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High school critical thinking writing-essays cultural activities
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
Grades:
9th - 11th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Synthesis and Argument Writing: Is it ever okay to fail?
Every English teacher needs new ways to teach argument, rhetoric, and analytical writing. The Inquiry-Based Synthesis Essay is here to save the day!This argument essay is designed to help you out in a quick fix OR to teach in-depth rhetorical analysis. The essay can be scaffolded up or down, from highly difficult and challenging to ELL and SpEd friendly. In a nutshell: The essay question asks students to develop an argument about the question: is it ever okay to fail? Their job is to read t
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8th - 12th
Martin Luther King Activities Argumentative Essay Writing Prompt, Black History
This 100% editable lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day or for teaching argumentative essay writing with exemplars is no prep. Your high school students will be engaged and challenged as they work through the carefully paired texts and expertly written prompt. If your state has adopted Common Core testing, then this comparing and contrasting literary analysis is directly aligned with that format. If not, a task such as this one will definitely add a challenging component to your reading and
Grades:
8th - 11th
Depth and Complexity Frames for Every Month of the Year | Print-and-Go
This set of Depth and Complexity frames offers one frame for each month of the year. If you are looking for a quality print and go activity for your students, this is the perfect resource for you. There are twelve Depth & Complexity frames tied to holidays and month themes (such as Black History Month). They've got great graphics and strong, high-level thinking questions. There's even a rubric you can use to evaluate your students' completed frames.No need to be a Depth and Complexity expert
Grades:
4th - 10th
My Favorite Chaperone - Alternative Assignments: Creative Writing, Vocab, & more
Thank you for stopping by and looking at my product! If you purchase it and find it useful, please consider leaving me a review, or just a quick 4 star rating at the top of the page! Remember to click on the FOLLOW button, so you'll be notified of my sales.These are alternative assignments that you can do with your students during or after reading the short story, "My Favorite Chaperone," by Jean Davies Okimoto from the 8th Grade English Language Arts Collections book by Houghton Mifflin Harcou
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7th - 9th
Disney Pixar's Coco Movie Guide Packet + Activities + Sub Plan + Best Value
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This packet includes, among two other teaching aids, a peer-reviewed handout of 15 essay questions designed to promote self-reflection, family history, character development, and a greater appreciation for others' cultures. This movie guide, while rigorous and pertinent to the film, goes beyond the scope of questions like "what's the setting and time period" and helps students put into practice character building ideas and concepts based on themes from the movie. A mod
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7th - 12th
The Rose that Grew From the Concrete - Tupac Shakur Poem Analysis
Short analysis of Tupac Shakur's famous poem, "The Rose that Grew from the Concrete." Three discussion questions follow the poem by Tupac. Used during Black History Month in a 6th grade classroom in Oakland, CA.
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4th - 12th
What's in a Song Bundle! Combining History and the Arts
This product and other - What’s in a Song? – lessons are a great way to combine history and the arts. I use these in my U.S. History class as well in my advisory period as a way to create discussion and provoke thoughts about the environment, social justice, and activism. My students are able to connect the themes of the song with current events of today. I begin each of these by playing the song for my students and ask what they think the message is in the lyrics. We then read through the histo
Grades:
7th - 12th
Words of Wisdom - Celebrate Black History Month with 34 Inspirational Quotes
Celebrate Black History Month with 34 inspirational quote posters from influential African American people.This resource is a powerful tool to use in your classrooms, and can stimulate many interesting and inspiring topics and discussions with students about the challenges of people of color through history, including modern day heroes. They can make a striking bulletin board or hallway display and can also be used as writing prompts and will help promote critical thinking, diversity awareness,
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Black History Bundle
Censorship, what's the big deal? debate - ESL adult and kid conversation
This presentation contains a 39 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a worksheet on censorship in our society.It includes a debate lesson on:- Examples from real contemporary censorship cases - Self-censorship – do we need to apply it? When?- News censorship – is it different to other forms of censorship?- Movies, should they be censored?- discussion about the censorship of books.I hope you enjoy this lessonFor problems and questions, suggestions or idea sharing, I would LOVE
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Design Your Own Home - Architecture Unit
Students learn the basic stages of designing a house, from planning to final design, in this two week unit. Critical thinking plays a large role in this activity. The unit has a strong emphasis on the preliminary planning stages of designing a home: spaces that are necessary vs. those that are amenities; defining public vs. private spaces; room locations and relationships; and working within a square footage budget. Just as an architect does, students will develop a preliminary floor plan, refin
Grades:
6th - 12th
A Little History Of The World
This is a reading guide for those who choose to use the EH Gombrich book "A Little History of the World" for a Social Studies or Language Arts middle school learning environment.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Gobierno Estudiantil - Emprendiendo Juntos (Planeación Didáctica + Recursos)
¡"Gobierno Estudiantil - Emprendiendo Juntos", un proyecto educativo interactivo diseñado para transformar el salón de clases en un laboratorio de aprendizaje práctico! Este proyecto innovador aborda múltiples campos formativos, fomentando habilidades cruciales como liderazgo, emprendimiento, pensamiento crítico y trabajo en equipo.Características Destacadas:Simulación de Gobierno del Aula: Los estudiantes asumen roles de secretarios de gobierno, cada uno liderando una secretaría (Cultura, Econo
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4th - 12th
The end of the world – are you prepared? – adult conversation power-point lesson
This is a 23 slide PowerPoint ESL adult conversation lesson in editable PPT format with an activity, work sheet and teacher’s notesThis is a particularly fun lesson to teach mostly because of the activity at the end. It is one of my student’s favorite lessons and I hope yours will love it as well. Please note that if there’s a “Doomsday prepper” in your class, the argument might get very heated, so tread carefully.This lesson contains:- What is Apocalypticism and why are we obsessed with it?- In
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Disney's Moana (2016) Movie Guide + Activities + Sub Plan + Best Value
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This packet includes, among five other teaching aids, a peer-reviewed handout of 15 essay questions designed to promote empathy, goal setting, kindness, and debate among students. This resource, while rigorous and pertinent to the film, goes beyond the scope of questions like "what's the setting and time period" and helps students put into practice character building ideas and concepts based on themes from the movie. A modified black-and-white printer ink-saving vers
Grades:
7th - 12th
ENCANTO Movie Guide | Worksheet | Questions | Google Slides | Movie Day
Check out the latest favorite movie, ENCANTO!Teachers, are you looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage them than with MOVIE DAY? ... ENCANTO has some great life lessons!This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movie Guide for INSIDE, OUT (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for How to Train a Dragon (digital and printable)-Movie Guide for Wreck-it Ralph (digital and prin
Grades:
5th - 9th
Fake news and false facts – ESL, EFL, ELL adult and kids conversation
This presentation contains a 60 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a work papers and teachers’ notes.There’s no need to explain the necessity of discussing this topic in this particular period. While preparing this lesson, I have tried as best I could to steer clear of politics and even personal specific examples and stuck to facts and study results.The activity at the end is there to show that “false facts” are not a new phenomenon and that science also gets it wrong (a lot…).T
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Man of La Mancha Viewing Guide
This is a question packet to accompany the film (or play) Man of La Mancha. Although intended for a Spanish class, all of the questions are in English and can be adapted and enhanced for a high-level literature class. The questions are intended to make sure that students are able to recognize characters, basic plot ideas, and basic themes that they see throughout the movie. At the end they are asked to compare and contrast a selection of two characters, which includes Don Quixote and Sancho, Don
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9th - 12th
Media Literacy... Is it Real News or Fake News?!? (Online)
An interactive Google Slide Show asking students (using the comments feature or adding a text box) to consider slide by slide whether each newspaper headline is actually real news or fake. Using high levels of critical thinking, each headline per slide will certainly develop into very active discussions in and of themselves! More than ever, as learning moves to online platforms, and where students are now being asked to conduct high levels of research, Media Literacy is an essential component in
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Emoji – A new language? ESL, EFL, ELL adult and kid conversation
This is a two-hour ESL adult conversation lesson about emojis, their significance and the way we use them. The first hour includes a discussion about the role of emojis as a language. In the second hour, students reflect on the cultural aspect of Emojis and possible misunderstandings and gaffs they might cause.“Emojis” have gone way beyond a fun illustration for our text messages. Not only are they becoming a language onto themselves, but this is, as far as we know, the first truly global langua
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Oral History Project: Collecting the Life Stories of Another Generation
This is a multi-step project that would fit best into an English or Social Studies type of class. The project is asking students to act as Anthropologists and collect the oral history of a person who is at least 40 years older than the students.
Skills involved:
- Students find their own participants
- Each project is extremely unique
- Students must prepare before collecting their history by submitting 5 introduction questions
- Students practice taking notes while a person is speaking
- S
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
UNDRIP Bundle
This bundle includes a calendar and Powerpoint that guides you through a unit to unpack the UNDRIP document with your students.Most of the calendar/PowerPoint lessons are available in this bundle; some lessons can be found on the FNMIEAO website.Included:Independent Study Unit and class introduction assignmentPowerpoint helps the students and teacher work through each lesson. Video questionsUNDRIP Analysis QuestionsConnection activity to current Indigenous issues (Canadian)UNDRIP unit assignmen
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Intercultural Communication - Final Exam w Answers, Assignments, Lesson Plans
This is an Intercultural Communication I taught for degree students in various majors.Included are:Two exam papers for final exams (A and B). The B Paper is in case someone misses the final paper and needs a make-up exam. Answer keys included.Two AssignmentsLesson Plans/Topics
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Dear Martin Unit Assessment Bundle (Unit Exam, Part 1 Quiz, & Analysis Essay)
Dear Martin Unit Assessment Bundle: Elevate Literary Learning with Comprehensive Evaluation Tools!Maximize the impact of your "Dear Martin" unit with our all-inclusive Unit Assessment Bundle! Tailored to streamline your assessment process, this bundle comprises a comprehensive unit exam, a targeted quiz covering part 1 of the novel, and a stimulating Text Dependent Analysis Essay Assignment. Revolutionize your evaluation strategy and witness your students' literary comprehension soar! Bundle Hi
Grades:
7th - 12th
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