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Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of

Subjects:

Back to School, The New Year, End of Year

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Staff

Types:

Activities, Simulations

$2.50

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Digital Choice Board Activity {7-12}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month in September or incorporating more LatinX voices to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different articles, videos, poems,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spanish, Informational Text

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Google Apps

$4.50

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Be the Change: A Service Learning Research Project for Grades 7-12

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Our students CAN make a difference in their own lives, their school, and their community, so why not challenge them to do so with a new project?BE THE CHANGE is your solution! Designed with the Genius Hour methodology in mind, Be the Change is an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Service Learning

$9.00

176

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Dystopian Literature: Mega Bundle of All Resources

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Refresh, rebuild, and reimagine the possibilities of teaching dystopia with access to every single dystopian item in the Mud and Ink Teaching store. This bundle contains every dystopian literature product in the Mud and Ink Teaching store and will

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

$51.50

$38.00

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Reading Activities for Book Clubs, Lit Circles, & Independent Reading

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Keeping students engaged with their reading requires a delicate balance of discussion, activity, group work, and quiet time reading. Literature Circle Units, Book Club Meetings, and Independent Reading are all ways that teachers are trying to keep

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

$4.50

126

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Create a Character Stocking: Symbolism, Characterization, and Analysis Activity

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Characterization is one of the most important things we teach in the secondary ELA classroom, so why not revisit some of your favorite, loved characters from the year around the holidays?With this activity, students will receive a blank holiday

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Printables, Lesson

$3.50

180

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Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're celebrating Black History Month in February, elevating Hispanic voices in September, or simply looking for easy and meaningful ways to expand the voices present in your curriculum, these digital choice board activities will help

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Google Apps

$42.50

$28.00

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Bell Ringer Digital Interactive Notebook: Using Google Classroom {Design Pack 1}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

For my entire teaching career, I have been using some form of "bell ringers" as my class warm up. For this section of class to go smoothly, the students need a place to respond to the bell ringer and for years I've been using spiral-bound

Subjects:

English Language Arts, EFL - ESL - ELD, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

$5.00

222

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The Synthesis Essay {A Growing Bundle of Argumentative, Analytical Writing}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Every English teacher needs new ways to teach argument, rhetoric, and analytical writing. The Inquiry-Based Synthesis Essay is here to save the day!This argument essay is designed to help you out in a quick fix OR to teach in-depth rhetorical

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Assessment, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.2, W.9-10.1, W.11-12.1, W.11-12.1a, W.11-12.1b, W.11-12.2b, W.11-12.9, W.11-12.10

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End of the Year Station Activity: Distance Learning & Print Ready

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Looking for a way to wrap up your year on the last day? Teaching high school seniors that are making you lose your mind? Here is an easy last day of school stations activity that will give your high school students a chance to chat, reminisce

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (0.88 MB)

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Dystopian Literature: Digital Choice Board Activity

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're studying a classic dystopian novel like Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, 1984, ro Brave New World or you're exploring some of the most amazing YA dystopian texts in literature circles, this digital choice board activity will help students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, For All Subjects

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Google Apps

$4.50

Online Resource
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Independent Reading Project Unit Plans {for Secondary ELA}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Need something to fill in time between units or at the end of the year? Try this independent reading project unit to keep kids engaged and interacting with books they care about. This unit should keep your kids busy (in a GOOD way) for at least

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans, Literature Circles

$5.00

Digital Download PDF (0.68 MB)

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Time Capsule End of Year Project: Reflection and Synthesis for High School ELA

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you need an end of the year activity to help your students make sense of the school year both personally and academically, then I've got you covered. In this time capsule synthesis final project, students combine reflections from what they've

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, End of Year

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Assessment, Google Apps

$6.00

Online Resource
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Gothic Literature: Digital Choice Board Activity

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you're studying a classic gothic novel like Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, or Dracula or you're exploring some other texts in literature circles, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, For All Subjects

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities, Google Apps

$4.50

Online Resource
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Write 30 Poems in 30 Days {A Poetry Writing Challenge 7-12th Grade ELA}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Take your students on an unforgettable journey through poetry this time around. Ditch the cheesy acrostic poems and goofy poems of their childhood and take the challenge to teach your students 30 different kinds of poems, and to make things even

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Posters

$6.00

104

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Writing An Alternate Ending - Narrative Assignment for ANY Novel {Grades 7-12}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Almost every English teacher has to assign a narrative writing assignment at some point in the course of their curriculum, and here's a way to do it digitally using the concept of "choose-your-own-adventure".The Premise:The teacher and students all

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Assessment, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.W.3, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.6

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (1.05 MB)

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Vocabulary Bell Ringer Digital Interactive Notebook {Grades 7-12}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you are looking for a productive, efficient, and independent way to get class started with bell work, then a vocabulary digital notebook is the way to go. This digital notebook can be assigned once per unit and students have bell work every day!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Back to School

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

$6.00

124

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End of Year Countdown: Famous Last Lines {Distance Learning Compatible}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Keep your energy and momentum going through the end of the year with this interactive, fun new twist on a last day of school countdown: famous last lines. The end of the year is the perfect time to analyze and discuss CONCLUSIONS and ENDINGS, so

Subjects:

English Language Arts, End of Year, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Staff

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Google Apps

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (0.83 MB)

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Literary Analysis & Argumentative Essay Rubrics {EDITABLE}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you feel like taking home stacks of papers to grade on the weekends (and bringing that same stack back on Monday ungraded) is going to be your life forever - think again! This Rubric Starter Kit is exactly what you need to reshape and rethink

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.L.4

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (0.88 MB)

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The Best Part of Me {A Creative Distance Learning Project}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

This project is a photography and writing assignment that asks students to identify the part of themselves that represents the best of who they are. Our students are struggling. Adolescents have so many struggles to face and whenever I can find a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.9-10.2, W.9-10.4, W.9-10.6

$3.50

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been discovering the amazing mysteries and joys of language arts with 10th and 12th grade students in West Chicago for the past five years. Teaching has been my passion since I was a little girl playing school in my basement.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My teaching style would best be described as "discovery in the making". I approach each day with my students with an open mind and a hope to get side tracked into great, authentic discussion about literature, writing, and the world we live in. To learn more about my classroom, visit my blog! http://mudandink.blogspot.com/

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I am a 2004 Golden Apple Scholar award winner and two time speaker at the National Character Education Forum. I am passionate about raising curious, driven, worldly, and caring young men and women!

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I attended Illinois Wesleyan University from 2004-2008 and received a bachelor's degree in English. I later attended Concordia University Chicago from 2010-2012 and received my ESL certification and a Master's in Curriculum & Instruction.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am happy to create custom products for you! Please inbox me for any ideas or projects that you have in mind and I'd be happy to work with you to create something challenging, creative, and linked to the Core!

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Science, Social Studies, U.S. History, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Art History, Visual Arts, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, School Counseling, Study Skills, Cooking, Short Stories, Writing, Asian Studies, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Spring, Products For TpT Sellers, For All Subjects, Informational Text, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community, Hispanic Heritage Month