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NEWSELA Current Event Analysis Common Core Worksheets & Graphic Organizers
NEWSELA is a great, online resource because it allows a student to choose his/her own Lexile level to read level-appropriate articles. This activity has 12 templates (Newsela worksheets or Newsela graphic organizers) to choose from and is aligned with Common Core Literacy and Writing standards for ELA, history, and science (NGSS). Two brand new Doodle Notes templates were added for the new school year!!!In addition to receiving printable copies provided in PDF, this lesson bundle was recently co
Grades:
5th - 12th
Escape Room Break Out Box Game; Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Get ready to dive into an exciting escape-room style adventure with this break-out game designed to review the three persuasive appeals with secondary students! Your students will be set for their persuasive writing or argumentative writing task if they can grasp these key elements. From the most reluctant learner to the most advanced, all of your students will be 100% engaged in solving the clues in this interactive lock box game for ethos, pathos, and logos. Plus, you'll be on the cutting ed
Grades:
9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Persuasive Appeals in Famous Speeches Task Cards (Ethos Pathos Logos)
Rhetorical appeals are the building blocks for persuasive and argumentative writing. This no prep set of Persuasive or Rhetorical Appeals Speech Excerpts Task Cards is great practice for identifying and explaining the appeals ethos, pathos, and logos. These are excellent task cards for learning stations, centers, bell ringers, exit tickets, review, and more! Super easy prep - just print, cut, and go! Answers are included! Student Experience: In this hands-on activity, students read excerpts from
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Persuasive Appeals, BUNDLE for Ethos, Pathos, Logos Unit
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Is Protesting Powerful or Problematic?
Engage and motivate students with this informational, expository text close reading assignment. This easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension! Your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate and discuss no matter their reading level or experience with close reading and annotating. The questions are designed to have students truly dig into and respond to a text. This resource is not just questions a
Grades:
10th - 12th
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #3
Philosophical Chairs: An engaging class or group debate over any topic, Google
Philosophical Chairs is an engaging AVID and best practice strategy, where students challenge peers’ thinking by using respectful dialogue, evidence for claims, prior knowledge, logical reasoning, and persuasion. This includes everything you need to host Philosophical Chairs in your classroom. It can be used over and over again for all topics and in all subjects. Present the overview presentation with the class on the SMART Board and then share the editable student graphic organizers and refle
Grades:
6th - 12th
Personalized Learning Project (Cap Stone) (Senior Project) (Independent Study)
An EDITABLE GOOGLE-DOC VERSION of this resource is included (on the last page). You can customize this resource. Then print or have students complete online as a Google Doc. FROM STUDENT MANUAL INTRODUCTION PAGE:What is the Personalized Learning Project, and what is its purpose?The Personalized Learning Project (PLP) is an independent learning project based on your interests. The PLP allows you to explore an area of interest and provides you with the opportunity to apply and demonstrate k
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Crocs | ELA Emergency Sub Plans for Middle School | Fun Substitute Packet Lesson
Say goodbye to last-minute stressing trying to find work for your sub. With this no-prep emergency Sub Plan for Middle School ELA, your students will WANT to work and stay on task as they read about the Crocs phenomenon, and get quizzed on brand collabs . Packed with engaging activities, this ready-to-use set is ready for your sub tub, and designed to ease the burden of substitute teacher planning while keeping students engaged and motivated. You'll get a stand-alone resource that was designed
Grades:
6th - 8th
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Vaping
Engage and motivate students with this informational, expository text close reading assignment. This easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension! This info-text mini lesson is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension. Your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate and discuss this hot topic (vaping) no matter their reading level or experience with close readin
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #3
Socratic Seminar and Philosophical Chair Unit for avid learners
Nearly 200 slides of content! This giant bundle emphasizes college readiness strategies in a fun and engaging way that will help your students grow into leaders, communicators, and forward-thinking individuals. It is easily adaptable for junior high to high school students. These interactive presentations/ lessons are available in Google Slides OR PowerPoint.The unit can essentially be paperless (except for printing articles, tutorial forms, binder checks), but you also have the option of prin
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6th - 11th
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Independent Study Research Project
We all know there isn't always enough time to answer every student's burning questions in class. That's where the Independent Study Project comes to the rescue!An Independent Study Project is an excellent way to engage all of your students in your content. This project is completed individually, mostly outside of class time, and—best of all—focuses on a topic of interest to the student! The Independent Study Project is typically used in GATE classrooms, but because of its open nature, it is comp
Capstone for All course
This bundle contains materials for an entire Capstone for All course that could be executed over the course of a year or semester. Students in secondary schools are required to determine a self-selected topic, research, create and execute a project, including interviews and surveys, and present their findings through a formal seminar. Ample opportunities to reflect upon work are provided throughout the process in both discussions with peers and instructors (i.e. "Roundtables") and formal and i
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Crocs | ELA Emergency Sub Plans | Upper Elementary |Fun Substitute Packet Lesson
Say goodbye to last-minute stressing trying to find work for your sub. With this no-prep emergency Sub Plan for Upper Elementary ELA, your students will WANT to work and stay on task as they read about the Crocs phenomenon, and get quizzed on brand collabs. Packed with engaging activities, this ready-to-use set is ready for your sub tub, and designed to ease the burden of substitute teacher planning while keeping students engaged and motivated. You'll get a stand-alone resource that was designe
Grades:
4th - 6th
Gun violence argumentative passages critical thinking end of year social studies
GUN VIOLENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, ARGUMENTATIVE PASSAGES, CRITICAL THINKING, DEBATEDo you want to address gun violence in the classroom but are not sure how to do it? This product explores how mental health issues are associated with gun violence. COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATE (#3) (GUN VIOLENCE & MENTAL HEALTH)My COURT CASE SUMMARY DEBATES are excellent supplements to any class focusing on ethics, law, justice, argumentative writing, and debate, and they also work well as last-minute sub-plans or st
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: College Admissions Requirements
This info-text mini lesson is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension! Your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate and discuss this hot topic no matter their reading level or experience with close reading and annotating! The questions are designed to have students truly dig into and respond to a text. You'll have a full lesson plan complete with relevant info graphics, an argumentative writing prompt, and ideas for extension! Student
Grades:
10th - 12th
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #3
Leadership and Success Unit (Google, PowerPoint)
This giant unit bundle challenges students to think beyond themselves in a fun and engaging way with the purpose of developing leaders, communicators, and forward-thinking individuals. It is easily adaptable for junior high to high school students. Available in Google Slides OR PowerPoint.Part of leadership is about directing students to expect more from themselves. This unit does exactly that. Students are challenged to take on leadership responsibilities and the characteristics that make pe
Grades:
6th - 11th
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Persuasive Appeals in Famous Speeches Digital Task Cards (Ethos Pathos Logos)
Rhetorical appeals are the building blocks for persuasive and argumentative writing. This no prep set of Persuasive or Rhetorical Appeals Speech Excerpts Digital Task Cards is great practice for identifying and explaining the appeals ethos, pathos, and logos. These are excellent task cards for learning stations, centers, bell ringers, exit tickets, review, homework, and more! Super easy prep - just share and go! Student Experience: In this thought-provoking activity, students read excerpts from
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in: Persuasive Appeals, BUNDLE for Ethos, Pathos, Logos Unit
The Super Football Game Commercial Analysis (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
Bring the Super Bowl excitement into your classroom for FREE and with a purpose! The Super Bowl is the perfect opportunity to integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally, AND make a real-world connection with propaganda, logical fallacies, rhetorical devices, and persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos). Student Experience: Students review the persuasive appeals. Then, they will watch a commercial from past Supe
Grades:
8th - 12th
Critical Thinking HS ELA, Second Amendment, Gun Control, Argumentative Passages
Critical Thinking HS ELA, Second Amendment, Gun Control, Argumentative PassagesNY State Rifle and Pistol Ass., Inc., et al. v. Bruen (2022)Do you want to help your students understand one of the most contentious topics facing us today?The Second Amendment is a hot topic, and teachers must be prepared to discuss it in the classroom. With the recent Supreme Court ruling on gun ownership, it’s now more important than ever to give your students access to accurate and up-to-date information that they
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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169 Warm Ups for Any Topic | Critical Thinking Evaluative Bellringers
Want to add a touch of pot luck to your lessons? This PowerPoint features a front page of 169 Warm Up Buttons (bellringers or starters), each linked to a separate start-of-lesson bellringer task suitable for all subjects. Click a button on the first page and get taken to a surprise warm-up for your class! See the video preview for a closer look.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.Every task is different, and each task page includes a han
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Organization, Inquiry, Cornell Notes, Beginning of the Year for avid learners
This giant unit bundle emphasizes college readiness strategies in a fun and engaging way that will help your students grow into leaders, communicators, and forward-thinking individuals. It is easily adaptable for junior high to high school students. These interactive lessons/presentations are available in Google Slides or PowerPoint.This unit is designed to help you start the year with engagement while establishing certain activities and foundations that will be used throughout the entire year.
Grades:
6th - 11th
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Living Wall - Close Reading, Accountable Talk, Unit Activator, Engagement
Get your students talking to each other in a novel way while making thinking and learning visible. This resource provides everything you need for the ultimate "Big Paper/Silent Conversation." The product is a visual representation of your students' thinking; it is cross-disciplinary and works with ANYTHING in ANY discipline (photos, art, lyrics, themes, thesis statements, historical documents, math problems, poetry, text....). Here's why this activity is central in my toolbox:It supports close r
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Growth Mindset and Student Growth Unit for avid learners
This giant unit bundle emphasizes college readiness strategies in a fun and engaging way that will help your students grow into leaders, communicators, and forward-thinking individuals. It is easily adaptable for junior high to high school students. All interactive presentations/lessons available in Google Slides OR PowerPoint.The unit focuses on growth mindset and individual determination. Students will first reflect (1), analyze how they can improve in difficult subjects (2), consider how th
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6th - 11th
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Communities Unit Urban, Rural, Suburban (Slideshows, Worksheets and Assessment)
This Urban, Suburban, and Rural Communities Bundle Package includes:3 Comprehensive Projectable Read-Alouds on Urban, Suburban and Rural CommunitiesCommunities ELA Activities to complete independently or with partnerHigh Definition Picture Glossary of words connected to Urban, Suburban, and Rural CommunitiesTypes of Communities Unit AssessmentThis is a Growing Unit. As I add resources you will be notified and can download them for FREE.Each Community is paired with a full length projectable PDF
Grades:
1st - 5th
Critical Thinking HS ela, First Amendment, AP Government, Tinker v. Des Moines
Critical Thinking HS ela, First Amendment, AP Government, Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)Teaching Tinker v. Des Moines is highly relevant to discussing the student-led protests that are sweeping across American universities, sparked by contentious reactions to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The following issues relate directly to this court case:First AmendmentConstitutional Rights and ExpressionUnderstanding the Limits of ProtestEmpowerment Through Historical ContextCritical Thinking and Civil Discours
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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