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Black History Month Common Core RI.7.1 resources
Martin Luther King Day I Have a Dream Close Read and Rhetorical Analysis
Engage your students in close reading and rhetorical analysis skills with this Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" close reading and analysis activity. This is a perfect activity for students on Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
"I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a speech packed with rhetorical devices. This activity packet provides secondary teachers with multiple resources to help students conduct a close read of this famous speech.
This resource includes:
A teacher introductio
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in: Martin Luther King Day Activity Bundle for Secondary Students
Black History Month Research Project
Are you searching for meaningful Black History Month activities for your middle school students? This Research Project which includes a Creative Poster Project is the perfect way to celebrate Black History Month and teach useful research, writing, and communication skills at the same time! Students will learn vital research skills, learn about an influential African American, put their thoughts and ideas down in an ORGANIZED essay, peer edit and revise their essays, and present their research fi
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6th - 9th
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Black History Month Bulletin Board - Interactive Posters & Biographies - Decor
This Black History Month interactive bulletin board resource comes with TWO Black History Month bulletin boards and is filled with Black History Month activities for middle school and high school students to learn about influential African American individuals. Create an engaging bulletin board with these 60 eye-catching posters that contain thought-provoking quotes to pique students' curiosity and get them thinking critically!You will receive two separate bulletin board kits: Set #1 contains 30
Grades:
6th - 9th
Martin Luther King - Reading Comprehension, Activities, Nonfiction MLK Passage
This 5-day unit covers many critical ELA skills as students develop a deep understanding and connection to Martin Luther King, Jr.! While studying about King, students practice critical skills including reading comprehension, identifying nonfiction text features, participating in group discussions, analyzing a quote, cooperative learning, and writing. Six activities are included in this unit. Each is based on a nonfiction reading passage about Martin Luther King, Jr. The activities are desig
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Lessons and Unit Plans for the entire month of January! - 4 Unit BUNDLE!
Black History Month Biography Projects with Readings
This fantastic Black History Month resource includes 13 biographies of famous African Americans plus several project options to use in your classroom!Each 1-page biography is easy to read for students and includes the major details of each person's life along with pictures and quotes. The biographies feature figures from the Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights Movement and include:Martin Luther King, Jr.Stokely CarmichaelMalcolm XThurgood MarshallJackie RobinsonRosa ParksBillie HolidayJames Weld
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6th - 10th
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Black History Month Activities - Bulletin Board - Bellringers - Projects - Decor
This month-long Black History Month bundle includes SIX activities and projects that are PERFECT to introduce your middle school or high school students to important African Americans and events during Black History Month. This LOW PREP bundle includes engaging Black History Month biography projects, research activities, reading comprehension bellringers, posters, and decor that will help your students practice research skills, writing skills, and critical thinking skills while learning new info
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Civil Rights Movement Collaborative Project - Black History Month Activities
Are you looking for a way to introduce students to the Civil Rights Movement without spending entire class periods focused on lectures and taking notes? The Civil Rights Movement Collaborative Project is a student-centered activity that turns your students into researchers and teachers. Students will work together with a group of their classmates to research a specific topic from the Civil Rights Movement and create a product that can educate their classmates on that topic. Teachers will LOVE t
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6th - 9th
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Black History Month Reading Comprehension Passages Martin Luther King Jr. MLK
10 Engaging, Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Directions for Student Annotations! 10 Black Heroes of History: Maya Angelou, Muhammad Ali, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, Sarah E. Goode, and Ruby Bridges Black History Month Reading Comprehension Passages and Annotations for Upper Elementary and Middle School2 versions included for all reading passage files: Digital Google Slides {Google Classroom C
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4th - 7th
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U.S. Presidents Informational Articles - Presidents Day Reading Comprehension
Your 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students will love learning about biographies and summarizing with these engaging U.S. Presidents reading passages. Students will learn about the history of these United States of America Presidents. As they read these biographies, students will work on reading comprehension and summarizing what they read. Students can use their summaries to create a final Presidential History Yearbook. This is a great activity to complete in February as part of your Presidents' Day
Grades:
6th - 8th
Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance Poetry Analysis Unit Bundle
Engage your middle school students in American poems of the Harlem Renaissance that resonate with current events. This poetry unit is based on the TPCASTT poetry analysis model: Title, Paraphrase, Connotations, Attitude (tone), Shift, Title revisited, and Theme. The lessons use guided close reading of Langston Hughes’s poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Dreams," "Mother to Son," and "Harlem" (Dream Deferred). Product FeaturesEngaging slideshow for each poem with critical thinking questionsInte
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Grades:
7th - 8th
Nonfiction Book Unit: Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 110-page Common Core aligned complete book study for the nonfiction text, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. This book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel. The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ALL ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED. Who was Claudette Colvin? Most people know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person and helped stop segregation on buses in Alabama, but did you
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6th - 8th
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"Women in Aviation" Google Slides, Google Form Quiz, & Peardeck Activities
This is a comprehensive, digital and standards-based resource to guide students through the reading of the informational text Women in Aviation by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack. It includes an engaging Student Google Slides Digital Notebook with embedded text-boxes and movable pieces, a Denotation and Connotation Google Slides Activity with Peardeck optional add-on, and a Google Form Quiz. These work great for in-class & virtual learning. Students learn about Bessie Coleman, Harriet Quim
Grades:
5th - 8th
Hip Hop Main Idea and Supporting Details Passage Worksheets 6th and 7th Grade
Based on a history of Hip Hop and rap music song, these main idea and supporting details passage worksheets for 6th and 7th grade include multiple-choice questions, extension activities, and graphic organizers. Students will listen to the song then use the song's lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.What teachers like you had to say:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My students struggle with identifying central idea. This is a great resource to supplement those skills." – Austin H.This act
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6th - 8th
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Black History Month: Passages (Vol. 1) - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn all about Black History through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions6 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differentiated reading levels for each p
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3rd - 8th
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Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" Common Core Rhetorical Analysis
This resource includes the annotated text of Malcolm X's famous "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, allusions, themes aligned with the RI1, RI2, RI4, RI6, and RI8 standards from the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the identified figurative language, rhetorical devices, etc., the docume
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6th - 10th
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Social Justice Project for Middle School
Where is the love? That question and many more will be answered by the time your middle school students, grades 6-8, complete this highly engaging, rigorous, impactful, and I dare to say life changing 4-Week Social Justice Project. Inspired by the song "Where is the love?" by the Black Eyed Peas, this social justice project not only helps students grapple with the many social issues our world is facing today, but it challenges them to solve those very social issues we see on the covers of newspa
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Social Justice Activities for Middle School Bundle
Black History Month: Passages (Vol. 2) - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn all about Black History through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions6 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differentiated reading levels for each p
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3rd - 8th
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Sharon M. Draper's "Tears of a Tiger" - 28 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 28 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sharon Draper’s, "Tears of a Tiger." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The resource includes speaking and listening activities including
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Hip Hop History Middle School Making Inferences Nonfiction Passages Worksheets
Based on our history of Hip Hop and rap music songs, these making inferences nonfiction passages worksheets for middle school will keep your students engaged using song lyrics while they practice inferencing skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class mini lesson. Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the activities detailed below.These activities are:- no prep to save you time- super simple
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5th - 7th
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Black History Month Science & Reading Comprehension - Scientists & Inventors
Celebrate Black History Month! Discover the amazing contributions of African American scientists and inventors with this engaging and collaborative hexagonal thinking activity! Take a deeper look into the lives, contributions, and character traits of diverse scientists and inventors. This is the perfect Black History Month project for secondary science classes! Also... great for Black History Month Bulletin Boards and Science Sub Plans. Product Highlights:Hexagonal Worksheet Templates: Students
Grades:
8th - 12th
Christopher P. Curtis's "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" - 30 Common Core Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 26 rigorous unit learning tasks for Christopher Paul Curtis’s, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded e
Grades:
6th - 8th
Langston Hughes Biography & Poetry Analysis
Langston Hughes was an amazing poet who infused his love of jazz and blues into his writing. He wrote of injustice, poverty, and racism and helped inspire a generation to dream. He was one of the first African Americans to earn a living as an author.
Included are resources for your students to research and learn about Langston Hughes and his legacy. You will receive:
* a list of poems by Langston Hughes
* 16 quote cards that can be cut out and displayed around the room or switched out ever
Grades:
4th - 8th
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MLK Close Reading and Comprehension Quiz “I Have a Dream” Speech
PRINTABLE or DIGITAL reading passage and quiz. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, and close reading quiz. The pages can be used for classwork, homework, flipped learning, blended learning, distance learning, Google classroom, and extension activities. Great for 6th-8th grades, and 9-12 grades. Perfect for middle school students and high school students alike! A classroom activity for Martin Luther King Jr. day. An ELA activity and close reading lesson for MLK day. What's Included:■ 5-page reading pa
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5th - 12th
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"The People Could Fly" Google Slides CCSS Activity and Google Form Quiz
This is a comprehensive, digital and standards-based resource to guide students through the reading of the folk tale The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton. It includes an engaging CCSS aligned Student Google Slides Digital Notebook with embedded text-boxes and movable pieces, a Teacher Digital Notebook with answer keys (display on interactive whiteboard to guide students and share answers), and a Google Form Quiz. These work great for in-class & virtual learning. I recently used all th
Grades:
5th - 8th
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