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High school other (ELA) cultural activities for homeschool
A Virtual Field Trip to Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Building background for students before reading a novel is one important scaffolding measure that teachers can take. Before starting A Thousand Splendid Suns, send your students on a virtual field trip to Afghanistan!WHY THIS ACTIVITY IS SO IMPORTANT:Besides building background knowledge for students, helping kids see a place in the world different from home and negatively pictured in the media is helpful for expanding their world view. This product features video by Afghani filmmakers, the be
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: A Thousand Splendid Suns: COMPLETE NOVEL UNIT
Pride Month & LGBTQIA+ History & Culture: Digital Choice Board Activity
Whether you're celebrating Pride Month in June or are incorporating more LGBTQIA+ voices and experiences to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different resources across the categories of: stories, poetry, art & music, books and culture.The goal of a choice board is to primarily provide choice to students - an opportunity to self-navigate their interests and explore new ideas. This activity can be used as a bell ringer, a we
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations
Digital Choice Board Activity: Graduation & Coming of Age Theme
Making the transition out of high school and into the real world is a scary one, and it's likely your students haven't really had the time to process this or even think about what's going to happen at the end of the school year. If you have a class of graduating seniors that need something to do before the big graduation day, this choice board is the perfect activity to meaningly fill in some gaps!This digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different supplementary
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11th - 12th
Digital Choice Board Activity: The American Dream (for high school ELA)
The American Dream is a topic driving so much high school ELA curriculum, but sometimes can feel boring to students. If you're going to teach it why not use a juicy essential question? Using the Essential Question: Is the American Dream more likely to inspire or destroy? students will explore a variety of sources in search of the answer. This is the kind of activity that gives you the quick, bell-work, short, supplemental activities that you need for literacy, writing, and critical thinking
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8th - 11th
Broadway Musical Unit Study Guide For Rent HIV AIDS Struggle Poverty La Boehme
Part of a Bundle Rent, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer prize in Letters, Drama & Music demonstrates the consequences of the HIV/Aids epidemic of the 1990's. However, this lesson and study guide focuses on its origin, playwright & composer, songs, history of the Broadway musical and a mini-lesson the Tony Awards. This lesson suitable for an arts integration in an AP language arts or Honors social studies or drama class. Note: This lesson is most appropriate for senior high school. The le
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10th - 12th
Readers Theater Little Girl and Winter Whirlwinds Bulgaria Folktale
Part of a Bundle Need something for after winter break? Something to celebrate spring? Low prep and easy to read or present! This Bulgarian folktale adapted into a reader's theater script with roles for 25+ students is suitable for upper elementary gifted or middle school students studying fairy tales, L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three-day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. Need something for a substitute that lasts several days? Pick up
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4th - 7th
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Drama Reader’s Theater Inca Short Story The Magic Lake Folktale Peru Moral Story
Part of a Readers Theater Bundle The Inca folktale The Magic Lake is a dramatization of a Native American short story with roles for 20+ students and suitable for Social Studies studying indigenous people or South America, a Drama, Language Arts or reading classes. Students have fun while they strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. This product was created specifically for the classroom. This folk tale is ver
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Folk and Fairy Tales Readers Theater Scripts and Units Grades 4 to 7
40 Analogy Task Cards - Varied Practice
Improve your critical thinking skills with our Analogy Task Cards - Varied Practice. This set includes 40 task cards with three distinct question types, providing varied practice and ample opportunities to master analogies. Analogies are a common component of standardized tests, and mastering them can help you excel academically and professionally. WHAT’S INCLUDED:60 Printable Task Cards Color60 Printable Task Cards Black LineAnswer keyOur task cards are perfect for individual or group practice,
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1st - 4th
Interview a Veteran for Veterans Day, Memorial Day, DISTANCE LEARNING
Want your students to understand the importance of showing our veterans the appreciation and respect that they so greatly deserve? Interviewing a veteran about his/her experiences in military service is one of the best ways to cultivate within our students this sense of appreciation and respect for our veterans. Included in this interview form are twenty questions, as well as a page of helpful tips to consider when conducting an interview with a veteran.Your students may use this interview for
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3rd - 8th
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Digital Choice Board Activity: Great Leaders and Leadership | ELA Inquiry Lesson
If you've ever struggled to engage your secondary ELA students in critical thinking and discussion during a novel unit, you're not alone. Using the Essential Question: What does it take to be a great leader? students will explore a variety of sources in search of the answer. This is the kind of activity that gives you the quick, bell-work, short, supplemental activities that you need for literacy, writing, and critical thinking during any novel unit or lit circle unit that covers this topic. Thi
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9th - 12th
Storytelling Japan Student Created Pictures Drama Unit Kamishibai Drawing
IMPROVED! Dive into the world of Kamishibai storytelling with DramaMommaaSpeaks' captivating unit, where students embark on a journey of imagination and creativity, exploring the art of storytelling like never before. This 8 day low prep unit is focused on storytelling using a Japanese form of storytelling called Kamishibai as its springboard for inspiration. This unit is successful with fourth through seventh grade students and classes in language arts, reading, drama, world history, social s
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5th - 7th
Travel Journal, Student Travel Journal, School Vacation Journal, Travel Diary
Travel Journal's are my favorite assignments to send with students when they go on vacation during the school year. Students can use the journals to write and draw about their experiences while they are away from school. My students love retelling their vacation and sharing their travel journal with the class when they return. Also, a great keepsake!
This travel journal includes:
-A title page with room for a picture
-A brief travel questionnaire
-Travel question writing prompts
-Writing pa
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K - 8th
Cinco de Mouse-o! Literature Guide and Cinco de Mayo Activities
Looking for a fun and engaging way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with your students? Look no further than Cinco de Mouse-O! This jam-packed print-and-go picture book literature guide is not only low prep, it will have your class buzzing with excitement reading all about a fun little mouse at a Cinco de Mayo festival. With tons of activities to choose from, including reader response and language arts tasks, you can tailor your teaching to the interests and abilities of your students. From comprehen
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Cinco de Mayo Activities Bundle: Pairing Fiction With Nonfiction
Safari Africa Theme No Prep Early Finisher Activity Pack - Substitute Teachers
No Prep Early Finisher Worksheet Pack - Great for Substitute TeachersThis African Safari or Jungle theme printable worksheet bundle is perfect for those early finishers who need additional challenges and engage them during the lesson. Great for Geography or studying Africa and its animals.This is also a great no-prep resource as a substitute teacher or for engaging homework ideas. This activity pack boasts a range of activities to cover multiple curriculum areas.Activities Include:Themed Activit
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1st - 6th
Digital Choice Board Activity: The Media and our Sense of Self
When studying the media, commercials, or even rhetorical analysis, it's important for students to also consider the impact of these messages on our sense of self. Using the Essential Question: To what extent does the media impact our sense of self? students will explore a variety of sources in search of the answer. This is the kind of activity that gives you the quick, bell-work, short, supplemental activities that you need for literacy, writing, and critical thinking during any novel unit or l
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9th - 12th
THANKSGIVING BUNDLE | Read Write STEM Art Games Research Activity Worksheets
SAVE OVER 50%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 163-page (+4 PowerPoints) Thanksgiving Mega Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate Thanksgiving and Fall with your students! 3 reading passages, CCSS-aligned questions with Answer Key to go with each passage, 12 writing prompts (4 narrative, 4 informative, 4 opinion) with 18 writing papers, Revising & editing checklists for each writ
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3rd - 12th
Reader’s Theater Script The Fall of the Spider Man Canada Folk Tale Moral Lesson
The Fall of the Spider Man is a dramatization of an Aboriginal creation myth, a short story, with roles for 20+ students and suitable for any one studying folk tales in a Drama, Language Arts, Social Studies ( re: Canada) or reading classes. Students strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. This product was created specifically for the classroom. The Fall of the Spider Man tells the story of a Star man who l
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6th - 8th
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Holiday "Magnet" Poems for Google Slides-- Editable and FUN!
This bundle of FUN contains "magnet" poetry via Google Slides for 12 holidays.Students can drag and drop words onto the slide to create poems just like those magnetic word/ poem sets for refrigerators and magnetic boards. Each poem activity is followed by a reflection slide in which students reflect back on the poems they created and answer the following questions:What is the theme of your poem? Explain.What did you learn about this holiday, if anything?Did you use any literary devices in your
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5th - 12th
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Digital Choice Board Activity: The Power of Fear and Hope (for SEL and ELA)
Characters in all genres of fiction are faced with insurmountable odds and we are left wondering how these characters are motivated: is it more by fear or more by hope? This is the kind of activity that gives you the quick, bell-work, short, supplemental activities that you need for literacy, writing, and critical thinking during any novel unit or lit circle unit that focuses on the power of fear and the power of hope. This digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 2
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8th - 11th
Back to School Read Aloud Craftivities and Bulletin Board Ideas Bundle
Are you looking for fun and engaging activities to do with your students during the back-to-school season? This Back to School Read Aloud Craftivities and Bulletin Board Ideas Bundle is packed with read-aloud activities, bulletin board ideas and so much more! You and your students will definitely enjoy every resource included in this bundle.What is included?Our Class is a Family Flip Book Bulletin Board IdeaBack to School We Don't Eat Our Classmates Craft Bulletin Board IdeaBack to School We Wil
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K - 2nd
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES BUNDLE | Christmas Around the World Craft STEM Winter
SAVE 10%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 97-page Christmas & Winter Holidays Activities Mega Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read and answer questions about American Christmas traditions, write responses to what they’ve read, compare/contrast holiday traditions from different countries, complete a Christmas Ar
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3rd - 12th
"Tell Them We Are Rising" Question Sets
Questions and answers for the PBS's "Tell Them We Are Rising" . The first two sets of questions have the time stamp of when the the answer is revealed.
From PBS:
"The rich history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) began before the end of slavery, flourished in the 20th century, and profoundly influenced the course of the nation for over 150 years — yet remains largely unknown. With Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, the latest
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reader’s Theater Ukrainian Folk Tale The Cat and the Rooster Short Story
Are you looking for a darling short story about a specific culture? This delightful Ukrainian folk tale I've adapted into a reader's theater script with roles for 17+ students is suitable for elementary or middle school students studying folk tales, integrated into a study Slavik countries, a L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. HOW DO I USE THIS IN MY CLASSROOM? This piece could be a one or three day s
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Emergency Sub Plans Reader’s Theater Scripts Multicultural Folk Tales
Digital Choice Board Activity: Rebels and Progress in Society | ELA Lesson
If you've ever struggled to engage your secondary ELA students in critical thinking and discussion during a novel unit, you're not alone. Using the Essential Question: Are rebels a requirement for society to progress? students will explore a variety of sources in search of the answer. This is the kind of activity that gives you the quick, bell-work, short, supplemental activities that you need for literacy, writing, and critical thinking during any novel unit or lit circle unit that covers this
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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