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Common Core CCRA.R.6 cultural activities
Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Engage and motivate students with these informational, expository text close reading assignments. These easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension. This resource is not just questions and answers - you are getting a full lesson plan complete with a relevant video links, an argumentative writing prompt, and extension ideas! Plus, all the answers are here, too!Included:-Lesson Plans-Questions/Answers-Sub Plan-Prompts
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Fairy Tale Analysis Unit High School - Cinderella Around the World Folktale Unit
Looking for a multicultural folk literature unit for your high school or advanced middle school students? Throughout this relevant and engaging fairy tale unit, students have an opportunity to study multiple Cinderella fairy tales from a historical perspective. Grimm's Cinderella is used as the anchor short story for in-class work and discussions. Then, students will have the opportunity to explore many other cultural versions of Cinderella by completing an independent research project. By the e
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8th - 12th
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The History of Thanksgiving Activities Middle School
Searching for Thanksgiving Activities for Middle School ELA? This History of Thanksgiving PDF is the perfect reading to help your Language Arts students understand the facts of the complicated history of the Thanksgiving Holiday. The best part? There is NO-PREP required for teachers! Simply Print & Go! Save yourself time and stress the week of Thanksgiving! Included in this resource is a four-page informational article, "A Brief History of Thanksgiving," that is based on facts from primary s
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6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Thanksgiving Christmas Holiday Mega Bundle - Middle School ELA
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #2
Engage and motivate students with these informational, expository text close reading assignments. These easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension. This resource is not just questions and answers - you are getting a full lesson plan complete with a relevant video links, an argumentative writing prompt, and extension ideas! Plus, all the answers are here, too!Included:-Lesson Plans-Questions/Answers-Sub Plan-Prompts
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Scholarship Jacket Mini-Unit (Great for Distance Learning)
Engage your middle schoolers with a short story about fairness, integrity, and overcoming prejudices. "The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas is a great story to teach character analysis, theme, and critical thinking skills. Everything you need to support student comprehension, foster text-to-self connections, and assess learning throughout is included. This unit is the ultimate resource for differentiated learning and text analysis anchored in a central text.As part of the mini-unit, you will
Grades:
6th - 10th
Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE
If you are looking for quick and easy activities that you can use in November to keep your middle and high school students on task and engaged, then look no more! Every lesson, designed to add rigor and meaning to Thanksgiving, is standards-based, classroom-tested, rigorous, and grade level appropriate for high school level ELA students. This pack includes up to 2 weeks of materials depending on your class periods and how you use what's included. Surviving Thanksgiving Gratitude-Themed Pack In
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8th - 11th
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Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project
Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th
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5th - 7th
Martin Luther King Activities Argumentative Essay Writing Prompt, Black History
This 100% editable lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day or for teaching argumentative essay writing with exemplars is no prep. Your high school students will be engaged and challenged as they work through the carefully paired texts and expertly written prompt. If your state has adopted Common Core testing, then this comparing and contrasting literary analysis is directly aligned with that format. If not, a task such as this one will definitely add a challenging component to your reading and
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8th - 11th
Also included in:Â Writing Curriculum, Narrative, Explanatory, Argumentative, Research BUNDLE
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:Â Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #3
Amal Unbound: Exploring Social Activism
If everyone decided nothing could change, nothing ever would.Amal Unbound is a wonderful opportunity for your students to experience what it is like living in a place where learning to read is a luxury and owing money could cost you your freedom!Through Amal’s journey, they will learn that standing up to what one knows is right and the risk taking involved in that brave act is what leads to change. This resource includes EVERYTHING that you need for your students to be engaged, active, thoughtf
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4th - 8th
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Molly's Pilgrim Clothespin Project and Family Heritage Study CCSS Grades 3-6
This "Molly's Pilgrim Lesson and Clothespin Project" is based on the poignant story "Molly's Pilgrim" by Barbara Cohen. This resource offers a unique window into the themes of immigration, cultural acceptance, and diversity. Each student crafts a Pilgrim doll using a clothespin, embodying their own family's heritage. This hands-on project connects students to their ancestral roots and a celebration of cultural diversity.Included in This Lesson Plan:Story Comprehension Activities: Designed to dee
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3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Fourteen Holiday Lessons BUNDLE Minimal Prep CCSS Grades 3-6
INFORMATIVE WRITING LESSONS UNIT & RESEARCH PROJECT BUNDLE Around the World
***SEMESTER-LONG UNIT! UPDATED 2024! BUNDLE & SAVE 30%!*** Teach informative research writing in a way that is engaging and memorable with this no-prep 416-page Informative Writing & Country Research Unit BUNDLE with Writing Skills, Project, Presentation, & Party. In this unit, students will learn critical Research and Informative Writing Skills, then use these acquired skills to create a research project about a country of their choice. They will present their projects at a culminat
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3rd - 8th
Christmas Activities, Paired Text Lesson (Nonfiction and Movie)
If you want to incorporate some unique and rigorous holiday-themed materials this Christmas season with your high school students, this easy prep, close reading lesson from Charles Dickens and a modern holiday movie will certainly capture their attention. Plus, it's easy prep for you. Student Experience: The lesson offers several opportunities for students to analyze an excerpt from Dickens's narrative essay, "What Christmas is as We Grow Older." The unit closes by having students make thematic
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9th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Christmas Holiday Activities, English Lessons for Teens, BUNDLE
"Ain't I a Woman" Sojourner Truth Complete Teaching Pack
Preparing for Women's History Month? Looking to incorporate some rich, unique activities for both boys and girls during Women's History month in your English class - or anytime of year?!?! With this low prep, highly engaging informational text lesson, you'll be set to have students explore a classic and current text effectively and enthusiastically with little prep required. Student Experience: This complete lesson anchored with Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman" is the perfect
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Women's History Month English Lessons BUNDLE
Thanksgiving Poetry & Nonfiction Lesson for Teens: Entitlement or Gratitude?
This poetry and info text paired lesson for Thanksgiving is designed to spark a deep discussion and analysis of poetry with your high school students. With an easy-to-prep format for you, and standards-based, text-based activities for students Student Experience: Students will explore the idea of entitlement v. gratitude as they dig deeply into the layers of this beautiful poem. The subtle ironic tone of this lesson will challenge your students to reflect on their own lives and choices. Its
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE
Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #3
Engage and motivate students with these informational, expository text close reading assignments. These easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension. This resource is not just questions and answers - you are getting a full lesson plan complete with a relevant video links, an argumentative writing prompt, and extension ideas.Included:-Lesson Plans-Questions/Answers-Sub Plan-Prompts-Standards-Links to articles and vide
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
20 Thanksgiving Activities for Secondary ELA
This bundle contains 20 high-interest activities for secondary students during the Thanksgiving season. These activities range from analytical reading to persuasive speaking and creative writing-- all while acknowledging the first Thanksgiving Feast as well as the perspectives of both the colonists and the Native Americans.In this bundle, you will find:Thanksgiving Choice Board-- Google SlidesThe Great Pie DebateThanksgiving One-Pager Assignment & RubricThe Iroquois Constitution Close Readi
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8th - 12th
Also included in:Â The ULTIMATE MEGA Thanksgiving Bundle for Secondary Students
"He for She" Speech by Emma Watson, Complete Teaching Pack
Preparing for Women's History Month? Looking to incorporate some rich, unique activities for both boys and girls during Women's History month in your English class - or anytime of year?!?! With this low prep, highly engaging nonfiction speech lesson, you'll be set to have students analyze a modern text effectively and enthusiastically with little prep required. Student Experience: This resource anchored with Emma Watson's Speech to the UN "He for She" is the perfect ready-to-go unit to practic
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Women's History Month English Lessons BUNDLE
Martin Luther King, Jr. Paired Text Lesson, Printable/Digital
With this no prep activity for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, you'll be set to share important messages for Black History Month as well as meet several standards while engaging your high school students creatively. The resource includes everything you need to be successful while covering Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essay "The Purpose of Education." Student Experience: This lesson takes King's "The Purpose of Education" and pairs it with a song from popular culture, Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH UNIT MEGA BUNDLE Writing Skills Report Present Theme
***BUNDLE & SAVE 40%!*** Teach informative research writing in a way that is engaging and memorable with this no-prep 568-page Around the World Research Unit MEGA BUNDLE-Writing Skills Lessons, Research Report, Presentation Project, Party, and Theme Day. Use this thematic unit to celebrate diversity, and culture, while students practice research skills, report writing, technology skills, manners, presentation, speaking, and listening skills! First, students will learn and practice a variety
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3rd - 8th
The ULTIMATE MEGA Thanksgiving Bundle for Secondary Students
This bundle contains 20 high-interest activities for secondary students during the Thanksgiving season. These activities range from analytical reading to persuasive speaking and creative writing-- all while acknowledging the first Thanksgiving Feast as well as the perspectives of both the colonists and the Native Americans.In this bundle, you will find:Thanksgiving Choice Board-- Google SlidesThe Great Pie DebateThanksgiving One-Pager Assignment & RubricThe Iroquois Constitution Close Readin
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8th - 12th
The Big Orange Splot Diversity ELA Art and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-6
Grow your students' understanding of diversity with these academic, FUN activities inspired by "The Big Orange Splot." Immerse your students in the tale of Mr. Plumbean, whose house becomes a symbol of breaking free from conformity after an unexpected seagull accident.This Lesson Features:Poster for Display: A poster designed to spark discussion and debate.Comprehension Questions: To deepen students' comprehension and encourage meaningful conversations.Creative Coloring and Transformation Activi
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3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Classroom Community Bundle for Grades 3-6 Print and Digital
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Full Novel Unit (Digital & In Person Learning)
Engage your students with this full unit novel study of The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Enjoy little prep with this digital or print full unit. This six week unit offers your students chances to increase reading comprehension, learn about the African American culture, practice with figurative language, practice citing evidence, working with poetry and doing creative writing!This unit plan can be used digital or print and it offers activities for the poetry, learning stations to learn about po
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6th - 9th
Also included in:Â The Crossover Unit Bundle with ESCAPE ROOM & FREEBIE BINGO REVIEW
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