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Common Core SL.9-10.4 handouts
Midsummer Night’s Dream Unit Plan, Four Weeks of MSND Materials/Activities, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into A Midsummer Night’s Dream? William Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of love and magic will engage your students when you use this MASSIVE bundle of fun and creative lessons. This package includes four weeks of complete materials designed to challenge and entertain middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this
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7th - 10th
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ELA Curriculum Bundle: The English Teacher's Life Preserver
This ginormous ELA bundle will solve a lot of your problems. You'll never have to stay up late trolling for lesson plan ideas again. You'll just dive into this folder, choose one of the dozens of activities and projects inside, and then hit the hay. Imagine the delicious smells of your own literary food truck festival. Imagine students fighting over your most popular reading library titles. Expect newly engaged writers when you roll out your first ever ELA maker space and guide your students in
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9th - 12th
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Diagnostic Assignment Bundle for High School ELA
This series of diagnostic assignments assesses a HIGH SCHOOL student’s overall reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills at the beginning of the school in order to create a baseline for assessing student growth over the course of the year.This bundle includes:1. Diagnostic Reading Assignment: “The Tyger”2. Diagnostic Writing Assignment: Persuasive Paragraph3. Diagnostic Speaking Assignment: Introductory Speech4. Diagnostic Grammar Assignment: Sentence Structure5. Diagnostic Grammar Assign
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Hexagonal Thinking: One Pagers l one page templates l one pager for any novel
Hexagonal thinking is a creative way to get students making connections with one pagers. BUT, it's a lot of work for you, as the teacher, to create and cut out dozens of hexagons for your students to connect, arrange, and discuss. Why not get the students brainstorming and designing their own hexagons with hexagonal one-pagers?In this activity, groups of students use critical thinking, close reading, and design skills to create hexagonal one-pagers for characters, style elements, connections to
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7th - 12th
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End of World War II, Start of the Cold War worksheet - Global/US/World History
End of World War II, Start of the Cold War worksheet AIM: How did the end of World War II pave the way for the Cold War? To what extent was the Cold War inevitable? Common core compliant worksheet focusing on the Yalta Agreement and its aftermath Contains several student-centered activities designed to promote active engagement and critical thinking such as: Do now – Casualties of World War IIWhat’s Next for the Allies after World War II? – Problems/Issues facing the Allied Powers.Yalta Agree
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle #6 - Expanded World War II - Global/US/World History
Earth Day Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage - Plastic Waste & Pollution
Perfect for Earth Day! This reading comprehension passage explores the harmful effects of plastic pollution on the environment and our health. Teach students to write a nonfiction summary using the graphic organizers provided. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Activity:✏️ 2-Page Informational Article - Colour & Grayscale“Why is Plastic Harmful?: The Effects of Plastic on the Environment and Your Heal
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5th - 10th
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Literature Circles Activity Set for Any Book l high school literature circles
Literature circles are so promising. Giving students choice really helps inspire them to read. At the same time, traditional literature circles are prone to draaaaag. Students aren't always prepared to dive in and lead their own discussion, even when assigned to the classic literature circles roles. It's no fun racing from group to group, trying to inspire good conversation with your teacherly presence. That's why this literature circles unit for older kids skips the roles and the awkward silenc
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7th - 10th
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Apartheid in South Africa worksheet - Nelson Mandela - Global/World History
Apartheid in South Africa worksheet – Nelson Mandela AIM: How did apartheid rise and fall in South Africa? Common core-compliant worksheet. Includes several activities designed to promote critical thinking, active engagement, and class discussion such as:Primary source analysis – Several actual apartheid laws Secondary source reading – African National Congress and Nelson MandelaDouble Entry Journal Activity – How did Nelson Mandela’s vision for South Africa oppose the system of apartheid?Four p
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle #7 Africa - Geography Through the End of Apartheid
Mock Trial Assignment for Any Story or Novel - Script, Outline, Universal Rubric
Mock trials don’t need to be daunting! Your students will absolutely love this assignment for any short story or novel. It includes a mock trial script, 30+ mock trial roles, an objection cheat sheet, an editable mock trial rubric, and more. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Mock Trial Assignment for Any Story or Novel:✏️ Legal Trial Slideshow - Microsoft PowerPoint®, Google Slides®, and PDF✏️ Various Mock Trial Role Descriptions for up
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7th - 12th
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Breaking Down Stereotypes & Prejudices-Teaching Tolerance
Are you reading The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hate You Give, Dear Martin, or any other piece of literature dealing with tolerance, prejudices, racism and stereotyping? Are you teaching these topics in your history class? This social experiment will open your students’ eyes to the injustices that take place on a daily basis and why people need to be educated on these topics.We currently live in a world and country where social injustices, prejudices and stereotyping take place on a da
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8th - 12th
Area 51- Conspiracy Theory - Listen, Short Answer, & Paragraph
I used to hate it when students would bring up conspiracy theories like aliens and Area 51, as I thought it was my job to convince them why this was unreasonable, and I didn't always have the context or facts to do that! Sadly, I didn't realize that I was missing a major opportunity to engage their interest. Now, I have a plan and this assignment does the work for me. In addition, this assignment is further important because it is skill-based, and it targets evidence and analysis skills for the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Rise of Adolf Hitler worksheet and PowerPoint - WWII - Global/World History
The Rise of Adolf Hitler worksheet and Powerpoint AIM: How did the Weimar Republic of Germany rise and fall? How did Adolf Hitler rise to power?Highly engaging, common core compliant complete lesson/worksheet about the failures of the Weimar Republic after World War I and the eventual rise of Adolf Hitler. This worksheet includes a variety of student-centered activities designed to infuse excitement into the social studies classroom such as:Do now – students access prior knowledge about the Tre
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle #6 - Expanded World War II - Global/US/World History
Night Elie Wiesel Close Read, Poetry, Art Theme Activities
Common Core Aligned. Great culminating or chapter by chapter progressive activity for the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. This adaptable activity can be done individually or in groups. Students will evaluate diction and figurative language in a variety of passages from Night, determine how these techniques are used to develop tone, mood, and theme. Students will then analyze poetry and art from Holocaust victims and evaluate how a common theme is expressed in each work (memoir, poem, and art).
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7th - 12th
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Shakespeare: The Tempest Unit Bundle. Top Ten Resources. Writing & Comprehension
This complete teaching scheme will save you many, many of hours of preparation. It contains 10 different tasks including work on comprehension, vocabulary, persuasive writing, figurative language and much more. Resources are provided both as a computer friendly presentation and in an easily printable black and white form.· Scene-by-scene questions break the play down into bite-size chunks· There are numerous creative tasks which will be enjoyed by students of all levels · There are beautifully c
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9th - 12th
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Tupac- Conspiracy Theory- Listen, Short Answer, & Paragraph
My students are obsessed with conspiracy theories and with Tupac! In fact, I had one of my first truly magical moments in the classroom when I brought in Tupac lyrics. I was surprised that they even knew who he was, but the students' eyes lit up and they were engaged for the first time that year. The students loved Tupac so much that they bought me Tupac & Biggie figurines to sit on my desk. They were trying to tell me something more about this!!! While the assignment is high interest for y
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Lamb to the Slaughter: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
*Updated 10/12/20: For each worksheet, I’ve created a png image of the worksheet and then put that image as the background in a Google Slide. The students can use all of the tools in Slides to mark their answers. The links are already set up to force students to make a copy so they each have their own version of the worksheet in their Google Drive. Copy and paste the links below to share with your students. Please don’t post these links on any websites that are not password protected. A whole ne
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8th - 12th
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Novel And Movie Comparison Activities, During the Movie, Movie Review Worksheets
Novel And Movie Comparison Activities, During the Movie, Movie Review WorksheetsThese worksheets and cooperative learning activity allow students to compare the book to the movie, write reviews, analyze the manner the book was adapted to the screen, and produce thoughtful, interesting things to say about the movie and book in class discussion. The act of showing the movie adaptation of a book can be a very enriching experience with the right materials. ★ Keep your students ENGAGED during the mov
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5th - 12th
Lewis and Clark Great Journey West: Video Discussion Questions | Movie Guide
One of the best videos I have seen in any of my American History classes is National Geographic’s “Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West” narrated by Jeff Bridges. Originally filmed for the IMAX movie theaters, this epic tale is extremely informative while keeping students engaged throughout its entirety. I have seen this video over 40 times and still love it! Various links to watch the video are provided in this resource, and video runtime is around 42 minutes.This product contains a double side
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Benito Mussolini - The Doctrine of Fascism worksheet - WWII - Global/World
Benito Mussolini - The Doctrine of Fascism worksheetAIM: How did Mussolini use fascism to rise to power in Italy? Common core-compliant worksheet. Includes several activities designed to promote critical thinking, active engagement, and class discussion such as:Do now that appropriately sets up the worksheet – 2 review questions on Mussolini’s appeal. Secondary source context reading - Mussolini's rise to powerPrimary source analysis – excerpts from The Doctrine of Fascism by Mussolini followed
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Benito Mussolini Worksheet Bundle - WWII - Global/World History
Genghis Khan and the Mongols worksheet - Global/World History
Genghis Khan and the Mongols worksheet AIM: To what extent were the Mongols a negative force in world history? Common core-compliant worksheet. Contains a variety of activities that promote critical thinking, class discussion, and active engagement including:Do now that reviews previous lesson comparing European and Japanese feudalism.Video analysis - Mongol geography and culture (YouTube link included)Secondary source analysis - Temujin (Genghis Khan)Movie clip from “Mongol” (youtube link inc
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: 9th Grade Global/World History MEGA Bundle
TED Talk Presentations - Print and Digital
Teach public speaking and speech writing with this lesson that challenges students to present TED Talks. Existing TED Talks serve as mentor texts, which students view, analyze, and evaluate before using the writing process to create their own. Print-and-go handouts guide students through their discussion, planning, peer review, editing, and rehearsal. An editable slide and MS Word document is included for the final assignment, so you can customize the assessment for your students’ needs. This
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7th - 10th
Titanic- Conspiracy Theory- Listen, Short Answer, & Paragraph
I thought I already knew a lot about the Titanic, but I learned a lot more in these two 40 minute podcast episodes. Podcast Episode 1 provides a detailed history lesson about the Titanic including the root causes and the actual crash and sinking event. Episode 2 provides three possible conspiracy theories, everything from insurance fraud, intentional sabotage, and even an evil mummy. My students buy into the task because it is so skeptical and questioning of everything. I buy into this task bec
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conversation Starters Package on Conspiracy Theories
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on conspiracy theories.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for high school students on the subject of conspiracy theoriesActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
The Birth of Indian Civilization worksheet - Hinduism and Buddhism
The Birth of Indian Civilization worksheetAIM: How did civilization, the caste system, Hinduism, and Buddhism develop in ancient India?Common core compliant worksheet Includes a variety of activities that promote class discussion, active engagement, and critical thinking skills. Topics covered include:Indian geographyIndus River Valley civilizations – Harappa and Mohenjo-DaroHinduismCaste SystemMauryan EmpireBuddhismThe Golden Age of India – The Gupta EmpireActivities used include:Do now that a
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle #11 - India
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