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Critical thinking Common Core W.11-12.5 resources
The Crucible Engaging Activities - 12 Pre-Reading & Post-Reading Tasks
Looking for some fun, unique, and engaging activities to supplement The Crucible? These activities are perfect for learning background information before reading the play and assessing students' understanding after studying the play.Pre-reading activities include:❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Personalized Learning Project (Cap Stone) (Senior Project) (Independent Study)
An EDITABLE GOOGLE-DOC VERSION of this resource is included (on the last page). You can customize this resource. Then print or have students complete online as a Google Doc. FROM STUDENT MANUAL INTRODUCTION PAGE:What is the Personalized Learning Project, and what is its purpose?The Personalized Learning Project (PLP) is an independent learning project based on your interests. The PLP allows you to explore an area of interest and provides you with the opportunity to apply and demonstrate k
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8th - 12th
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Debating Topics for Middle/High School: Mental Health
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refi
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: Fears and Phobias
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: The Business World
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Ralph Waldo Emerson UNIT - "Nature," "Self-Reliance," "The American Scholar"
Looking for an engaging way to introduce your students to transcendental thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works? This lesson on excerpts from "Self-Reliance,” "The American Scholar,“ and “Nature” will do just that!What's Included . . . ► Step-by-step instructions for each day.► Common Core English Standards aligned to daily tasks.► Understanding Transcendentalism group synthesis task.► Viewing guide for short biography clip suggestion (about 10 minutes) ► Bell Ringers► "Emerson or Lil Wa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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CCSS:
Also included in: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Transcendental Bundle
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: The Second Amendment
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Conversation Starters Package on Entrepreneurship
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on entrepreneurship. What's included:A list of 13 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of entrepreneurshipActivities 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 expres
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Oral Communication Skills Secrets 4 Relationship Success and Conflict Resolution
We did NOT come equipped with Communication Skills at birth. What we learn(ed) was-is acquired through our family, friends, peers, media and limited to our social class. We interact with others based on our perceptions and biases. We adopt conversation patterns that work, but may not work as we intended. Confusion and frustration are often the result.Ever increasing human diversity often challenges our interpersonal relationships. Communication conflicts are now plentiful and sometimes downright
Grades:
10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Conversation Starters Package on Productivity
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on productivity. What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of productivityActivities 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 expressions an
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Music
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on music.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of musicActivities 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 expressions and transitional
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Happiness
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on happiness.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of happinessActivities 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 expressions and trans
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Documentary Viewing Unit Digital and Print Bundle
This unit is designed to teach students about the various elements of documentaries and help them develop critical viewing skills. This unit focuses on three main areas: identifying the main idea, analyzing filmmaking techniques, and critical analysis. The assignments in this unit are generalized and can be used for any documentary films. The unit includes the following components: · What is a documentary? Introductory questions/activity· Introduction to documentaries – notes, PowerPoint
Grades:
10th - 12th
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Conversation Starters Package on Social Problems
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on social problems.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of social problemsActivities 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 expressio
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Nonfiction Texts, Poetry Activities, Critical Thinking, Socratic Seminars Bundle
Want to challenge your students to analyze more deeply, write about and discuss big ideas, and think outside the box? Covering themes from love metaphors in Shakespeare’s sonnets to gang violence on the Chicago streets, from the Salem Witch Trials to the current refugee crisis, and from revenge in the 17th century to resistance movements during the Holocaust, these units will take your students far and wide.Some of my favorite units to teach, these lesson plans inspire students to explore atypi
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Conversation Starters Package on Individuality
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on individuality.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of individualityActivities 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 expressions a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit (Bundle)
This is a unit about teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) that can be expanded at the teacher's discretion to include a presentation and a paper that practices utilizing evidence, reasoning, and argument, or alternatively can also be collapsed into a mini-unit of just teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER). This unit can also be used to teach the concept of Line of Reasoning for the AP Lang and AP Seminar Classes. It is structured as an investigation for students to explore the murder of a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Conversation Starters Package on Consumerism
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on consumerism.What's included:A list of 14 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of consumerismActivities 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 expressions and t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery Unit
This is the accompanying teaching sequence for the unit “Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery.” It includes a mystery to solve, all the evidence (which can be turned into manipulatives), rubrics for presentations and writing, teaching instructions, graphic organizers, and solutions. It does not include the "Teaching Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER): A Whodunit Mystery" PowerPoint presentation which can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Conversation Starters Package on Charity
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on charity.What's included:A list of 15 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of charityActivities 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 expressions and transitio
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Welfare
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on welfare.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of welfareActivities 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 expressions and transitio
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters on The Art of Conversation
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking questions on the art of conversation.What's included:A list of 15 thought-provoking questions for middle school/high school students on the art of conversationActivities 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 expressions an
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Types:
Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: Consumerism
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
Also included in: Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) - Mini Mysteries
This is a mini unit on CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) that can also be used for exercises of Line of Reasoning/Line of Evidence for AP Classes. It contains graphic organizers, five "mini" murder/mystery scenarios with original characters to solve, a rubric for a written portion, sentence stems to use for writing, and solutions. Students will be able to utilize close reading and critical thinking skills in order to solve the scenarios. Attached to the unit is the Presentation for CER (Claim Evi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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