frames so they understand

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Internet Activities

$4.00

Digital Download DOCX (0.65 MB)

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Theater Time Period Research Project (Props, Costumes, Hair, Sound, etc.!)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Students will have a FABULOUS time researching a time period from history as it relates to theater!Student groups choose (or you assign) "a decade" (1920s, 1980s, etc.) and research it and then present their findings to the class in a powerpoint

Subjects:

Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Projects

$7.00

Digital Download DOCX (0.03 MB)

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Improv Bundle for Drama Class!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a fun and stress-free improv bundle that comes with a TON of fun in-class drama and theater activities where the prep work is done for you! This also gives you a trove of resources to leave as sub plans!This includes:1. 10 Rules of Improv.

Subjects:

Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

$18.99

$14.00

Bundle

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A Muppet Christmas Carol Film / Movie Guide (Answer Key & Time Stamps)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a movie guide for the film A Muppet Christmas Carol starring Michael Caine (and of course the Muppets). Great for using in English class either as a film analysis or as a follow activity to reading the original story of A Christmas Carol by

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.10

$3.00

Digital Download DOCX (0.02 MB)

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A Christmas Carol Unit (with original text and 2 film comparisons)

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

This is a FUN unit where students learn about the context of A Christmas Carol by Dickens, read and analyze the original text (found online for FREE here) with guided questions, compare two film versions to the original text (Muppet Christmas Carol

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.10, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.10

$15.99

$12.00

Bundle

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Newsies Film / Movie Guide, Quiz, and One Pager

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Movie guide, quiz, and one pager for the movie musical My Fair Lady. This little mini unit has students following along with the movie, taking a short quiz to show they were paying attention, and then creating a One Pager to show understanding of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Movie Guides

CCSS:

RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.10

$4.49

$4.00

Bundle

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Famous Musical (Broadway) Composers - Andrew Lloyd Webber

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

GREAT at home activity (or in a lab at school) where students watch clips from to develop an understanding of the famous musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Students will analyze performances and lyrics for style, process, common musical

Subjects:

Music, Drama

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Homework

$3.50

Digital Download DOCX (0.50 MB)

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Digital Figurative Language Escape Room!

By Teachers with Books and Cleverness

Want students to be able to spot the difference between similes and metaphors like a dog wants a bone? Are you anxiously anticipating aiding in academic understanding of assonance and alliteration? Are you buzzing for onomatopoeia? Well look no

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4

$3.00

Online Resource
Google Forms™

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Two National Boards Certified ELA teachers with 20 years of experience working at both the middle and high school levels. We share a passion for all things books, literature, and of course, Harry Potter!

MY TEACHING STYLE

Focused on engaging activities to encourage critical thinking and developing students self-motivation to be lifelong learners.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Boards Certification, National Boards MOC, District Teacher of the Year Nominee

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

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ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

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2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Specialty, Math, Other (Math), Science, Other (Science), Social Studies, Ancient History, Government, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Art History, Other (Art), Music, Music Composition, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Performing Arts), Physical Education, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, Career and Technical Education, ELA Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Professional Development, Statistics, Psychology, Study Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, Valentine's Day, For All Subjects, Informational Text, School Psychology, Close Reading