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High school balanced literacy thematic unit plan pdfs
Visual Literacy & The Graphic Novel
Teach visual literacy and introduce the graphic novel. This resource is full of engaging lessons and activities for building visual literacy skills. It will also introduce students to the genre of the graphic novel (you don't need to be reading one).Whether you teach the graphic novel or not, this bundle will give you the opportunity to work on your students’ analytical skills. We spend our days analyzing visual clues and interpreting people’s actions based on those clues. However, when it comes
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Radio Drama Unit and The Frozen Pirate Radio Play
Sea Shanty anyone? This THREE-WEEK radio theater unit and play, nearly 80 pages in length, is suitable for high school drama classes or upper middle grade gifted classes and includes: • Rationale for teaching radio theater• A lesson on the history of radio theater • Information about Foley engineers• Three links to video clips of Foley engineers• Student-created sound effect project• Five links to radio play performances (some vintage and some recent) • A mini-lesson in writing and pr
Grades:
9th - 11th
Case of the Litterbug Mystery Scavenger Hunt
Someone mysteriously littered in your classroom, and your students must solve the mystery of the litterbug this Earth Day! This low-prep Earth Day scavenger hunt is so easy to set up - print, fold, cut a few pieces, and place around the room. No locks, no envelopes, just pure excitement!Start with your litterbug suspect list and the crumpled papers, which is actually your first clue. The clues are easy to follow by matching the pictures and include Earth Day superheroes to tell you what to do al
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PreK - 9th
Also included in: Earth Day Activities & Centers for Preschoolers
Teach Theme BUNDLE | Lesson, Auto-Graded Quiz, Poster & Topic-Statement Template
THEME is my favourite lesson to get to as an English teacher; but I often find students (myself in high school, too) confuse THEME with "moral" or "topic", and they need support articulating innovative thematic messages.This comprehensive THEME bundle is designed to quickly and effectively teach and assess students' familiarity with identifying and articulating THEMEs in the texts they read, mainly literature. The bundle engages learners ages 13+ in ---learning what THEME is and is NOT, actively
Grades:
7th - 12th
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UNWIND: Paired Passages & Activities
As part of your UNWIND unit, I encourage you to incorporate these paired passages and activities to help your students understand the world around them, the controversy of this novel, and important concepts such as organ donation, Roe v. Wade, Safe Haven, and Xenotransplantation. These activities will stimulate high level thinking, independent research and reflection, as well as an ability to openly discuss and share an understanding of these topics through lively discussion.
This is a "must ha
Grades:
6th - 9th
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Complete Novel Unit
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s rich with magical realism murder mystery text Chronicle of a Death Foretold comes to life in this engaging and moving novel where we know where the crime took place, who the victim is, and even who were the killers, but what events transpired to lead up to this murder, and why did an entire community who knew about the intended murder allow it to happen? Is the town responsible for the murder? My students are true crime fanatics, and they really enjoyed diving into this
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
So-EZ-Science: Weather & Atmosphere Unit
This unit is a balanced literacy unit covering areas such as: temperature conversion, making a rain guage, recording weather, using weather station symbols, using the Beaufort Wind Scale, fronts, cloud types, cloud cover, graphing precipitation, graphing temperature, graphing weather phenomenon, weather tools, relative humidity, calculating relative humidity, precipitation, interpreting weather symbols on a weather map, reading a weather map, wind velocity, wind direction, wind speed, reading a
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Representing Teen Culture - The Breakfast Club (Focus Film)
This resource includes a fully sequenced program of work and supporting resources (over 50 pages) for teaching a unit of work based on 'Representing Youth Culture' through the lens of the camera.
It includes a unit outline and a suggested sequence of lessons and activities (over 20 hours) with specific targeted resources.
In addition to a user friendly, purposeful study guide to engage students while watching the film 'The Breakfast Club', this resource now includes viewing guides suitable fo
Grades:
8th - 12th
Drama Source Book Junior Secondary High School DRAMA
This resource features complete lessons and units which can be used in whole or handouts can be chosen. Useful for drama and English teachers.Warm Ups- Starters3 Warm Ups- 10 worksheets Myself and Others - a Me Scrapbook,My Autobiography,Somewhere Special .... A Soundscape.Family freeze frames - Household Hall of Fame!, Slice of life at homeFamily Performance Project, School scenes and dialogue; Focus on Character - How Others See Me; Creating and Staying In CharacterGender - Boys will be Girls
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7th - 9th
Also included in: DRAMA TEACHER'S BUNDLE HIGH SCHOOL Radiant Heart DRAMA EXTRAS
Welcome to Tinsel Town Podcast
After making a wish on the Christmas Star, Holly finds herself popping in and out of Tinsel Town, a magical place where it’s Christmas every day. But after getting stuck there, her friends - a giant candy cane, a mysterious ornament, and a polar bear Queen - need to band together to help her get home. As things start to fall apart in Tinsel Town, the curmudgeonly Conductor accuses Holly of ruining Christmas and does everything in his power to try to ban her from celebrating ever again. Will Holl
Grades:
4th - 10th
Analyzing Text Features, Tone, & Rhetoric BUNDLE | Lesson & Quiz Set
This comprehensive Read & Write Valid Sources bundle is designed to quickly and effectively review and assess students' familiarity with identifying and articulating WHAT sources are credible, WHY, and HOW to cite courses correctly in MLA. Quizzes include --->Text Features (__16 points) -- assesses students' understanding of a source's use of common text features to enhance or direct the reader and their interpretation. Ethos, Logos, Pathos (___10 points) -- assesses students' understandi
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7th - 12th
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STEAL Characterization Mini-Unit
This mini-unit employs the popular STEAL acronym to help students understand and apply the concept of CHARACTERIZATION within texts.
The first page is a simple graphic organizer that explains each component of the acronym:
- S = SPEECH: What do the characters SAY/HOW DO THEY SPEAK to reveal their personalities/characteristics?
- T = THOUGHTS: What do the characters’ INNER THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS show about their personalities?
- E = EFFECT ON OTHERS: How do the characters TREAT AND
Grades:
5th - 12th
Thematic Unit - Poverty in Pictures, Poems, and Print
During a two-week thematic unit titled, Poverty in Pictures, Poems, and Print, students will explore the topic of poverty by viewing, listening to, and reading a variety of texts and media including poems, non-fiction texts, podcasts, photographs, videos, and picture books. Each day, students will explore a question surrounding poverty and collect and organize information from the texts and media as they research the topic. Students will reflect upon each question in writing as they collect and
Grades:
6th - 12th
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The [Literary] Eras Tour Project
...Are you ready for it?This group project will make your whole class *shimmer* with this engaging, dynamic way to explore a variety of literary periods. Assign your Swiftie students to a specific literary Era. Then, have them do some cursory research and create a 5 minute max presentation, a physical manifestation of your Era, and connect your Era to a modern song that contains elements from your Era.Each Era includes two suggested poems for exploration. Please preview all poems before assignin
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Pride and Prejudice Whole Novel Unit
As a lifetime lover of Jane Austen and regency era texts, I am well aware that not every student in our classroom is going to go gaga for the high brow language and the distant time period. But Pride and Prejudice has stood the test of time for a reason: her texts are accessible to the masses for their humor, their criticism of marriages of convenience and power, and this book is THE origins of the enemies to lovers trope in a novel, one my students ate up. This unit has everything to bring Aust
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Christmas Podcast -Play and go!
After making a wish on the Christmas Star, Holly finds herself popping in and out of Tinsel Town, a magical place where it’s Christmas every day. But after getting stuck there, her friends - a giant candy cane, a mysterious ornament, and a polar bear Queen - need to band together to help her get home. As things start to fall apart in Tinsel Town, the curmudgeonly Conductor accuses Holly of ruining Christmas and does everything in his power to try to ban her from celebrating ever again. Will Holl
Grades:
4th - 10th
Volcanoes! eBook (PDF)
Volcanoes! eBook is a thematic science unit on volcanoes that can be taught in the classroom and/or posted on a teacher website for the students to download at home. This unit includes key vocabulary words, key concepts, an investigative journalism writing assignment, a pre and a post test.
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K - 12th, Staff
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck OMM COMPLETE UNIT
If you are teaching “Of Mice and Men”, you need this bundle! This download includes everything you need to teach “Of Mice and Men” from introduction to final assessment. All of the resources included have been used in my own classroom with high student interest. Use this bundle to differentiate your classroom instruction to a wide array of learners through methods including stations, group work, writing, and assessment. A teacher’s packet with explanation of resources is also included.This bund
Grades:
9th - 12th
Hexagonal Connections in Twelfth Night Act II
Elevate your 12th grade literature class with this engaging and thought-provoking Twelfth Night Act II Hexagonal Activity! This meticulously crafted resource is designed to immerse your students in the captivating world of William Shakespeare while honing their critical thinking skills. What's Included:A ready to use hexagonal grid template.Carefully curated lists of 20 themes and a variety of characters from Act II.Modern day translations of key quotes for easy comprehension (optional to use).T
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Comparing Pixar's Soul to A Raisin in the Sun
When I first saw Pixar’s Soul, I couldn’t stop thinking about its connections to the Harlem Renaissance and had visions of connecting it to A Raisin in the Sun in a meaningful way while also challenging students to spot implied arguments through visual analysis. This is not a viewing guide for the entirety of the film. This is an accompanying piece that analyzes the first ten minutes of Pixar’s Soul alongside A Raisin in the Sun as your mentor text. You will get:⭐Google Slides Links for “Compa
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: A Raisin in the Sun BUNDLE: during and post-reading activities
NON FICTION READING WORKSHOP PARTNER ROUTINE CHART CARDS LESSON
NON FICTION READING WORKSHOP PARTNER ROUTINE CHART CARDS LESSON
HOLD YOUR PARTNERSHIPS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE MATERIAL THEY ARE READING INDEPENDENTLY!
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Grades:
K - 12th
Winter Themed Task Cards- 100 Task Cards for Elementary Students
These 100 task cards are based on literacy, grammar, vocabulary, fun and mix activities for homework at primary or secondary levels. All you need is lots of time to create these cards and I provide just what you need for your students! You will find 20 task cards related to Literature, 20 related to Grammar, 20 related to Vocabulary, 20 related to funny activities and 20 as mixed tasks. Tasks are based on writing activities: stories, poems, comics, postcards, mini books, reports, articles, resea
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Detective (Critical Thinking) Skills
A week long lesson on how to apply detective skills to several different mysteries and situations as a means to develop students' critical thinking skills.
This involves lessons using episodes of 'Sherlock,' 'Doctor Who,' and an actual mystery situation done in class.
When you purchase the lesson plan, I will email you the worksheet attachments (the 'Detective Log' the 'Clue Deduction Chart', the 'Eyewitness Report' powerpoint, and the 'Character Comparison' chart.)
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Family - Teen Stress - Grade 10
This amazing ‘Family Theme’ lesson is…
• beautifully designed
• 4-pages in length and may be formatted into a 4-page booklet
• provided in both black & white and colored versions
• perfect for students learning English as a Second Language
• perfect for students whose first language is English
• based on an age-appropriate topic
This wonderful lesson allows students to…
• practice reading, writing, listening and speaking skills
• learn theme-based vocabulary
• attempt many different styl
Grades:
10th
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