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Middle school writing-essays cultural activities $5-10
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
What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
The Big Orange Splot Diversity ELA Art and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-6
Grow your students' understanding of diversity with these academic, FUN activities inspired by "The Big Orange Splot." Immerse your students in the tale of Mr. Plumbean, whose house becomes a symbol of breaking free from conformity after an unexpected seagull accident.This Lesson Features:Poster for Display: A poster designed to spark discussion and debate.Comprehension Questions: To deepen students' comprehension and encourage meaningful conversations.Creative Coloring and Transformation Activi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Classroom Community Bundle for Grades 3-6 Print and Digital
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
Red Dog - Film Study
Booklet for the film study 'Red Dog'. The booklet includes a range of questions, camera angles and research and assessment tasks.
Grades:
7th
Students for Movie Day's featured film of the week: Remember the Titans
Resilient Cafe' presents Students for Movie Day with this featured film of the week: Remember the Titans. This includes alignment of NGNYSS, questions, and answers, discussion activities with links on how to implement them and perform them, essays, KWL Chart, T-Chart, and a movie test with answers. This movie is based on the Civil Rights Movement history and generates many discussions along with embedding ELA skills in writing, speaking, and listening.
Grades:
8th - 12th
End of Year Scrapbook Project on Culture and Identity | Essay Writing
This fun and hands-on essay writing scrapbook project for middle school and high school English and writing classes includes 24 essay topics on culture and identity, a sample student essay, essay analysis, graphic organizers, essay writing outline templates, three self-review activities, a peer review activity, scrapbook design templates, and two bonus activities. This project works on personal essays with or without research. It includes topical essays, compare/contrast essays, sequential ess
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Holidays Around the World Writing Project, Leveled, Differentiated!
Students will pick a country they are interested in studying and answer questions about the holiday traditions in that country, then write an essay in paragraph form, using the questions as a graphic organizer. This product includes geography, writing, and social studies components. There are 2 levels for the writing portion, the first level contains a fill in the blanks essay. Level 2 is for intermediate learners who are able to free write their answers in essay form.
Grades:
K - 12th
The Loch Ness monster Reading & Persuasive Writing Lesson
This is the perfect SS/ELA cross-curriculum lesson! These lessons can be used together or separately. I highly recommend using the introduction to Scotland lesson to introduce this writing activity. Between the Scotland lesson, the guided reading, and writing assignment, this bundle can last a week. The reading comprehension questions help your students closely read the Kids Britannica article about the Loch Ness monster. This will support their understanding when they go to write a persuasive e
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Grades:
4th - 6th
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Curriculum (Chapter 6-10)
Based on the popular YA novel, the following curriculum helps provide students a comprehensive review of the text. The curriculum includes the following: Anticipation GuideComprehensive Chapter Check Character Analysis Vocabulary Language ReviewGrammar Review - AdjectivesFigurative Language ReviewThink-Through QuestionsOpen-Ended Prompt/Short Answer Response PracticeExtension Activities - Quotable Quotes
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Interview with an Elder Essay Project
Would you like your students to learn the skill of interviewing while also learning about a past generation's culture? This project informs students on how to interview another person, practices that skills, and then allows the students to interview an elder in order to learn about that elder's life. The culminating assessment is an expository/narrative essay that helps the students connect to both the past and the present through their elder.
Grades:
8th - 10th
"A Long Walk to Water" Final Assessment with outline; PRINTABLE
"A Long Walk to Water" - 17 page pdf file to use while reading and for the final assessment. Updated 2016
Although my seventh graders and I enjoyed reading and participating in the NYS ELA7 Module One; Unit One, I felt the final assessment was a little too broad for a seventh grader to organize and answer in the way the state was asking.
What I did is I took the essential question from the unit, “How do culture, time, and place influence Salva/Nya’s identity?” and created a detailed outline
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7th
Informational Expository Writing Ancient Egypt Activity
This passage is great for learning all about Ancient Egypt and the Mummification process! This text allows students to learn all about mummification, and why mummification was an important part of Egyptian history. This high-interest passage is made to stretch your 4rd through 6th graders reading comprehension, and to help students use information to guide their writing. The passage in this set is differentiated. Two levels are provided.There is a printable 4 square, along with an example of the
Grades:
4th - 7th
Hispanic Heritage Month: Hispanic/Latina-American Woman Research Project
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th to October 15th. To commemorate the accomplishment of Hispanic-American Women to American society, students will conduct a biography research of a famous Hispanic- American Woman.
This product contains 2 graphic organizers ( one for the research and the other one for the essay planning) and step-by step directions to follow and complete the biographical research . Additionally, there is a sample of a small poster for students to see
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
History of Yourself Personal Essay
Here is a great way to start your year of 6th Grade History of the Ancient World. We see the world through the lens of our own selves, as a result, we tend to view history through our own history. In this essay assignment, students will analyze themselves as they would a civilization. Students will become familiar with important vocabulary that they will need this year: economy, politics, social, and geography. You will get to know your students through this assignment as well, and as a resul
Grades:
6th
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History of Christmas
-42 Slide PowerPoint
-26 Printable
Covers the origins and history of Christmas, from the ancient world to the present. Including the history of our most common and unique traditions. Includes multiple printable worksheets, coloring sheets, projects, and research worksheets, with teacher's key.
Everything you need to give a comprehensive understanding of one of the worlds most popular holidays.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Social Justice: Poetry Analysis AP English Style Essay Prompts
15 poems with AP Lit styled FRQ prompts. The poems center on the idea of diversity and represent a wide-variety of groups often viewed as "other." Classics to Contemporary Poems provide the opportunity for extended analysis practice while engendering conversations focused on issues and concerns of the day (Identity).Poetry and Poetry Prompts are appropriate forPre APAPHonors**Prompts may need rewording for struggling readers
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Social Justice: Critical Analysis Activities and AP Style Essay Prompts
Interview an Adult Essay
This series of lessons teaches students how to give an effective interview. As a summative assessment, they will transform their interview into an essay.The materials included are:Description of the assignmentImportant steps in preparing and giving interviewsA list of over 70 great interview questionsPeer editing worksheetA model essay
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
People & Social Class Throughout History: Guided Questions, Draft, & Rubric
Study of People & Social Class Throughout History: Includes:Detailed guided questionsDetailed rubric with self-assessment + teacher assessment Final Draft cover page + lined pages for writingUsed in the 2022-2023 school year with my upper elementary students. Requires pre-teaching about social class, race, and equity and their impacts on people.
Grades:
4th - 8th
My Heritage Project {All text is editable!}
For this project students will interview an older family member to find out more about their heritage, how they grew up, and their schooling. Next, they will turn the interview into an essay. Finally, students will also create a poster using pictures of the family member in the past and/or today. A grading rubric, poster example, project note to parents, and an project presentation invite letter to parents is also included. In my classroom I introduce this project before Christmas break and then
Grades:
4th - 8th
Biography Research Project
Thank you for downloading this FULL version of my Biography Research Project! As a Special Education Teacher, I always found it important to differentiate and create a lesson that will help my students reach their full potential. This project may be used for:
• Inclusion classes
• Resource classes
• Self-Contained classes
• General Ed classes
• Meeting individual learning needs
• Meeting individual learning interests
• Grades 2-6
• President’s Day
• Black History Month
• Women’s History Month
•
Grades:
2nd - 6th
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Persuasive Essay
The Hate you Give by Angie Thomas persuasive essay will help support and guide your students through the essay process. Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of these engaging activities built from best teaching practices and common core.Featured:1. Prompt2. Pre-writing activity: Inside/Outside Circles3. Videos (to clarify "code-switching")4. Graphic organizer5. Essay Outline6. Self-edit7. Rubric8. Teacher directionsTo follow my store, please click HERERelated Products⭐ The Hate U Gi
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Novel Study Bundle/Answer Keys/Editable
Research Essay Unit "Famous Person" Middle School Bundle
List of 41 appropriate famous people, lesson on paraphrasing, lesson on notetaking, and three sample compositions-Assigning middle school students to write an essay on a famous person pays great dividends, both in Language Arts and Social Studies. As a longtime Language Arts teacher, I see that this is usually the favorite essay topic of the year for my students. It also lends itself to oral presentations or multi-media presentations afterwards.Ideally, students should write about a person of
Grades:
6th - 9th
Samantha Smith's Pen: Learn the Power of Persuasion & 18" Doll Knitting Pattern
Would there be a response if Samantha was alive today and able to write a letter to Putin? What would it be? "Writing rubric included for easy scoring". "Highly engaging and motivating!"The power of persuasion! Learn about a persuasive letter written by a girl from Maine, an advocate for peace, who may have saved the world from a nuclear war during the 1980’s. Suggested for Grades 6 on up.Learn how to write a persuasive letter or essay & Easel Assessment.Know any knitters?
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Bundle: Samantha Smith: Short Story, Persuasive Letters
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