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12th grade informational text thematic unit plans for Google Apps
Power and Corruption Research Project - Leadership - Ambition Abuse of Power
Examine the concepts of self-identity, absolute power and corruption, leadership and influence with this high-interest resource! Learn the common traits of powerful people and discover how absolute power can be used to improve society or to devastate and destroy. This modern research project takes a fascinating look at the world’s most powerful and influential people throughout world history - including those who are living in today’s world. Students will select and research a person of power,
Grades:
9th - 12th
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The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman Whole Unit Bundle for High School
Teach empathy and research skills with this The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman Whole Unit Bundle for High School! This bundle provides everything you need to teach The Complete Maus with an emphasis on building students' research skills. You can see a detailed breakdown of this The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman unit with lesson calendar, objectives, learning targets, and more by checking out this FREE The Complete Maus Unit Pacing Guide.Introduce the unit with a pre-reading activity and a Mau
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9th - 12th
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ELA Full Semester American Literature Curriculum Grades 11-12 Bundle
Set your students up for success with this zero prep, print and Google slides ready curriculum resource an entire semester of your American Literature course. In this resource you will find 6 units that span 18 weeks of instruction:Rhetoric of the American RevolutionPost Revolution: American RomanticismPrelude to the Civil War: American TranscendentalismThe Dark Romanticism of Edgar Allan PoeThe Anti-Slavery Rhetoric of Frederick DouglassRealism and Early Feminist LiteratureTake a look at my FRE
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9th - 12th
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Holocaust Introduction Bundle: WWII Lesson, Activities/Worksheets, & Project
Set the stage for your Holocaust unit or novel study with this Holocaust Introduction Bundle! Students will learn about WWII, complete Holocaust-related stations or worksheets, and conduct a mini-project around a Holocaust topic.First, give your students some historical context with a WWII and Holocaust Introduction Lesson. You'll use the editable slideshow to teach students about the major events of World War II. Students will complete visual or guided notes as they learn.Then, launch into the
Grades:
9th - 12th
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High School Research Class Year Long Scope and Sequence
This is a year's long High School research class scope and sequence with weekly class flow, thematic units with big questions, ideas for individual student research, routines, ideas for how to add joy, writing goals for the class and sources that can pair well with the course.
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
DIGITAL/GOOGLE Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Reading Journal/ Novel Unit
This product is a literature circle novel unit for the book, "Hidden Figures: Young Readers’ Edition." It breaks the book into sections and provides space for:SummariesComprehension QuestionsStudent Questions/AnswersVocabulary EnrichmentPicture/Graphic Organizer/STEM ConnectionThis is a great unit that I use in my own classroom. It is ready to go right out of the printer and provides the teacher with helpful ideas and video links. It also includes a Teacher Answer Key. Includes the Student Journ
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Research unit: Analyzing, Interpreting, and Reasoning
Using a variety of artists and media (paintings, songs, spoken word, political cartoons), address how those artists express their feelings about the abuse of power with their work. After analyzing multiple artists, students will then be diving deeper and independently researching how the abuse of power manifests in society and how an artist of their choice combats it. Learning targets/Standards include:I can introduce a topic and organize my ideas and complex information to inform my audience (W
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9th - 12th
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E2E Travel and Passion: 35-Hour Secondary ELA Unit--LONG TERM SUB PLANS!
If you like this unit, you can purchase the entire year’s worth of lessons in the E2E Massive Whole-Year ELA Survival Pack. That bundle includes four, nine-week units, including this one, for just $29.99.Connect students to the world and their passion with this interactive unit about travel for secondary students.Perfect for long term sub plans, or for you!This narrative reading and writing unit will take you through 35+ instructional hours (approximately 9 weeks) of basic secondary ELA standar
Grades:
7th - 12th
Discovering Shakespeare & The Tempest - Hyperdoc Independent Self-guided study
Students will use this hyperdoc to familiarize themselves with William Shakespeare's life and the influences on his writing. The last section of this hyperdoc focuses on Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest and the event that inspired it. This lesson is perfect for self-guided learning. Works great for sub plans!
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9th - 12th
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Digital Literacy for High School
This Digital Literacy unit was created as a result of our recent reliance on the internet for education. This unit takes an entire quarter (10 weeks) and teaches students the basics of what digital literacy is, the types of information, 3 types of digital media (visual ads, online news sources and social media), 2 strategies in analyzing the reliability of digital sources (Kathleen Morris' flowchart, and C.A.R.S.), accompanying activities and worksheets, 2 TedEd lessons, requirements for a fina
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Life Skills: Digital Interactive Notebook/UNIT - Distance Learning
Purpose:This 100+ page unit of study was created as an Expository Reading & Writing Distance Learning course intended to prepare students for life after high school. Description:111 Pages/Slides Include:Part I: Soft Skills/Hard SkillsPart II: Life SkillsFinding a JobBuying a CarBalancing a Monthly BudgetEtc. Part III: Next Level SkillsOvercoming Learned HelplessnessRejection TherapyGrowth MindsetPerseverance/GritPlease see the Table of Contents (3 pages) for more details.Great for:Distance L
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Mythological Creatures- Is the Loch Ness Monster real??
This resource goes with my Socratic Seminar on Mythbusters!This is a modified article, from several different resources, used to help the students read about and determine if Loch Ness monster is real or not. There are a few context clues questions along with a flow chart of information that the students need to complete. The answer key is included.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Mythological Creatures- BUNDLE
Names Close Reading: A Study in Identity Text Set and Class Discussion Questions
So, what we have created for you is a text set for a unit we like to call Names, a study in identity. We know, we’re excited about it, too!Tell Me More:Names matter, right? Names define our identity, how we move through the world, how we connect with others. Names carry weight and meaning for our lives. Names are gifts given to us by our parents. Names have power, both good and bad. Names hold history. Students need to have their identity and names be a focal point in our classrooms. What you w
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle
Horror Genre Study: Fear of Men and Masculinity
This 61-page resource guides students through an intertextual journey to compare and contrast our gut feelings with multiple culturally-relevant horror texts to uncover assumptions we hold about men and masculinity. Horror provides the perfect vehicle for this analysis because it is so visceral, and students who can truly tap into these fears and disgusts will be able to see clearly the messages our culture has subtly sent to us in myriad ways. This lesson would be an excellent addition to an IB
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Genre Study: Understanding Gender Through Horror
Mythological Creatures- Do you believe in Haunted Plantations??
This resource is used with my Socratic Seminar on Mythbusters!The article is modified from several different sources for classroom use. The students will read about 5 of the most haunted plantations in the United States. They will have to determine if they truly believe that the plantation is haunted, or just a made up story. There are questions on vocabulary with sentences, recall, text evidence, opinion, and RACE. An answer key is provided when necessary; not for opinion questions. There is a
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Mythological Creatures- BUNDLE
Horror Genre Study: Fear of Women and Femininity
This 28-page resource guides students through an intertextual journey of female witches, murderers, ghosts and more to derive insights about how women are valued, viewed, and feared in our society and globally. Students will: Compare and contrast 9 examples Two historical + seven modern across 3 readings 6 videos, and A wide variety of text types (blog, poem, music, comedy, etc.) Students will engage in 4 scaffolded formative activities, and Apply their learning in 1 summative group research pr
Grades:
10th - 12th
Also included in: Genre Study: Understanding Gender Through Horror
Mythological Creatures- Is Big Foot real??
This resource is part of my Socratic Seminar on Mythbusters!The article is modified from several different sources for classroom use. After reading, the students have to define words using context clues from the text. They will then cite evidence from the article both proving that Big Foot is real AND fake. Students need to be able to argue both sides of the theory.The context clues answer are provided.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Mythological Creatures- BUNDLE
Finding Freedom: Race Relations in America Unit (Distance Learning Friendly)
This 1-2-week unit can be used either as a supplemental unit/assessment for the study of a core literary text, such as Twelve Years a Slave; or as a brief, stand-alone unit to explore race in America through rhetorical analysis.Students will listen to, read, analyze data from, and watch a variety of American media and voices on the subject of slavery, race relations, and police brutality. They then write short dialectical journal entries examining the rhetorical devices used in the texts, as wel
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Documentary or Podcast analysis- The American Dream connection
This independent assignment connects with a unit on The American Dream and asks students to choose a documentary or podcast from a list, analyze it, and connect it to their definition of The American Dream. I included a variety of titles that could connect in multiple ways, but users could add or remove titles as they see fit. Some of the documentary titles require streaming services, but there are enough that use Kanopy, the free video streaming service through the library, that students would
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mythological Creatures- Mermaid slideshow with quotes
This resource goes with my Socratic Seminar on Mythbusters!The slideshow has images that the students need to analyze and example answers are given for them to model. There is also a video link and quiz with questions.I used this slideshow to introduce the topic of mermaids and mermen before reading informational articles.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Mythological Creatures- BUNDLE
Mythological Creatures- Do you believe in unicorns??
This resource goes with my Socratic Seminar on Mythbusters!This article is modified from several sources for classroom use. When reading, students need to define several words using context clues. This article does not come with questions; mainly because by the time they got done with the rest of the articles for the seminar they needed a brain break! There is a cute picture of a unicorn for them to color after they define the words. There is no answer key.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Mythological Creatures- BUNDLE
History: Accomplished Americans: Writer's Selection: Zora Neale Hurston - Google
If you prefer the pdf version, click here.These resources are to supplement an educator’s social studies curriculum. These visuals and Thinksheets are intended to be in addition to an educators’ information, literature, and activities related to the specific accomplished American. For over a decade now, I’ve been using visuals of accomplished Americans for the classroom timeline and map as a part of my social studies curriculum. In addition to the visuals, I create custom Thinksheets to accompan
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Thoughtful Thursday: Powerful Results
Thoughtful Thursday activities are designed for students to explore content and themes related to literature units. This Thoughtful Thursday presents two famous psychology experiments on authority. It provides an opportunity to reflect on what was learned through each experiment and to apply understanding to concepts from Lord of the Flies.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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