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Back to School Common Core W.9-10.10 resources
WHY STUDY HISTORY | Back to School Activity | First Day of School Discussion
Why do we study history anyway? This back to school activity is a must have for any history or social studies class! Start the first day of school (or the first lesson of any history class) with “WHY” because students always want to know why? Why am I learning about history? Why do we have to study this stuff anyway? When am I ever going to use this in life? Isn’t history about a "bunch of old dead people" and things that have already happened? **Major necessary upgrades have been made to ma
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Solar Eclipse 2024 Activities
Experience the 2024 total solar eclipse with your students with these three fun activities. They are offered in both a printable PDF version and Google Drive™ (Google Slides™) version. The Google version can be shared online with your students and they can fill in their responses online; perfect for a paperless school.The activities include a compiling information and responses for a 2044 time capsule, create a solar eclipse play list, and an extensive Solar Eclipse Idioms activity. Students wil
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5th - 10th
End of the Year Activities | Bell Ringers, Brain Teasers & Riddles | Volume 1
Start your class with some fun mental exercises and icebreakers. Everyone loves logic puzzles, riddles, and critical thinking. As featured in the TpT newsletter, expand your students' brain power with this set of Brain Teasers to use as bell ringers or brain breaks in your classroom! In both printable and digital versions, these brain teasers are perfect for distance learning as well!What's Included:Now in Google Drive format!30 different Brain Teasers in 2 great formats - (Worksheets or Google
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Back to School Bundle: Icebreakers, Memes, Decor, Rules, Procedures
Back to School Bundle includes icebreakers, get-to-know-you and all about me activities, classroom posters and memes, rules and procedures activity, editable presentations, and more. You will have plenty of resources to last the first few days AND for years to come.These best-sellers are included:Back-to-School Rules and Procedures: Can I Chew Gum in Class? EDITABLE!Teacher Memes Posters {Back to School, Class Rules} EDITABLE! Grammar Fail Presentation: Using Humor to Teach the Importance of Eng
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6th - 12th, Staff
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Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing
Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This lesson teaches students to “show” themselves in vivid details and carefully chosen words. The lesson has recently been updated to include Google slides and instructional YouTube videos for guided practice!In pre-writing activities, students journal about
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7th - 11th
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Back-to-School Stations for High School English Classes - First Week of School
Take some of the pressure off of going back to school with these EDITABLE Back-to-School Stations for high school English classes! These six back-to-school stations help you cover the basics--get a writing sample, introduce students to the classroom library, set up a Google Classroom, and more--while allowing you to walk around and chat with your new students!These stations were designed with my high school English classes in mind, but they are easily adaptable for other grade levels and content
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9th - 12th
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Email Writing Complete Back to School Lesson
Teach students how to write a formal email while setting your communication expectations with this complete email writing lesson. This lesson is a great back-to-school activity: you'll review basic technology skills and start building relationships with your students!For this lesson, you'll email your students a welcome message, modeling appropriate email tone for your classroom and letting them know some fun information about you. Then, students will learn about email writing with the included
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9th - 12th
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Class Jobs Gallery Walk Lesson with Job Application for Back to School
Looking for a way to teach responsibility and create a classroom community of collaboration? Here are nine class jobs and, even better, a real-life job application!In the secondary classroom, monitoring classroom jobs can be tedious, but this is a practical solution! Each quarter, my students practice their college and career readiness skills by applying for one of my nine unique, useful classroom jobs.This download includes printables for a Classroom Job Gallery Walk (a great back to school o
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8th - 11th
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Classroom Management Trashketball Game - Rules, Expectations, Behavior Activity
As you review rules, procedures, and expectations, this New Year's Activity and Back-to-School Trashketball Game engages students and lays the foundation for a positive classroom culture throughout the year. This PowerPoint presentation can be used for social-emotional-learning (SEL) as you return from the holidays so you can make a fresh start in 2023. Updated version now has a link to a Google Slides Presentation.This activity encourages students to carefully read a syllabus, school policy ma
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6th - 10th
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringer Journal Prompts for Entire School Year
There are 175 growth mindset bell ringers in this Powerpoint presentation. This means you will have a warm up assignment for the entire school year! Have your students complete their bell ringers in a composition book or ELA notebook. No printing or prep needed! Bell ringers, Do nows, Warm ups, Journal prompts... whatever you call them in your classroom: these growth mindset questions are perfect for middle school or high school. This product consists of several excellent teaching strategies all
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6th - 12th
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Icebreakers, Bell Ringers, Activities, and Games Bundle for Classroom Community
Use these back to school (BTS) activities to review classroom management, reading, writing, and grammar. Designed for the beginning of the school year, this bundle includes an icebreaker activity, a combining sentences game, task cards, memoir writing lesson, Trashketball review game, and problem-solving writing prompts that are designed to get your students reading and writing right away! Icebreaker ActivityUse these cards as a team-builder activity at the beginning of the school year. Much l
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7th - 10th
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Back-to-School Bundle / Back-to-School Stations (14 resources) / 6-12 / 90+ pgs.
In the past, I have used stations as my back-to-school activity for secondary English language arts. I enjoy using stations because they help get students up and moving, becoming comfortable with each other and with the space.However, during our year of pandemic teaching, traditional stations were not always possible. This experience encouraged me to be more flexible with my back-to-school activities. For this reason, when I put this bundle together, I focused on resources that teachers could mi
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6th - 12th
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Figurative Language and Critical Thinking with Quotes - Mega Pack
It's Back to School Time - Start your class off thinking deeper from day one!
Figurative Language with your students on a daily basis!
Great morning work!
This set includes 50 quotes! All of my quote packs combined in one Mega-Pack!
The quotes are categorized to best allow you to pick the best quotes to go along with your current unit.
Inspirational Quotes - 11
Martin Luther King Quotes - 7
Proverbs - 4
Maya Angelou - 3
Ghandi - 3
Quotes using metaphors - 10
Similes - 4
Idioms - 8
2 quot
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4th - 12th
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Identity Project Using TED TALK for Middle and High School
Looking to help your students explore identity and stereotypes? Centered around the TED TALK, The Danger of a SIngle Story, this lesson brings middle and high school students through the critical thinking, discussion, and reflective process to develop an anti- bias stance when it comes to different identities. Also included are:Scaffolding activities creative project (digital or paper)connection to literary standards and writing standardsAlso check out other lessons on IDENTITY.For more lessons
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6th - 12th
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Letter To My Teacher: Beginning or End of Year Writing Prompt, Draft, Revision
This beginning of the year or end of term or end of year writing prompt gets students reflecting on their learning as they prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and prepare a letter to their future teacher. Available as an editable Canva template, a PDF, and within Easel for virtual or in-person learning. Great as a stand alone, multi-day activity for a sub or while you wrap up assessments.Engaging students in meaningful writing in the first or last weeks of school can seem impossible. In order to p
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5th - 8th
ESL Back to School | ESL Writing Activities | Opinion Writing
Paragraph writing for English Language Learners are the foundation they need to be successful writers. This is perfect Back-to-School activity for your Language Learners. PLUS a digital version is included!ESL writing activities can help your English Language Learners succeed in their writing. The Step-by-Step Paragraph for Persuasive Writing is a way your ELLs can practice their writing every day in the classroom. In this writing activity for ELLs there is a total of 12 weeks of writing activi
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3rd - 12th
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Study Habits Survey, Growth Mindset Activities, and Reflective Prompts (Google)
Use this set of reflective surveys and writing prompts to help middle and high school students meditate on their study habits and develop data-driven strategies for achieving a growth mindset. These are helpful back-to-school materials for a range of subject areas and age groups, though they are especially useful in structured study halls with emphasis on improving task management, time management, and organizational skills. Materials are made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, a printable option
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8th - 12th
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First Day of School Activity: Completely Editable (AP Lit, AP Lang, Brit Lit)
This current upload is an activity for the first day of school. Students receive the initial worksheet for answers and wander around the room to the lettered stations for the questions. This is designed for high school and used in my AP Lit, AP Lang, and Brit Lit on the first day. IT IS COMPLETELY EDITABLE AND HAS DIFFERENTIATED SLIDES.**please note you will have to update year when editing!
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6th - 12th
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Back to School BUNDLE Dance Edition DIGITAL & PRINTABLE for Middle & High School
Getting ready to go back to school means lots of preparation in middle and high school dance. This growing bundle has multiple activities & games like ice breaker Bingo, Getting to know you for peer relationship building and teacher to student connections worksheets-- solutions you need in this hectic time of year. Secondary students have the opportunity to think about and study habits that do and don't work for them in What's My Learning Style. In the follow up activity, they can conferenc
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8th - 11th
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BACK TO SCHOOL Taylor Swift-Inspired "In My Era" HIGH SCHOOL Worksheets BUNDLE
You will see Sparks Fly as students complete this Taylor Swift Eras Tour-inspired activity! In this worksheet, students will consider the upcoming school year and make a plan for how they want to handle it. In the graphic organizer section on the front, students write their goals, hopes, behaviors they will start/stop and even rename their era to something more geared towards their liking. On the back of the worksheet, students will then design an album cover for their upcoming year and write an
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9th - 12th
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Classroom Community Bell Ringers and Writing Prompts - Class Culture Activity
Create a positive and inclusive classroom with these 70 prompts designed to foster social-emotional learning and strengthen student relationships. Whether used as bell ringers, journals, exit slips, or in other activities, these prompts offer a range of writing and discussion opportunities that can be easily printed or used digitally.Ideal for back-to-school, these prompts are also perfect for learning stations, cooperative learning, and carousel activities. With teacher instructions and suggest
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6th - 10th
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"Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing" Ted Talk Listening Guide
During the first days of school, I usually do stations. This year I am looking for something new to do in the 2-3 days after students finish their back-to-school stations. Once I heard the Ted Talk "Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed" by Roman Mars, I knew I had found my answer! During that first week of school, my students will watch the Ted Talk, answer some analysis questions, design their own flags, and describe how their flags match the principles of good de
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9th - 10th
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A Protocol to Facilitate Collaboratively Looking at Student Work on PowerPoint
Do you need a best practice idea for a back to school staff development or professional learning team or collaborative inquiry session? This 15-slide, editable PowerPoint with slide notes and instructions outlines an 8-step protocol for improving instruction and looking at student work. It was designed as a tool to help teachers with data-driven decision making about instruction to better meet the needs of students. The PowerPoint can be used in a staff or professional development session or
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Adult Education, Staff
End of the School Year Activities Mindfulness Mental Health Awareness Month Unit
Did you know that May is Mental Health Awareness Month? Survive the last few weeks of school with this fun and engaging Mindfulness Unit for middle and high school English classrooms. This unit can also be taught for any subject area teachers who would like to introduce their students to the study and practice of mindfulness. The included lessons teach middle and high school students about the history of mindfulness, the scientific research supporting the practice of mindfulness, and how to inco
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5th - 12th
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