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High school Black History Month ELA test prep simulations
Bundle- Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan & Jim Crow
This unit bundle is composed of four highly engaging, primary based, interactive Slide Presentations, and activities-- designed to have students critically explore the period of Reconstruction/Jim Crow. LESSON ONE: Reconstruction Era [Intro]Includes:45 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes HandoutPOV Freedmen Scenario ActivityLESSON ONE will have students examine;the different ways in which newly freed slaves expressed their emancipationthe POV of a Freedmen (POV Activity). Students will respond
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Great Zimbabwe African Empire Activity CSI Mystery of Black History Analysis
Perfect for lessons about the African empires, this investigation activity makes learning about Great Zimbabwe educational and engaging! Your students will try to crack the mystery of Great Zimbabwe through a crime scene investigation case file activity that encourages historical and creative thinking. Perfect for lessons on ancient civilizations, African empires, and world history, this resource makes history come to life!A visually engaging case file with comprehensive background readings on t
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6th - 10th
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Era of Reconstruction: Interactive Activities
This resource is designed to have students critically explore the period of Reconstruction. Two highly engaging, interactive Slide Presentations will vicariously draw students into the lives of the Freedmen during this historical period of time. LESSON ONE: Reconstruction Era [Intro]Includes:45 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes HandoutPOV Freedmen Scenario Activity LESSON ONE will have students examine; the different ways in which newly freed slaves expressed their emancipationthe POV of a F
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle- Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan & Jim Crow
Civil Rights Movement Project Research and Role Play
In this inquiry-based project, students become figures from the Civil Rights Movement. Students research their figure and then embody that person at a culminating party. This project puts students literally in the lives of historical figures. Meet Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Thurgood Marshall and more through your students' discovery of them. A great addition to your Civil Rights Movement study.This detailed teacher’s guide includes:● How to use this resource and complete timeline within the te
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Civil Rights Movement Activities
To Kill a Mockingbird Escape Room
This escape room is an AWESOME review for students after reading TKMB. It is easy to implement and can be done in a single class period. It includes an entire breakdown with a teacher guide on how to use it. This escape room is done in 5 activities and includes all hints, activities and worksheets!Activities included:1. Crosswork puzzle2. Close reading activity3. Match the quotes4. Plot diagram5. Encrypted messageThis is a part of my larger unit, To Kill a Mockingbird CCSS Unit Bundle Gr. 8-11If
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8th - 12th
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New Year's Around the World Digital Escape Game (Standards Based ELA Test Prep)
New Year's Around the World Digital Escape Game - Engaging Cultural Exploration for Students! Welcome to an exciting journey across the globe with our New Year's Around the World Digital Escape Game! This innovative and standards-based activity is designed to captivate students while reinforcing their understanding of New Year's customs in diverse cultures. Perfect for grades 9-10, this escape game is an excellent way to promote active learning and review key concepts.Key Features: Digital Escap
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9th - 10th
GA Milestones EOC 11th Grade American Lit "Story of an Hour" Narrative Prompt
Help your American Literature students prepare for the Milestones with this EOC-style narrative prompt for Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”!Included here:Narrative Writer’s Checklist as seen on the Georgia Milestones Assessment Guide seen here: https://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Assessment/Documents/Milestones/Assessment%20Guides/EGA135_GRHS_ALIT_AG_0001_20200925.pdf Lined paper for composing the essayGeorgia Milestones 4-Point RubricCompletely editable templateYou w
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11th
CST Practice Test #4 - Edgar Allan Poe's "Eldorado" - English 9 & 10
This test is designed to help California 9th and 10th grade English students prepare for the CST. This test has twenty-five questions covering twelve standards. The questions are based on the poem Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe.
This is one of nine CST practice tests available. THE FIRST ONE IS FREE! All questions have the related standard listed above them. All questions were developed using the question stems from released CST and CAHSEE questions. All tests have answer keys included.
If
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9th - 10th
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Engaging Great Migration Activity: Choose Your Own Journey
Supplement your Great Migration, Reconstruction, and Civil War units with this experiential exercise to build perspective and content knowledge. 1:1 classrooms are ideal for this activity, but you could easily modify to be whole class or small group. This activity is perfect for kickstarting your studies of the Great Migration, but can be used as a rich supplement at any time. Students start by reading a scene from a sharecropper's life, then making a choice on what to do next. Each choice is li
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8th - 11th
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History Mysteries - Tupac
Looking for a way to get your students excited about history? Historical mysteries are the way to go!Students will have to use critical thinking, inquiry, and teamwork skills to solve the mystery of the murder of Tupac Shakur.Students will use the provided slide deck to help them solve the mystery!The opportunity to expand upon this lesson are endless. Maybe this is an activity to use during a Current Events class. Maybe this could be used in a Forensics class. Maybe you use this in your Music H
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8th - 11th
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Plessy v Ferguson Socratic Seminar
This resource includes the following:Plessy V Ferguson reading covering background, amendment elements, and final remarks from Justice Henry Brown and Justice John HarlanAnnotation technique to ensure close reading and note taking on the text (can be used for a grade)Potential discussion questions for the Socratic SeminarInstructions on how to conduct the Socratic Seminar and sentence stems to help students phrase their comments or questions in the Socratic Seminar
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9th - 12th
Technology Enhanced Items (8 day packet) - Commas and Quotation Marks
Do you need a review that gets students prepared for the upcoming writing SOL for the state of Virginia? Do you desire that your students know the most common comma rules and quotation marks rule? This 8 day packet allows students to practice their understanding. These quick mini-lessons (approximately 20 min a day) is a great way to get students comfortable as the major tests near!
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7th - 10th
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GA Milestones EOC 11th Grade American Lit Of Mice and Men Narrative Prompt
Help your American Literature students prepare for the Georgia Milestones with this EOC-style narrative prompt for John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men!Included here:Narrative Writer’s Checklist as seen on the Georgia Milestones Assessment Guide seen here: https://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Assessment/Documents/Milestones/Assessment%20Guides/EGA135_GRHS_ALIT_AG_0001_20200925.pdfLined paper for composing the essayGeorgia Milestones 4-Point RubricCompletely editable templateYo
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11th
AP Language Multiple Choice READING Strategy Group Solve Activity / SAT prep
Get your students engaged in dissecting question types and justifying their answer choices in preparation for the AP Language exam. What: This activity (1 - 2 class periods) engages students in a "test maker" simulation as students problem solve a multiple choice READING question set and write their reasoning to prove answers correct and incorrect. HOW: Student teams can work through each of the 7 problems collaboratively, or you can create a Jigsaw where each home team takes 1 "expert" problem
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Civil Rights Era - Understanding Housing Segregation - Interactive Simulation
Do you want to show your students what the physical implications of housing segregation during the Civil Rights Era? Are they curious how housing segregation works and what it actually looks like? Using the Parable of the Polygons website, this interactive simulation helps students understand how just a little bit of bias can have a large impact on how a community looks. This activity walks students through the process of trying to make the 'polygons' happy based on their levels of bias and dive
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Poe Usher Common Core FSA Style Assessment
This assessment utilizes the Common Core and FSA style questions to identify student mastery of reading concepts and familiarize them with the types of questioning they will see on Common Core assessments. This assessment has multiple choice, mulit-response, open response, and essay questions as well as hot text questions. This can be used during or after reading Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."
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9th - 12th
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STAAR Surgeons
This is a great way to start working on STAAR passages with your students after the holidays. It is a very bright idea a coworker shared with me about four years ago to start implementing STAAR simulations in the classroom. I modified it a bit and gave it a name as well designed the thinking tracks that go along with it. It is a extremely engaging way to apply all knowledge previously taught in the classroom. Students will definitely enjoy the process. I hope it helps someone out there!
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3rd - 12th
Notes: Timed Essay Tips for Accelerated/Advanced Writers ELA 9-10 (EDITABLE)
18 Tips for Timing on Air/OST Extended Responses/Essays - (Both Argumentative and Informative/Explanatory) and how to strive for the Accelerated/Advanced ScoreGives 18 next steps for students who have mastered the length, evidence, topic, prompt, essay type, and formal writing. I introduce these independently, differentiating who is ready, at any point during the year, to begin timed essays. All students begin timed essays by the last unit of the year.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Notes Bundle CCSS ELA 9-10 (EDITABLE)
![Preview of NOTES: Steps for MY ORIGINAL Visual Editing Technique [CCSS.ELA.W.5] (EDITABLE)](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/NOTES-Steps-for-MY-ORIGINAL-Visual-Editing-Technique-CCSS-ELA-W-5-EDITABLE--8462678-1661286694/750f-8462678-1.jpg)
NOTES: Steps for MY ORIGINAL Visual Editing Technique [CCSS.ELA.W.5] (EDITABLE)
STEP ONE: An interactive editing technique with 20 specific steps to teach students the editing process for an ELA/OST style state test essay. Students use this all year utilizing the highlighting of keywords and requirements to make sure their essay has them all there. A sample essay is provided.The next step in the process is to use the editing hyperdoc. It makes editing a tangible and concrete activity to help them learn the process. Self-evaluation is a key standard for students and providin
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9th - 10th
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Also included in: Unit- Epic Mythology- The Odyssey- 6 Bundles (EDITABLE)
HYPERDOC: Process for MY ORIGINAL Visual Student Editing (EDITABLE)
An interactive editing document of 26 questions to teach students the editing process for an ELA/OST style state test essay. It mentions MY ORIGINAL visual editing technique that students use all year utilizing the highlighting of keywords and requirements to make sure they are all there. This is the next step in the process. It makes editing a tangible and concrete activity to help them learn the process. At the end, there are links to the OST essay rubrics and a place for students to self-eval
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9th - 10th
Also included in: Unit- Epic Mythology- The Odyssey- 6 Bundles (EDITABLE)
Notes: Slides- Thesis Graphic Organizers- and 4 freebies! (EDITABLE)
Notes: Slides- Umbrellas Graphic Organizers- Essay and Prompt Type25 Slides to learn how to analyze a prompt, make decisions, and prepare a topic9 sample prompts4 Umbrella Worksheets to Analyze and Prepare a Prompt. Originals were made in Google Drawings, which are not supported here. Here are the links if you would like to edit them for FREE :) FOLDER: WKSH- Umbrella Graphic Organizers.Also check out MY ORIGINAL Visual Writing and Editing Technique!
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Notes Bundle CCSS ELA 9-10 (EDITABLE)
NOTES: OST Rubric Activity to analyze state released essays (EDITABLE)
I put students into groups and give each group a pack of student-released essays, the prompt, and a copy of the OST rubric.The work together to analyze the essays, prompt, and rubric. The last activity requires them to match the state comments and the student essay for each set in their packet. A key is provided. I typically use this as a contest between groups. And if one group finishes early, there are extra packets with smaller amounts of essays they can work on with extra time. Everything is
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9th - 10th
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Also included in: Notes Bundle CCSS ELA 9-10 (EDITABLE)
![Preview of NOTES: Steps for MY ORIGINAL Visual Editing Technique [CCSS.ELA.W.5] (EDITABLE)](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/NOTES-Steps-for-MY-ORIGINAL-Visual-Editing-Technique-CCSS-ELA-W-5-EDITABLE--8316504-1662580226/750f-8316504-1.jpg)
NOTES: Steps for MY ORIGINAL Visual Editing Technique [CCSS.ELA.W.5] (EDITABLE)
STEP ONE: An interactive editing technique with 20 specific steps to teach students the editing process for an ELA/OST style state test essay. Students use this all year utilizing the highlighting of keywords and requirements to make sure their essay has them all there. A sample essay is provided.The next step in the process is to use the editing hyperdoc. It makes editing a tangible and concrete activity to help them learn the process. Self-evaluation is a key standard for students and providin
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9th - 10th
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Also included in: Notes Bundle CCSS ELA 9-10 (EDITABLE)
HYPERDOC: Process for MY ORIGINAL Visual Student Editing (EDITABLE)
An interactive editing document of 26 questions to teach students the editing process for an ELA/OST style state test essay. It mentions MY ORIGINAL visual editing technique that students use all year utilizing the highlighting of keywords and requirements to make sure they are all there. This is the next step in the process. It makes editing a tangible and concrete activity to help them learn the process. At the end, there are links to the OST essay rubrics and a place for students to self-eval
Grades:
9th - 10th
Also included in: BUNDLE: Writing ELA 9-10 (EDITABLE)
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