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Common Core W.9-10.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
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"Life of Pi" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests,Essays,AP Style,Keys
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! Tests and quizzes are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 269 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. Original photographs of
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" EDITABLE UNIT AP Style
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! All Tests are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 170 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * over 140 READING/ANALYSIS SHOR
Grades:
10th - 12th
"A Clean,Well-Lighted Place" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests, AP Style
46 page COMPLETE unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 14 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 2 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 2 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUES
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
Persuasive and Expository Collaborative Activity Writing Product Reviews
Do you read the reviews before you buy a product? Almost all of us do, and your students will become pros at this aspect of writing that blends expository and persuasive writing. This is such a fun activity for teaching writing.There are two activities included. First, students will share three of their favorite products. Using a graphic organizer, they'll plan what they want to say about it. Then, in groups of three, they'll share their favorite products. They'll try to persuade the group membe
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Wind Power BUNDLE (Global Warming and Climate Change)
84 printable or digital pages exploring wind power and global warming: internet activities (WebQuest and Google) - 12 pagesanalyze global warming charts and graphs - 17 pagescompare and contrast - 10 pageswriting prompts - 20 pagesbrainteasers and word puzzles - 25 pagesUse in a computer lab or at home (as homework or distance learning). Take a look at the Preview to see the five packets in this bundle:Global Warming and Wind Power - Analyzing Charts and GraphsGlobal Warming and Wind Power - B
Grades:
4th - 10th
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-5
Character Study Book Report (Includes Summary and "Wanted" Poster Assignment)
This Character Study book report includes instructions for students, a sample summary and sample project, as well as an optional grading rubric for the teacher to simply pick and choose from listed choices to grade the student on writing (effective expression), grammar (conventions), and drawing (visual arts).The assignment requires students to write a one-page summary broken down into a beginning, middle, and end. The students must also complete a "Wanted" poster project, focusing on the main c
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Task Cards: To Kill A Mockingbird, Rubric, Student Centers, Writing Activities
Writing fluency! Use task cards at student centers or individual student desks to improve writing fluency for state writing assessment tests. Novel study extension activity for To Kill A Mockingbird. 42 Writing Activities.42 Task Cards for To Kill A Mockingbird can be used as:Learning CentersGroup DiscussionsBell Ringers or Exit TicketsScavenger HuntGame-Based ReviewIndependent WorkJigsaw ActivityThink-Pair-ShareGallery walkDifferentiated InstructionPerformance AssessmentTest Prep StationsLit
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Movie Advertisement Book Report (Includes Essay and Movie Poster Assignment)
This Movie Advertisement book report has students analyze any novel or chapter book by writing a multi-paragraph informational essay and creating a movie advertisement poster, imagining how the book would be advertised if it were a movie. The instructions include student-friendly language with paragraph-by-paragraph guidance for the informational essay and sample topic sentences. The instructions also tell specific requirements for the movie poster (including a tag line, movie critic reviews, wh
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Quick Literature Study
This literature study is short and sweet, just like the novel. It asks students to extend the metaphorical story of Jonathan into real world aspects. There are questions for Part One, Part Two and Part Three that can be differentiated based on student ability - these differentiation strategies are outlined in the lesson plans. As a final project, students are asked to find parallels between the novel and ideas, other documents or biographies. To do this, students must conduct outside research
Grades:
6th - 9th
2023 Non-Fiction Test Prep, Levels A B C, ELA Constructed Response Assessment
Test Prep Non-Fiction Three Tiers! Writing! Add a differentiated non-fiction reading comprehension test to your arsenal of tools as you prepare for state assessments. Introduce the non-fiction topic to your class with a video discussing the project the article is written about. The non-fiction article explains an ancient recipe discovered in a Medieval Text shelved in Nottingham's Institute. The Viking Studies Professor who found it translated the recipe and turned it over to the science depar
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Test Prep Bundle: AP Rhetorical Analysis and Poetry Analysis, 5 Classroom Units
Arm your students with a tool box of rhetorical analysis techniques with this product. A powerpoint presentation, Google Slides, pdf, or pings will take them through the construction and analysis of a writing. Studying popular television advertisements will teach them them techniques of argument."How it Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston is an autobiographical essay from the period of the 1920's for students to analyze. Teachers will need to make copies for the class or upload the doc
Grades:
9th - 12th
Document Based Argumentative Writing Unit: Can Child Criminals Be Saved
This is a high interest step-by-step unit for students using provided documents to write an argumentative paper about the idea of child criminals and the punishments/consequences they deserve. The unit includes answer key, teaching notes, planning organizers, and a rubric.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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CCSS:
Test Assessment Non-Fiction, M. Choice, Short Answer, Essay, Google Form Grader
Arm your students with essential knowledge they will need to pass end-of-year assessment tests. Test Assessment Preparation is designed as a whole class test study to look at format(s) and type(s) of test questions. The non-fiction examples given are not designed to be used as actual classroom assessments, but as “toolbox tools” to teach students how to read and answer actual assessment questions.Non-Fiction reading passages about Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Short answer response qu
Grades:
9th - 12th
Evaluation - Thinking about the WORDS people say
24 printable or digital pages to help students think critically about the words that people say. Students explain what the phrases mean and why they are so powerful, analyzing wise sayings like:Do the right thing, even when no one is looking.Enjoy the little things in life.Be somebody who makes everybody feel like somebody.Reading is dreaming with open eyes.Mistakes are proof that you are trying.You can’t rewind life. If you dog doesn’t like somebody, maybe you shouldn’t either. Every ending
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Also included in: Back to School Writing BUNDLE
Writing Prompts - Independent Work Packet
100 printable or digital pages of writing prompts: wasting time, short and long-term goals, your best friend, finding happiness, helping others, lying, being judgmental, how to create a strong and flexible mind, what is the truth, decisions, fear, love, missing someone, dreams, choices, boredom, being stubborn, being smart, who taught you life skills, being normal, amazing experiences, getting in trouble, messing up, apologizing, the worst day, causing pain to others, and so much more. Each pa
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Summer Writing BUNDLE
Sonnet 9 by Alan Seeger: AP, Compare/Contrast, Short Answer Test Assessment
Sonnet 9: On Returning to the Front after Leave by Alan SeegerReview for Short Answer Test AssessmentTeach your students to write short answer questions and to use a rubric to evaluate their answers. Lesson includes SOAPStone questions and multiple choice questions about Sonnet 9 and the Great War. You may use the powerpoints in whole class instruction or use activities in the lesson to divide the students into small groups. 12 Poetry terms are identified in powerpoint slides. Interactive noteb
Grades:
9th - 12th
Critical Thinking BUNDLE
This BUNDLE has 184 pages for students to improve their critical thinking skills:America and World LeadershipCrime and the PoliceEducation and HealthcareJobs and the EconomyThe President and the White HouseVoting and ImmigrationSix packets bundled together (and a free packet analyzing a TED Talk at YouTube). Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages from a few of these packets.
Grades:
4th - 10th
World War 1: Rhetorical Analysis Writing Review For AP Test Assessment
Arm your students with a tool box of rhetorical analysis techniques with this product. A powerpoint presentation will take them through the construction and analysis of a writing. Studying popular television advertisements will teach them them techniques of argument. "I Didn't Teach My Boy" by Abbie Farwell Brown (of the Vigilantes) is a persuasive writing from The Great War in docx, pdf, and ping format for students to analyze. Google Slides version included. Teachers will need to make copies f
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Bicycle Research Project
21 printable pages exploring the bicycle, unicycle, tricycle, tuk-tuk, and go-kart. Students search online to find information about pedaled vehicles, compare and contrast, list safety rules for riding a bike, describe how each moves forward, investigate wind-propelled and solar-powered pedaled vehicles, and more. Use this packet for enrichment, extra credit, or vacation work. Challenge your gifted students. Rubric: spelling, clarity, neatness, research and completeness. If you want to see samp
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Stephen Leacock "Marine Excursions Knights Pythias" Review, Google Form Grader
Canadian Short StoryIII The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythiasby Stephen Leacock Canadian Humorist27 Multiple Choice Review QuestionsPowerpoint and Google Slides,PDF and Docx of QuestionsPDF of slidesPNGS of slidesGoogle Form Grader link for 27 Multiple Choice QuestionsA humorous short story about a fictional small town in Canada where the residents take a steamboat ride to go on a picnic. On the way home from Indian Island, the steamboat sinks in six feet of water and then floats to th
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Canadian Poets: E.J. Pratt "The Shark", AP Analysis, Writing, Google Quiz Grader
The Shark by E.R. Pratt is the first lesson in a unit of Canadian Poets.Google MC Quiz Grader added for quiz. PDF and docx forms with answers.Reading Comprehension and Listening Skills for AP critical analysis strategy. SOAPSTONE and SIFT graphic organizers. Video clips and Google Slides/Powerpoint to keep kids on track. PDFs Five activities including essay analysis, reading interpretation, vocabulary study, listening activities, and poetry writing. Teachers have the ability to edit the slides,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Poe Science Fiction Stories - Short Story Writing - Peer Review Writing Fluency
Poe 5 Science Fiction Stories, Short Story Writing, Writing Fluency, Student Centers, Peer Editing Chart, Teacher Rubric Author's ChairDid you know that Poe was a pioneer in science fiction writing? Want to add some new less-known stories to your study of Edgar Allan Poe? In this unit, five small groups may study one of Edgar Allan Poe’s five science fiction stories and give a report to the class. Or the whole class may study the stories together. Students may review the main elements in a sc
Grades:
9th - 12th
Article: Wrap It Up
This is the third in sequence format used midway through a semester or school year. This assignment has students integrate outside sources connecting them to the current novel study. This gives students an opportunity to learn skills such as MLA (or required) format, reading and summarizing a given article, finding, evaluating and summarizing an article, constructing a Works Cited page, and eventually vocabulary integration and internal citation. As I said, this assignment builds over time, givi
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Semester Reflection Conferences - Building an Argument Assessment
This resource works in multiple ways: you are able to hold students accountable for their engagement in the course, practice their speaking skills, and quickly assess them on how well they can build a claim (with support). These conferences are under 5-minutes long when you use these streamlined conference forms. Use these student-led conferences for a variety of purposes such as end of semester feedback, creating a verbal argument assessment, goal setting, accountability, engagement contracts,
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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