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Common Core RI.9-10.10 interactive notebooks
Career Exploration l Career Exploration worksheets l Career Exploration Project
Career exploration should be an inspiring, creative time in the classroom. There are so many possibilities out there, many of which students are barely aware of. It should also be REALLY fun to teach! This creative career exploration unit will help your students get excited about the future, and help you guide them easily and smoothly through their exploration. Here's what Teachers are Saying: "Used this at the end of my school year, the students loved it! Thanks!" "I'm very excited to use this
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Secondary ELA Summer School Activities l ELA summer school
Fake News: Evaluating Reliable & Credible Sources Online | Evaluating Websites
Want to teach your students scientifically-based lessons on how to stop the spread of fake news by recognizing unreliable sources but don't have the time to develop plans on this ever-developing topic? We all know that it is essential to teach our students to recognize fake news, or misinformation and disinformation, especially if they’ll be voting soon, but it’s so hard to teach the higher level thinking that is required to navigate today’s media. If someone tells you that you can teach your
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8th - 12th
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Titanic Activities Unit | Project Based Learning | Interactive Notebook, History
This Complete INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK on the RMS TITANIC offers a wealth of ENGLISH, HISTORY and RESEARCH ACTIVITIES for PROJECT-BASED LEARNING (PBL) either INDEPENDENTLY or as a WHOLE-CLASS project.It is FULLY EDITABLE and comes in DIGITAL and PRINT PDF versions. With NO PREP REQUIRED and has over 100 5-STAR⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ REVIEWS,Activities Include✔ Text Response Tasks✔ Titanic Timelines ✔ Fact Vs. Opinion✔ A variety of interactive Titanic Writing planners and templates✔ Digital Titanic Biography Response
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5th - 9th
Harlem Renaissance Activities: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Art & Music
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights American History Unit
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights Social Studies Unit, which works for both print and Google Drive™, investigates and helps gain an understanding of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This will work fro grades fifth-high school.This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format and includes:Cover sheet in both color and black and white.Links to helpful online resources.Informational Slideshow Presentation to use for instruction.G
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8th - 11th
"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston | Figurative Language Lesson
Looking for a unit on this classic essay that will get your students engaging independently with the text, discussing big ideas, and sharpening their close reading and critical thinking skills?“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great choice for engaging your classes in discussions around race, identity, gender, and artistic expression. It’s also a wonderful essay for exploring figurative language and how writers create meaning through comparisons. When you teach “How it F
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9th - 12th
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Trail of Tears Unit | Native American Literature | Indian Removal Unit
Looking for a resource on the Trail of Tears that will help your students understand why that tragedy is still relevant today?This innovative unit will take your students beyond a general understanding of the events of the 1830s to a more comprehensive understanding of why history matters. Students will start out by exploring two engaging videos: one on the history of the Trail of Tears and one on why treaties still matter today. Then, they’ll move on to a creative exploration of some first-hand
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9th - 12th
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Night by Elie Wiesel Unit Plan: Projects, Activities, Chapter Questions, Writing
Are struggling to teach a unit on Night that is both rigorous and engaging? If your students’ experience of Elie Wiesel’s classic novel involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the novel to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves. In fact, by giving your classes the message that their ideas don't matter, you're helping
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9th - 12th
15 ELA Student Reference Sheets
Use these 15 beautiful documents as reference sheets for your students or as anchor charts in your classroom. These work perfectly for an interactive notebook that serves as a helpful guide for students as they navigate through English class.As a 9th grade English teacher, these reference sheets are very helpful reminders for my students that I give to them to attach to their notebooks to have handy at all times in class! Reference Sheets Included in this product: Parts of SpeechCommon Writing T
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7th - 12th
Native American History & Literature: Indian Boarding Schools | Louise Erdrich
Looking for a resource on the Indian Boarding Schools that will help your students understand how victims of mistreatment and abuse resist oppression in their own ways? In an effort to “kill the Indian to save the man,” the assimilation policies of the United States caused a great deal of pain to the tens of thousands of young people who were displaced from their homelands and taken to horrific institutions. While the Native American children who were forced to cut their hair and forget their c
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Romeo & Juliet Unit Plan: Prologue & Act 1 Activities to Final Project, Analysis
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever they hear the word “Shakespeare”? Reading a Shakespeare play is challenging for students—but flashy handouts and cute classroom decor will not teach your students the skills they need to read and understand a Shakespeare play independently.When students misbehave, put their heads on their desks, or just stare vacantly into the distance, it’s not because they aren’t capable of understanding the Bard—it’s because they are aren’t given the
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9th - 12th
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Growth Mindset Activity High School: Literary Nonfiction Text Malcolm Gladwell
Want to push your students to read more challenging non-fiction, learn why a fixed mindset is detrimental, and engage in metacognitive questions on their reading habits and expectations? Explore the importance of growth mindset with this lesson on a challenging non-fiction article.In the article featured in this lesson, Malcolm Gladwell explores the relationship between a fixed mindset and the Enron scandal. Gladwell is a great choice for teaching literary non-fiction in your class. A staff wr
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9th - 12th
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Native American Literature: Storytelling Thematic Unit | Indigenous Film, Poetry
Ready to integrate more Native voices into your curriculum this year? While trickster tales, creation myths, and other traditional stories definitely have their place in an American literature curriculum, it’s important that your students don’t get the message that Indigenous literature is only something from the past or something to read about in their history books. In fact, if you’re not intentionally integrating current writers in your plans, you might be inadvertently giving your classes t
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9th - 12th
Literary Nonfiction Units for High School English Curriculum | Literary Analysis
Do you want to include more nonfiction in your plans but struggle to find units that are both challenging and engaging?As an English teacher, you know that it’s important to incorporate different kinds of texts in your plans, but it’s not easy to find nonfiction that isn’t boring, dry, or totally irrelevant to students. If a piece is challenging, it likely doesn’t relate to students’ lives, and if it feels relevant, it’s probably dumbed down or badly written.When you’ve felt the pain of giving a
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9th - 12th
Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare: High Interest Paired Passages
If you want to teach a successful unit on Shakespeare’s classic play, it is essential that your students make connections to the ideas and issues that matter to them. These powerful activities will make Romeo and Juliet relevant to your students. This unit of Romeo and Juliet activities focuses on many of the most important themes of the play: teens, gangs, violence, death, and revenge.Get your students writing, discussing, analyzing, and working through the most important and challenging esse
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9th - 12th
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Stephen King Elements of Horror: "The Man Who Loved Flowers" Short Story & Essay
Looking for a compelling unit on horror that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? Students love the work of Stephen King and with good reason! His writing is accessible, compelling, and impactful. But reading well-written horror stories with your classes accomplishes way more than just grabbing their attention. What’s great about literary horror when it’s taught the right way is that it really give
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Native American Literature | Literary Nonfiction Text Unit | Leslie Marmon Silko
Looking for a compelling unit on contemporary Native American nonfiction? This speech, given by Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, is a wonderful choice for exploring language, stories, and tradition. It’s also a great choice for incorporating a nonfiction text into your lesson plans. Silko touches on why stories matter, how stories are told in the Pueblo tradition, and how recent history has influenced the tradition of story telling. She also tells a few great stories which serve to co
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9th - 12th
Summer Reading Journal BUNDLE: 20 Books, MS-AP, plus generic templates!
Ever wished for premade independent reading journals specific to the texts your students read? Here they are! This collection of fiction and non-fiction texts covers levels from middle school to adulthood and is a GROWING bundle to which I will add as I develop new reading guides (journals). It works fantastically for summer reading or winter break homework, too. The journals are designed to increase engagement by forcing students to engage meaningfully with the texts rather than asking for just
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Junot Díaz "The Terror" Literary Nonfiction Narrative Text | Close Reading Text
This short, relatable essay is a great choice for opening up a discussion in your classroom around vulnerability, bigotry, bullying, power, and fear. Díaz, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, tells the story of overcoming an overpowering fear when he was twelve years old, how he found inspiration in his older brother and books, and the small action that turned things around for him. This essay is also a great choice for teaching diction, syntax, point of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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10.2 French Revolution Timeline Webquest Activity
This is a webquest designed to cover a time line of events from the French Revolution. Each picture is linked to a website with information for the students to use to fill the charts included. Students should type right into the text boxes within the google slides. Most of all websites have human audio available for students that may need materials read aloud. This was used as something to help allow for virtual and in person learning.
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8th - 12th
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Triangle Factory Fire & Progressive Era | VIDEO & Detective Activity!
All these resources go with this History For Humans video on the Progressive Era & Triangle Factory Fire!This is a unique and powerful lesson to teach students how the Triangle Factory Fire helped to start the Progressive Era. It starts with the video above and comes with a follow-along interactive note sheet that could be completed digitally or with pen and paper. It also has a quick 7 question Google Form or PDF quiz to check for understanding. Lastly, it has an extension lesson that would
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Progressive Era BUNDLE | VIDEOS & ENGAGING LESSONS
Stephen Graham Jones Unit: Horror Genre | Scary Short Story | Elements of Horror
Looking for an innovative short story unit that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? Besides being a chilling, dark story about the tragic outcomes of four teen friends, this text is a great choice for analyzing literary horror with your classes--it's a master class on the elements of horror and how to tell a scary story. Dealing with themes of guilt, peer pressure, the past, storytelling, and our
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Just Mercy (YA) Literature Circle Notebook
This literature circle notebook was designed to be paired with Just Mercy (YA Version) by Bryan Stevenson. If you do not have physical copies of the novel and your school has an Actively Learn subscription, you can find the novel there. The literature circle notebook provides students the opportunity to respond to assigned reading, as well as assisting in analyzing the novel as a whole. Each student can make a copy of the literature circle notebook to have their own, completely editable version.
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9th - 12th
Jamaica Kincaid "A Small Place" | World Literature | Literary Non-Fiction Essay
Looking for a unit on a compelling yet accessible essay on the legacy of colonialism? Jamaica Kincaid’s book-length essay A Small Place is a powerful and accessible piece of writing on the effects of tourism and colonialism on Kincaid’s home of Antigua. Written in the second person, this essay is a unique and engaging choice for all levels. It’s a great essay for adding context to your study of another of Kincaid’s literary works or for opening up a discussion around our responsibilities as cit
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9th - 12th
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