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8th grade Common Core W.7.5 resources for GATE
DAY OF THE DEAD Reading Writing & Art Integration Unit | Hispanic Sugar Skulls
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,30-page Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Reading, Writing, Research, and Art Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate and understand the tradition of Sugar Skulls as it relates to Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). It also allows students to compare/contrast Halloween and Day of the Dead through online research.The following resources are included:•Sugar Skull nonfiction passage, CCSS-aligned
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3rd - 12th
Lesson Plan & PPT Package Explaining Hero vs Villain Protagonist vs Antagonist
This is a two-part package -- a Power Point presentation and a lesson plan. The PPT is available separately by the same name.
This 14-slide Power Point presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.
The fourteen slides include 1
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Roles of Citizens in Society Peer Editing Civics Activities Upper Elementary
Language Arts and Social Studies go together like peanut butter and jelly (yum!) in this activity where students will explore the role of citizens in a society, write their own mini-books, and then peer edit each other's work. It's like a two-for-one instructional time special!Your students will participate in three activities on their way to understanding the role of citizens in society.I like to do this over two different days. I do the first activity on the first day, and then the other two.
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4th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Through Finding Nemo
Trying to teach narrative writing concepts? Looking for a way to teach high level concepts about plot and character development that is engaging and educational? This lesson is the perfect way to do that. Tried and tested in fourth and fifth grade, but perfect for middle and high school classrooms as well, students will develop a common vocabulary to discuss narrative stories all while developing their own.This seven day lesson plan walks your students through Finding Nemo while learning about:P
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Fourth Grade Mega Bundle of Resources
Understanding Euphemisms, Ambiguities, and Twisted Wording in Nonfiction
Spin-doctoring, the purposeful twisting of words to manipulate nonfiction readers, can create dangerous propaganda for minds unaccustomed to critical analysis of word choices. We must teach 6th- through 9th-grade students to read critically and be on the lookout for subtly injected points-of-view in nonfiction and misleading "facts."
This lesson, in the form of a ready-to-use handout, takes a humorous approach to verbal manipulation by first presenting a funny retelling of a criminal's history
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6th - 9th
Global/US Geography Jingle - Creative Song Production
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
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6th - 12th
Writing Fiction with Complex Characters via Memorable Traits and Backstories
Young writers often write fictional characters as superficially described puppets for plots, without delving into the personalities, psychological profiles, and interrelationships that make a character come to life. This lesson focuses on developing memorable personality details that force writers to develop complexity in their style, by adding backstories and motives for behaviors. This exercise and discussion regarding character development will certainly enhance future reading experiences in
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7th - 10th
10 Tips to Improve Everything You Write for School, Work, and Life
This 90-page guide is meant to be a quick and easy way to improve anyone's writing. Teachers might want to use this for their own edification or to use in parts to help students with their writing process. The 10 tips are also helpful for everyday use, business writers, and creative writers. Really, there are far more than just 10 tips as each one of the tips includes numerous other tips-within-tips and additional ideas on how to improve writing.The material includes quotes from authors conce
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Enyclopedic Musings - Creative Fiction/Non-Fiction Digital Writing
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
Comic Poetry Sketch - Creative Digital Narrative
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
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6th - 12th
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All About Genres: Picture Book Project
Are you trying to find a way to make students go beyond identification and comparisons when learning genres? This is a great summative project to have students demonstrate their understanding of genres and their fiction writing skills.Included you will find:A link to the Google Doc to edit the file to fit your needsA list of requirements for the projectA list of standards for the projectA rubric identifying mastery, approaching, and in progress levels
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4th - 8th
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