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Common Core CCRA.R.3 simulations
The Lady or The Tiger by Frank Stockton with Simulation - Print & Digital
This lesson on the short story “The Lady or The Tiger” by Frank Stockton can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. All resources are Google Drive resources (primarily Google Docs unless otherwise noted as Google Slides, Google Forms, etc.). These resources include support for struggling readers and writers and/or special education students, such as an adapted text, chunked questions, graphic organizers and suggested transitions for writing. This lesson focuses on the skills of
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8th - 9th
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Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle: Teaching Literary Elements - Print & Digital
The Sinking of the Lusitania: Solve the WWI Mystery w Primary Source Analysis!
Perhaps one of the most important events of World War One, the sinking of the Lusitania has fascinated kids and adults for years. Use this mystery to harness that fascination and engage students in an inquiry-based mission that they will remember all year long!In this mystery, students are posed with an engaging scenario - they are CIA Agents that must piece together once and for all how and why the Lusitania sank. They are presented with a variety of "exhibits," all cleverly designed to engage
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: GROWING WWI BUNDLE: Higher Order Thinking WWI Activities (SS5H2)
The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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ELA Escape Room Challenge Penguin Theme
Looking for something a little challenging, incredibly engaging, and slightly different from an ordinary day? Escape room challenges have all of that and more.In this escape room challenge, the students must escape from being stuck on Penguin Island after disobeying the sign on a magic portal at the zoo's penguin exhibit. They can only get out if they can successfully navigate their way through 5 ELA challenges.This challenge has students apply skills in reading comprehension, sentence vs. fragm
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3rd - 5th
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Moot Court/Mock Trial: "Take me out to the ball game..."
Project goals:Develop strong argumentative skills, both written and orallyUnderstand the differences between criminal, civil, and appellate casesJudge an argument based on evidence and reasoningAbout the project:There are three different cases students will argue. Each of the cases has a very similar fact pattern. At the, end however, students are asked to argue the cases a little differently.Case #1: criminal caseCase #2: civil caseCase #3: criminal case on appeal (the assumption here is that t
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8th - 11th
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The Tell-Tale Heart Mock Trial
Assembled here are eight individual resources used with 8th graders to conduct a mock trial based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. For my classes, this was a major-fun!- culminating project in the 2nd trimester. However, I think it could easily be adapted to other purposes, including part of an existing unit on mock trials or a short project within a short story unit.
The key skills addressed with this unit are using evidence from text to build and make an argument, as well as speak
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8th - 12th
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Oregon Trail Simulation Reader's Theater Skits Dramatic Play on Pioneer Life
Follow the O'Connor family on their journey to Oregon. They have big dreams of having a large farm out west, and the Oregon Trail offers them the chance of having the American Dream. Your students will follow this family through the skits from the time they say goodbye to their loved ones to the time they arrive in Oregon. These Oregon Trail Pioneer skits will have your students laughing and having fun while learning about the hardships pioneers endured during their journey. They are are fun, bu
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4th - 6th
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Host Your Own Classroom Murder Mystery Masquerade Ball!
Do you teach a mystery novel/unit/genre study? Need something AMAZING for Halloween? Want to be remembered as the most AWESOME TEACHER EVER? My students' absolute FAVORITE events of the whole year was the murder mystery masquerade ball I put on after students read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Three weeks before the event, I would send out mysterious invitations alluding to a masquerade ball. Two weeks before the event, I would give students their character cards. These cards inclu
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Animal Farm Activity Bundle - Includes Mock Trial - Unit Plan - George Orwell
Immerse your students in the captivating world of Animal Farm by George Orwell with these FIVE resources! Encourage close reading, foster critical thinking, and spark lively discussions as students delve into the characters and events of the novel.Here are resources included in this bundle:⭐️ Animal Farm Character Trading CardsEach card features a vibrant illustration of a key character from the novel, along with essential details and quotes. Engage your students as they collect, analyze, and di
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7th - 10th
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Stuck in School Fun Simulation Game (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)
This resource is an editable, fun simulation game in which students work in groups to survive scenarios. The scene is set as the students being stuck in school overnight, with all windows and doors barricaded. If any school personnel catches them, they will die/lose. Groups must strategize tactful ways out of the situations to make it through all 12 scenarios and survive the game.
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5th - 12th
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Great Depression: Can You Survive?
Choose your own Great Depression adventure! Students learn a bit about the general global context of the late 1920's/1930's, and then can choose to do a deeper exploration of four countries: Japan, Germany, USA, and Mexico. Each country has a wealth of resources to choose from, allowing students to see how sometimes poverty and war were inescapable. A small worksheet is included in this bundle with 5 questions, allowing students to still process what they've learned, but not feel the pressure t
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9th - 12th
Teaching the Argument: Sample Argument Response
This document is a color-coded sample response of the previously posted sample argument task for the NYS English Regents exam. The colors correlate with the cheat sheet, which is the third document needed to fully teach students how to successfully compose a Part 2 response to the NYS English Regents exam.
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9th - 12th
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Teaching the Argument: Breaking Down Part 2 of the NYS English Regents Exam
This array will provide you with instant handouts for your learners and includes:Sample Argument TaskArgument Cheat SheetSample Argument Response
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9th - 12th
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The Lottery Post Reading Activity - Town Square Meeting
Summon your class to a town square meeting after reading Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," where students become the characters and take on the challenge of deciding the lottery's fate!This activity is designed to highlight a variety of skills: identifying character traits, citing textual evidence, constructing a response, and speaking and listening in a group discussion, all while providing a super fun and engaging atmosphere. Contents include: Instructions and assignment sheet, 18 unique charac
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8th - 10th
Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate: Templates, Rubric, Research, Slides
I developed the Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate after thinking carefully about relevance for my students. This debate answers a question I struggled with for years: How can I get my students to authentically engage with Shakespeare's language and how language exposes cultural/societal norms? The Hip-hop Shakespeare debate not only addresses student relevance, it also engages students with the cognitively demanding, novel task of defending a hip-hop artist as "the Shakespeare of our time" with a defen
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Election Process: How a President Gets Elected Notes and Simulation Activity
The President of the United States holds perhaps the single highest individual rank in the country. The role of the president includes being the chief executive, commander in chief ceremonial head of state, among others. The road to becoming president is difficult. First, you must win a primary vote of your political party (primaries), then the National Convention vote for your political party and finally the general election vote of the country through the electoral college. With this activity,
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6th - 10th
Aztec Simulation Game
Throughout this 4 part digital simulation game, students will complete tasks/quests, which allow them to explore the culture, history, and downfall of this once great empire! These interactive tasks include skills such as; inferencing, reading comprehension (WebQuests), map reading, making choices, and using strategy to gain "lives" or risk becoming captured! Students will travel back in time as they complete quests through the lens of an Aztec Merchant (commoner), Warrior, or Emperor. In this
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3rd - 6th
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Teaching the Argument: Sample Argument Task
This file provides teachers with a sample argument task for the English Regents.
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9th - 12th
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Lord of the Flies: Call in Radio Show: Interactive Assessment acting as the boys
You've finished Lord of the Flies. You can discuss each symbol lecture-style or you can do this interactive role-playing call-in radio show (or talk show or podcast) where every student uses either pre-written roles that are meant to dive deeper into the symbols and complexity of the characters' actions or pre-written questions for the characters on the stage. It's fun. It's funny. Students leave the classroom after this lesson with deeper understanding of the symbolism, the characters, and the
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Not Grade Specific
Pick Your Own Path Age of Exploration & Renaissance England
Need something fun to teach Renaissance Elizabethan England and the Age of Exploration to your students? This Google Slides story is the perfect lesson that engages students in this time period. They are forced to make decisions that change their storyline, so students will have different experiences and endings. Students have a chance to sail with Sir Francis Drake, or they can go on a completely separate adventure by working under Queen Elizabeth. This is a work of historical fiction completel
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5th - 7th
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The Outsiders Mock Trial
This is a fantastic end-of-the-unit activity for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. With this product, you will be able to hold a classroom Mock Trial that is run by the students, with a student judge, student lawyers, student witness, and student jury. Students will be assigned roles with assignments that correspond to each role, and it's a great activity for differentiation because the roles have different difficulty levels. Teachers will guide students in their preparation for a couple of days bef
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: The Outsiders Mock Trial Bundle
Life in Ayn Rand's Anthem - A Class Role Play Activity Lesson
Use this SUPER FUN lesson in your classroom to allow students to step into the shoes of someone living in the setting of Anthem by Ayn Rand. This lesson will encourage students to decide on a name, be assigned a vocation, and allow them to visualize what their day would be like as one living in the dystopian society. Additionally, students will interview their peers to discuss life in Anthem.
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8th - 12th
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The Giver, Chapter 7 - Reader's Theater Activity
This reading engagement activity accompanies chapters 7 and 8 of Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver. As the children in Jonas’s community receive their jobs in the novel, the students in your class will receive (and react to receiving) their own jobs. This allows your students to put themselves into the text and to engage more readily with its themes and plot. Students will have a lot more to say about Jonas’s dystopian world when they have to imagine themselves living within it!This is the first res
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6th - 12th
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"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" -- Small Group Questions and Speech
I use Le Guin's short dystopian story, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" at the beginning of our 9th/10th grade Dystopian Unit. Included in this product are a handful of small group questions, including quotes from the text that help students support their claims. These questions also prepared them for the speech activity to follow, called, "Make Your Case." This is an engaging way for students to, as fictional citizens of Omelas, argue for their support or denunciations of the society of Ome
Grades:
8th - 11th
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