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Spring literature cultural activities
The ULTIMATE Beowulf Bundle with Answer Keys, Assessments, and Creative Projects
In this mega Beowulf Bundle, you will find 36 lessons and activities that include thorough answer keys with textual evidence where applicable to take your Beowulf unit to the next level. You will also find creative activities, quizzes, and an EDITABLE multiple-choice test to use at the end of your unit. There are MORE than enough resources here to create an engaging Beowulf unit for your students.This bundle is organized by pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activities and includes
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8th - 12th
Cinco de Mayo Craft {Pinata Fiesta Fun with Mexico Symbols}
Cinco de Mayo: Cinco de Mayo fun! This Cinco de Mayo craft is a pinata that your students can make for some Mexico Fiesta Fun! Students color or paint the black and white printable pages. It includes Mexico symbols including a map outline of Mexico, a Mexican flag, a guitar, a monarch butterfly, a cactus, a sombrero, and a pepper. Each on of these items in accompanied by a candy that has the name for the symbol in English and Spanish. You can choose to use both of these labels if you wish. There
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PreK - 4th
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Activities, Texts & Projects
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with four weeks of activities, informational texts, and projects! Your students will love learning about the history, geography, and cultures of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.With this ready-to-go bundle about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, you have everything you need: lessons, 17 activities, 14 texts, and 2 projects.What You'll Learn:✅ In Week 1, you will explore the history and purpose of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.✅ I
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5th - 7th
Zootopia Movie Guide & Stereotypes Discussion
Zootopia is not only a great movie, but also has important ideas about stereotyping and how we treat each other in a diverse society. Thus, it's a perfect film to show students as a springboard to deeper content and thinking. So, I created this product to use in the middle school classroom, based on the film.
This product is broken up into three parts:
Part 1-Movie guide: students answer questions as they watch the movie, about the plot of the film.
Part 2-Critical thinking: Students answer que
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6th - 9th
Las Fallas Spanish Culture Unit & lesson la primavera en España Spring sub plans
This Editable Google mini-unit bundle includes materials for a 2-3 day cultural unit in Spanish about Las Fallas, a celebration in Spain in the Spring. This Spanish cultural unit includes authentic resources, a graphic organizer, an editable Google slideshow, an optional reading assessment, and ideas for expansion. This Las Fallas unit would be best for late Spanish 1, Spanish 2, or Spanish 3 students.This is an Editable Google Drive Folder with the following included:✅ Directions to the teacher
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8th - 11th
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Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola Christmas Book Study Activities
Engage your learners with this exciting holiday book activity. The Legend of the Poinsettia, as retold by Tomie dePaola, is a delightful book. In this activity, students will learn about legends and the rich Mexican culture. Included in this resource are comprehension questions and skills-based graphic organizers for the book study.IN THIS ACTIVITY...Legend PosterMap of Mexico and Facts (Students list the facts from the Google Site provided)Poinsettia Facts (Information resources from the Google
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2nd - 4th
Cinco De Mayo Activities
Have a great time celebrating Cinco De Mayo in your classroom with these fun and educational Cinco De Mayo activities! Take your students on a trip to Mexico and then have them write about what they've learned with the Cinco De Mayo writing craftivity! The final crafts will look amazing in your classroom and create a fun and festive display for your celebrations!Included in this BUNDLE:Writing Craftivity8 Different ToppersBrainstorm pages - Helps them think of what to write!Practice sentence pag
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1st - 5th
Family Crest/Coat of Arms -- Directions, Rubric, Shield Templates
Includes:* Student Directions (half-sheet), which includes a list of heraldic symbols, animals, colors, and their MEANINGS.* Grading Rubric that has super clear expectations* Analysis Sheet for students to write out a description for their Coat of Arms and each symbol's meaning* 5 different shield shape templates ***Suggestion: Copy the rubric and Analysis Sheet onto the back of the Coat of Arms template before giving it to the students. That way, they can color their Coat of Arms on the front,
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Not Grade Specific
Reader's Theater: Aztec, Incan, & Mayan Civilization Myths (intermediate)
Review key elements of the Incan, Mayan, and Aztec ancient civilizations while focusing on differentiation in reading fluency! This reader’s theater set features 3 popular myths/legends from history written on 3 separate reading levels (each with a lexiled reading level) for a total of 9 plays. Each script contains 6-8 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups with over 20 different characters provided! Modified versions provide support in basic fluency
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Ohio 5th Grade Social Studies Reader's Theater Bundle
The Pedestrian Mini Unit by Ray Bradbury, Lesson Plan
In this unit for Bradbury's "The Pedestrian," you will find classroom-tested strategies, activities, and high-order thinking questions. The easy-prep structure of this unit is designed to guide students through the texts, and as they go, the questions and thinking build. The overarching questions are present and addressed in every segment, and the work prepares students for the culminating task. A unit plan such as this one gives the teacher ultimate flexibility in instruction, assessment, and
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9th - 11th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Dystopian Literature: Digital Choice Board Activity
Whether you're studying a classic dystopian novel like Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, 1984, ro Brave New World or you're exploring some of the most amazing YA dystopian texts in literature circles, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different supplementary resources across the categories: stories, poetry, art, books and film, all within the genre of dystopia.This choice board is designed with inquiry-driven learning in mind: the title of the board is an ess
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Dystopian Literature: Mega Bundle of All Resources
Spanish Reader's Theater--Caperucita Roja (Little Red Riding Hood)
Reader's Theater is a great tool for building fluency in reading. As a bilingual educator I have found that Spanish reader's theater is a valuable tool to get Spanish language learners to practice their oral development. Although I have used these scripts in my First grade classroom, they would also work well for secondary Spanish classes.
Little Red Riding Hood is easy to follow with its repetitive phrases and familiar storyline. This reader's theater is an excellent way for students who are
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K - 12th
Cajas de cartón: Comprehension and Analysis Questions and Additional Resources
This packet is designed for heritage Spanish speakers or advanced Spanish students. I used this novel with my first-year Spanish language arts students. They were mixed grades 9 and 10 but none had ever had a Spanish class before. My classes had significant variation in reading and writing proficiency, though all students were fluent listeners and speakers of Spanish. For some, this novel was a breeze while for others, it was quite challenging.I introduced this novel toward the end of the fi
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9th - 12th
Spanish movie guide El camino de Xico - Xico's Journey for 5 de mayo, Mexico
This El camino de Xico - (Xico's Journey) movie guide is designed for Spanish students while watching the film El camino de Xico in Spanish class. These Xico's Journey movie questions would be perfect for Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, Spanish 4, exploratory Spanish, or a Latin American culture class. The differentiated options mean you could use variations of this one editable Google guide for El camino de Xico in Spanish class with all levels you teach to learn about Mexico and el medio ambi
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8th - 11th
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World Mythology Unit
***Just recently updated as of February 2023 to include new activities, additional contextual videos and articles, and options for quizzes. I also re-formatted the PowerPoints and Word files to make them more visually appealing and user friendly, as well as organized and numbered all folders and activities for ease of use. Zip file includes PowerPoint files, Word documents, and PDFs.Introduction FolderContextual Background Powerpoint with Notes PageIdeas for Introduction Videos and ArticlesInter
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8th - 12th
Gothic Literature: Digital Choice Board Activity
Whether you're studying a classic gothic novel like Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, or Dracula or you're exploring some other texts in literature circles, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different supplementary resources across the categories: stories, poetry, pop culture, books and around the world, all within the genre of gothic fiction.This choice board is designed with inquiry-driven learning in mind: the title of the board is an essent
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Fall Lessons and Activities for Secondary ELA
Mardi Gras Activities | French High-Frequency Verb Reading
Looking for a comprehensible input reading on Mardi Gras that captivates your French 1 middle school or French high school class? Want a no-prep Mardi Gras activity for your French class that infuses authentic culture with proficiency-style teaching? Looking for a TPRS story script with French activities for 90% target language? Use this colorful French Mardi Gras cultural reading with writing activities based off high-frequency verbs to teach high-Frequency French structures and learn about th
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: French 1 Curriculum with Comprehensible Input Growing Bundle
Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Story: How the Birds got their Songs and Colours
This Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime story pack contains 5 fun activities for Kindergarten/Grade 1 students to incorporate ELA and cultural studies with art and drama.1. Dreamtime Story: How the Birds got their Songs and Colors2. Find Words in the Story activity: focusing on 7 words (and, it, was, the, some, birds, color and colors)3. Australia map and animals: coloring activity4. Rainbow Birds art activity with student instruction poster5. Detailed notes for performing this story with your cla
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PreK - 1st
Mother's Day Bible Lessons for May, Complete Unit for Preschool-Kindergarten
This set of four Bible Lessons written to tell the beautiful story of a mother's love is perfect for kids' church, Sunday School, home school, Christian schools, and more. This no prep themed teaching pack will show children how mothers dedicate their lives to caring for their families! While these lessons and coloring sheets are designed to be used in consecutive order to teach several stories of biblical mothers in honor of Mother's Day in May to your preschool-kindergartners, they could also
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Bible Curriculum, Year-Long BUNDLE of Holiday-Themed Lessons for Kids
Trickster Tales Digital Escape Room: Native American Mythology & Archetypes
UPDATED 2023! This trickster tales digital escape room uses stories from Native American mythology and examples of traditional tricksters in pop culture to help students better understand the archetype. This fun digital breakout challenge is full of puzzles, riddles, and games that even the trickiest of tricksters would be proud of. The breakout challenge is completely digital, Google Classroom compatible, and ready to go! The trickster tales are from Native American mythology, but some of the r
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8th - 12th
Spanish Reader's Theater-Ricitos de Oro y los Tres Osos (The Three Bears)
Reader's Theater is a great tool for building fluency in reading. As a bilingual educator I have found that Spanish reader's theater is a valuable tool to get Spanish language learners to practice their oral development. Although I have used these scripts in my First grade classroom, they would also work well for secondary Spanish classes.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is easy to follow with its repetitive phrases and familiar storyline. This reader's theater is an excellent way for students
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K - 12th, Adult Education
An Introduction to Folklore - Editable Presentation, Activity, Folktale Quiz
For many reasons, including the popular modern movies that have come to pervade theaters, students LOVE to learn about and read folktales! Why not satisfy the multicultural literature standards by providing students with an opportunity to read what they can so easily connect and relate to? Introduce students to one of their favorite genres with this folklore introductory lesson and engaging presentation that provides relevant discussion opportunities and real-world examples!Looking for a more ve
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6th - 10th
Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes The Story of 9/11 Novel Guide
Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes Novel Guide. Ideal realistic fiction resource that masterfully tells the story of September 11th, the fallen towers and their legacy, which lives on in all of us. History is alive.This pack includes:Chapter-by-chapter reading comprehension questions and answers. Character(s) analysis New VocabularyCause & Effect ChartKLW ChartThemes ActivityEssay TopicExtension ResourcesThis resource is great for: Teaching about American HistoryTeaching about September
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4th - 7th
Shakespeare's Macbeth Script Adapted for Middle School Reader's Theatre Drama
This Adapted Macbeth Script for Middle School is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's classic play. Whether you are teaching Macbeth to low ability students, or using it as an easy way in to the original script, this will save you time. In here you'll find an adapted script with no less than 15 bonus Macbeth teaching resources to engage your Middle Schoolers (and up) during this topic. My support* and the notes included serve as a Macbeth teacher guide, so this download supports even first-
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5th - 8th
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