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8th grade english language arts bibliographies for Google Apps and for Montessori
MLA 9th Edition, MLA in-text citations & works cited, PDF & Google Drive
With the release of the MLA 9th Edition Handbook, the Modern Language Association updated and refined the rules for proper citations. Are you teaching the correct, most up-to-date version of in-text citations and works cited page formatting? With this 47-slide MLA overview lecture and package of helpful student handouts, your students will know exactly how to approach their citations for your class, standardized testing, and future college courses.Begin with the Prezi-based lecture (also downloa
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MLA Format: MLA Works Cited Practice with Task Cards Activity, MLA 9th Edition
Give your students practice in writing citations in MLA format for 11 types of resources! There are 72 task cards for resources often used when writing a bibliography for school assignments as well as less common resources that students might also use. The types of resources are: Books (fiction and non-fiction books with one author, fiction and non-fiction books with two authors), websites, movies, print and online magazine articles, broadcast TV episodes, YouTube videos, plays, songs, podcast
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6th - 8th
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Famous African Americans Inventors and Scientists STEM Pack Black History Month
Highlight African Americans in STEM fields. Each one-page biography features a black American and comes with 5 comprehension questions. Perfect for Black History month and Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations in your middle school classroom.By middle school most students have already heard about the most commonly celebrated African American inventors and others in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This set is designed to introduce students to black women and men
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6th - 8th
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Virtual Locker Getting To Know You Activity
The Virtual Locker was created in Google Slides. You will be able to assign the activity to your students in Google Classroom, Schoology, or other platform, by giving them the link to your copy. This is by far my favorite activity for the first week of school and at the change of semesters. If you are wondering what to do during your first days with your students...you are in the right place! This activity will allow your students to get a glimpse of their teacher and his/her favorite things. E
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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MLA 9 Works Cited Page & In-Text Citations: Notes and Worksheets
This is the perfect resource to introduce your students to the concept and necessity of in-text citation, how to format their works cited page, and to provide them with easy-to-follow notes as they create their own authentic in-text citations and works cited pages for their research assignments.This lesson provides:Thorough lecture notes that cover the difference between narrative and parenthetical citation, the importance of identifying location, specific instruction on how to cite lines from p
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7th - 12th
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How To Write an Informational Essay- Interactive slides
Are your students struggling with writing an informational essay?I’ve created a GoogleSlide that students download and work on to help them create well-written essays. Each slide contains a video that explains what should happen in each section of the essay, and how to do it. I’ve provided different videos that give the same information, but in different ways. Students simply make a copy of the presentation, and get to work. At the end of the slideshow there is a template to an essay in Google D
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7th - 12th
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Seminar Key - How to Chart a Socratic Seminar as a Teacher
As a teacher, you will be participating very little (if at all) in Socratic Seminar. Instead, you will be filling out this key to chart the discussion. This resource gives you a reproducible key, an example of an A+ seminar in key form, and includes instructions for how to use the codes listed on the key when charting.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â The Ultimate Socratic Seminar Bundle
Edgar Allan Poe, Pre-Reading Background Activity, GOOGLE SLIDES
Does jump starting your Edgar Allan Poe unit have you stumped? Do you want to use a fun and familiar platform to excite kids and meet them at their level? I GOT YOU! Use this pre-reading, digital resource activity to ignite student engagement when studying the works of Edgar Allan Poe in your classroom!This Google Slides activity is designed as an introductory, supplemental digital resource to prepare students for studying Poe. 20 vetted links to informational websites are hyperlinked to picture
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6th - 12th
Women's History Choice Board Project
Instructions for Women's History ProjectTo support your Women's History project, please follow these steps:Choose a Woman to Focus OnSelect one woman from the Unladylike2020 collection.Select a Project ChoicePick one project option from the provided table.Complete the Note-CatcherMake a copy of the [Women's History Month Project - Research Note-Catcher](LINK HERE).Follow the instructions on the note-catcher.Review the RubricCheck the rubric for your chosen project to understand the requirements
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6th - 9th
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End of Unit/Quarter/Semester Reflection + Art Piece
This short assignment can be used at the end of a unit/quarter/trimester and gives students an opportunity to reflect, be creative, and keep track of missing work. The tasks for students include: 1. Identify and complete missing work2. Create an art piece inspired by something we have studied 3. Reflect on their own work AND give feedback to the teacherI use this over 2-3 days so that students who have missing work can complete it with my support, while other students work independently on their
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6th - 12th
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Écrire des Paragraphes et Essais Photographiques
La séquence de leçon suivante peut être utilisée dans n’importe quel programme de langue de la quatrième à la huitième année. Cette séquence de leçon est une excellente ressource introductive ainsi qu'activité pour apprendre à connaître vos élèves. Vous trouverez ci-dessous les grandes idées et les questions de cadrage pour cette séquence de leçon.Écrire un paragraphe - Comment écrire de manière organisée et structuréeDifférents types de phrases utilisées dans la rédaction d’un paragrapheCréer d
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4th - 8th
Learning Spanish through Children's books- El pollo Pepe va al colegio
Learning Spanish through children's stories is a fun and impactful teaching tool! This lesson has it all! Opportunities for students to hear Spanish, draw what they've heard, retell two stories in Spanish, answer comprehension questions about one of the stories, and write out two stories ALL IN SPANISH! This lesson includes:* TPR teaching of content vocabulary*  Simplified TPR story that uses learned vocabulary*  Video link to an authentic children's story that uses the same vocabulary, but i
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1st - 12th
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How to Write a Formal Letter to an Influential Person
This writing project is perfect for reluctant writers. In this writing project students will be able to write a formal business style letter to any living person that has had a positive influence on them. This could be a celebrity or someone they know personally. The letter are intended to be mailed out by the teacher, using the school's address as the return address and the teacher's name as the primary contact. A website with celebrity fan mail addresses is provided along with a step by st
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5th - 12th
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A Trip Around The Sun: A Montessori Birthday Celebration
A Trip Around The Sun: A Montessori Birthday CelebrationPages: 6 Lesson Details: A candle, representing the Sun, is lit in the middle of the room.  The children (and teachers or family members) sit in a wide circle around the Sun while the birthday child stands next to it holding a globe to represent the Earth.  The child then walks around the Sun as many times needed to reach his age.  As the child walks, the teacher and children sing “The Earth goes around the Sun, the Earth goes around the S
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PreK - 12th
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Memoir Magic Mentor Texts - Inspire and Model the Memoir Genre
The Memoir Magic Collection is a collection of 18 memoirs that you can use as mentor texts for students in grades 5-8. An easy collection that can be printed or distributed electronically. Give your students a good basis in memoir, enrich their reading experience and use the text as a mentor text to model good writing!Tailored for Middle School Students: Our mentor text collection is specifically curated to meet the developmental needs and interests of students in grades 5-8, ensuring age-appr
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5th - 8th
Socratic Seminar Question Stems
This collection of Question Stems gives students sample text to draw from to help them formulate good Seminar questions and statements. This can be used as a scaffolding resource before students get comfortable coming up with their own, or as a handy reference for students who need it by their side.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â The Ultimate Socratic Seminar Bundle
Social Emotional Learning - Personal Exploration - Lukasa (Anthropology)
In this self exploration SEL (social emotional learning) project, students think about key events in their own history as they apply it to build a piece of art mimicking an African Lukasa. Students will develop a memory board that represents them by researching African tribal customs and applying these to a visual representation of their own history.What you will learn:BASIC information about the Luba tribe in the D.R.C.Become acquainted with dynamic and oral methods of preserving historyIncre
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6th - 11th
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Romeo and Juliet- Hexagonal Thinking Activity
Developed by curriculum designer Betsy Potash, hexagonal thinking is an activity designed to get kids thinking critically, making novel connections, debating, and providing evidence to support their reasoning—by visually connecting a series of ideas written on paper or digital hexagons around a theme.
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7th - 12th
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Hexagonal Thinking- The Great Gatsby
Developed by curriculum designer Betsy Potash, hexagonal thinking is an activity designed to get kids thinking critically, making novel connections, debating, and providing evidence to support their reasoning—by visually connecting a series of ideas written on paper or digital hexagons around a theme.
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7th - 12th
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Socratic Seminar - Introduction (What Is Socratic Seminar?)
Transform students' critical text analysis and discussion skills by running Socratic Seminar (also known as Paideia and Harkness in some circles) with them. Not all discussion should go through the teacher - students need to be able to respond to each other. Both the physical layout of the classroom as well as the expectations for the Socratic Seminar will facilitate this. This document will orient you and your students to know what to expect when beginning your Socratic Seminar journey.Included
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â The Ultimate Socratic Seminar Bundle
Black history month- Medical trailblazers research- virtual project
This research assignment profiles several African American medical trailblazers. Students will research one and use the provided website or their own resources to create an online profile page about the scientist and their contribution to medicine. The lessons are in google slides and can be completed virtually. An example is provided for students to use as a reference.
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4th - 10th
Citing Sources Lesson Plan Bundle
This bundle includes four entire class periods worth of lesson materials to teach your students about how to cite their sources in proper MLA format and explain their citations. You will have everything you need to teach the students from the second they walk in the door until the final bell rings. Just click on the lesson plan linked in each day and you will have full access to everything you need! There are Google Forms, because you KNOW we are not trying to grade, and there are slides that co
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5th - 12th
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World History- Ancient Africa Instagram Page
Using the current social media trend of Instagram, students will research a select few of Ancient African leaders and create an Instagram page for them. They will have descriptive details, likes, a picture, and a hashtag!The rules for the project and directions are clear so it makes it easy to follow.This is a research project, so expect it to take a couple of days.There is no answer key provided, because it will have to be graded by the teacher.
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6th - 12th
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MY HISTORY: TIME CAPSULE LETTER with Templates and Graphic Organizer
BE THE TEACHER THAT YOUR STUDENTS ALWAYS REMEMBER!!Whether you are working on improving students' writing abilities or teaching students about their personal history, one thing is for certain - This project will check off all the boxes AND will instantly turn you into the teacher that your students always remember! WHY? Because you will hand them a letter from their past selves when they graduate from High School!Even if you elect not to house student letters for 4-10 years and return them to
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3rd - 11th, Higher Education
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Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
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